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You just don't have to be so smug about it, also Millennials have been trying to warn you fucks for years that your blasé attitude towards shit was going to fuck us over one day and look where we are.... Gen X fucking us over with the boomers.
Our youngest President (by a 15 year margin!) was Barack Obama who was a late Baby Boomer. If/when Trump does, Vance will become the first Millenial president.
Meanwhile in Congress, Gen X only this year achieved a plurality in the House at 41% (versus Boomers at 39% and Millenials at 15%). In the Senate, at 28% we’re still far behind the Boomers with their 61% and Millenials are far behind at only 5%.
I’m honestly appalled at how many of us Gen Xers broke for Trump (even more than Boomers), but with our smaller numbers (65 million vs 74 million Millenials), we weren’t enough to push him over the finish line alone.
Sorry my generation hasn’t done more to make the world a better place, but honestly we’re getting fucked more than we are doing the fucking.
GenX has never held any type of power, nor will they ever - not political, not economic, not financial. The Boomers were always like "Wait your turn", but they never bothered turning anything over regardless of what we fought for, or how hard.
And now the Millennials have come up on the other side. And I'm just so tired of fighting to make things happen, or even just to try to preserve things, that that's okay. I did what I could to make things better, and I'm happy for a less weary cohort to take over.
So, the new Silent Generation (which only got its first and only president in 2021)
and Gen Z is trending in their direction, we're fucked.
every generation except mine bad
Civilization peaked in 1999, what can I say. Disclaimer: I don't actually mean that, the 1990s were a lot more racist.
The Nazis are back. The late 90s weren't significantly more racist than today. Words were thrown around more. Fewer people had black bags thrown over their head before being deported to El Salvador.
That's right, we've made very little progress in 30 years. Some on the queer front, but not the LG part.
Since the 90s, the political left wing of the USA have stood up to private prisons and monied interests.
For a good example of the timeline of this change, in 1995 Joseph Biden passed a crime bill with a Crack to Powder Cocaine sentencing disparity of 40:1, which disproportionately impacted black communities. In 2003 he was among those who banned PAC money from politics (which wouId be overturned by Citizens United 7 years later). In 2009 he was Vice President to America's first black President. 2010 he was giving a speech in congress asking, begging even, for that sentencing disparity to be removed. In 2022 and 2023 he was pardoning THOUSANDS of marijuana convictions.
I think in the 90s both parties were moderately bad, but now we've got one who are fucking psychopaths but we also have one who can and will save us if we can give them the chance.
The openly nazi people are a society-wide extinction burst. In the 1990s they didn't need to be openly contrarian, because the consensus agreed with them.
A few years ago I believed that.
Now that the fascists have taken over...not so much anymore.
The OG fascism was also a result of similar circumstances. If you look at history reactionary movements always form in the response to civic progress, and for long term progress what matters is the progressive side keep fighting until the progress is fully internalised by society. This doesn't mean it won't get worse before it gets better.
Yeah, but the music was better.
But no, it was a lot more racist and homophobic.
I think every generation sucks in its own special way
Maybe it’s just Americans, brah.
Got any examples of millennials trying to warn us “fucks” for years?? Because I don’t recall any millennials I know trying to warn anyone any more than my generation was.
Additionally, I don’t recall ever having people prefix their discussions with:
“So, I’m a [generarion] and here’s my take!”
So I’d imagine you’d be hard-pressed to find any evidence what to support this claim.
And lastly stop with the us vs them bullshit. We don’t need to be divided any more than we already are. Generational behavior isn’t as prominent as you think.
Part of that attitude was that Gen X never had power. The Boomers have been clinging onto power since Gen X was in high school. Gen X could have fought for power, but would it really have changed anything?