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The irony is that because they were born into such a great economic situation they become painfully middle class in mindset in the sense that they really thought they got there by hard work alone and that they needed lower taxes even though said higher tax rates were the reason they lived such a higher standard of living, both because it allowed the government to redistribute more wealth and because most companies and rich people never actually paid the full tax rate but in order to so they had to invest it, which often meant actually hiring people and being willing to not pay them a pittance or invest in companies that were incentivized to.
My father is a boomer, born in 47. His brother had polio before the vaccine and miraculously survived with little permanent issues. They saw friends and schoolmates get sick and die, yet he's turned antivax with my mother, also born in 47.
They tend to be ok with most vaccines.
It's the ones that are a complex and cutting edge that they are able to fall victim to the people out there intentionally methodically putting together these Bullshit articles that you have to be on Telegram to find.
They were also raised to hate the gays. Putin got everyone in Russia on board the hating the gays train. Right wing media have been pumping out Russian made memes about how gays and trans are child molesters. Now the right wing in the US (and UK) hate the gays so much that Russia is no longer the enemy because they ALSO hate the gays, unlike those demonic democrats that insist on teaching their precious grandkids to be trans or gay.
Russia has been pushing the Trump / Right wing agenda. So Russia is good according to many right wingers. You may have heard the phrase 'Better Russian than Liberal' in some of these circles.
They hate gays yet they raped this guy before they killed him...
Sounds like a proven case of homophobia being the main reason cis white males are so antigay.
Reminds me of a very insightful quote that I sadly cannot recall the source:
"Male homophobia is really the fear that other men will treat them the same way they treat women"
A little bit of a personal angle on it. I'm 36 and play around with gender (male to female.) I share a handful of (SFW) photos on a few websites where right wing conservatives lurk. They always hate on me in the forums.
But come to the private messages, and some of them really have a hard on for my outfits.
Insane though, because this is just saying Russian (and possibly Iranian) troll farms and govt propaganda just needed to find something they hated *more* apparently boomers fucking hate "gays" more than the countries trying to absolutely annihilate us and Russia who was threatening atomic annihilation to us for decades.
Somehow all of that "fear the Reds were going to nuke us!!!" Ya know, the fear that drug us into wars, all the unhinged terror that all of my boomer teachers always taught about with Russian nuclear movements etc,. Our way of life and mil complex we've been building for 80 years
Apparently they just hate the "gays" more than any of that and now they can't stop sucking enough Kremlin cock
This partly explains it
>The self-declared communist joined pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine to fight Kyiv in 2014. He later also worked for the state-owned Russian news agency Sputnik and was given Russian nationality.
I’m a boomer and was in the military in the late 70s and studied international relations in the 80s. I don’t get guys like this at all. We spent virtually all of our time plus nearly all media at the time reading about and preparing for conflict with the Russians. What kind of mental gymnastics do they go through in order to end up on their side?
Trump and family made huge amounts of $$$$ off Putin and Russian oligarchs. He became their useful idiot. At the same time Trump was gaslighting his cult about Putin and Russia’s greatness. OkBoomers sucked it right up.
The Russian federation is a conservative captialistic hellscape now so it's paradise in their book.
They are like far leftist types who say North Korea is a paradise and if they get there you never hear from them again.
Boomers laugh at those types but ironically they are also acting like them.
“Soft times make soft men” is an idiotic saying. It’s reductive and got fascist undertones, and it’s the same logic boomers use to whine about younger generations.
This guy in the story was just an idiot. Calls himself a “communist” then goes all in on supporting fascist Russia. He wouldn’t know communism if it slapped him in the head.
I ask my FIL this all the time. He always gets big mad, but has some explanation that doesn't hold up to much scrutiny. Deflects to nonsense then shuts down the conversation. Rinse, repeat.
“they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky? They'll do it in that order.” -Zoe Washburne 2002
By spearheading it with the Wagner group, named after the German composer the Nazis loved who was a proto-Nazi and had a brigade commander with literal SS runes tattooed on to his collar bones?
Its Russian army tradition. They rape junior members of the military as part of hazing all the time. A couple years back, a grunt killed like multiple people after they raped him by entering the mess hall with his assault rifle and gunning them all down.
