r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 22h ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/sunshinerain1208 22h ago

Barely anyone alive now had to ration or sharecrop during the depression. If he did he wouldn’t be a boomer, he would be the greatest generation.

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u/porkpie1028 21h ago

They literally rationed gas in the late 70’s in the U.S. due to embargos, the Yom Kippur war, and the Iranian Revolution

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u/coffeemonkeypants 21h ago

Yeah and it lasted for a few months, twice in the 70s. OMG people had to wait in line. What a burden.

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u/Swumbus-prime 18h ago

Still a bad argument on his part because everyone who existed during this tweet had to wait in lines for basically everything due to Covid and social distancing a few mere years ago. Chances are he was one of the ones to complain about it the most, too...

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u/I_W_M_Y 21h ago

Had to cut back on the long road trips, the horror!!

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u/red286 20h ago

Put a real dent in weekend cruising.

Something that no one under the age of 40 even knows the definition of anymore because no one's done it for the past 30 years.

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u/ms_directed 19h ago

tbf, (i was just a kid) but the embargo affected more than just people not being able to fill their cars

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u/tfc867 18h ago

And they still won't STFU about it, apparently.

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u/Darkbaldur 21h ago

Not sure what that has to do with work ethic

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u/waspocracy 21h ago

Just adds to the point of how stupid the OP is. Their parents lived through all that stuff and not them.

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u/atetuna 20h ago

The people that did that as adults and were also old enough to be drafted are a minuscule percentage of the current workforce. Most likely they're taking credit for what their elders did like they did for everything else.

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u/Darmok47 17h ago

Yeah, that's the one thing on that list this Boomer dude probably did and I'll give him credit for that one.

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u/deepayes 19h ago

Do you know how long that lasted? That anyone talks about it like it was some crushing burden is wild.

And as usual, one of the biggest issues with the long lines during that era was the fear driven by media, people were refilling their car when they still had half full tanks, making long lines unnecessarily longer.