Congrats on living long enough to complain about it
6mon 26d ago by lemmy.world/u/Mog_Spawn in memes
Leave Gen X out of your generational sputterings
Or what, you'll act moody, disconnected, and do nothing? I'd add sit in the corner to the list but we all know your knees can't take sitting on the floor anymore.
"Could you possibly be referring to the harsh light of reality"
Pretty sure Daria was a millennial ..
Not if she was a teenager in 1993 (her first on-screen appearance in Beavis and Butthead). There's a surprising amount of discussion about it online I won't recap here but there's passion on both sides lol
I’ve always thought the boomer/millennial whining was people of the exact same personality being insufferable to each other, just throwing down inane stereotypes while being emotionally immature and unable to be decent people.
Every age group has people like that, of course. I just get tired of having to watch it play out constantly online. So just shut the fuck up and do some good in the world. Instead of griping about people, show us something inspirational that you’ve done. Be the example of what you want other people to be.
You have a great sentiment that I whole heartedly agree with.
There is just one problem I see: the word "do."
Everyone wants to bitch, piss, and moan. But, very, very few are willing to "do" anything meaningful about the need for "do" in their community. It's always someone else's job or I don't have time or I could never do that.
I'm an old boomer now. I've spent my time "doing" things for my community because those things needed to be done and no other people wanted to do them. I just want Millennials, GenX, and GenY or Z step into these things and bring their skills and perspectives to our community. We need them. And I just want to finish the remaining 10 years or so of my life and fade quietly away. But that hasn't happened yet, I have a Township Board meeting this Thursday evening.......
So... don't be like you then?
... maybe
I feel personally attacked by this!
As a result I'll do nothing!
10/10 gottem
Yeah, but then you'll complain that no one pays attention to you.
No we won't. Now git of mah lern
Ok, Boomer
Stop acting like boomers.
as soon as the zoomers put away their swastikas and crypto scams.
Seriously this. We have too many boomers as-is. Knock that shit off. You're ruining everything for future generations with your selfishness. (Hell, anyone younger than you has it harder, thanks to you and especially your parents constantly voting against their best interests.)
Edit: Yeah sure, just downvote and hide. Typical Gen X behavior.
Accept these downvotes with pride.
Genx has a deeply seated victim complex.
Someone was saying the generations slipped over politically but they actual hold 41% of house seats, that's more than boomers and almost three times millennials at 15%.
Less represented on the senate (28%) but still second place behind boomers (61%).
It was clear over a decade ago that genx would not be better than the boomers.
That’s nice. How do I get a house seat - my knees are killing me?
As a GenX (xennial actually), no… GenX needs to start being held accountable for the all the shit going on in this world. They are not above reproach, and it’s high time we all call them out on their narcissistic bullshit.
“Narcissistic bullshit” is intergenerational. In fact, it has nothing to do with age. So you’re going to hold Gen X “accountable”..? Geezus fuck off. Go hold the pre-WWII generation accountable, or 19nth Century people, or the Roman Empire era folks… This whole generational gripe-fest that some of you espouse is just aimless trendy nonsense. I don’t respect it.
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It's exact opposite of a trend. The younger generations criticizing the older ones for not living up to their responsibilities has been just as much a constant throughout human history as the older generations criticizing the younger ones for being lazy by their parents' definition.
The world sucks, as usual, and by now Gen X are old enough to be in charge. It's sensible to call them out, just like in a decade or two it'll be sensible to call out the Millennials for the same thing.
"Old enough to be in charge" is not the same as "in charge."
Clinton, Bush 2, Obama and Trump are all Boomers. Biden is Silent Generation.
Gen X is smaller than Boomers and Millennials. We have always known we were going to be passed over in governmental power dynamics.
There are more gen x in congress than millenials, so good job just proving the victim complex...
First paragraph: yeah!
Second paragraph negates the first. You want change? Go for it. Yelling at old people ain’t gonna get you any changes. You gotta do it yourself. I remember in college, a long time ago, people in my age group lobbing the exact same complaints how grandma and grandpa didn’t make the world better for them. They complained, yet didn’t put much effort to changing anything, particularly in voter turnout.
But if you look at the creeping tide of history, you’ll find things ever so slowly getting better in a bunch of different ways. The newer generations are never handed a utopia, but are certainly welcome to work at creating one.
