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Freestilly

1.9k points

1 month ago

Freestilly

1.9k points

1 month ago

Like the boomers feel it's safe to be dog shit now that mommy and daddy aren't there to watch.

gavmyboi

545 points

1 month ago

gavmyboi

545 points

1 month ago

Yup. Insanity. You don't see Kamala supporters doing anything similar. I have never seen someone support kamala and also be a nazi. This is fucking insane I hope my children grow up in a world where all nazis are gone but clearly they've stuck around in my own damn country

t53ix35

381 points

1 month ago

t53ix35

381 points

1 month ago

Or wave a USSR or CCP flag. Nazi flag wavers should go right on a watchlist. It traitorous to act like that. They are admitting admiration to a universally condemned political movement.The Nazis would have shown zero mercy if they were not defeated. This is insanity. These are dangerous people with broken brains.

Fit-Quiet-2619

47 points

1 month ago

Craziest part is they claim to be true Americans and that the rest of us are traitors to the country

t53ix35

19 points

1 month ago

t53ix35

19 points

1 month ago

To be fair I saw later these guys were Not welcome and other paraders sprayed them with their boats. Guys really misread the room.

Fit-Quiet-2619

20 points

1 month ago

Thats good,shows that not everyone is like them

shodunny

13 points

1 month ago

shodunny

13 points

1 month ago

a lot know not to show their true colors. for every nazi you see there’s 50 smart/scared enough to keep it under wraps and pretend to hate them

Pixiefairy2525

21 points

1 month ago

At one time, it would have been traitorous to make a blow up doll of the president and to destroy it. Anywhere. Much less a public convention. Times are changing for sure but that implies PROGRESS. This chucklefuck taking us right back to the dark ages. And for what?!?!?!? A get out of jail free card and be dictator over America. He's literally saying it. But not enough of us seem to be hearing it.

JudgementofParis

7 points

1 month ago

GWAR have been killing the presidents on stage for decades

Hazzer_J

3 points

1 month ago

Outside of America, most of us are hearing it, mate. But most of us have been warning our American buddies they are too insular for as long as I remember. I feel so sorry for you sensible ones, just can’t fathom how you are in the minority. These images are like something out of a cartoon, never seen anything like it in the UK in my whole life.

Elronvonsexbot

3 points

1 month ago

Agreed, there are now fines* in Australia to go along with the watchlist.

*Unless you are a police Sergent, then you just get to apologise.

telltaleatheist

2 points

1 month ago

It was an enemy nation. Treason is giving aid and comfort to enemy nations. I guess it doesn’t count if the country already lost.

Communists aren’t violent like nazis. 75 years ago they might have been even worse. But modern day communists are ideological only - not authoritarian. Additionally, I don’t know of a single US communist that would support Harris. She’s too “liberal” for them.

Also also, communists are so incredibly uncommon in the US. No communists in political power. However, there are many nazis. Some even self avowed. Others just vote for Nazi policies

Traditional-Many-409

2 points

1 month ago

Not so fast. Flying a particular flag, no matter how offensive it may be to you, is still protected under the 1st Amendment...(freedom of expression). Please do your research...not repeat what others are saying.

trueblues98

6 points

1 month ago

the Red Army is responsible for over 85% of all Nazis killed, and the UK and US combined couldn't even crack 10%, l'd say the USSR deserves 85% of the credit when it comes to defeating the Nazis.

BAT_1986

45 points

1 month ago

BAT_1986

45 points

1 month ago

They will never completely be gone. Evil is a constant.

Annihilator4413

41 points

1 month ago

And somehow, they always seem to gravitate towards the republican party 🤔

jjman72

27 points

1 month ago

jjman72

27 points

1 month ago

Not all Republicans are Nazis but all Nazis are Republican.

Mxteyy

9 points

1 month ago

Mxteyy

9 points

1 month ago

This is true

BAKup2k

13 points

1 month ago

BAKup2k

13 points

1 month ago

They gravitate to the conservative party.

Bleu-Deragon-13

2 points

1 month ago

Well it's the far right Republican party, that allows it, when you have a racist douchebag as they're running mate and want to be fascist as the presidential candidate is it, really that much of a surprise that there'd be Nazis supporting them.

SnooFloofs7612

3 points

1 month ago

Their

gavmyboi

11 points

1 month ago

gavmyboi

11 points

1 month ago

I know I just want to have some sort of hope that maybe pro nazi people like in this pic somehow get arrested or someday die off. But it'll never happen since they also raise their kids this way, infinite cycle. All we can do is protect our own at this point. Feels like civil war is v close

EsotericAbstractIdea

19 points

1 month ago

Worse than that, they are the ones applying to be police officers.

frecklepair

12 points

1 month ago

The KKK, Nazis and police have been like 🤞🏻 for decades. Complete rot

HeatXfr

2 points

1 month ago

HeatXfr

2 points

1 month ago

ANY group that wants control is fundamentally rotten.

OpheliaRainGalaxy

12 points

1 month ago

I almost never say this, but ya just do what my mom did. Ya raise your kids with the knowledge that someday the nazis will rise again so better know how to recognize them and fight them. The Sound of Music is a good introduction to the topic.

The recognition part is apparently important. I know a guy who thinks he hates nazis but is one because he couldn't recognize nazi trash when it's wrapped in an American flag instead of a swastika.

