Don't really browse there much anymore, and I understand that it's been going mainstream, but it's weird to see multiple people talk to each other about shit that happened in the 60s and 70s. Used to be that someone would pop in once in a while with an anecdote for the younger crowd that they knew they were surrounded by.

  • this isn't to say that boomers can't be chill, but sharing a social space with them en masse would be kinda weird no?
  • also not suggesting that this is some sort of turning point, it's been shit since ever, and especially since 2015 (when I primarily browsed metareddit and by 2017 I was browsing r/cth exclusively)

Edit: The boomer infestation is coming from inside the Hexbear! See the comments below for details...

        • Express [any,none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Begone specter of death. I know the runes of bgp and alt.* You hold no sway over me.

          Edit: I wish I could teach my parents who are way younger than this to use a phone and gramps here is shitposting on an obscure emoji harvesting forum

        • crime [she/her, any]
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          3 years ago

          Also work in IT and open source enough that technically you found the internet that we made.

          This is unironically an extremely cool flex :xi-clap:

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      What really? I knew we had some older gen x folks here but I didn't know we had actual boomers among us.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Much respect, I get a lot of leeway when it comes to talking politics at work and some of the coolest people I have met are the ones that went through the most intense red scare propaganda and still stuck to their communist ideals. :rosa-salute:

          Met a lady whos dad met Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, and Allende.

          • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Now that’s amazing - did she have any cool stories from him about them?

            :fidel-salute:

            • Nakoichi [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              No cuz it's hard to talk at length at the cash register but she's a regular and she did give me some names to look up. Without getting too specific here's a tangentially related link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Liberation_Front

              Oh also one of her relatives was Eldridge Cleaver's running mate. I imagine if you're among that generation of leftists there's a good chance you at least have mutual friends.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I hope you take my crappy post in the way I meant it comrade, no offense intended

        • spectre [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          OK cool, I figure if you're here you get the subtext of what I actually mean and all that. I knew we had the occasional older folk on the old sub (I'm guessing you were one of them), but like our other comrades I am a bit amused that you made the jump over here, glad to have you as part of our community!