Blaming old people is a defining trait of the young. When young, I remember blaming my parents for bringing me into this world that didn’t give me the things I wanted easily.
Maturing as an adult means taking responsibility for yourself, and doing the things you can do to improve your situation.
Of course one can keep blaming old people for everything until you’re old enough to be blamed, if that’s your jam.
Oh, I am aware that this dynamic doesn't quite work. Both sides of the equation get it almost, but not entirely, right. Because getting it right is challenging.
The older generations do get lazy as soon as their own needs are met, especially those of them who wield power. And that doesn't just mean politicians but also CEOs, large investors, etc. Working for the common good is difficult and most people follow the path of least resistance, leading to the dynamics young people complain about.
But young people fall prey to the very same dynamic. It's easier to get disillusioned and complain on the internet than to consistently go out and exert pressure. Sure, maybe they go on a protest march or two but few have the energy to consistently go on marches, be active in politics, stay on top of which companies are toxic, openly defy the law, and do a myriad other things that don't directly benefit them in order to fight for a better world. You can do that if you're rich and isolated from consequence but in that case your life is cushy already so you'd be fighting for abstract principles.
There are few people of the caliber of Bernie Sanders or Greta Thunberg because it's really hard and carries a real risk of ruining their own life. Most people who do try end up like the people who glue themselves to highways: They get ridiculed and fined and effect no change whatsoever.
So for most people all that remains is resignation. Gen X said "whatever" when they weren't listened to because they weren't willing to sacrifice their personal future to escalate things until change is inevitable. Millennials say "OK Boomer" as they find themselves in the same situation for the same reason.
(I'll gloss over the "young people are lazy" part but it boils down to young people actually being lazy in terms of failing to apply themselves in ways the older people did, with the caveat that some of those ways no longer apply and young people are applying themselves in new ways the older people don't realize are necessary now. This perception dynamic is at least as old as recorded history.)
Get some class and material analysis. This neoliberal, metaphysical (that's just the way the world is) bullshit is so tiring. Older generations are not the cause of your problems, the ruling class is and you are doing free labor for them right now.
Call out people sure, but pretending like this is the eternal cycle of society and that older people just suck is wild.
That's just whataboutism.
older millennials next in line for intergenerational hate
Who? Us avocado toast swilling, quiet quitting, not consumery enough losers who still live with our parents?
I know, right?
For a while it looked like everyone was just going to stick with calling the older folks boomers and the younger folks millenials, but I guess some intelligence leaked through into the "futile generational hate" machine.
Is every generation working to make things better than it was? No! Clearly the old folks don't want the young ones to have anything good, otherwise the world wouldn't have any problems by now!
Just give yourself some more years, time for life experiences, and to be shocked and apalled when you learn how hard it can be to coordinate a group of people who all want the same outcomes to a concentrated cooperative effective course of action. Hell, how hard it can be to get them to even agree on the same path to the desired outcome.
They bitch about group assignments but don't realize that it's all group assignments and that the school version is easy mode where there's an authority figure to punish the shitheads and cheaters.
When we're talking about the general population it's highschool mentality forever. Higher intelligence/maturity really only shows on the individual level.
We've been getting it our entire lives
I fell off my bike once because I fucked around with these v brakes.
Only older, we gen z already blame milennials for everything wrong with the world.
and that's why you're dumber than boomers.
Zoomers fell off so hard. Man, we were cheering for y'all so much, and you biffed it. And I'm not naive, I don't think a single generation was going to save the world, but damn... I guess the progressive, radical buck stopped at Zillennials.
(I am responding to your comment but not directing this comment at you)
For real... All the information in the world, and still going to blame millenials? The mind boggles.
Gen X? just happy we got a mention
The first half of Generation X sucked, the latter half are more like millennials
Which one gave us MTV and which one made MTV suck?
Actually both of those were boomers. The original format was created by a baby boomer and the Real World was too. Gen X just watched MTV growing up.
We also watched it fall apart while we were growing up.
I remember when M2 debuted with the idea that it would just play music videos, you know ... like MTV used to.
