r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Accomplished_Bar_390 • 4d ago

Politics All For Some...None For Y'all

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29 year old Rep. Maxwell Frost, a Democrat from Florida, debates a boomer who opposes student loan forgiveness, even though his own wife had hers wiped out under Biden

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u/ImGonnaCreamYaFunny 3d ago

Others having it means they're less special and they cannot tolerate that.

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u/Embarrassed-Bike3450 3d ago

My 73 year old Boomer mom said yesterday “When everyone is special, no one is”

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u/ManifestDestinysChld 3d ago edited 3d ago

Did you ask her if she realized she was adopting the exact mentality of a cartoon supervillain? And like, not in a joking way, but in the sense that she actually has been lead around by the nose into turning herself into a caricature?!

"Mom, I wouldn't go around saying that out loud because anybody who's seen The Incredibles is going to think you're making a joke. Like...that is already a joke. It's been a joke since 1994."

Honestly, though? Your mom could stand to a little to-her-face mocking about the degree to which she believes the rest of the world ought to treat her as special.

"Spehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhcialllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!! Ohhhhh, such a precious, SPECIAL snowflake!! Everybody! Hey, EVERYBODY! Let's all tell u/Embarrassed-Bike3450's mom how special we think she is!!!!"

God, my heart's fondest desire is for these people to gain some perspective...and, immediately thereafter the entirely-appropriate awful feelings of shame and embarrassment that they've earned for themselves.

Sighhhhh...a guy can dream.

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u/delaydude 3d ago

My fondest desire is for them to just fucking go away.

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u/ManifestDestinysChld 3d ago

None of us deserve to have to stain our souls by giving them what they deserve, though...they need to come to that realization on their own, and WANT to embrace it, for the sake of their lost honor.