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Younger Hexbears, if the spirit of boomerdom visited your household, boomer is more a state of mind than a specific birth year, so feel free to share your stories too.

There are some obviously better-known movies like Wall Street, but I remember an obscure one called "Let It Ride" that was played on tape over and over and over again so many times that it was like the theme song of the household for a while. It was a Richard Dreyfuss film about a gambling addicted asshole who seeks to triumph over his gambling problems by... gambling. Until he gets vibes about winning and then wins at gambling. galaxy-brain

As a boomer bonus it portrays The Wife as a bad person because she's... upset at the protagonist's gambling addition. Oh yeah and she suspects he's eager to commit some adultery. How dare she... the way to show her is to have a much younger love interest that is totally into the protagonist because he starts to win at gambling! morshupls

For anyone that has had gambling-addicted boomer parents, the kind that thought a fun outing for the kids was going to the racetrack, or to Vegas, you may have similar stories of poverty perpetuated because your grillman also liked to "Let It Ride."

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[–] Cummunism@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my dad loved MAS*H which is such a liberal show with all of it's messaging. unfortunately he died when i was in middle school so i didnt really get to dig into that. It made me watch the show though and while i probably didnt understand everything i think the messages got through to me too. I have watched it through several times as an adult.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the scene with the chicken really got to me as a kid

in retrospect it's probably quite a ridiculous premise, but then again perhaps war is just far worse than I'm capable of imagining.

[–] Cummunism@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

oh yea, that one definitely stuck with me. watching it as an adult is wild to me though cause my dad was maybe somewhat conservative? i kinda don't know, he wasn't super outspoken about much, but all the anti war and anti racism stuff in MAS*H makes me think he wasnt a total conservative idiot. All i know is he voted for Ross Perot, which sounds kinda crazy until you see all the liberal aspects of his policies.

my mom unfortunately has Catholic/Trump brainrot and she married a guy with at least Catholic/conservative non-Trumper brainrot. It's been a real downgrade from what was essentially an agnostic dad.