Mildly Interesting

How disappointed we will all be when all the boomers are dead and it doesn’t solve any of our problems.

Shame they damage they did won't go with them.

Keanu reeves is so close to and so engrained in gen x culture that I think it's unfair to label him a boomer

Interesting to look at, numbers wise.. but it makes me think of the time I have left with my parents. I'm calling them tomorrow!

Gentle reminder that the whole generations thing is made up.

But true that many of these folks and older hold high positions of power, which is probably the cause for the clock.

The problem isnt going to end with them. My right wing friends are completely indoctrinated by their boomer parents. And getting louder and louder about it.

WTF are Keanu Reeves and Madonna doing there 😃

Putting Keanu next to dead Boomers is like when Micheal Scott announced he hit Meredith and the doctors did all they could.

Why would you phrase it like that?!

Thanks Lemmy. I just had to wiki to double-verify that Keanu Reeves is not dead.

Thank God.

Just How stupid does one have to be to think all their woes exist with only one generation? There are far bigger monsters alive today in current younger generations (many in millennial) that are far more destructive to our lives and the earth. They’ve seen more $$$ than any boomer and will laugh at you while you live out of a garbage can.

And you’d still probably be posting stupid memes like this acting completely oblivious to the burning hell around you.

I find this insanely interesting. I hope someone does this for us Xers but I have a feeling that everyone will forget about us.

And with this, I’m also interested in the rate of change here. Are boomers dying faster, slower, steady rate?

My mother is pre-Boomer (born soon after the U.S. entered the war) and has been incredibly progressive her entire life. She has never voted for a Republican. She marched for civil rights. She wanted me to know that women and men are equal and that color and religion and ethnicity should not make you dislike someone. She taught me about sex (appropriately) when I asked about it at 3 or 4 years old rather than shielding me from it. My brother and I both have (had in my case, but that's another story) gay best friends who were also best man at both of our weddings. She always welcomed them even though my brother and his friend became friends in the mid-1980s. I remember asking my mother what she would do if I was gay and she said she would love me no matter what I was. I don't specifically know her politics, but my dad, born even earlier (1931) was mostly the same way. He definitely had his prejudices- although he would deny it- and he was a lot more sexist than he thought he was, but he was also an outspoken socialist until the dementia got too bad for him to be outspoken about it. One of the last things I was able to tell him before he was too far gone to understand was that Bernie was running for president.

I have certainly had a lot of issues with Boomers and people older than them, but it is far from universal, but I am really proud of my parents for always being progressive.

Boomers were hated by their elders for being too liberal and hated by their youngers for being to conservative.

I love how many people are going on about how one generation isn't the cause of all our problems. I agree. Neither the post nor the website say anything good nor bad about any generation, just that it's -mildly interesting- that boomers just hit 1/3 dead.

Is this like a timer for when we can start fighting climate change?

Not long ago I found out that my dad is too old to be a boomer. Apparently it's called "the silent generation".

Why is a Canadian actor and citizen in one of the photos for a US countdown...?

(Yes I'm referring to Keanu.)

At this point, I'd rather like to see edgelords go extinct.

well that's fucking dark (and as others have pointed out, misguided - won't solve a thing)

Must be nice to have Gen X parents eh? I mean…. Being able to afford the luxury of wishing death upon an entitle generation with no consequences…. Sounds so…. Easy.

It's a start.

I kid, I kid, my parents are already dead, not everyone who was/is a boomer is horrid. But this generation has hung around power for too long, it's time to move on.