Why Gen Z’s 'ok boomer' retort–and the responses to it–are so powerful

Re:Why Gen Z’s 'ok boomer' retort–and the responses to it–ar... by masonic on Saturday November 09, 2019 @06:51PM (#21495359)

  the US not only went through that relatively unscathed

Well, sure, if you ignore the over 400,000 combat dead... which was more than double France's losses, and also greater than England's.

Bear in mind that's mostly young men who never saw their peak earnings years, so consider their economic impact as well.

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Re:Why Gen Z’s 'ok boomer' retort–and the responses to it–ar... by krapp on Saturday November 09, 2019 @06:57PM (#21495390)

relatively unscathed.

The rest of the world had their cities burned to the ground, and their infrastructures and economies destroyed. Russia lost millions of people. Japan was victim to the only atomic bombs thus far used in warfare. What the US went through, comparatively, while not nothing, was still a cakewalk.

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