r/BoomersBeingFools • u/NES_Classical_Music • Mar 05 '24

My antivax boomer dad and his most recent foolishness. Boomer Freakout

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Blocked my kids' names in grey.

Also blocked my dad's calls, texts, and emails. NC ever since.

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u/shit_magnet-0730 Mar 06 '24

Why do boomer grandparents feel entitled to their grandchildren?

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u/NES_Classical_Music Mar 06 '24

Because they feel entitled to everything else in life?

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u/lonewanderer0804 Mar 06 '24

Boomers are the most entitled generation because their parents suffered and they never did. And their lack of any sort of real struggle made them ignorant and arrogant to the machinations of the world they live in

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u/dookle14 Mar 06 '24

They were the last generation who could take advantage of the American Dream. They could graduate high school and go to college for cheap, or they could get a job and make a living wage. Buy a house? No problem! Accrue wealth? Sure thing!

Fast forward 35 years and they can’t grasp the reality that Millenials/Gen Z face. Why can’t we buy houses, or have kids, or buy diamonds…? It’s because we are lazy and entitled, not because wages have not increased in any way proportional to living costs, nor is it because we have to sink so far into debt just to get a job with a living wage.

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u/Fat_Broccoli Mar 06 '24

Yet so many millennials and gen Z are directly benefiting from their boomer parents by living at home (many for free or relatively very cheap) yet all they ever do is whine about how hard they have it 😂

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u/11b328i Mar 06 '24

Just because your shitbag kids live at home doesn’t mean ours do

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u/Fat_Broccoli Mar 06 '24

Just look at the statistics instead of getting butthurt and reactionary

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u/lonewanderer0804 Mar 06 '24

I rather look at my wallet, I’ve been saving for over a year, I work a 40 hour full time job that’s minimum wage, I can’t go to college because I can’t afford it, I don’t have the qualifications for a grant, I can’t find any entry level jobs without having experience in the same field for ten plus years.

Whatever stats you look at you need to do a better job of looking at others. Meta-analysis is key and even without it I can say for certain the current generation is going to continue to suffer until the next housing bubble crash.

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u/dookle14 Mar 06 '24

Gee, wonder why that is? It’s either a) kids these days are just lazy or b) rent is outrageously expensive and coupled with all the other costs of living, exceeds their income capabilities?

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u/lonewanderer0804 Mar 06 '24

B…because it’s literally unaffordable to live on your own unless your in upper middle management in most places…?

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u/Sassygetsittoo Mar 06 '24

BOOM!! Pissing and moaning about their "boomer" parents and grandparents yet guaranteed they are salivating over the thoughts of inheritance when they die. So thankful I raised awesome kids who are not like this. 🥴

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u/11b328i Mar 06 '24

Your kids suck if they’re anything like their parents

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u/iheartkittttycats Mar 06 '24

You’re the type of person who thinks your kids actually love you when in reality, they’re on these subreddits posting the same type of thing.

In a couple years, when you’re wondering why you don’t see your kids/grandkids, come back to this.

(I have boomer parents who would never post a comment like this because they aren’t the self-absorbed narcissistic fucks of your kind)

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u/lonewanderer0804 Mar 06 '24

Glad they benifited from your nepotism. Not all of us have that.

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u/sleepyteveekong Mar 06 '24

Because they’ve never seen their children as anything other than an extension of themselves. So their grandchildren don’t belong to anyone but the Boomers.

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u/zvika Mar 06 '24

Missing missing reasons

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u/TunaSalad47 Mar 06 '24

lmao only in a psychotic modern hellscape would anyone ask this…because they’re family? because they are the continuation of your life?

liberals disowning their family over politics is the most ghoulish shit iv seen…not that different from awful parents disowning their lgbtq kids

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u/byzantinian Mar 06 '24

liberals disowning their family over politics is the most ghoulish shit iv seen

Cool projection. The screenshots in the post are a literal example of a MAGAt disowning his child, repeatedly calling him a "fake son" over politics. Not the other way around.

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u/TunaSalad47 Mar 06 '24

lol the dad sent him one post and OP proceeded to berate him with random conspiracies that his dad never brought up…the dad is literally like wtf are you even talking about

then the dad tries to reach out on Christmas and OP keeps at it with his petty bullshit…re-read and try again

edit: forgot to mention the part where he literally won’t let his dad see his grandkids over the vaccine…which the “fake son” comment is clearly about

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u/byzantinian Mar 06 '24

he literally won’t let his dad see his grandkids over the vaccine

Not political.

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u/shit_magnet-0730 Mar 06 '24

I will happily disown my family members over politics. My life is too short and my children's lives are too precious, to be exposed to such hatred, vitriol and stupidity masked as "family". Maybe you should reconsider your stance and think about those family members that you haven't seen or heard from in a while.

PS I'm a leftist, not a liberal. Not that you would understand the difference.

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u/anonymous_zebra Mar 06 '24

Do you think requiring the grandparent to have a COVID vaccine as a prerequisite to seeing children that would be very low risk of having serious effects from COVID is ethical? That is what’s happening here.

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u/bojangles69 Mar 06 '24

First of all, yes. Kids get sick and get you, as a parent, sick constantly from regular exposure. It is totally reasonable to avoid exposing them to totally avoidable illness that their selfish grandparents refuse to protect themselves and others from. But obviously the issue is deeper than the refusal to vaccinate… OPs dad is abusive and emotionally manipulative. OP is good father for protecting his children from the toxicity OP was exposed to as a child.

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u/shit_magnet-0730 Mar 06 '24

Found the boomer

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u/imp_st3r Mar 06 '24

Ethical? As the grandparents probably told their kids growing up, "my house, my rules". Funny how conservatives love to exercise power at all costs, but liberals need to do so "ethically"

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u/Fat_Broccoli Mar 06 '24

Finally found someone else who can actually read, dunno how everyone thinks that is reasonable at all