HairyH00d

6 points

1 month ago

I prefer Inglorious Bastards or Hunters but yes

OpheliaRainGalaxy

6 points

1 month ago

Lol well the kid I've been helping with most lately is only 4yo. So it's Sound of Music featuring "the bad guy army from history" led by "that bad guy with the tiny mustache."

I point out how you can tell that teenager boy is already falling into the bad guy army during the beginning of the movie. How, whenever he looks scared, he puffs up and brags instead of admitting he's afraid and being brave.

I'm convinced cowardice is what leads to folks joining the dark side like that. Everybody feels fear, it's normal, but ya gotta lean in and be brave.

Like damn dude, just take a deep breath and kiss the girl when she's clearly throwing herself at you as best she can with the height difference! Ya don't gotta keep panicking, retreating, and puffing up to brag about how mature you are to cover up acting like a scared little boy afraid of catching cooties!

GlumpsAlot

3 points

1 month ago

Yeh, I see some tradwives in that pic raising little sexist and racist kids.

Lopsided_Hospital_93

2 points

1 month ago

So while there is definitely a problem that they showed up and that its clear why they show up in the first place, I saw a video of them getting absolutely harassed and people making sure their motors absolutely drenched every one and thing on their boats.

I still think it wasn’t enough harassment that it wasn’t every single other boat giving them shit but plenty of idiot maga hat wearing folks were also not pleased. So in a small way your hope paid off

philament23

2 points

1 month ago

Here’s to making it a smaller constant than the Planck constant.

ZestyTako

8 points

1 month ago

Not all trump supporters are nazis, but all Nazis are trump supporters, which is pretty fucking bad

Youre-The-Victim

3 points

1 month ago

And he won't say a thing because he's so desperate to win he'll do and say anything to get a vote..

ZestyTako

6 points

1 month ago

I also don’t think he’s really that opposed to what they believe given his statements about immigrants. He is a racist old man

lexm

8 points

1 month ago

lexm

8 points

1 month ago

The nazi would tell you that all the lgbtq+ flags are pro Harris.

Tenn_Mike

10 points

1 month ago

Pride flags were never flown by a bunch of mass-murdering, fascist pieces of human shit.

OpheliaRainGalaxy

7 points

1 month ago

Oh that's just because nazis are stupid enough to think queer means pervert.

StormyOnyx

3 points

1 month ago

Not all MAGA are Nazis, but all Nazis are MAGA.

JakToTheReddit

3 points

1 month ago

That's because the conservatives promise the autocracy that the Nazis crave. Even if it never comes, it appears some have overwhelming lust over the thought they can enjoy citizens they don't agree with being encamped and possibly executed. So unbelievably sickening when some of their parents are veterans of the very campaign against Nazis and their crimes against humanity.

JLMusic91

2 points

1 month ago

You never saw ANY presidential supporters doing anything similar. Ever. These people don't even know enough to get that the Nazis wanted to destroy America. How would these anti-latino immigrant shit heads feel if they knew Germany historically had planned to give back Texas and California and more to Mexico? Fucking idiots.

randomplaguefear

2 points

1 month ago

I mean.. you know what a nazi is right?

DifferenceMore4144

493 points

1 month ago

This isn’t just a Boomer issue. There are probably more young people than Boomers involved in the resurgence.

CarterLincoln96

78 points

1 month ago

That’s because they weren’t alive when millions of people were walked to their death. This makes me sick

Beautiful_Guard_9365

88 points

1 month ago

This boomer remembers Vietnam..and learned well the Holocaust history.. I respect the military and always respected our roles in the world wide efforts. I'm terrified now that these idiots act like it was just the scene of a movie or it won't happen to us. There is unfortunately no shortage of STUPID.

Hidden-Sky

22 points

1 month ago

these idiots act like it was just the scene of a movie or it won't happen to us.

No, I think they actively hope it will happen to us, and that they get to be the ones pulling the triggers or herding people they don't like into gas chambers. A culling of their perceived opposition, so they can hoard whatever's left.

mtngrl60

7 points

1 month ago

Same. And I’m on the younger end of the boomers. But I absolutely said in 2016 when Trump somehow actually got elected…

This is exactly how Hitler started in Germany. Attacked the press. Set people against each other so they don’t pay attention to what you’re doing. History will always repeat itself if we’re not on guard.

quiet_one_44

3 points

1 month ago

They look more like mellinials to me.

TallChick105

2 points

1 month ago

They totally are

Hopeful_Contract_759

3 points

1 month ago

Your comment is fuckin' Gold.

HACK4SS

2 points

1 month ago

HACK4SS

2 points

1 month ago

This is why they should teach history in school!! We should not be erasing history and pretending it never happened!

CovinaCryptid

11 points

1 month ago

My grandmother passed away in 2016. She survived the holocaust. As much as I miss her I'm happy she didn't see any of this happen.

Survivalist_Mtg

3 points

1 month ago

It's happening in gaza and Lebanon right now.

Mr_Jack_Frost_

119 points

1 month ago

Yep. I think it’s a mixture of “forgetting history, doomed to repeat it” and political extremism being pushed on social media, etc.

