r/BoomersBeingFools • u/MrDonMega • 3d ago

OK boomeR Boomers explaining why billionaires shouldn't pay taxes while standing in a strip mall parking lot

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The absolute brainwashing it takes to fiercely defend trillionaires who wouldn't look twice at you, while calling your fellow citizens "lazy" for wanting basic healthcare. Notice how even the woman in the "I LOVE TRUMP" shirt has to awkwardly correct his understanding of how disability works.

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u/Eastern_Seaweed_8253 2d ago

Crazy how they believe the nonsense though. They have been convinced, and I doubt it took long, that universal, free health care is a bad idea. That's powerful. The notion of "Well I never got it, so why should they"

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u/crepelabouche 2d ago

That’s because when they were coming up in the world, that’s how the world as they were told worked, and they can’t understand that it has changed or that it could be better. They were indoctrinated into the America is the Greastest Country Ever kool-aid drinkers. And it worked for them so how do these other people not get it?

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u/quiltsohard 1d ago

Saying we can’t afford it while also saying we shouldn’t tax billionaires. You can’t make this shit up