I didn't mind when MTV stopped playing music; Rob & Big, Viva la Bam, and Pimp my Ride were very entertaining and helped define my latter teenage years. The day MTV2 just became just MTV with rearranged timeslots was the beginning of the end. And now MTV is just The Ridiculousness Network now. It's practically the only thing they air these days.
To be clear, MTV/VH1 were created by one ot the Beatles. Definitely boomer gen.
Boomers and probably gen x, ironically enough. All the founders with given DoBs are either the silent gen or boomers and the guy who was head of programming during the sixteen and pregnant era is either gen x or aging very differently from the rest of us
Maybe you could define gen x by still watching TV in 2025 ... 🤔 Millennials the last ones watching traditional TV and then going to online only.
I’m just shocked someone remembered we exist…
…and a little bit annoyed tbh…
And, at last, it finally happened: we've been bundled with boomers. The forgotten generation, just lumped in with the old fuckers. My back hurts.
Get used to it. No generation seems to understand that they too will grow old and be reviled by the next generations. It has ever been so.
Grandpa Simpson was always right about "It." We once had "It", then we lost "It", and now we can't even remember what "It" was.
***This response was helpfully generated by ChatKittytm my very old Orange Boomer Kitty Cat.
The oldest Millennials are about 43 right now, "over the hill" and it hurts, it hurts (mostly lower back and knees)
Ahhhh, you ain't old yet. I got tennis shoes older than you. Literally. I still have a pair of original Converse tennis shoes I bought when I was playing basketball in high school back in the 1970s. Why I still have them, I don't know. But they are still in my closet along with a slide rule I used for math classes.
That's a good indication of old age. Having things and memories that were once commonplace, but are now totally obsolete.
Nah.
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The forgotten generation, just lumped in with the old fuckers.
I don't even think you're being "bundled" per say. You're just living long enough to take the generic "Old People Ruined Everything" flak that internet click-baiters loves to saturate younger people with. On the flip side, you're now reaching the era in which every TV Show, radio program, and mega-mall marketing team thinks the 1980s was the peak of human civilization. So enjoy being sheep dipped in Reagan Era nostalgia for a decade or two.
My back hurts.
Back aching builds character, or so I've been told.
What's scary is that some people are conflating what they see on stranger things with the real 80s. People over here definitely didn't have the means to buy all that
What we see on Stranger Things is just advertisements for IP from the 1980s. Everything from Ghostbusters to Neverending Story to D&D is just a brand name. Hell, the centerpiece of Season 4 was a mega-mall.
It's history through the eyes of Madison Avenue. Great if your goal is to recycle period kitche at obscene mark-ups. Which... in fairness... was the design philosophy of much of 1980s mass media.
I can't wait until my childhood is seen as the peak of civilization, because it might actually have been with how shits going lately
Gen X here…. After arguing and having many disagreements with many many boomers over the years, we are not the same. While I have had similar disagreements with younger generations they are fundamentally different because we are old enough to see the mistakes the boomers made but young enough to see the world is very much different and that rampant capitalism and greed is often the blame. Case in point, student loans. I am all for all education should be free and things like crippling student debt should not be a thing. Every boomer I have talked to still thinks either education should be a privilege or that you should be able to put yourself through college and get a masters working at McDonalds or Walmart.
They don't even think that though. If they wanted McDonald's to pay enough for school, they wouldn't aggressively oppose any attempt to raise the wage
Or more likely they think school still costs $1000 a semester which is what they paid for there kids (me included… since my parents were boomers) to attend college. Not the 80k it cost to send one of my kids through school. Want proof? Go ask any boomer what college costs now.
Some of us Gen Xers ended up more Boomer-like, and some ended up more Millennial-like.
It’s almost as though huge masses of people can’t just be simplified into lettered groups like some kind of social media horoscope.
That doesn't make sense my magic 8 ball told me so!
And yet historical events influence the identity lf age cohorts.
My wife is slightly older (still Gen X but barely) and she definitely has more boomer qualities than me.
My girlfriend is solid Gen X and I’m Xennial on the Gen X side. We are both decent folks.
I'm an older millennial on the cusp of being GenX.
You guys definitely aren't the same as Boomers. Some similarities, but not enough to be grouped in with them.
Boomers think it was normal. Genx look back with "holy shit why was that allowed"
I don't think they understand how demanding studying at university is. That shit is not like high school, where going to class was enough to get by.
