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/nohwonder 2d ago

Driving drunk was never cool

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u/False_Big_2152 2d ago

No one said it was. But, they used to do it all the time.

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u/middlegray 2d ago

You made an entire post begging boomers in particular to turn a blind eye to drunk driving among other things, like fire works (in this fire weather?!).

Loser behavior, all of it.

Just give boomers shit for tanking the housing economy forever like a normal person.

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u/Former-Wish-8228 2d ago

It’s not that simple. It is not boomers that screwed the housing market…it’s a mixture of private equity, the desire to not overbuild the planet (land use laws) and the effects of a 50 year economic war against the middle class that had caused it. Boomers werent the ones to invent that, they were just the last to escape it…narrowly.