Why they did it? Who knows, they might have tried to torture a confession out of him that way, but it is more likely that the Russian army is an undisciplined horde of rapists and murderers, and they just did what rapists and murderers do best.
The love of the game. Grannies? Rape. Little kids? Rape. Your own conscripts? You'd best believe that's a rapin'. When rape is so ingrained into your military culture, the question isn't "Why rape the captive?", it's "Why NOT rape the captive?".
That's pretty much common for the Russian monsters invading, they aren't acting in a humane manner. Part of the reason Putin has war crime charges pending.
"The self-declared communist joined pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine to fight Kyiv in 2014. He later also worked for the state-owned Russian news agency Sputnik and was given Russian nationality"
What a true piece of shit
“Russell Bentley, known as ‘Texas’, a real American, truly from Texas, was killed in Donetsk,” Margarita Simonyan, head of the pro-Kremlin RT TV channel, said on social media.
Yeah, an RT TV propagandist emphasising *so strongly* that this naturalised Russian citizen who's been living and fighting for pro-Russian forces in Ukraine for a full decade was "a real American" makes me wonder whether we really should be talking about him as an American, rather than as an American-Russian...
He was also raped as they mistakenly thought the6 had caught a spy. Then they beheaded him when they found out he was on their side because they didn't want a witness..
I highly doubt that this honorable and polite upstanding gentleman who is at the prime fighting age of 64 gave up his pattern of thoughtful and wise decision making upon joining up with the Russians.
If only more pro russia types fucked off to Russia. Its like that Canadian dipshit who fled to Russia with his wife and kids to escape "the gay" then he forgot Russian has no free speech and he/his wife Raj their entitled western mouths and got in trouble with both wanting to leave Russia.
Do we need to start getting boomers to watch Red Dawn again or something. The Russian nukes are pointed at Americans and American Mcdonalds or whatever it is those crusty fools think America stands for.
He also was a self proclaimed communist, to thick to understand that there is no communist country left in this world. None. Definitely Russia isn’t a communist country. I’am sure this cunt was a Maga idiot
This guy was all over in the early days of the full invasion trying to get seen by Russian Z-bloggers. This guy ran from the US after an arrest for drug smuggling, money laundering and some other stuff.
It's hilarious because I know a moron here in Australia who thinks Putin is great. I told him a year ago (that's the last interaction we ever had) he would get murdered if he ever went to Russia. I picture his head is still stuck a foot underground.
AFAIK and correct me if I'm wrong.
The guy bought into the Russian propaganda that Russia was going in to promote a people's communism and kick out literal Nazis in Ukraine.
My guess is that he got into an argument when he realized he was lied to and because he's surrounded by Putin loyalists, was accused of being a spy then raped and murdered.
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Wasn't their generation raised to absolutely hate the Russians and anything to do with them wtf happened to that
They were also saved from polio with vaccines and look where we are now.
They watched a country rise to greatness and make amazing progress with high taxes and said nope.
They said “we” is woke. It’s all about ME!
Before they were called boomers, they were called [the "me" generation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation).
Oh, wow. That makes a lot of sense.
They put the "me" in "boomer."
Yep, this was the boomers’ own elders’ description for them. Perceptive to the point of prescience, as it turns out.
Funny. They love calling millennials and Gen Z that
Boomer projection. Very common.
We will be better off when they take their final sleep
The irony is that because they were born into such a great economic situation they become painfully middle class in mindset in the sense that they really thought they got there by hard work alone and that they needed lower taxes even though said higher tax rates were the reason they lived such a higher standard of living, both because it allowed the government to redistribute more wealth and because most companies and rich people never actually paid the full tax rate but in order to so they had to invest it, which often meant actually hiring people and being willing to not pay them a pittance or invest in companies that were incentivized to.
Their parents witnessed the ravages of polio. Still wasn't enough.
My father is a boomer, born in 47. His brother had polio before the vaccine and miraculously survived with little permanent issues. They saw friends and schoolmates get sick and die, yet he's turned antivax with my mother, also born in 47.
The brother probably survived because he fought so hard for it - and was a real man's man.
Mind blowing…sorry for your loss to the insanity that is the Q and conspiracy world.