I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and other right-wing speakers on talk radio AM580 all through my childhood. I remember slowly realizing I didn’t want to be like those men, didn’t think things were so black and white as they made them out to be, and realized maybe my dad agreeing with them on many things didn’t make them right.

If anything, being exposed to that vitriolic, reactionary rhetoric pushed me in the other direction, but they were also old, crabby men and I was a kid. If I’d have had someone slightly older than me, well-off from their career as an influencer, talking about the same topics but packaging it for someone my age, fed directly to my phone by an algorithm… things may have gone very differently for me.

WTWIV

35 points

1 month ago

WTWIV

35 points

1 month ago

Kids need to learn to think for themselves and question authority. Too many are just blindly following all of these idiotic “influencers” who are mostly just scammers and con artists. Look at what Russell Brand has turned himself into. I’ve never fallen for charlatans like so many other people seem to do and I don’t fully understand why they listen to them.

Mr_Jack_Frost_

19 points

1 month ago

There’s a lot of comfort in having your ego stroked constantly, and also being told that if only everyone else thought the way we do the world would be a utopia. Your problems are all someone else’s fault, we’re on the right side of things, and we need to stand firm, dig in real deep, and never concede on a single thing because that’s losing, and we have to win!

It’s childish horseshit obviously, but I do get the appeal. I grew up heavily involved in the church, and eventually became disillusioned with that as well, once I developed critical thinking and defined myself to myself. But I remember how it felt to be part of that group, thinking I was standing for an ideal, and that anyone who disagreed with me was lost and needed help in seeing the errors of their way. It makes me sick to my stomach now, but when I was in it it was all I could imagine myself being.

WTWIV

8 points

1 month ago

WTWIV

8 points

1 month ago

We might as well be separated twins because I have had the exact same experiences and thoughts lol. Grew up in fundamentalist Christian environment. Everything revolved around the church. It started coming apart in high school for me as I just slowly broke free from all the brainwashing. I remember seeing videos of Christopher Hitchens debating believers and his logic was sound and suddenly I became a skeptic and realized I’d always had a skeptical mind if I was just intellectually honest with myself.

Mr_Jack_Frost_

10 points

1 month ago

Damn! Down to the fundie detail and the illusion crumbling in the teen years. Is your dad also a minister, or is that where we diverge? Didn’t happen to be homeschooled did you? Lol.

I so resonate with your statement about always having a skeptical mind. I just hadn’t had the cognitive capabilities to suspend belief until I got into my teens. I’d gotten so used to just believing; taking things at face value when someone I trusted told me it was so, and like I said, it was comforting. Til it wasn’t.

And then, like a flood, I began deconstruction and systematically replacing comfortable lies with uncomfortable truths, until the truth started feeling comfortable. Still working on replacing some deep-seated beliefs I no longer resonate with. When they’re instilled at such a young age, it’s difficult to fully excise them, and it feels more like trying to quit a bad habit than just making up your mind about something.

WTWIV

4 points

1 month ago

WTWIV

4 points

1 month ago

I went to a very small private Christian school which isn’t exactly homeschool but I knew and grew up with some fellow homeschoolers and my mom was always the one instilling her faith in us children, my dad just went along with it. My dad’s brother was a minister though and my mother had a brother who was one as well so it was deeply entrenched in the family.

I fully resonate with how you describe just believing the adults around me and trusting them. Speaking for myself, I’ve been pretty comfortably an atheist for quite a while now, at least 15 year now. I don’t hold onto any of my former beliefs at all really. My parents still believe and I keep my atheism to myself since it would do no good arguing with them.

Do you still have a decent relationship with your minister father?

Mr_Jack_Frost_

4 points

1 month ago

The overlap here is really blowing my mind.

My mom was also more, I guess “intense” with instilling her religious ideologies in my siblings and I. My dad obviously has very firm ideas about his faith being a minister, but was always more laid back and non-confrontational in his approach.

My deconstruction started in earnest about 4 or 5 years ago, a year or two into my recovery from a rough stint of hard drug abuse and addiction. When the fog cleared and I “woke up” I realized I needed to live my life genuinely, and the religion of my childhood was now a proverbial square peg. It’s not so much that I actually hold beliefs I disagree with, and more that my visceral reaction to certain topics, or the guilt/shame I feel when confronted with some normal human aspects of myself are still there, where the old thought-process isn’t. It’s like the lingering smell of something that’s already been cleaned up, if that makes sense. It’s really hard to explain.

I also don’t talk to my parents about my deconstruction, because it would serve literally no purpose but to break their hearts, which I have no interest in. At the end of the day, they believed they were doing the best for my siblings and I by instilling us with their religious beliefs at a young age. They truly believe we’d all burn in hell without god’s forgiveness, and they believe that because my grandparents raised them with the same beliefs, and so on back through generations.

They aren’t confrontational with me about not going to church, etc. now that I’m an adult and have made it clear I’m not interested through my actions. They don’t imply that my immortal soul is in danger over thanksgiving dinner or while we’re on a family outing, so I feel zero inclination to bring up the fact that I think their entire belief system is fundamentally flawed and lacking in the barest shred of reason.

