• Boomers are having their last dance in charge.
  • Gen X leaders are stepping up to replace the last of them.
  • Younger leaders are taking charge of politics and corporate giants such as Boeing, HSBC, and Costco.
  • Nastybutler@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Boomers is short for Baby Boomers which were literally the babies born after WW2 vets came home and had families. I don’t know why your misinformed comment has so many upvotes

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      4 months ago

      What’s the fact you’re objecting to? The only thing wrong is Trump as a Silent as he’s born in the very first year of the Boomers. Everything else is following the common definitions.

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        4 months ago

        You might be right there. I’m German. And many a man did come back later, after the war, here. A lot of refugees were forcefully relocated from what is today Poland. Also a lot of POWs came back long after the war was over. So the baby boom was a bit delayed over here.

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          4 months ago

          Then again, you’re a computer scientist, not an historian, and therefore excusable :p

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            4 months ago

            It all depends on whether you start counting from 0 or 1!

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        4 months ago

        Where does the common definition of ‘Boomer’ say it starts after 1946 (the year Trump was born) and stops with the birth control pill (1960)?

        I have never seen such a definition anywhere. Certainly not one that says it starts at least two years after the end of WWII.

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          4 months ago

          Huh? I’m saying Trump is Boomer because Boomers start in 1946. And it goes to 1964, which is when the birth control pill was recognized as a contraceptive. I don’t know if X is defined by that in the same way Boomers are defined by a specific event, but it lines up precisely.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers

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              4 months ago

              You literally just asked about where the common definition came from. Read the first fucking paragraph man.

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                4 months ago

                I did not ask anything. I certainly didn’t ask that:

                Pretty amusing that you’re accusing me of not reading though.

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                  4 months ago

                  You’re in the wrong fucking thread. Get it together before you go randomly aggro.

                  You, in the post I originally replied to:

                  Where does the common definition of ‘Boomer’ say it starts after 1946 (the year Trump was born) and stops with the birth control pill (1960)?

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                    4 months ago

                    Okay, sorry about that, but you’re still wrong because it’s anywhere between 1943 and “mid-1946” as per that Wikipedia page.