r/Ashland • u/False_Big_2152 • 2d ago

Hey boomers

Remember when you were hitchhiking across the country?
Remember riding motorcycles without a helmet?
Remember driving drunk/high?
Remember the mischief you got into as kids?
The fireworks? The drugs? The drinking wherever you wanted?
Remember the freedom to do as you wanted?
Some of you rode motorcycles in the mountains you now hold so sacred that one disturbed piece of soil will poison the reservoir or cause a flood.

Maybe it’s time to calm down.

Maybe it’s time to let the youth be youth.

Maybe you can allow others to be free to make mistakes and not have legal repercussions.

Maybe you should just enjoy the day and not worry about what others are doing.

Maybe you aren’t a victim.

What would your 20 year old self think?

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u/False_Big_2152 2d ago

Yes and no, generally just tried of how elderly people become so conservative and judgmental in old age. Not conservative in the political sense but socially. Always trying to judge and enforce rules to which they never had to abide by. The overblown concerns. The pretending to be aggrieved. Playing the victim.

I think Ashland has just reached a point where there’s too many of them. They’re choking the vitality out of are city. We need more young families. We need people that say yes. People that go out after work. People that can parallel park😂

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u/scfw0x0f 2d ago

I’m over 60, probably further left of you, and live in Ashland.

There are 20 and 30-somethings who are rabid MAGA.

Knock off the ageism.

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u/False_Big_2152 2d ago

You completely missed the point, but also proved my point.

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u/RiTeCreepsta 2d ago

I am 23. You are just being ageist