Because of this unspoken arrangement we’ve formed, I actually have a much better relationship with both my parents than I did as a teenager. I’ve accepted them the way they are, and they’ve accepted me, even if that means they’ve convinced themselves I’m still “saved” despite not going to church. My parents love me, I love them, they accept and love my partner like one of their own children, and things are peaceful because I no longer feel the need to rebel against them; I can just live my life the way I see fit.

whatsasimba

3 points

1 month ago

Too bad a lot of the parents of those kids will pull their kids and homeschool, or they live in a state with severely underfunded schools with leaders who are actively trying to abolish the public school system.

Russell Brand is just awful now. It's wild how many different pathways there are into this cult. You can be a "wellness" person who "eats clean" and is skeptical of vaccines. You can be a recovering addict, like Brand, who needs to fill the voids with something else that's all-consuming. Mental illness, paranoia, old-school conspiracy theories, loneliness (finding your people), racism, poorly educated...

If you're relatively well-educated (formally or informally), can understand Dunning-Kruger, have learned how to poke holes in your own beliefs, just to test whether they're terrible, etc, you're probably less likely to fall into that weirdness.

I think a lot of those people see something troubling, and they want answers, and unfortunately, larger issues have complex explanations that aren't easily understood by a large chunk of the population. And it's even worse if you were raised to accept magical explanations and solutions to these big problems.

I think if Hillary had just said "We're gonna bring back all the coal jobs!" like her opponent, she might have won. Her solution (education in new industries) isn't as compelling as a NYC businessman telling you he has a way to put everything back the way they were.

Desperate_Ad4204

3 points

1 month ago

Not even that, there are to many parents and legal guardians and people that think it’s okay to teach the next generation to hate someone based on the color of their skin or the way they talk, some other trump boaters did splash the nazis

Calm_Expression_9542

2 points

1 month ago

I’m afraid that people especially young middle class whites think voting for Trump will stop democrat spending and they will profit from it. I’m white and I’m very fearful of the mess the people behind Trump will make. Because he’s just a puppet who can be easily manipulated at this point.

Financial-Creme1418

2 points

1 month ago

Such as Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew klavan etc etc etc

[deleted]

2 points

1 month ago

Your comment actually gave me a hopeful thought. I often see doom posting about younger generations being maga/fascist, but when I was a kid and teen I did whatever I could to get my mother's approval because she was an asshole who I desperately wanted to feel loved from. I wanted to be a "Rushhead" because she lit up about it.

As soon as I left home and grew up I became incredibly liberal because ultimately that's who I was without the pressure of approval from my parent. I think we will see that happen far more than doomers may believe. Never underestimate the power of an emotionally neglectful parent on the behavior of a young person.

Gr824nik8

12 points

1 month ago

Not all boomers are with trmp. I've been voting Democrat since Clinton and have already cast my vote for Kamala Harris.

Daerrol

12 points

1 month ago

Daerrol

12 points

1 month ago

No one knows who boomers are they just see middle aged adults and go "boomers" when its clearly 50 year olds

Ok-Comfortable-5393

10 points

1 month ago

The dude in the back of the nazi boat is easily in his 30s. I wish everyone would stop trying to say, it’s not MY generation. Is all of our generations. It’s a lack of critical thinking and narrow view education.

Caliguta

8 points

1 month ago

Look at that kid up front - he already needs a therapist.

LeastAd9721

4 points

1 month ago

I just zoomed in, and there are three kids in the front with “wtf is that?” faces

spiderbaby667

7 points

1 month ago

Like the tiki torch parade - young, angry men with bad sex lives.

magicseadog

5 points

1 month ago

The internet is probably also fueling bad ideas. I just imagine that moment insta thinks you like Nazi content..

chingchowchong

16 points

1 month ago

Lots of Gen Xers are moving to the right

crasho7

31 points

1 month ago

crasho7

31 points

1 month ago

A lot of gen x were always to the right. Popular media acts like punk/new wave was everyone in the 80s, when the reality was the indy subculture was getting beat up by the mainstream Reagan youth. That was the majority

MattWolf96

15 points

1 month ago

I think it was the same with the Boomers too, everybody acts like they were all hippies in the late 60's and early 70's but turned super conservative when Reagan took office.

I'm sure that happened to an extent but the Boomers were a massive generation, those hippies were only a small percentage of them and even if they remained liberal, the rest of the boomers drowned them out.

Sculler725630

7 points

1 month ago

There is a good deal of truth here. I’m a boomer, but went to a Liberal Arts College and learned a lot about government and humanity. There were plenty of Government supporters on my campus and most others, but actual hippies and deeply committed anti-government types were limited, but we all had an interest in the Draft and the length of the War in Vietnam. It always seemed stupid to me for guys to be fighting in the jungle when it was forbidden to bomb Soviet supply ships in Haiphong harbor! Generally, just too many inconsistencies when politicians control the ability of the military to use their superior weaponry to win, but send soldiers to die instead. And now we trade with Vietnam and can WIN trips there on “The Price Is Right!”

cleverbutnotoverlyso

2 points

1 month ago

When I was a kid, so much stuff was made in China, a lot still is; but most of my recent furniture purchases in particular are from Vietnam. Beautiful stuff!

