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Boomers, Politics at the Holiday Table, and George Floyd on the Salad Line
from A Time Gone By with H. Foley & Kevin Ryan | The Tim Dillon Show #364 · #364
6 min
Tim marvels at Boomers' technological adaptation while staying stubbornly reactionary, then moves into how modern family gatherings get derailed by political arguments, including his liberal aunt demanding Trump go to jail over her lobster roll and an uncle yelling about George Floyd near the meatballs.
- Boomers experienced more technological change from the 1960s to 2023 than any generation, yet they maintained the same racist ideas across every new platform from Facebook to TikTok.
- Holidays have become less interesting because everyone already knows what the older relatives think and believe from their social media posts.
- There's no reason to yell George Floyd's name on the salad line while putting meatballs on a plate at a family gathering.
- Tim's relatives get excited when politically divided family members arrive, as if a fuse was lit the moment they walk through the door.
- His aunt interrupted a peaceful pool party to ask when Donald Trump would be put in jail while eating a twenty-dollar lobster roll.
- Before arriving at the gathering, family members spend an hour and a half on Facebook at the island kitchen, getting worked up about news and politics.
- People used to have intrafamily feuds based on real things like inheritance disputes or missing nursing home visits, which made sense.
- Now families fight over politics, which doesn't actually affect their day-to-day lives except for their sense of moral superiority over relatives.
- As a kid, Tim and his cousins fought fist fights over a Snuggles the Bear laundry detergent mascot toy.
- His aunt gave the Snuggles bear to his German cousins, which strained the family because Tim's relatives felt it had been stolen from him and given to Nazi kids.
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