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"In other news, gen x continues to be ignored. Are those guys even still around?"
They seem happy to be ignored. In my experience they act either like boomers or millennials; depending on which group they are closer to.
You can't just go around denying generation theory like that! We must have in groups and out groups! The media won't stand for this insult!
/s
I was born in 81, so which group I "belong" to seems to change depending on who I'm talking to.
An older person will usually say I'm a Millennial and accuse me of being a bleeding heart liberal who's trying to bankrupt the country, but a younger person will often call me a "boomer" and accuse me of being a right wing conservative who is destroying everything America stands for and is worse than Hitler lol
It's exhausting quite frankly
hey that's me! or am I you?
but yes, same. Old people at work shake their head at me. Young people at work shake their head at me.
That said - more and more I find myself relating to the younger ones, even the fresh Zoomers entering the workplace.
Yeah I'm kind of the same lol! Although the Zoomers get really irate when I point out that they've over used "boomer" so much that it effectively has no meaning any more lol
Well that became apparent when people started calling Biden a Boomer over student loans or whatever at the time. He's older than Boomers.
Xennial: came of age in X but adulted as a millennial.
This is me. I have younger siblings who are fully Millenial and one becomes actually offended if you say it. He hates millenials and was basically born a boomer. I have learned that age is biological but becoming old is psychological.
There are only two genderations!
/s
We've mostly grown used to being ignoredβwhy change now?
That's why they're the least worst generation, they've managed to mostly stay out of the general conversation
Aren't Gen X-ers basically managerial age right now? Like they're the ones making the decision for capital that's owned by the boomers right?
The generation that came of age in the peak of the "greed is good" era?
Some of us are just hanging around with old age looming and no money to afford a house or for retirement. We have to keep working until we die, but no one's going to give us a job until then. The only question seems to be whether death gets us before or after homelessness and starvation.
Normally when I say this someone comes out of the woodwork to say it's my own fault I haven't saved up a bunch of money or bought a house. I assume these people are either young or lucky, because life can take unpredictable and expensive turns.
Politically, being financially screwed after growing up with Reagan and Thatcher, and seeing the globally destructive consequences of neoliberalism playing out over decades exactly as expected, actually kills all doubt that greed is bad and more than ever we need a radical left turn.
Gen X is a mixed bag. While some went cheerfully into corporate management and others are established capitalists, a good number are living lives of insecurity while watching the capitalists destroy the world our children already live in.
This is me as well. My sibling is older X, but is much more successful than me, but it wasnβt a hand out by any means.
The youngest are roughly 45 or so and the oldest close to 60.
I like to be called latchkey generation, thank you.
And that's also how the world sees this cohort: they don't.
What's Gen X? Are those the people who invented X (formerly twitter)? /s
Shhh. Things go badly when they notice us...
We've never had a numerical majority and never will so at least when we're older they'll have to blame the millennials and boomers for our messed up reality.
Vote, vote and vote.
Proportionally ... not economically .... those old people are going to hang on to every penny until their last breath
Yes and no, they will help their own children indenture themselves to the housing market.
No, they'll spend all their money on end of life care. Nursing and retirement homes have skyrocketed in price just like everything else. Their money is going back up the chain to the billionaires, not to our inheritance.
Yay, the conservative old people are finally dying!
Get out and vote folks. This is the time when we finally have progress.
Gen X is still bigoted af, and millenial/zoomer white males are still disputed. Not to mention the self-sustaining rural/urban divide.
I'm excited too but not too hopeful.
This is the time when we finally have progress.
hahaha woudnt count on that
Now they just have to vote.
What about Gen X? Seriously, there's an entire generation in the middle there.
Who?
The generation that made coffee and Bill Murray the foundation of their personalities
We never had the numbers to outnumber either of the giant generations on either side of us
My dad is a weird mix of voting for an obscure explicitly communist party while complaining how socialism ruined everything.
He expresses literal anti fasicm on principle but thinks of antifa as a violent mob.
He believes there is a woke agenda trying to manipulate society but he cant explain what woke is besides refering to cases of forced political correctness or brands changing their profile pictures to pride, he has no issues respecting lgbt, nature and is so much not a christian, he went out of his way to get debaptized.
I cant get him of Facebook, he is addicted. I told him i was probably going to delete mine this year, he told me he is certain id be back in a few weeks like his genx mates.. i havent visited my profile in over 3 years, its only the familie groups chat messenger left on it. I told him but it doesnβt compute that anyone can exist without.
In all seriousness i think there better of as the forgotten generation, technically they are allies and i am certain they have roles, positions and effects on society just like every generation. But we need a real change, a break with the old, we cannot do that by lething the brainwashed lead us.
You should feel sorry for the Gen Xers. Think of how hard it is to deal with Boomers now. Now imagine being a teenager and having your thirty- to forty-something Boomer parents completely crush you over their political beliefs.
the future is now old man
Excellent! Once their numbers are low enough, we can just drown the rest.
If we wanted.
I shall make an exemption for my mother and shelter her in my attic, but the rest of them will swim.
The American sphere of influence is palpable here. Trudeau, Poilievre, and Singh are all gen-x. The average age of politicians here is not as geriatric as American congress.
Soylent green is people?
We must hold a vote: Do we liquidate the assets and organs of everyone over 60?
β YES