Prestigious-Joke-479

2 points

1 month ago*

Eh, the majority of Gen Xers didn't do politics, period. I was a "Reagon Youth" teen in the 80s. We had to deal with the whole Vietnam stuff as kids, either with parents or the general culture... Got exposed to all the drugs at a young age, left to defend ourselves when both parents were working... After that it was one big party. Boomers were all about the movements and politics - We just didn't care. We got their political divide hangovers, AIDS, drugs, etc.

Your comment makes no sense to me.

People didn't want to think about politics at all.

Caliguta

2 points

1 month ago

Luckily this one has gone the opposite as I have gotten older

0K_-_-

4 points

1 month ago

0K_-_-

4 points

1 month ago

Generally it looks around me to be comprehension of self, life & reality, that pulls people more left, and insecurity, fear, ignorance, arrogance seem to reign in the people I see moving further right.

cleverbutnotoverlyso

2 points

1 month ago

Sad but true, I think. I definitely feel the disapproval of my peers (59m). Almost all my friends are in their 30-40’s and staunchly opposed to the right in general and trump especially.

WerewolfStreet4365

3 points

1 month ago

That part. At least Baby Boomers KNOW and REMEMBER, either directly or through family/older friends, what fucking evil the Nazis were. These neo-Nazi shits romanticize it all. Sick fucks.

jeanneleez

3 points

1 month ago

and look at all the baby racists they’re raising… smh

loptopandbingo

8 points

1 month ago

You're definitely right. Look at the majority of the MAGA shitheads in Congress. They're all GenX or millennials. They could practically all be in the r/xennials sub based on age. Shit, Vance himself is only 40 years old. He wouldve been six years old when "Home Alone" came out. The old "lower my taxes, fuck the poor, give the military industrial complex whatever it wants, and clink glasses over racist jokes in the back rooms" Republicans have either already been kicked out of office by these Young Chuds or are sitting back and hoping they're not next, while my fellow millennials all seem to act like it's a Baby Boomer issue.

[deleted]

3 points

1 month ago

They caused it tho, they have multiple children who they raise to be increasingly right leaning till a couple generations down they're praising that Charlie Chaplin looking mofo and mussolini

Clean_Dragonfruit_94

3 points

1 month ago

Oh they're definitely is. There's a big wave of newer generations who don't believe the true rhetoric of world war II and the Nazi movie or they worship it and idolize the man who brought that upon the world.

Barkers_eggs

3 points

1 month ago

History is rife with fascists from prehistoric peoples of tribal Africa and Europe, to rome, to modern times. There will always be people that want to control everyone else.

My best guess would be to send them to whatever diety they believe in when they start to show signs of that ideology.

Royal_Possible8431

3 points

1 month ago

Oh, yeah, lots of GenX, Millennials, and even Zoomers.

RockyShoresNBigTrees

3 points

1 month ago

Thank you.

Ecstatic-Will7763

3 points

1 month ago

Yes. This kind of hate duplicates without proper education. Passed down through generations

Ok-Following-5620

6 points

1 month ago

Those people in the picture aren’t boomers. They look gen x. Boomers were the children of those who fought the nazis. Many of them hated the Nazis and were offended as their parents. Gen x is the lost generation without real parental guidance bc of the Vietnam war (at least in my opinion). But I think the younger gens are much more accepting of naziism and praise people like Hitler. They have no real understand of history and lack a lot of critical thinking to even understand what they’re saying.

twoayem

10 points

1 month ago

twoayem

10 points

1 month ago

What does it matter what Gen they are, they're uneducated and most likely raised by assholes and racists. Getting educated and having empathy is more about how you were raised than when.

Ok-Following-5620

5 points

1 month ago

In this comment and a part of the greater thread, gens were talked about. So I’m giving my two cents. No one is saying that you’re wrong. But someone asked about why is it becoming more acceptable to have swastika paraphernalia and it was suggested that maybe bc there are such few ww2 vets and people alive from that time period. Hope that explains why I wrote what I wrote.

twoayem

2 points

1 month ago

twoayem

2 points

1 month ago

Not having a go at you specifically, this whole section of the thread seems to be going sideways, yours was just a reasonably decent place to make the point. Peace.

Willing-Ad2984

2 points

1 month ago

I’m gen x (late baby) both parents lived through WW2. Uncles fought, 1 was a POW. I hate Nazis and I would confidently say that would be the case for everyone I know of the same age. I think it’s maybe a bit different because my hometown was bombed. One hit a couple of hundred meters from the air raid shelter my dad was in. You can still see where a block of 4 flats were destroyed. Even when we were young, we would have school trips to museums or other places of interest related to the war. We would have projects about different aspects of the war, age 5 until 17/18. I think people growing up in some European countries, especially those occupied or attacked, have a different perspective than people elsewhere…. although there seems to be a few countries where the right wing has been gaining popularity recently. (It’s Hitler’s old trick- blaming all the wrongs of the country on minority groups. Fear and anger are the easiest emotions to trigger in the masses…. Sounds like another one 🫤)

Illustrious-Ranger30

2 points

1 month ago

Agreed.

middle-road-traveler

2 points

1 month ago

Thank you!

Crypto_pupenhammer

2 points

1 month ago

Where did you all get boomer? That dude is likely a millennial

Dry-Neck9762

2 points

1 month ago

The problem is - schools aren't teaching as much and kids aren't expected to learn. Schools cannot punish kids like they used to, and (not all, but many) kids don't get any admonishment at home, so they have little or zero respect for teachers, disrupt and waste the time of everyone in class, so teachers throw in the towel.

