Posted on 11/07/2019 6:54:46 AM PST by C19fan
Star Trek actor William Shatner waded into a generational row last night as he took aim at the catchphrase 'OK Boomer' and feuded with a Twitter user who had blamed older people for millennial 'hardships'.
The jibe 'OK Boomer' has become popular among millennials and the younger Generation Z, who use it to show exasperation with older people and their opinions.
One Twitter user aimed it at Shatner yesterday but the Hollywood veteran, who was born in 1931, fired back: 'Sweetheart, that's a compliment for me.'
Warming to his theme, Shatner said he would 'wear that badge with honor' and embarked on a heated row with a millennial user, eventually calling her 'divaesque'.
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Nope, by the time I came of age the Great Recession had hit and I was working three part time jobs.
Lucky you. Three paychecks adds up.
Wilson made FDR’s excesses possible.
But hurling insults is a time-honored FR tradition.
:P
Sadly, I suspect the little mill’s are likely to eventually get the precious socialism they so desperately want.
And in the end, they’ll get it good and hard.
And sadly, while the Boomers will mostly be gone by then, the X-ers, such as myself will be left to take the brunt.
Bleh.
OK Boomer as an insult is just weak. I guess we should expect that coming from a snowflake.
First time someone tries that on me they will get, “Did my opinion melt another Snowflake?”
As a Gen Xer, I used to take great delight in telling my Leftist Boomer profs that I was taking their generation’s advice and not trusting anyone over 30.
You could just stand back and watch them seethe.
Ah, but it helps stratify and isolate the age groups. Makes them easier to trigger with envy, and to persuade toward certain political ends.
I think there are nefarious forces (read: progressives) behind this push to pit age groups against each other. I don't remember ever sensing disdain from other generations in this way until this year. Something wicked is afoot.
Some one just had to go there! OU I mean ;-)
I feel you.
I abandoned college early and went in to the Post Office. Survived there. Lost a crapload of money with a bad marriage.
The Recession affected everyone, not just one generation.
Many people of all ages work multiple P/T jobs, just to make ends meet.
But, at least more jobs are available now. Just a few years ago, jobs were few and far between.
“Everybody was doing it”
That’s the Boomer Gen’s defense?
In the history of war, it was the moral imperative of the King to fully exploit military technological advantage to the fullest extent possible.
This was because such advantages were fleeting. The calculus was that to not exploit such an advantage was choosing cultural suicide.
In the history of Man, there’s been only one exception - the United States of America. For five years we had an advantage in arms and decided not to exploit it.
We chose not to.
Everything is a choice. Billy Joel’s frat house version of history notwithstanding, we get to decide that economic mathematics matter. It certainly did to Reagan and his staff, that did the math on the Soviet Union and realized that they could be spent into oblivion.
The generations of spoiled children. That’s going to be the epitaph of the post war generations.
Preach it. You’re absolutely correct.
Don’t forget going off of Gold, Mark-to-Market, etc.
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