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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also: TV on 16 hours a day even when nobody is watching it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

One the favorite shopping channel

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, unlike us enlightened folks who spend all of our time either on Reddit or Lemmy!

[–] andrew_bidlaw 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We are conscious about picking only ethicaly-sourced misinformation producers.

[–] lurch 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah meta pulled a sneaky on them: "Dear Mrs. Boomer, we can show you pics of your distant relative's babies for the feeble price of your soul." "Where do I sign?"

[–] Chakravanti 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And the FBI pulled a sneaky of them too: Gary Webb commuted suicide by shooting himself in the head. Twice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where did he commute it to?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

After the suicide he mainly works from home now.

That and COVID.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t that like a stretch to believe the feds had him killed?

[–] Chakravanti 0 points 9 months ago

Maybe if you do too.

[–] Kecessa 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Them refusing to go on the internet for so long while it evolved into what it is today is probably a big part of the reason why they're easy to fool today but let's not kid ourselves, extremists born from social media aren't all boomers, the misogynistic movement we see growing today is mostly people under their mid thirties.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Men pretending to be victims of feminism or whatever is very reminiscent of the dominant religion in the US, Christianity, pretending they're oppressed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Meanwhile genz and millenials think they are ultra capable and still mob target harassment and bullying innocent people online until they commit suicide. I haven’t seen a boomer try too SWAT anyone for giggles yet.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Given that my mom is on it 24/7 doing the most dumb "personal quizzes" that probably got her account hacked, it seems like they're going to take facebook to the grave at this rate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Like a lot of things from their generation, they were projecting things that they would do, onto others instead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I’ve seen several to the opposite, that they were more susceptible to misinformation like Fox News

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Tbf I noticed a lot of millennials and genz are really bad at generalizing boomers into one category and fail at knowing when exactly boomers were born. I’ve seen genz call millennials boomers. They aren’t exactly shining examples of common sense or any real information that is usable for anyone. Just online cat fights.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I prefer the lead gas line. Anyone who remembers leaded gasoline can be generally categorized as boomers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You remembered. BOOMER!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Boomers LOVE news

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

So.. Lemmy is for ageists turds just like twitter is for racists pieces of shit. 👍

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

imagine if they started using tiktok

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Most of the videos will be blurry, black, or with a huge face close to the camera, while a vague "Linda is it recording?" mumbling heard

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Facebook nuke them with notifications and sounds, keep them engaged and confused