• Jolteon@lemmy.zip
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    The generations are:

    • Boomer: anybody older than me who I disagree with.
    • Millennial: anybody younger than me who I disagree with
    • Gen Z: anyone who uses whichever social networks are taboo at the moment.

    The are no other generations.

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    I’m so tough. I’m the toughest. Gen Z and Boomers aren’t tough enough. I’m the though one. Yeah, I might have been neglected as a child but that made me tough, definitely not emotionally stunted. Tough tough tough. I’m tough.

    —Average Gen X’er to the mirror every morning

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        3 months ago

        In the same way boomer hippies were “fighting” against their progenitors, sure.

        Wearing flannel and complaining about the status quo does not make you a freedom fighter.

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        Fighting? Us Gen Xers followed in the system the boomers laid out. What fighting??? The older Gen Xers got past the door. The younger half got shut out.

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        GenX has been fighting boomers from the start,

        Bullcrap. We were too busy pretending politics didn’t affect us to fight anyone.

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        When a bunch of old MAGA bastards stormed the Capitol, were they using walkers because they’re over 70 on average or were they a crowd about 45-60 in age?

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    TBH I blame Gen X the most. Boomers are going extinct soon, Gen X at the oldest are about 60 or more.

    This fucked up world is Gen X’s world.

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      Ehh. They mostly rode the coattails of the boomers. I dunno if I can reasonably get angry at them for taking advantage of the opportunity that the boomers made for them to prosper.

      It’s the boomers that own, and frequently still run the companies that are ruining the economy. That’s for fucking sure. Gen x just got a free ride.

      Of all the people I know, the Gen x are the most likely to just be coasting through life because they were downright given all the opportunities and never really struggled for much.

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    Xer’s never really got over that “everyone is dumb except for me” phase that most ditch after they actually get kissed.

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      Eh. The Gen Xers I know all admit they’d be fucked in today’s housing market if they didn’t already have theirs. The are generally very sympathetic and appreciate how lucky they are.

      To modify this comic, they sit down for a show and are quickly horrified at the brutality of the spectacle.

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    Pitting ‘generations’ against each other is a classic tactic to divide the people on meaningless bullshit. Don’t fall for it.

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    Gen X was Trump’s biggest supporter in the last election. More than boomers even.

    Obviously not true of every Gen X’er, but when Gen Z talks about boomers they’re usually inadvertently referring to Gen X.

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      Gen X was Trump’s biggest supporter in the last election.

      We were never known for our political acumen, I’m afraid.

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        “Caring about things is cringe, like, gag me. Voting doesn’t do ANYTHING so I sit it out unlike you chumps, and I’m telling my kids the same thing.”

        “Why aren’t any interests represented? That must be somebody’s fault. Somebody who isn’t me. Hey, did you get your tickets for Star Wars Celebration yet?”

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      I am disappointed but not surprised by my generation at all. Last generation where general racism and other boomer traits could really take hold thanks to boomer parents passing them on. We’re also getting old enough for some of us to embrace that “get off my lawn” mentality.

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      You forgot the fact that the 1% keep us poorly educated and propagandized against our own interests on purpose.

      We’re so fucking stupid as a result, that Americans believe the following unironically:

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        I’ve met some people that are that fucking stupid.

        It’s incredible to me that they manage to put on pants and get to work on time each morning.

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    You can always tell you’ve become a stupid person when any of these generation terms come up in your speech in any capacity.

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      I’m near the start of the millennial generation, my older brothers are Gen x and more in-between than I am. There’s about 5-6 years between all of us and we represent two generations in varying degrees.

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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

        Xennials are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts.

        Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983,[1] though some extend this further in either direction.[2][3] Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. Xennials are almost exclusively the children of baby boomers and came of age during a rapidly changing period that was the 1990s.