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I see boomers posting “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” on FB all the time, and they genuinely, unironically think they were here >strong men create good times< instead of where they really were, here >good times create weak men<, and so now we are absolutely here >weak men create hard times< thanks to them.
They're just so close to seeing the point.
I thought it was weak men make me hard
13 year olds when they discover sex ed
For me it's women with low standards.
The actual baby boomers were the weak men created by the good times.
The strong men created by hard times were their parents who fought in wwi and wwii
My generation (millennial/gen x) is also weak.
My children’s generation, unfortunately, might be the ones who grow to be strong, if we don’t turn around this disaster
I know you're probably just joking on theme, but I still feel it's important to say that this "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times" shit is quite literally conservative mythology. It's a line of reasoning made to justify the "necessity" of strongmen leaders (just one example) and, more often than not, starts a rabbit hole straight to fascism.
All that said though, yeah, I agree, fuck those guys thinking they're so fuckin bad, when really they're just losers holding us back