What the fuck is up with all of the generational hate memes lately. Fuck off with that shit. Literally exactly what billionaires want you to fight about rather than realizing there’s no fucking difference between any generation.
I want to counterbalance the hate with something cool. Do you know what the fastest growing demographic of gamers is? People over 50. People are legit taking the time they have now that their kids have grown up and picking up video gaming. Its honestly cool and speaks to both the accessibility of gaming these days and people's general desire to try new things
Granted a subset of these over 50 year old gamers may have been gamers their entire lives, but gaming was pretty niche in the 80s and 90s, and didn't really become mainstream until the early 2000s, and even then it was seen as pretty dorky and geeky
I’m mid GenX, and frequently have to trot out the saying, “regulations are written in the blood of innocents” to people a lot more ignorant than I am. And I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.
You can refer to those people as "not the sharpest knife on the tree". You'll get rewarded with a thoroughly confused look.
I've always been a fan of
Not the brightest brick in the box.
Some are, most are not.
gonna guess that OP is gen z because they're attacking gen x.
as a gen x resident, I'd like to tell you to fuck off but I just don't care about you enough to do anything more than this comment.
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So you don't care enough to tell them to fuck off but do care enough to tell them you would like to tell them to fuck off and you've decided that this is somehow a lesser amount of caring. Sundowning already?
My charitable interpretation of their comment is that if they were going to tell them to fuck off, it wouldn't just be the words "fuck off", but rather an essay-length diatribe listing their failings and personality flaws at length. Therefore a comment saying they're not going to do that is caring less.....?
Oh, that's so much worse.
I don't care, but lemmy tell you what I would've said if I did care anyways.
The good old survivorship bias.
True, but also fun and growth involves risk.
We want to remove the kind of risk you don't recover from, but a lot of folks seem to want to remove any risk that could possibly cause injury.
I was born at the tail end of Gen X but we were definitely getting up to some crazy stuff.
It was a normal afternoon to take our bikes off the highest jumps we could build in the middle of the road, constructed from the neighborhood wood pile. When a car came speeding through we'd yell out "car" and quickly move our stuff to the side. We used skateboards on vertical ramps built from whatever, and roller skates on shoddy pavement. Our playgrounds were made of reflective metal hotter than lava attached to towers that seemed to reach 20 ft above the ground.
We built dangerous tree houses with rusty scrap in the ravine behind the neighborhood, next to place where the neighborhood's older kids were surely taking all the drugs and hiding from their D.A.R.E. officers.
I used to load my sisters in the back of a red radio flyer wagon and we'd all ride down the neighborhood's steepest hill, occasionally tipping at high speed and then sliding the rest of the way down likely removing several layers of skin and rolls of gauze from my mom's medical kit in the process.
In primary school, I don't think there was ever a moment without at least one kid on crutches or with a limb in a cast.
While it did harden us up, and provided some amazing memories, just about everyone I know who was a kid at that time knows of some kid who died while digging a tunnel, or got hit by a car, or spent half of his early teenage years in a cast, or who always seemed to have a finger splint.
Somehow through all of this we moved from thinking this is normal childhood stuff to blaming anyone and everyone by way of lawsuits.
There was nothing "safe" about that time. The debate seems to hinge on whether a dangerous childhood results in better adapted adults, perhaps by culling a few unlucky kids who hadn't learned their own limits, and who know how to be creative in the absence of almost any artificial or algorithmic stimuli.
You can do all of that on Roblox from the safety of your toilet nowadays.
The future is now.
just mind all the pedophiles and human traffickers.
News TV in the 90s was non-stop filling people’s heads with images of paedophile kidnappers and serial killers lurking behind every hedge. In reality the chances of anything like that happening to your kid is ridiculously small; like nothing on if you sent them to an American school.
I am going to teach my kid how to traumatize an adult, so they can annoy the pedophiles back. Fight fire with nuclear bombs.
sounds like enablement of pedophiles and groomers.
where there's smoke, there's fire.
Same situation, more or less ... but I honestly don't remember anyone meeting their grim fate the way you described ... you'd see people with a cast here and there (I got mine in gym class, of all locations), but I think all kids in my extended social groups made it to adulthood without major, life-altering physical damage ...
