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[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 306 points 3 months ago (12 children)

There are still plenty of us Xers who are complete and utter cunts. Don't let your guard down.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 79 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every generation has plenty of those - no worries!

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[–] folekaule@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As a Gen Xer I'm heartened to see Gen Z stepping up to literally save the world. Seeing the swell in support for Harris and in voter registration numbers, I for once am feeling hopeful. I hope they can accomplish what the forgotten generation couldn't.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Gen Z reporting in. Above comment's point was not to generalize an entire demographic as 'doing good'. & it was a good one. Don't assume that of us either.

Judging entire groups of people as a monolith is always bad. I'll add 'good' is subjective of an individual's values. Expect future generations to mock us for what we believe acceptable.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Expect future generations to mock us for what we believe acceptable.

I sure hope so. If future generations aren't making fun of me for how backwards I am then we're not progressing.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'll caveat that not all changes are 'good' changes too. The future generations might not value the things we hold dear, like the jury trial. One day maybe they'll sadly see that as us wasting ordinary people's time.

People in the future are not automatically our betters, but our equals, (hopefully) armed with the knowledge of our failings and armed with that of our successes.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

us Xers

Already I see a lot more self awareness versus the boomers, so it looks like a net positive in any event

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[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Yeah. X/Mil cusper here. The elder Gen X are more like Boomers than anything, but have more anger and technical acumen.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

If I'm not mistaken gen X is the first generation to become more progressive as it ages

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Def. I've only gone harder left/prog/anti-capitalist as I grew older.

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[–] Godort@lemm.ee 132 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Considering the nature of linear time, I dont know what the alternative could be.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Biden is actually the first and only president from “The Silent Generation”

(Side note: Trump, Dubya, and Bubba were all born in 1946)

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Within two months and one week of each other.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

Huh, that's interesting.

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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 101 points 3 months ago

Took way too long. Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.

[–] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 74 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm fully in support of Kamala, but she's not Gen X. Close, but no cigar. She was born in 1964.

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

She's Generation Jones. So am I (b. 1963)

Damn, they even have her picture on the page 😆

Generation Jones is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older siblings in the earlier portion of the Baby Boomer population; thus, many note that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to older Boomers. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness and "jonesing" for the level of doting and affluence granted to older Boomers but denied to them

[–] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This reminds me of the Xennial generation that fell between X and Millennial. This also sort of shows how little we can really actually equate from these 20+ year generational spans. Really I am just happy she's not old enough to collect SSI yet.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hard cutoff dates for generations has always been a stupid concept. Imagine believing that an Xer born in 1980 has more in common with an Xer from '65 than a millennial from '82.

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[–] padge@lemmy.zip 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can't tell if she looks young for her age, or if she looks super young compared to everyone else on stage wirh her

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Probably a combination of three things. First hate ages you terribly, example Laura Loomer, Alex Jones. Second she is a child compared to Biden/Trump. And third and finally as clichè as it is black dont crack

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, and this is a biggie, she didn’t have kids. Kids harvest your life force in order to grow.

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

The dates for these generations are not set in stone. Lots of organizations use 1965 to 1980 but the US SSA uses 1965 as the start.

People born around the transition points are going to have more in common with each other than with people born earlier in the date range. Especially when you consider families having kids a few years apart but each is apparently a different "generation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X#:~:text=U.S.%20news%20outlets%20such%20as,born%20between%201965%20and%201980%22.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 70 points 3 months ago

The median age of the senate is 65. The article is just cherry picking.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 60 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

As a member of Generation X, I would say that it's not going to be much better.

Just look at, say, Elon Musk as an example of the kind of people from my generation who get to positions of influence.

Most GenX are the product of the Neoliberal era, so have interiorized the whole "lookout for numero uno" idea of how to be in society and whilst commonly aware of things like Climate Change, they're usually unwilling to inconvenience themselves for the sake of fighting against it, quite the contrary even (just look at how well SUVs sell), and similarly when it comes to Consumerism, they seem to be the most prone to wasteful consumption (the kind of people who replace their mobile phones every year or two).

