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"I mean, all of this 'the greatest generation is World War II?' — it just happens that they're the most horrible parents in human history, right? If all of us baby boomers were so bad, then our parents were terrible; they failed. And if we were so bad, how come our kids are so great? We were hellaciously good parents. I think it's phony as a $3 bill. I think they had a chance to win World War II and it was clear. These are much more complex things [now]."
—Bill Clinton doesn't believe in a "greatest generation."
Man, is Tom Brokaw going to be pissed.
Someone sounds a little rebellious.
Or possibly the GG's were bad at parenting and the boomers were shit at everything else.
Can Bill Clinton think of anybody else who's getting more respect than they really deserve?
Can we just stop trying to give names to generations? If one more person starts an argument with me about whether I'm "Gen-X" or "Gen-Y," I swear.
@Mr. B Just wait 30 years or so when we have to come up with a name for the people after Gen-Z. Will we do it like they do hurricanes? Gen-alpha?
@jfruh Ugh. "Gen-Z." Ugh. Aren't all these names just made up by Newsweek anyway?
@Mr. B Brains! The choice of the "Gen-Z" Zombie Army.
@freetzy Don't mind me, I'll just be over here writing a new teen-focused psuedodrama pilot for the CW that definitely does not use Gen-Z as a title.
@jfruh Or Gen AA
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
To be fair, P.L.'s parents were fucking insane.
@Mr. B that's how you make poets!
Am I the only one in their mid-twenties who was raised in a super-conservative household but has transformed into a flaming liberal, but still does not really know what to think of Bill Clinton because of the brainwashing during my formative years?
@cherrispryte You pretty much described the whole country. There's no way to get past the conservative noise machine surrounding Clinton. We'll never know what this man really did because everyone alive at the time will only be able to think about blow jobs and jazz saxophones when his name comes up.
@cherrispryte: That's probably the intelligent woman in you as much as the conservative upbringing. While I acknowledge Clinton's leadership skills, in-depth policy knowledge and political/economic acumen, he was (is?) a moral reprobate and a serial womanizer who repeatedly abused his authority to get his conquests' knickers off.
@cherrispryte Add supporting Perot twice and you've got my upbringing to a tee!
Nothing annoys me more than this generational identity crap. It's astrology without the silly animals. Leos do this, Gen Xers do that, who the fuck cares? The Greatest Generation bullcrap is probably the worst though.
They won a war and then spent the next 50 years acting like drunk, cocky shits. Yes, you killed that awful man and saved the Jews, only to come home and drag your feet for 20 years on Civil Rights. Have another beer, granddad! My grandmother gets to be your personal cook and baby factory but no complaints out of her, because that's not why you watched your friends die at Anzio, so women folk could be treated like equals.
You arrogant fucks let war define you, and wouldn't let us forget about it. So we elect one warmonger after another trying to measure dicks, competing with a myth that we can never best. We've lost every single military conflict started for the last 65 years. None of them were necessary but they all had to happen, so we could stand in the shadow of the Greatest Generation.
@Keith Kisser …and they had high-paying manufacturing jobs, because the industrial capacity of every other developed country had been destroyed.
@Keith Kisser Sounds like you're a little conflicted on the "generational identity crap", though?
My Pop-Pop grew up in Depression-era West Virginia, saw his father sent to a sanitorium for TB, was ostensibly orphaned, stole cars until he got caught and sent to the Army, saw Pearl Harbor happen from inside an extinct volcano, and shot a tiger.
Greatest or not, his generation was BADASS.
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