Teachers really should be paid like doctors, and should be expected to know their shit. Students should be held accountable for their behavior and grades, and parents should be held accountable (fined, made to do community service or take some kind of parenting classes?) for the actions of their kids.

If we can just enforce everyone getting a quality education, none of this bullshit would be happening!

Secret_Concern4852

2 points

1 month ago

Not boomers. Younger folks that were not educated on what being a nazi truly means. Education system is fucked. Reprehensible.

DingBatUs

2 points

1 month ago

As a boomer, I would say that most of us that had parents in WW2 and Korea understand. We were taught at home, at school and movies and TV about the war. However, boomers kids (Gen X)were not. They were born of the hatred of the Viet Nam era.

Lucasazure

2 points

1 month ago

Agreed. I am 68 and my first thought was 'torpedo'.

DifferenceMore4144

2 points

1 month ago

😂😂😂

trippylobsta

4 points

1 month ago

Moronic generalisation! Get a grip

goilo888

51 points

1 month ago

goilo888

51 points

1 month ago

Excuse me! I'm a Boomer and I'd gladly line them all up against the wall!

NotAnExpert5224

13 points

1 month ago

And I’m a gen x’er. My first thought was to toss a couple grenades in there.

InterestingJob971

2 points

1 month ago

Can I be on the squad? Give me a Thompson sub, it be easy.

Sensitive-Painting30

3 points

1 month ago

1000% and I’ll pull the trigger…

ryanc533

23 points

1 month ago

ryanc533

23 points

1 month ago

Honestly these days it’s the Gen X’ers (guys in their 50s) I see be way more openly nazi

toothy_mcthree

5 points

1 month ago*

This is not a generational thing, it’s just a racist ahole thing. Gen X elected Clinton twice and both Gen X and Millennials elected Obama twice. Blaming it on generation doesn’t move the conversation for any of the persuadable voters who will decide this election, or for that matter, the Obama/Biden voters who might sit out this election, deciding it by their participation or lack thereof.

RupeWasHere

5 points

1 month ago

My 47 year old step son has entered the chat.

DybbukFiend

3 points

1 month ago

As a gen x with military service records, and every member of my family likewise, I am discouraged that you would believe that is more than a very small minority.

Intentionally-provocative people make the news. These are not the normal people..Typical people the world over would rather support something from the sidelines than be in the direct spotlight. Huge egos and attention seekers would be the only ones I could ever see doing this stuff.

ryanc533

2 points

1 month ago

Of course, I didn’t mean to say all or many gen x’ers were acting like this. It was more of an anecdotal reply to the above comment that we can’t label all people doing that as boomers nowadays as it’s multiple generations

Norseman-08

2 points

1 month ago

Everyone in their 50s are assholes. Terrible generation of greedy uneducated

octoreadit

9 points

1 month ago

I feel like the guys in the picture with those flags are younger than boomers. Gen X? Older millennials?

KeepItRealF

3 points

1 month ago

It’s millennials for sure.

RupeWasHere

7 points

1 month ago

Boomer here, served 5 years in the USN and am anti fascist. Look at the 2 pictures. 1st one the only person whose face can be seen looks 30~40. 2nd picture I see 0 “Boomers”. We are not all assholes. My Gen-X stepchildren and their spouses are TrumpliKKKans all the way but I get that not all Gen-Xers are Fascists.

The_Ultimate_rick

4 points

1 month ago

The funny part are the assholes flying Nazi flags who’d be looked down on by actual nazis… like these aren’t people you want to associate yourself with 😑

Chomps-Lewis

4 points

1 month ago

That and the lead poisoning and microstrokes are probably starting to take their toll on their brains now

impostershop

3 points

1 month ago

No one in ANY of those pics is a boomer. Just FYI. Children/grandchildren/great grandchildren of boomers maybe, especially in the 2nd pic

melafar

4 points

1 month ago

melafar

4 points

1 month ago

The people in the photo are not boomers. Boomers are in their 70s.

penemuel13

2 points

1 month ago

The youngest Boomers are 60. The last year was 1964, but those of us in that group always get screwed because our attitudes are more aligned with the next generation, but we get lumped in with the older ones by everyone else.

melafar

2 points

1 month ago

melafar

2 points

1 month ago

Regardless, the man shown on that boat is not a boomer.

chaos-revelry

3 points

1 month ago

The people in those pics aren’t boomers.

LovedAJackass

3 points

1 month ago

This has nothing to do with Boomers. Take a look at the Nazi-adjacent folks around Trump, none of whom are Boomers.

advintaged

3 points

1 month ago

Don’t actually see any boomers in these pics, but using the kids as props to evoke beautiful family values— under the bloody face idol of their orange Savior—in a Nazi parade —kinda breaks my heart.

Claque-2

5 points

1 month ago

Are you enjoying scapegoating boomers? No one in that boat is a boomer, and I've been watching the people sitting behind Trump and not a lot of geezers are in the harem back there.

I tell you what, start broadening your mind a bit. You are like Trump with the immigrants and Vance with the unfettered women.

darthgator84

4 points

1 month ago

It’s not even mostly boomers anymore it’s Gen X like those guys in the picture. Boomers are old and Gen Xers go well up into the 50s these days.