Kids these days don't even squash coins on the train tracks.
Still, they've got dodgy Temu e-bikes to kill themselves on now.
Still tide pods
Still AI induced psychosis and body dysmorphia from social media
we hate boomers more than you do
this is the first meme i’ve seen mention gen x at all and no, we are not like boomers, they all said that “we used to drink out of a hose” bullshit to us too… helmet and seatbelt laws started with x
seriously fuck you, and fuck boomers.
you know why congress is all geriatric? that’s because they know how bad gen x wants to burn everything down and they won’t let them take the wheel….
now zoomers are all voting for trump and becoming nazis. Lump zoomers and boomers together but not us.
now zoomers are all voting for trump and becoming nazis. Lump zoomers and boomers together but not us.
Speaking of factually wrong things... There was a larger portion of Gen X voters for Trump than there were Zoomers... by a large margin.
In fact, Trumps biggest demographic in the last two elections was ages 50-64. But sure, you're totally the good guys and it's the young people who are the cause of all your problems. Totally not proving the exact point you're arguing against.
while technically true, on paper, not by very much… i guess somehow it’s more upsetting when i see young people doing it.
like shouldn’t most have you have progressed by now? also they’re going to live a lot more.
at any rate the election was stolen, and it’s been conclusively proven by election truth alliance, but since they’re statisticians they can’t outright say it. (and reddit r/somethingiswrong2024, but they’ve branched out to much broader topics… the sidebar is good).
also, i salute you in our shared hatred of trump voters, whatever age they are, comrade.
(also i’m not in that age bracket).
TIL I'm much better of financially when I'm one missed check away from homeless, have one car and zero "toys" like boats or trucks or whatever. You can go fuck yourself by the way.
Edit: old used car, it's not even nice. Fucker.
ok zoomer...
Back at ya sweetheart.
wait! i’ve seen this pattern before:
rugged individualism
meaningless cliché that doesn’t even slightly apply to this scenario.
lot of the same patterns boomers did
baseless, vague condemnation
being much better off financially
absolutely made up stats….
…
OK, zoomer… you’re much closer to boomers than gen x or millennials, and it fucking hurts me. I really had hope for your generation but you’re all out there saluting hitler and shit
i cuss casually, saying “shit” doesn’t mean i’m having an “emotional overreaction”, zoomer
Then you ought to know better.
Get out of here with that Gen X shit. I jumped my bike and skateboard off so much shit as a kid. I still huck my meat off cliffs on my snowboard. Gen X is def not Boomer.
That's what they're saying.
They're saying that you say you did that as a kid. But many kids did that, and unlike you, didn't survive it, so now kids aren't allowed to do that.
Perhaps, but I fucking hate Boomers just like the rest of the world. Lumping us, especially those of us born after 75 in with Boomers, is crazy. I have nothing in common with them.
I can't afford a house, I will never retire, I am hard left, etc., etc. Screw that generation.
I still ride this. We let our weak die on purpose.
Bring back lawn darts!
Gen X in the firing line. Bring it on mfs, I've survived far worse and now I'm pulling the ladder up.
I think Gen X went from "invisible" to "the enemy" in a lot of folks' minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024 by a greater margin than any other age group. Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.
I think Gen X went from “invisible” to “the enemy” in a lot of folks’ minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024
All those polls are cucked anyway. You're taking a national composite by age when the regional variants are overwhelming. More Florida and Texas Zoomers are voting for Trump than California and New York GenXers. The Gulf Coast suburbs are absolutely choked with people in their 30s and 40s brain-poisoned by decades of consumer slop and corporate culture. Age has far less to do with it than family politics, education/business environment, and media diet.
Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.
Unfortunately, they still are. And the result is this deep reactionary clinging to the Clintons and Obamas as some kind of panacea for the modern moment.
Nobody ever really talks about Gen X.
There are no widespread positive opinions. Not really any negative ones either. They just kind of exist. Silently.
I have to say the Wall coming down was a crazy exciting thing to experience.
Now I'm sick and tired of living through once in a lifetime events. I'd love to go back to boring.
