Matt Hamilton on Nostr: “Nooooo I’m sick and tired of people using ‘boomer’ as a slur, it’s ...
“Nooooo I’m sick and tired of people using ‘boomer’ as a slur, it’s ageist!”
Well if your generation wasn’t such a collective group of squandering ladder-pulling fuck-ups, it wouldn’t be a slur. And if you escaped being such a fuck-up, you would distinguish yourself in your own mind from that cohort of fuck-ups, not taking any personal offense. But you don’t, so that says something about you.
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