My mother is pre-Boomer (born soon after the U.S. entered the war) and has been incredibly progressive her entire life. She has never voted for a Republican. She marched for civil rights. She wanted me to know that women and men are equal and that color and religion and ethnicity should not make you dislike someone. She taught me about sex (appropriately) when I asked about it at 3 or 4 years old rather than shielding me from it. My brother and I both have (had in my case, but that’s another story) gay best friends who were also best man at both of our weddings. She always welcomed them even though my brother and his friend became friends in the mid-1980s. I remember asking my mother what she would do if I was gay and she said she would love me no matter what I was. I don’t specifically know her politics, but my dad, born even earlier (1931) was mostly the same way. He definitely had his prejudices- although he would deny it- and he was a lot more sexist than he thought he was, but he was also an outspoken socialist until the dementia got too bad for him to be outspoken about it. One of the last things I was able to tell him before he was too far gone to understand was that Bernie was running for president.
I have certainly had a lot of issues with Boomers and people older than them, but it is far from universal, but I am really proud of my parents for always being progressive.
Ugh, that episode is so fucking stupid. “We wanted to pass information down to our creations, but we hid it in a puzzle for no apparent reason and just hoped that all the pieces of the puzzle would evolve into spacefaring civilizations that will all work together to solve the puzzle.” And that didn’t even happen because one of the pieces was on a world which didn’t have much life on it and it got intentionally destroyed during the race for all the puzzle pieces.
Here it is. He says “Cindy and I are breaking up” - then proceeds with the review of Laphroaig 10 Year Single Malt Scotch, which he tells us has been his go-to single malt - it’s a “no compromise” Malt, he assures us.
We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days. (lemmy.world)
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What is air really? (i.imgur.com)
Oh hey, I heard Star Trek got mentioned on the news! Let's just go check and- (startrek.website)
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What part of this are you not understanding, Beverly? (lemmy.world)
Every race needs at least one. (startrek.website)
All in the Memery (lemmy.world)
Elmo (lemmy.world)
He is small and pointless (startrek.website)
Political discussions on the internet. (lemmy.world)
Not such a conspiracy theory now (lemmy.world)
Would have been genius (startrek.website)
uBlock Enterprise (i.imgur.com)
Title (lemmy.world)
The Department of Temporal Investigations is on the case (pixelfed.social)
Man strong (lemmy.world)
Can someone open this pickle jar? (lemmy.world)
Hey, the A.I said it not me. (sh.itjust.works)
Traffic lights (startrek.website)
Lower Decks theme slaps (lemmy.world)
The second coming is near (slrpnk.net)
I'll take "Dyson sphere-level douchebags for 300" (startrek.website)
Aberdeen (feddit.de)
The music is just loud enough to drown out the horror [Gryzlock] (startrek.website)
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"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report (lemmy.world)
Man reviews Whiskey while his wife is packing her stuff and leaving him in the background (youtu.be)
Here it is. He says “Cindy and I are breaking up” - then proceeds with the review of Laphroaig 10 Year Single Malt Scotch, which he tells us has been his go-to single malt - it’s a “no compromise” Malt, he assures us.