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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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[–] Fruitbat@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My mom was really into the Left Behind movies, and it really enforced her evangelical beliefs and doomsday beliefs and like. I'm really happy I hardly remember a thing about those movies. She was also into like God's Not Dead and old The Stand as well.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspect a lot of that was in the roots of "QAnon."

[–] Fruitbat@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

for sure. before my mom died this year, I was really worried of her stumbling upon QAnon. thankfully she didn't, but it probably wouldn't of taken too much. considering she thought Obama was the antichrist for a while, until for some reason, last year she thought Macron was the antichrist. and of course she really loved trump

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

macron She wasn't wrong