• klemptor@startrek.website
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    8 months ago

    Classic Rock. Civil rights. Moon landing. Birth control and abortion. Counterculture and peaceful protests making it OK to be a dissident. Making pants way more commonplace for women. And mid-century modern design.

    I know it’s trendy to hate on boomers, and a lot of them are out of touch and have gotten more close-minded as they’ve aged, but there was a lot of good that could be laid at their feet as well.

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      8 months ago

      Neil armstrong etc. were all the silent generation. The boomers were in their 20s.

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          8 months ago

          Thats like saying congress is run by millennials because some of them are millennials. Most of them arent.

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      8 months ago

      these were actions of a few, and in this thread we’re in the spirit of making sweeping generalizations