I was talking to my 80+ mother about the covid vaccination, and of course, she was surprised that I'm not going to get it. She was saying how happy she is to be able to do so many things now that she has been vaccinated. I asked her why vaccinated people think people who don't want to be vaccinated should get the vaccination. She said it was to protect others. I said, "Why should vaccinated people care if others aren't vaccinated; they received the vaccination, so they are protected, right?". She didn't really have an answer. I said, "If some people want to swim at a beach where sharks are known to exist, and others don't want to swim there, why should those people care if others want to risk swimming at that beach?". Again, no answer, and she concluded by saying, "Well, we're not going to agree on this topic". The MSM's ability to sway people into this "it's for the protection of others", combined with their ability to make people think the government is doing them a great favor by "permitting them to go on with their lives after being vaccinated", is a pretty scary phenomena going on in our country!
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I've noticed that this is especially the case for old people. The boomer generation seems to have this inherent trust of the MSM. My father was the same way before he passed - no matter what evidence I showed him, if it conflicted with CNN, it couldn't be true.
Prayers your mother wakes up...
Same. My parents flat out dont believe me and my older brothers are the same way. Only in their 40s and are the same as my parents. Pretty much all think i have lost it and they firmly laugh at and dont believe me when i say google, youtube, etc are censoring! Im like wooooooow
Old fogies still believe MSM are honest and report objectively and politicians have their best interests at heart. They come from a different era, where men didnt leave the house without a suit and hat, and there was no alt media to research truth as opposed to just soaking in the saturated propaganda of like 3 news channels.
It's not the boomers moron. Im A boomer and have seen this since 1985 when I was given a book called non dare call it a conspiracy. Also 80 year Olds are not boomers. Get your facts straight. My generation dosnt cut off their tits and dicks yours does.
OK ... Not really necessary to name call like that. Honestly from my observations PM is right. Boomers DO in fact have an inherent trust of the MSM. THAT is because they are from a time when Journalism existed. It doesn't exist now, and that is a HARD HARD pill for most to swallow. Especially if you grew up with Cronkite, and Morrow. Hell man I can remember a time when CNN was ACTUAL news. No shit boss, there was a time when that was true. Not now of course. Far from it.
No but your generation raised these Millenial subverted spoilt Communists.
Yes! Attack people you don't agree with! That's the way to get people to agree with you - call them morons! You may claim to be a conservative, but you rely on leftist tactics - you spew a bunch of provably false tripe, then tell ME to get MY facts straight? Were you an ASVAB waiver recruit?
Since you decided to dial it up to 10 against people WHO ARE ON YOUR SIDE, I'll retort with this:
Fuck you, boomer. YOUR GENERATION is the reason we find ourselves in the situation we're in.
Hippies. Kent State. Jim Crow. True, actual institutional racism. Spitting on troops coming back from Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson.
And I'm Gen-X - we're your latch-key kids you left to our own devices while your generation prioritized money over family. We raised ourselves thanks to your generations abject greed and self-centeredness.
When did I ever fucking say my dad was 80? He was born in 1950 - most definitely a boomer.
So, in summary - just like the rest of your generation, it's time for you to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. We'll fix this cesspool of a country for you.