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[+] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Where's Gen X?

    Oh right. Forgotten.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    The true forgotten generation. But Gen X are eating popcorn while the rest are having generation war.

    Edit: lol at people who are downvoting and taking my comment seriously. It's a jab at Gen X not being mentioned at all in mainstream discourse of generation fight amongst boomers, millenials and zoomers. I don't know what nerves I have hit but I am owning it.

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  • [+] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
  • While I agree that it is a distraction from the real war at large, the class war, I do want to point out that it very much is real, as you have actual people out there who argue about stupid shit like this. Sad, but that's humans for ya.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I used to think generational fighting is stupid, but the stats are undeniable, boomers own much of the wealth. Boomers are least likely to vote far right, but they are more likely to vote down affordable housing because they don't want their property value to drop. That is an indirect support for the far right, because it leads to younger people being resentful and voting for populist far right who promise them the stars and blame the wrong types of people. This is a trend across the world. Generational and class conflict are one and the same in this case. Sorry to older folks of Lemmy, but older generations have become greedy.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wish Gen X would shut the fuck up like you say they do. Reeks of desperate middle child every time.

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  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Traitors. They joined with the Boomers once they all turned 30.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    W-what? Cmon, I'm slave labor here. I have no agency whatsoever.

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    So are my Gen x friends, but they all shut me down if I say anything that implies that Democrats are nothing more then the lesser evil. I ended up leaving a discord server I made because they were arguing with me if I posted anything critical of Biden and look at me like I have two heads when I say that climate change action should take priority over the economy. Most of them believe that recycling plastic works. They've completely bought into the narrative that keeps them enriching the powerful.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I made a millennial joke in front of my coworkers after a two month break. (They have said waaaay worse). Anyway they HR’d me and I almost got a free vacation to the grippy sock hotel. Now I keep my mouth shut. They’ll never see it coming! Assholes.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Generation self defined by apathy and nihilism gets overlooked?

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Generation "Mentions not getting mentioned any time people talk about generations"

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Generation bitches and whines about being ignored while being the largest voting bloc behind the return of fascism

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right here, right now. Watching the world wake from history.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just gonna put on my plaid shirt and strum mournfully on a guitar now.

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    Pretty sure their leading cause of death is suicide, just like the millennials. Although millennials are going to be getting old enough soon that heart problems will probably take over at some point.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Every generation thinks they invented dark and surreal humor and without fail people who should know better act likes its some new and unique thing... it's more of an anomaly IMHO if a generation doesn't do this.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah but instead of joking about suicide like a normal person, boomers write confusingly veiled songs about it and pretend they're family friendly.

    Looking at you, David Bowie! Space Oddity isn't for children!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I feel like Boomers' jokes about hating their spouse is thinly veiled suicidality jokes. Like, they're giving big "I did everything I was meant to and I hate my life" energy

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Gen X: "First time?" meme.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Its not like most of us care we are not mentioned in the same place these losers are.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Exactly the point of GenX, please keep ignoring us. It's why we dress in black.

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    Hey, blame Kurt Cobain about why Gen X takes it too seriously. You also can't joke with them about using too much heroin without a diatribe about Kate Moss and Anthony Kiedis

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Gen X, the least worst generation

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You mean the statistically most pro-Trump generation, more so than even boomers?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And the one that bitches and whines when everything isn't about them?

    Pay no attention to that behavioral correlation.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The top level comment made a claim that Gen X is de facto the best. I just pointed out an observable fact that suggests otherwise. And then apparently my comment that Gen X is perhaps not actually better than every other generation then triggered you so hard that you had to comment calling it “bitching and whining because everything isn’t about [my unknown generation]”. Lol.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Gen X managed to blame everything they did on the boomers

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    More like the kids can't tell old people apart. They've been binning Gen-X into the Boomer category. Old is Boomer to them.

    I'm sure they would label some older Millennials as Boomers too. Especially since social media has distorted everyone's perception of physical appearance. Even millennials are struggling with coming to grips with aging. Sorry guys but you are old.

    Gen-X wasn't forgotten. There's the technical definition of generations. Then there's the pop culture / meme definition of generations. In pop culture. Especially zoomer pop culture. There's only Boomer, Millennial, and Zoomer. Which vaguely goes as old, 20-30 something, and teenager. Gen-X was "forgotten" into the Boomer category.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm 39, and Lemmy has informed me that I'm a "boomer". Apparently "it's a mindset!" or something.

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