In summary, Gen X generally are more well informed than Boomers but even less principled than them.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Gen X here, too.

DeSantis is younger than me.

That's all I'm going to say. Gooooooooooo Millennials and Gen Z. PLEASE.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Even if Harris were Gen X, this would be premature.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

...yeah, they're going to jump from five baby boomers straight to millennials next change of the guard, and like, whatever, man: we acclimated to disenfranchisement thirty years ago...

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Kamala was born in the last year of what is considered boomer, but still a step forward to Biden's silent generation

[–] radivojevic@discuss.online 21 points 3 months ago (9 children)

At least she’s under the retirement age!!!

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[–] sandbox@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Generational cohorts are all just made up nonsense. It just exists to distract the working class from what we have in common with each other and what separates us from the working class. I, a millennial, have much more in common with a working class baby boomer, than I do with a rich and powerful millennial.

Stop encouraging these artificial divides. Build solidarity across the working class of all ages. And stop playing into the media’s narratives.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 16 points 3 months ago

Preach. So tired of this bullshit "generation warfare".

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[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Glad the boomers are on the way out. As a Gen X'er, not sure we care enough to take charge.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 58 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's cool you'll get like four years then we millennials will take over.

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 45 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Please be kind. We're exhausted and broken.

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 months ago

Watching helplessly for 40 or 50 years while your parents' generation destroys everything will do that

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't know about you, but I'm out here slackin' away.

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[–] Rookwood@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

Gen X is too small to matter. Millennials are stepping up and will compete with Boomers for a little while until they finally take over. Thing about Millennials though is that it is a very K shaped generation. About half have had decent success and are conservative/liberal and the other half have been absolutely crushed so it's kind of a mixed bag and as long as the Boomers have any influence not much is likely to change. GenZ is bigger than Millennials though and should be right behind them. They are very different and much more politically radical, on both the left and right. Things are likely to change with them.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

One thing I'm looking forward to with millennial leadership is just people that finally fully understand the power of the internet, big data and what truly distinguishes the information age. If you didn't grow up with it, it's hard to grapple with just how much it truly upended ... fucking everything. They mostly still don't understand that a computer can basically read their mind now, just through indirect data gathering and comparing them to all of the other people. We all get that at a more intuitive level, we've spent too long around these algorithms and seas of semi-anonymous others.

Of course we'll be in some quantum AI room-temp-superconductor age by then, so, y'know how it goes. But we should at least have a better handle on the information age problems, so that'll be nice.

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[–] pixel_prophet@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's almost like generational distinction is meaningless and it's actually about class.

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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

Boomers? Biden wasn't even a Boomer!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (14 children)

I'm amused with all the people who think there's some hard line where you have to be born before or after some exact year to be of a named generation as if this wasn't all made up. A baby didn't get labeled Gen-X if they were born after midnight on a certain day.

As far as I'm concerned, she's Gen-X. She was 13 when Star Wars came out.

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[–] computerscientistII@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Kamala was born in 64. She's a boomer. Also, GTFO with Generation Jones. She's a boomer. X-ers are those who came after the pill became omnipresent after the mid 60s. I am one of those (born in 77). We are relatively few in numbers in comparison to the boomers. Because of the pill. Also GTFO with Generation Jones. She's a boomer.

Trump and Biden also aren't boomers. They predate the boomers. They were born during or shortly after WW2. That's usually called the silent generation. Trump being part of the silent generation is of course ridiculous. But he's the exception of the rule, I guess. But both are born very late in that generation, so they are its last remnants I guess. Soon they will all be gone.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Boomers is short for Baby Boomers which were literally the babies born after WW2 vets came home and had families. I don't know why your misinformed comment has so many upvotes

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