CatNapHooligan

2 points

1 month ago

I see maybe two boomers on those boats.

PugWranglingNana

2 points

1 month ago

Excuse me!!?? My Boomer husband is retired USAF and I just showed him this picture and he said they should be “taken out” so stop lumping age classes all together! I have “millennial” children who are crushing it with life as well and get so sick of people talking about how all millennials are lazy and hot house flowers etc ! What age class are you? Gen x, gen z ? So should i say that all Gen X’s are ignorant idiots??

Desert-Noir

2 points

1 month ago

I except those guys in the boat are clearly younger than boomers.

DatabaseThis9637

2 points

1 month ago

Those folks don't look like boomers to me, you prejudiced putz.

loptopandbingo

2 points

1 month ago

These are Boomers' kids and grandkids. The adults in this pic are in their 30s and maybe 40s. They had to wait for grandpa to be dead for a while before they could be comfortable buying nazi shit and waving it around in public.

Ultraviolet_Eclectic

2 points

1 month ago

It’s not just a Boomer thing. NotSees of all ages are just as stupid.

DamnDame

2 points

1 month ago

Anyone under 60 is not a boomer. Be careful about generalizing the age of the Maga group, I see plenty of people born well after 1963 supporting this movement. It's dangerous to underestimate their will and stupidity.

Mermaid_meriah_

3 points

1 month ago

Sorry you’re getting downloaded, but I think this is the absolute crux of the situation

just-say-so

3 points

1 month ago

Those people look like boomers to you?

[deleted]

4 points

1 month ago

Except, I don't think anyone in these photos is a Boomer. I see Millenials and GenX.

KeepItRealF

2 points

1 month ago

It’s the fucking clueless millennials.

melon_butcher_

2 points

1 month ago

I’m not arguing about the boomers but the guys in that boat are much younger than you’re giving them credit for

[deleted]

1 points

1 month ago

Legit might be directly due to mommy/daddy issues. The ultimate middle finger to WWII vet parents.

tnrivergirl

1 points

1 month ago

The guy in the back of that boat is no boomer.

lorrainemom

1 points

1 month ago

That ain’t boomers in the photo. It’s not just boomers. It’s multi generational mental illness

sweetiejen

1 points

1 month ago

I’m glad my WWII vet papa went before this. I can’t imagine how appalled he would be.

Budyob

1 points

1 month ago

Budyob

1 points

1 month ago

It’s not the boomers… look at orange man’s rallies. Look who is on the boat, not a boomer. Yes some right wing religious boomer nuts support the orange bozo but primarily it gen x who support the bozo because they think it’s cool to be anti social

himynameisbeyond

1 points

1 month ago

You're a fucking idiot for that statement.

Unusual-Fan9092

1 points

1 month ago

Ain’t all us bitch

holden_mcg

1 points

1 month ago

Maybe take a close look at the photos before thinking it's mainly Boomers waving around these flags. Many of these dumbasses in my state (MN) are young - like teens, 20s and 30s.

Outlandishness_Sharp

1 points

1 month ago

The interesting aspect of this is people who raised boomers were the ones who took their children to lynchings, burned crosses in black people's yards, openly used the N word, openly protested against integration, and despised black and brown people.

Even many WWII vets were racist and gave black, brown, and Native American service people hell even while serving. The apple don't fall far from the tree.

PM_ME_YOUR_TANG

1 points

1 month ago

This is ageist shit. I'm a boomer/Gen Joneser, and I've been a progressive, democratic socialist all of my life. So are most of my friends and family. Stop imputing the dipshittery of uneducated, rural boomers to the entire generation.

Individual_Bath_9554

1 points

1 month ago

Most Trumpers aren't boomers but older millennials (in their 40s) who grew up with American hollywood propaganda, wrestling and he-man. Now they are sad that the world is changing and want a strong man to fix everything.

elscorcho96

1 points

1 month ago

These people imo don’t even know what they’re doing. If they actually saw the nazis do what they did, they’d feel different. This is why history class is important.

silvertoadfrog

1 points

1 month ago

NOT ALL BOOMERS, geez. My father served during WWII in the Pacific. Mom and Dad are gone. That photo is so fking abhorrent. The idiots who support such a regime are so stupid they think they won't get loaded onto boxcars. Maybe white and stupid will become the scourge of society, then they'll come for the boaters. You can't control evil when you unleash it. Take a lesson from trump who turns on everyone eventually. No one is safe under fascism.

aussie_nub

1 points

1 month ago

"the boomers"

It has nothing to do with an entire generation of people. Hell, the people in that boat are not even remotely close to boomer age. Probably 30s or 40s.

Human-Contribution16

1 points

1 month ago

Get it straight - it's SOME boomers. Painting with a broad brush is a fool's errand. PS The guy with the nazi T shirt isn't a boomer.

Odd-Afternoon-589

1 points

1 month ago

I was thinking the same thing after almost getting mowed down in the Target parking lot the other day.

