All I hear about is “boomers” this, “Millennials” that, “Gen Z” that, etc.

Why no one talk about Gen X? What happened to them? They just vanished like in Infinity War? Or are we mistaken Gen Z by Boomers?

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    165·
    14 hours ago

    Musk is Gen X. Ron DeSantis is Gen X. Josh Hawley is Gen X. Paul Ryan, Gen X, claimed Rage Against the Machine was a favorite band despite being a fucking Republican.

    Sounds to me like they’re pretty loud and fucking shit up just as bad as the Boomers, no offense.

    I don’t have good memories of Gen X, just memories as assholes older than me who judged everyone based on what music they listened to and were absolutely assholes if your music wasn’t cool enough.

    Am I shocked most of them grew up to be conservative fuckholes? No, no I am not.

    Anyway they mostly just get lumped in with Boomers, but Musk is Gen X and I think he’s sadly pretty representative of it.

    Over half of men (52%) aged 45+ voted for Trump and 44 is the youngest Gen X.

    He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs

    And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun

    But he knows not what it means

    Knows not what it means, and I say

    He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs

    And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun

    But he knows not what it means, knows not what it means, and I say, “Yeah”

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
      141·
      12 hours ago

      I don’t have good memories of Gen X, just memories as assholes older than me who judged everyone based on what music they listened to and were absolutely assholes if your music wasn’t cool enough.

      And you base your opinion of an entire generation on that?

      There are good people and bad people in all generations alike. One day you too will be older, and you’ll be at the receiving end of undeserved criticism for things you’ve never said or done because some young dude met someone else the same age as you they didn’t like.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        82·
        13 hours ago

        and you’ll be at the receiving end of undeserved criticism for things you’ve never said or done because some young dude met someone else the same age as you they didn’t like.

        You think that’s not already happening to millennials? Fuck me, get out more.

        • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
          41·
          13 hours ago

          Fuck me, get out more.

          Which would you prefer? As an X slacker, I only have enough spare “meh” to handle one or the other.

          Wait… you’re a millennial? Doesn’t that mean you’re basically a kid? Does this count as grooming? Help, I need an adult!

          realizes half the adults in his family are dead

          Typical boomers.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      71·
      12 hours ago

      Just under half of men aged 18-29 voted for Trump, and who knows how bad that number would be if young people actually bothered to vote. The idea that conservatives are just old people who got theirs is just a skewed view from young progressives with conservative parents.

      Gen X was the age of hippies, protesting the Vietnam war, anti nuclear protests, and so on. In many ways they were more progressive than the current young generations.

      Millenials are growing up to be just as conservative as gen x. Gen z is already turning towards conservatism (probably because progressives really suck at social media which is shaping young minds to an extreme extent). The only difference between gen x/y/z/alpha is that x and y have had more time to accumulate wealth and therefore possess more power.

      Don’t blame society’s issues on people because of something simple like their age or their race. No problem is as simple as that.