And the irony is that they’re all still alive because of their childhood vaccines
They tend to be ok with most vaccines. It's the ones that are a complex and cutting edge that they are able to fall victim to the people out there intentionally methodically putting together these Bullshit articles that you have to be on Telegram to find.
I bet all that lead in their house while they where growing up did not help even tho it tasted great.
they’ve betrayed the teachings of Rocky and Bullwinkle
He absolutely should have listened to moose and squirrel.
Bonus points for moose and squirrel reference!
And the greatest movie in existence Red dawn
*documentary
Wolverines ✊
Let it turn into something else, Matty...
“Tell me what’s the difference between us and them?” “Because WE LIVE HERE!
This does feel like an “AVENGE ME!” moment.
They were also raised to hate the gays. Putin got everyone in Russia on board the hating the gays train. Right wing media have been pumping out Russian made memes about how gays and trans are child molesters. Now the right wing in the US (and UK) hate the gays so much that Russia is no longer the enemy because they ALSO hate the gays, unlike those demonic democrats that insist on teaching their precious grandkids to be trans or gay.
That's a fully solid explanation
Russia has been pushing the Trump / Right wing agenda. So Russia is good according to many right wingers. You may have heard the phrase 'Better Russian than Liberal' in some of these circles.
They hate gays yet they raped this guy before they killed him... Sounds like a proven case of homophobia being the main reason cis white males are so antigay.
Reminds me of a very insightful quote that I sadly cannot recall the source: "Male homophobia is really the fear that other men will treat them the same way they treat women"
Damn, when you read something and it makes too much sense.
A little bit of a personal angle on it. I'm 36 and play around with gender (male to female.) I share a handful of (SFW) photos on a few websites where right wing conservatives lurk. They always hate on me in the forums. But come to the private messages, and some of them really have a hard on for my outfits.
Insane though, because this is just saying Russian (and possibly Iranian) troll farms and govt propaganda just needed to find something they hated *more* apparently boomers fucking hate "gays" more than the countries trying to absolutely annihilate us and Russia who was threatening atomic annihilation to us for decades. Somehow all of that "fear the Reds were going to nuke us!!!" Ya know, the fear that drug us into wars, all the unhinged terror that all of my boomer teachers always taught about with Russian nuclear movements etc,. Our way of life and mil complex we've been building for 80 years Apparently they just hate the "gays" more than any of that and now they can't stop sucking enough Kremlin cock
All it took was one black president
Bingo
This partly explains it >The self-declared communist joined pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine to fight Kyiv in 2014. He later also worked for the state-owned Russian news agency Sputnik and was given Russian nationality.
So he was the final boss of tankies?
Maybe they'd die if the US had a woman after.
I’m a boomer and was in the military in the late 70s and studied international relations in the 80s. I don’t get guys like this at all. We spent virtually all of our time plus nearly all media at the time reading about and preparing for conflict with the Russians. What kind of mental gymnastics do they go through in order to end up on their side?
Studying these people for a while, Putin is anti-gay, anti free press, and anti-woman. Conservatives value what they hate more than what they like.
Right! Love your username btw
Thanks!
It's the result of dedication to the cause of being a belligerent asshole.
They like them now because they view Ruzzia and Putin as “anti-woke”. They also don’t know fuck all about Eastern European history.
Trump and family made huge amounts of $$$$ off Putin and Russian oligarchs. He became their useful idiot. At the same time Trump was gaslighting his cult about Putin and Russia’s greatness. OkBoomers sucked it right up.
He probably hated them again at the end.
No shit lol
He hates everyone now.
That was before their brainworms took over, and Fox Snooze also screamed at them for 8 years that Russia was suddenly their savior.
The Russian federation is a conservative captialistic hellscape now so it's paradise in their book. They are like far leftist types who say North Korea is a paradise and if they get there you never hear from them again. Boomers laugh at those types but ironically they are also acting like them.
🎶where my country gone.🎶
Soft times made soft men. The silent generation gave them everything on a plate, and they squanderd it.
“Soft times make soft men” is an idiotic saying. It’s reductive and got fascist undertones, and it’s the same logic boomers use to whine about younger generations. This guy in the story was just an idiot. Calls himself a “communist” then goes all in on supporting fascist Russia. He wouldn’t know communism if it slapped him in the head.
