There's a tiktok channel that just posts original Calvin and Hobbes strips, and it's been so heartwarming seeing the comments filled with people born after the original run but really understanding and feeling the messages.
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You could go for black comedy, and use the apocryphal classic "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
No kidding. In my accounting program I had to share many classes with the rest of the business school scum. Most of them weren't terribly bright either. But their daddies owned car dealerships and gas stations so they felt themselves natural Captains of Industry because they think they grew up with business in the home. I could kinda-sorta tolerate the ones who had aspirations of being project managers. At least they'd have to kinda-sorta keep a grip on reality if they wanted to get real things done. But my god the fucking economics majors could all fuck right off. Trying to explain labour theory of value to them just resulted in them digging in deeper to liberal ideology.
It was a lot of fun to see several of them fail the basic business math course, because I deliberately taught them PEMDAS wrong in the impromptu-math-refresher study group that I was dragged into doing against my better judgment. This course was made to be easy for obvious reasons, but even then the usual business school type would sometimes find it a challenge. The students who failed appealed the exam marks and blamed me for tutoring them wrong. But I got away with it scot-free. I got the institution-first-ever 100% course mark in that basic business math class. The moment the professor found out that I had been the one conducting the math study group the night before the exam, he immediately decided that my classmates were just fucking around and not paying attention to my obviously-quality tutoring, because that's exactly what they did to him in class.
Get audio of your dad saying that. When he's no longer able to take care of himself and whines to you on the phone about guilting you into helping him, play it back for him.
I really, really hate doing "boomer generalization". No generational war, no war but the class war. There's plenty of working-class boomers out there who have been fucked over just as bad as the rest of society.
But I think it's pretty clear by now that boomers in decision-making roles have generally put zero thought into succession planning. Both on an individual basis, and on a society-wide basis. No training of their own replacements, no thought given to demographic trends that would result from their decisions, just total denial of their own mortality.
The first was originally for comedy value. I wanted to see what sort of hatemail I'd get. It turns out that there's a ridiculous number of men in my area who took it as an invitation to chat about their cuckolding fantasies. Being bi, it's been... stimulating.
The second was because it seemed an easy way to filter out both reactionaries and people who make their corporate media consumption the basis of their personalities, but has turned out to be unexpectedly hilarious.
That miraculous moment when someone on a dating app opens a chat with vocabulary more advanced than "sup, pics?"
I have a grindr profile and in my about-me I explain that I'm happy to help people cheat discreetly by hosting at my apartment, and "no Star Wars fans".
Guess which of the two gets me more unhinged hateful diatribes.
It was much the same with Star Trek. When Gene Roddenberry stayed in his producer lane in TOS and don't have the personal fame and influence that came later, he was able to gather an amazing group of people to make some great high-concept sci-fi. There's a reason that the venn diagram of "worst TOS episodes" and "Gene Roddenberry decided to try writing" is almost a circle.
But his personal fame grew, he had less and less people around him to rein in his worst ideas, and the result was TNG seasons 1 and 2. It wasn't until he was too ill to micromanage that TNG found its feet instead of being TOS with find-and-replace'd names in the scripts.
making suggestions to put weird ass things in for shits and giggles.
In fairness to Lucas, that habit predated his apathy.
Great Value brand Agent 86 and Agent 99.
I'm going to forever keep the "No Star Wars fans" thing in all future dating app profiles because it's been a source of hilarity and joy in dark times. Reading ranting messages from people who think that corporate brand loyalty is a personality is a trip.
I just added "No Harry Potter fans" because I think that's going to provoke some fun responses too.