They experience neither highs nor lows so it makes sense
They experienced the beginning of the internet and computers becoming a main part of people's lives
They experienced the height of the cold war and experienced genuine concern for nuclear armageddon
They experienced the end of the cold war and a few years of peace
They experienced the beginning of grunge, hip hop music, heavy metal, MTV , and the peak of Michael Jackson
They experienced 9/11, the dot com bubble burst, the housing crash of 2008, the pandemic of 2020
They lived under the thumb of the silent generation and the boomer generation dominating politics for their entire life (as we all still do today) so there voice was never really heard.
I like old people who argue that they didn't wear seat belts, sat in the cargo area of a wagon and say heavy old cars are safer. It's like we know better but because they did it it's okay. Don't they realize that you use the knowledge as the advantages you'ved learned in order to make live better?
These are the same people who constantly pull the ladder up behind them, so it fits. They were miserable, so now you have to be miserable.
Some days I interact with some people that make me bemoan all of the safety guides that have allowed the idiots to breed enough that I now have the misfortune to interact with them.
Then there are other days where a safety rule/guide/regulation has stopped me from doing something monumentally stupid and fatal that reminds me that those safety regulations are written in blood and that sometimes I'll be that idiot in someone else's mind. It's humbling and comforting in an absurdist way.
Im supposed to be mad about it? Or are you mad about it? Is that you in the picture? I’m confused. Did I do it wrong?
All the rules are written in blood.
"Back in the day we got beat by our father's and thats how you knew he loved you, kids these days, smh"
Posting this in between my angry rants about "Breeders" ruining society over in /r/ChildFree.
Two words: lawn darts.
We should still have lawn darts. The risk should just be accepted. It's different I think than like household cleaners that look like a jug of Koolaid for example.
The jug of Fabuloso under the sink is calling my name.
I'm not joking. Fabuloso looks delicious!!! This is why it needs warnings and labels. That someone can't comprehend falling weapons from the sky is different than discernment of coloured liquids.
I know someone who would beg to differ. Of course, he didn't need lawn darts for his exciting revelation, so the ban didn't affect him.
At a glace, and even at a bit more than a glance, the bottle can be nearly identical to bottles of actual marketed to childen sugary juice substitute.
What safety precautions is this about? Is it about warning labels on plastic bags or not letting your kids play outside because they will get kidnapped?
I'm not thinking about safety precautions, but about “new(…ish…?)” health and nutrition guidelines for children.
For example: no honey before the age of 1, no raw meat during pregnancy, sturdier/bulkier car seats, and kids wearing bicycle helmets is more or less the norm where I live.
I can't think of any more examples, but whenever my parents-in-law are visiting, there will inevitably be at least one thing where they scoff at us and say something like, “Ugh, kids these days… We did/didn't do this or that, and it didn't harm us, and we turned out just fine…”
If I got a penny every time I heard "my mother never went to a doctor during her pregnancy and I'm fine" I would probably had like 5 cents now. I'm not sure it's a generational gap though. I think it's more stupid vs. not so stupid people. I know old people that understand how medicine works and young anti-vaxxers.
Whenever someone says they turned out fine, I don't believe them
It's a very cope thing to say
Don't dry your cat in the microwave. Don't drink battery acid.
But THEY did. And they are all that matters.
survivorship bias...
Generational politics are bullshit.
Exactly. Back in my day we culled people with lead and asbestos. Nowadays any old random can stay alive and the world is crumbling!!! /s
Innocent question, are gen X more right than left? My brothers is Gen X and its hard for me to think of the generation that was obsessed with MTV and watched Beavis ans But head and South Park be constantly attacked would veer right. I remember my brother playing "rape me" by Nirvanna and audibly the teachers freaking the fuck out. But my brother is conservative now so what do I know.
People in general tend to veer toward conservatism as they age, have kids, and accumulate wealth. Many of those Boomers who were hippies in the '60s became yuppies in the 80s and voted for Trump in recent years.
US election exit polls show that that they're quite rightwing, yeah. Lots of people from any generation were never going to be left/center anyway, but the rightwing has a pretty significant working class voter base, and looking at groups like the Proud Boys they're even able to style themselves as "rebellious".
I have to applaud gen z for one thing. never has there been a generation more willing to whore themselves out for the world to see. I'm not complaining, lots of "daddy issues" because they have zero positive male influences in their lives, I wonder how that will look 20-30 years from now...