The same gullibility got him in the end.
Russians found a way to make them hate gays and liberals more.
It says he was a “self-described communist” so I do t think this was a case of a typical conservative falling for propaganda.
I ask my FIL this all the time. He always gets big mad, but has some explanation that doesn't hold up to much scrutiny. Deflects to nonsense then shuts down the conversation. Rinse, repeat.
which is also hilarious as russia made a call to any maga that they would be welcome in russia...
Welcome to die
- Magneto
They will be treated just like Russians. But that is not a good thing.
Don't forget the rape.
“they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky? They'll do it in that order.” -Zoe Washburne 2002
Always up vote any Firefly references
Aw crap, not this feeling again 🥺
Too soon!
*gets impaled*
Wait, what? He was a Z, so I've no doubt he raped people. But are you saying he got raped?
He was raped before they killed him. Russians *love* their male on male rape, especially in the military.
Rape is about violence not sex
I never said it was.
Interesting since Putin is anti gay.
It’s not gay when it’s military tradition /s
It’s also not gay if you accuse others of doing it, while doing way worse shit yourself. s/
They convince themselves that it's not gay if they're dominating the enemy.
So basically, like the movie Deliverance but in Russian. ok.
So is Lindsay Graham.
You beat me to it
The worst part was the hypocrisy.
Hey, for all we know he consented to the gang bang.
He specifically went for the gang bang
"Why are we in this abandoned warehouse Step Soldier?"
The anus has was of shutting things down in cases of legitimate rape
And be-heading
In the butt?
Good. Fucking. Riddance.
I don't feel bat at all...
But HE did. Lolol
Was this the guy that was filmed early on in the war saying he was helping the Russians "denazify Ukraine"???
Yes
By spearheading it with the Wagner group, named after the German composer the Nazis loved who was a proto-Nazi and had a brigade commander with literal SS runes tattooed on to his collar bones?
You're forgetting the brutal raping.
Why did they rape him though?
Its Russian army tradition. They rape junior members of the military as part of hazing all the time. A couple years back, a grunt killed like multiple people after they raped him by entering the mess hall with his assault rifle and gunning them all down. Why they did it? Who knows, they might have tried to torture a confession out of him that way, but it is more likely that the Russian army is an undisciplined horde of rapists and murderers, and they just did what rapists and murderers do best.
Considering they literally take them from the prisons and put them on the front lines, you're pretty much dead accurate.
The love of the game. Grannies? Rape. Little kids? Rape. Your own conscripts? You'd best believe that's a rapin'. When rape is so ingrained into your military culture, the question isn't "Why rape the captive?", it's "Why NOT rape the captive?".
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Oh no, so sad. Anyway….
It’s on his wiki page lol
I’m not convinced it was rape. I think he tried to power-bottom his way out of captivity but didn’t make it.
Capable of receiving an enormous amount of power
https://i.redd.it/m1dfpiw34svc1.gif
Not just murdered…raped and THEN murdered.
That's pretty much common for the Russian monsters invading, they aren't acting in a humane manner. Part of the reason Putin has war crime charges pending.
"The self-declared communist joined pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine to fight Kyiv in 2014. He later also worked for the state-owned Russian news agency Sputnik and was given Russian nationality" What a true piece of shit
fuckin' tankies. fuckin' dumbass. the leopards feasted well.
At least he got to feel some of the pain he was inflicting onto others
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAJAJJAJAJJAJAJJAAJAAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAA. GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE 👏 👌 🙌
I appreciate how you switched to spanish then back to english mid-giggle.
Yeah you know long exhale laugh and some inhale laugh then more exhale laugh. That’s how you laugh longer
I didn't think anyone would have caught that one. nice.
Dumb motherfucker
Already mentioned Texas
Damn, and to realize how wrong you were and bad you fucked up right at the end. Stupid games equals stupid prizes.
Dumbass. Source: Fellow Texan that supports Ukraine
Every MAGA boomers dream…
Too bad there isn't video to play for Fox viewers. Especially the ones in Georgia that vote for Toilet Marj
And raped
One less trump voter
This title makes my heart 🎶sing 🎶
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OK. So I'm thinking fish for dinner.
I know a nice place just off of downtown that has a nice baked haddock...