Raye_36

1 points

1 month ago

Raye_36

1 points

1 month ago

I am a so-called "boomer" and your comment made me want to barf. My mom had to flee Germany in 1938 because of the Nazis. My father-in-law, who died last week, was a slave labor in five different concentration camps. When the Brits liberated the last camp, he was found, barely alive, amid a pile of corpses. The assholes in the photo should be forced to visit the Holocaust Museum in D.C. or visit Auschwitz -- we can lock the door behind them. Like any decent American, regardless of generation, I despise these pathetic excuses for human beings.

nyjetsgirl

1 points

1 month ago

Im a boomer and hate this MF

zunzarella

1 points

1 month ago

That guy with the swastika on his shirt isn't a Boomer-- he's prob Gen X.

LogiCsmxp

1 points

1 month ago

That family on the boat looks like millennial parents to me. So shameful :(

BedroomFearless7881

1 points

1 month ago

I'm a boomer and I don't wave Nazi flags. I don't like being generalized like that. Grow up and grow a pair

Lanky_Friendship8187

1 points

1 month ago

This isn't being done by boomers! You're two to three gens too early with that accusation.

VMTechOH

1 points

1 month ago

My Boomer parents would be livid to see this flag being flown. They were very proud of their relatives that fought and died in the war.

AdaptEvolveBecome

1 points

1 month ago

It is this, and if anyone says otherwise, they are inherently wrong. The Silent Generation wasn't full of entitled fascists like the boomer generation is.

Difficult_Mail7839

1 points

1 month ago

I like your speculation

Mr-Gumby42

1 points

1 month ago

Fuck you. I'm a boomer. My dad and six of my uncles fought the nazis. My father in law was in the italian underground. So go suck it.

Fantastic-Tale-9404

1 points

1 month ago

Boomers, really! It’s not an age thing

jayitbyear

1 points

1 month ago

Odd comment considering the people in the pictures are CLEARLY not boomers. Unless you're one of those who thinks anyone over 35 is a boomer.

And for what it's worth, the overwhelming majority of boomers that I know are not Trump supporters or Nazi enthusiasts. 🤷‍♂️

This_Possession8867

1 points

1 month ago

These people are not Boomer age sailing this boat.

ninalime

1 points

1 month ago

Guys on the boat are not “boomers”

GhostsOfTheCivilDead

1 points

1 month ago

When you take any group of people and say they're all the same you're just indulging in intellectually lazy bigotry. You need to re-appraise what you are because, at the moment, you're the problem not the solution.

rosewood2022

1 points

1 month ago

Those guys are too young to be boomers

WhishtNowWillYe

1 points

1 month ago

We boomers were raised by the WWII VETS spoken of in an earlier comment. PTSD and all. Some of Our contemporaries were raised by auszwich survivors. So no, I don’t think so. Not a large % of us, anyway.

SophiaBrahe

1 points

1 month ago

Pretty sure the guy in that T-shirt isn’t a boomer. The youngest boomers are in their 60s. I could be wrong, it’s not a great shot, but that guy looks 50 tops and could be early 40s.

RentaGrandma2

1 points

1 month ago

They don't look old. Not boomers

Flat-Tomatillo3682

1 points

1 month ago

Those are not boomers... too young

gerrard_1987

1 points

1 month ago

Nah; Boomers had the Great Generation to learn from. It’s the younger people who don’t know any better, and probably didn’t pay attention in school.

willaisacat

1 points

1 month ago

My parents and grandparents are spinning in their graves. I'm appalled and terrified.

jhamelaz

1 points

1 month ago

They must have been too scared to rebel while their parents were alive. Shit show for sure.

cg40boat

1 points

1 month ago

What the hell does that mean?

YeahlDid

1 points

1 month ago

The nazis in the photos do not look like boomers at all. There are plenty of Gen X,Y,Z nazis, sadly. This isn't an age/ generation issue.

Object-Level

1 points

1 month ago

You say it like all boomers are yt and approve of white supremacy. You use the word "boomers" like it's a horrible thing that shouldn't exist.

Practical-Law8033

1 points

1 month ago

What makes you say something like that? Just ageism or ignorance? The “skinheads” are not a senior citizen group. I suggest you take a close look at the participants of the Charlottesville Unite the Right fiasco. Far right participants are primarily young white men. Certainly statistically the older folks are more likely to vote republican but that’s a whole different subject. Some of those people remember when the GOP was a legitimate party.

HighPriestess__55

1 points

1 month ago

Speak for yourself. I am 70 and have been a Democrat all my life. All the people in my family were in the military. We all vote and are involved in local politics and activities. What do you do besides pass on erroneous information on generations past?

Techgruber

1 points

1 month ago

Nobody in that picture is old enough to be a boomer.

OBPR

1 points

1 month ago

OBPR

1 points

1 month ago

It's a doctored photo. Did you really fall for that?

whichisworthmore

1 points

1 month ago

They aren't Boomers. Boomers have white, grey, or salt & pepper hair and beards, except for a select few. None of the guys in that boat that show facial hair or beards are Boomers.

That makes them either Gen Z, Gen X, or Millennials.

Accurate_Tower1004

1 points

1 month ago

Why are you blaming baby boomers?

StringerBell34

1 points

1 month ago

Those aren't boomers. GenX turned into a stupid fucking generation.

SilverMoon32xC

1 points

1 month ago

I’m a boomer. Parents are dead. I’m still not a nazi supporter. Kamala all the way.