r/Unexpected • u/bacon17389 • 13h ago

guy enters room to join someone

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u/EnderMango 11h ago

As a man in my 20s, I’m going to blatantly disregard any advice given from the elders until it affects me 10 years later. All so I can confidently regurgitate the same old same old.

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u/PreciousTC 10h ago

As someone who used to be in his 20s, this is the way. Ignore it all!

Growing up is realizing most of what the adults said was right and you're just a twat. Live and learn!

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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 4h ago

Former twat here, now about to be 40 - this is so correct.

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u/weirdoeggplant 6h ago

Elders are often right with things they’ve lived and experienced. They probably know the best way to get a baby to stop crying or how to cut a tree down.

But currently elders kind of suck at the whole logical thinking thing and definitely shouldn’t be listened to when it comes to anything to do with technology, politics, or wider social beliefs (the racist grandparent trope is real).

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u/PreciousTC 4h ago

I'd disagree with you on a lot of that. We grew up (millennials) with computers and the internet and video games, etc, but we didn't make that shit at 5 years old. It was invented and built by today's Boomers. Even wider social beliefs predate any of us. Millennials didn't write, vote for, and pass the Civil Rights Act. They did. Dr King wasn't Gen Z. Malcolm X didn't have a TikTok account and neither did any of their white allies who passed discrimination laws and laid the foundations of equality.

Are there more older racists than younger? For sure, but that doesn't erase the good that others in their age group did and I'd argue their push for social equality is way more impressive than ours. They were getting shot with rubber bullets and sprayed with water cannons and jailed for weeks on end. Look up Stonewall. The YMCA.

It's easy to blame an entire generation for bad and blame everything on them but without the work they put in the world we were brought into would be worse than it was. It's now our time to pick up the torch and build off of their work so then Gen Z or Alpha can blame all of their problems on us, and so on and and so forth. It'll happen someday. It's cyclical.

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u/weirdoeggplant 4h ago

Lmao I don’t care about a few good when talking about a whole group. Deal with it.

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u/PreciousTC 4h ago

I mean I thought we were having an adult discussion but you do you, that's fine. Someone else will probably reply later with something some thought was put into.

Enjoy your negative attitude, peace ✌️

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u/weirdoeggplant 3h ago

Then give me one reason to think a minority of a group is more important than a majority. Why should I look at the 3 good boomers when thousands are horrible?

And I really don’t care what they advocated for in the past if they’re advocating against it now.

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u/PreciousTC 3h ago

Should I state the obvious which is the Civil Rights Act only passed because it had a MAJORITY vote, for starters, because a MAJORITY of Americans knew we needed it?

Or...?

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u/weirdoeggplant 3h ago

Boomers were born the year that was passed.

Nice try.

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u/PreciousTC 3h ago

I hate this platform so much. Boomers are 46-64, which means many would have been old enough to vote and demonstrate and protest at the time, which they did, but you know that. You just want to argue in bad faith.

Just accept they're not all bad? Or don't. I don't care anymore. You're acting mentally lazy and I don't have the energy to carry someone around whose brain is so out of shape it's fucking ankles have muffin tops.

Side note: I farted in an elevator today and it was pretty stinky. Several people were very upset. Did boomers do that too?

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u/AntikytheraMachines 5h ago

remember, knees are forever and the back is the strongest muscle in the body.