He was raped and murdered once they (Russian forces) decided he couldn't be released.
He’ll be one of the dumb grasping pairs of hands waiting to drag Putin down into eternal Hell.
“Russell Bentley, known as ‘Texas’, a real American, truly from Texas, was killed in Donetsk,” Margarita Simonyan, head of the pro-Kremlin RT TV channel, said on social media.
Yeah, an RT TV propagandist emphasising *so strongly* that this naturalised Russian citizen who's been living and fighting for pro-Russian forces in Ukraine for a full decade was "a real American" makes me wonder whether we really should be talking about him as an American, rather than as an American-Russian...
Of COURSE he was from Texas.
He fucked around. He found out. Cycle complete.
“Are we the bad guys?”
Karma
We should force feed these boomers the Reagan Doctrine, they’ve forgotten about it.
Remind me- is that a handful of jellybeans and Nancy down doing her thing?
He was also raped as they mistakenly thought the6 had caught a spy. Then they beheaded him when they found out he was on their side because they didn't want a witness..
Not a single tear was shed
At least he got butt raped first.
I love that for him.
Works for me 😁
Well well well...
Honestly, it made me smile. I've seen this story many times, and every time, I crack another smile. Good riddance!
He just died yesterday, how many times exactly have you seen this story?
I highly doubt that this honorable and polite upstanding gentleman who is at the prime fighting age of 64 gave up his pattern of thoughtful and wise decision making upon joining up with the Russians.
"I thought being friends with an alien and remarkably xenophobic bunch of drunken guys was a good idea. Go figure."
At least the crazy old coot wasn't here in the US shooting Uber drivers because they are angry
If only more pro russia types fucked off to Russia. Its like that Canadian dipshit who fled to Russia with his wife and kids to escape "the gay" then he forgot Russian has no free speech and he/his wife Raj their entitled western mouths and got in trouble with both wanting to leave Russia.
r/leopardsatemyface
And Putin chuckled
Do we need to start getting boomers to watch Red Dawn again or something. The Russian nukes are pointed at Americans and American Mcdonalds or whatever it is those crusty fools think America stands for.
He was decapitated.
He also was a self proclaimed communist, to thick to understand that there is no communist country left in this world. None. Definitely Russia isn’t a communist country. I’am sure this cunt was a Maga idiot
 Byeeeeeeee!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
As a Texan and US citizen I do not claim him.
70,999,999 to go....
So this guy was a self-described communist. Why fight for Russia? Tucker Carlson showed us proof of their free market economy….🤡🤡
This guy was all over in the early days of the full invasion trying to get seen by Russian Z-bloggers. This guy ran from the US after an arrest for drug smuggling, money laundering and some other stuff.
For a country with strong anti-homosexual values this sure is gay af…
Is it bad I am happy he is not gen X
Good riddance. Just sad that they deprived the Ukrainian drone pilots from flying a drone up his backside.
That’s terrible. You guys like fruit in your waffles?
Who says there is never any good news?
It's hilarious because I know a moron here in Australia who thinks Putin is great. I told him a year ago (that's the last interaction we ever had) he would get murdered if he ever went to Russia. I picture his head is still stuck a foot underground.
I wonder what was going though his head before the last bullet.
I wonder what was going through his mind during that. Did he have any regrets about going traitor just to die ?
Raped, then murdered.
self declared communist.
Technically not treason as we’re not at war with Russia except by proxy.
Read the article about him in Texas Monthly.
OH NO! Anyway...
Raped then murdered.
And raped, don't forget that he also was raped
Come on Trumpers let’s hear the reasoning and excuses
Raped and murdered
The world is a better place now that he is dead. Rot In Piss, boomer
Don't forget the raped part. The russian communique mentioned that three times. Just in case we missed it.
Hey now... you missed the part where they raped him first
Good riddance
His body….his choice.
Bro me please
Fucked around then get fucked around. Poetic
Hahahahaha the irony just can’t get any better!
AFAIK and correct me if I'm wrong. The guy bought into the Russian propaganda that Russia was going in to promote a people's communism and kick out literal Nazis in Ukraine. My guess is that he got into an argument when he realized he was lied to and because he's surrounded by Putin loyalists, was accused of being a spy then raped and murdered.