- Greatest generation (fought in WWII)
- (baby) Boomers
- Gen X
- millennials
- Gen Z
Don't forget the current crop of kids which is Gen Alpha. Gen Z are all adults now
The youngest Gen Z is roughly 13. Stopped in 2012, so not really an adult.
It's all very fuzzy. These are not objective terms. These are things marketing agencies make up and then claim to know how to advertise to. I'm not saying different age groups don't have similarities but to when it gets to very specific things like "Gen Z stopped in 2012" it's not really a fact.
Saw an ad from a local (but large) Sinclair news affiliate the other day. Some right-wing boomers are calling themselves the "greatest generation" now. Out there making it an entire generation of stolen valor.
well they've always been know as the "Me" generation so it makes sense they would say that about themselves
"I learned to ride on a liter bike and I didnt die"
Yeah, bring back leaded gasoline! /s
I wish he would iron his shirt while hes wearing it
Mhm, yeah no. "Don't use electric stove to cut vegetables on it" is not a safety precaution, it is a sign of bullshit happening. But I may be thinking of something different from what author meant
Meh. They’re reintroducing mare dangerous play now because we went too far with safety.
I'd say it's more because of bullshit lawsuits. 90,% of the warning labels we have should not be necessary. We used to just accept that if you did stupid shit you might lose a couple fingers or die. Now it runs businesses into the ground and we have created a massive leech of an industry that is insurance. Insurance and lawyers are to blame for all of this.
There was a strong propaganda push in the 90s to make you think that. Mainly stemming from that McDonald’s lawsuit with the coffee. It was a PR campaign let by corporations and tort reform advocates to downplay the seriousness of corporate negligence and place the blame on consumers to try to stop people from suing.
Clearly it was successful. Billion dollar corporations have an obligation to create things with public safety in mind. If nothing else, to make sure they have the max possible customers. If a product injures or kills a customer the business should do everything in its power to correct and amend that. To blame the customer for corporate negligence is absurd.
The same regulatory burden falls on small mom and pop locations and makes doing business impossible for anything but billion dollar corps who are only profit-motivated which drives down wages and leads to the current cost of living crisis that most of the west is experiencing.
If you fall down the stairs, that should essentially never be a lawsuit in my opinion unless there was extreme negligence on the part of the property owner. If you burn yourself it should be your fault. All of this unnecessary regulation and liability is what makes everything so unaffordable.
In lawsuits, details matter. Ya if a person jumps down the stairs it’s their fault. If a business failed to clean up a spill because they layed off workers to reduce costs and a customer falls down the stairs, yes it is the business’ fault.
Funny how those mom and pop business got absorbed by corporations so might as well have those regulations that you think hurt Mom and pop businesses
Very accurate.
I don't know a single GenX who disagrees with the first statement. (I an on then Millennial edge, though, so could be bias)
Survival of the fittest
LOL. So true.
-Gen Xer
"Claim to have done?" Lol
Railing against windmills
Yeah that was natural selection working as intended
That’s not how natural selection works.
I'll rather live 13 years as a boomer than a life time as a zoomer.
Are you 13 yet?
I have always found evening time quite the gamechanger in the popular saying.
That’s fucking stupid.
They weren't the brightest of the bunch though.
Some things, yes. Others... nah, thats the nanny state in full effect. Telling people that theres danger, and trying to take away personal freedoms arent the same thing. If someone wants to drink, smoke, eat fatty foods, let them. All you we should be doing is saying "yo, that shits bad for you.". And leave it up to personal choice. This is how it should be for drugs as well.
Seatbelts, why isnt this a personal choice? If you want to fly through the windshield at 70mph, you should be allowed to. Wearing helmets on a bike. If you want to end up with brain damage after a nasty fall, that too should be your choice.
We spend all our time trying to keep dumb people alive. And these are the people who dont rubber up. The more of them who reproduce and you get... well, take a look around...
Second-hand smoking is a thing. People without seatbelts turn into missiles in accidents or just lose control of vehicles and cause accidents, injuring others. All of these plus riders without helmets end up in hospital, costing everybody taxes and lost work days (covering for colleagues even if you don’t care what it costs businesses). You can’t just renege all responsibility for safety because you don’t exist in a vacuum.
Yes, mummy...