Decades ago my stepmother did this in front of her 8 year old daughter... I was like, ok you'll be dead, and you don't need to care about me as your stepson, but what about her?

Ughh... Now her and my dad are MAGA...

Two years later he admitted that maybe there was something about climate change nowadays…

At least they changed their mind (a little bit). I think this is a huge part of the problem: admitting an error and being supported for that admission is something that is frowned upon in certain groups. I think toxic masculinity plays one big factor here. Admitting errors is seen as "not masculine", especially within conservative groups.

Life is too short to bother maintaining relationships with people like that. They can rot away in lonely isolation, like they deserve.

dude torpedo the relationship, who gives a fuck. if they want to be ignorant fucks and ruin their relationship with their child, that's on them

they won't change if there are no repercussions

Managed this as a millennial - had absolutely nothing to do with my parents helping pay half my deposit. Nope, absolutely nothing to do with that whatsoever.

Lemmy's shit is someone else's dinner

I treat it like, "Ah I see you shared an opinion in public that is the reason your family abandoned you. And here you are, alone in society - still holding on to your shitty thoughts, and you will die alone."

Except it gets misused on those of us who were the boomers first victims.

Ding ding ding!

The reason it feels like people from that era are angrier and dumber than they used to be is because they literally are! It’s literal brain damage!

They still do. General aviation still uses 100LL aka low lead

Gen X kid walked arduous hikes uphill back from school in the La Cañada foothills in San Fernando Valley, id est, the Los Angeles smog bowl from ~1975 to 1985. I may literally have lead poisoning brain damage.

I don't know how I'd get checked. 58 now.

Curiously, I empathize with kids these days but am also extremely left-wing, and see each generation getting dismissed by the previous one as having it too easy.

Now I want to see someone wearing a shirt that says:

I've been told I'm an "OK Boomer"

Can also be used if you agree with former Bengals QB Boomer Esiason.

slurs used on people for things you cant control ❌️

slurs used on people for things 100% in their control ✅️

Boomers expected that civilization would end before they got to adulthood.

I figured that was our (Gen X) curse. I remember being fairly sure I'd not see age 20, given all the dystopian nightmares that seemed to surround us. Maybe it was all the boomer-created media we were saturated in.

I seem to recall Douglas Coupland writing on that in much more evocative ways than I could ever muster...but then, even though he coined "Generation X", I think he's one of the very oldest in that generation.

don't let context and subtly of reality get in the way of your intergenerational rage narrative!

my parents were stupid ignorant fucks... but the sad fact is their life circumstances meant they were never going to be anything but that.

and plenty of people think stupid and ignorant merely because I dont agree with their extremist political ideology or their doomer mindset or chasing whatever trend is popular on social media that month.

As a Gen X person, this is kind of my response to any sort of right-wing nonsense now. Especially that thing where you say something that's obviously true and they ask what your source is for that so they can nit-pick it and exhaust you with irrelevant bickering until you give up.

"Society seems to be degenerating into fascism again"

"oH yEaH wHaT iS uR sOuRcE"

"Outside."

Or I'll just be like "no" if I even bother responding at all. You're probably just arguing with a bot to drive up engagement that benefits some rich dickhead somehow anyway. 100% not worth it IMO.