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Godort ,

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

ccunning ,

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

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

meeeeetch ,

Within two months and one week of each other.

ech ,

Huh, that’s interesting.

Pacattack57 ,

You know how in school they say “one day one of you will be president.” Well for Bidens generation all of them were wrong except his teacher

ArbitraryValue ,

I would vote for a vampire, mummy, or other deathless creature.

Paddzr ,

Dracula was pretty cool…

Assman ,
@Assman@sh.itjust.works avatar

We could all die in some catastrophic event

Arbiter ,

God I hope so.

motor_spirit ,

The great leveling🤙

BroBot9000 ,
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

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

Boozilla ,
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

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

xmunk ,

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

slurpeesoforion ,

Please be kind. We’re exhausted and broken.

Wytch ,

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

bazus1 ,

and it hurts now to get out of bed.

Flying_Hellfish ,

And to be in bed

tacosplease ,

You guys are ok with us. Z seems cool too

wjrii ,

Millennials seem cool. They called bullshit on a lot of stuff that X just shrugged at and tried to slack our way around. I don’t usually know what Z is saying but they seem to at least have moved in a less overtly toxic direction, and they put weak but real taboos on stuff like bullying that no prior generation did.

It’s all good. I’m gonna go let myself into the empty house and make a PB&J now.

shalafi ,

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

KnightontheSun ,

Slack Off!

Rutty ,
@Rutty@sh.itjust.works avatar

As an aging millennial, I am surprised by how the process of time works.

Like you spend your life acquiring skills and using your knowledge in an ever expanding cornucopia of experiences.

Then followed by a gradual decline to be left only with your memories of who you once were. But then you realize you were only a small part of the existence of others, and ultimately the universe. Yep, the thought of faculties diminishing over time is enough to put the one into an extensional crisis.

Boozilla ,
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

Yup. This is a wise time in your life to start your estate planning, medical directives, etc. Find yourself a good lawyer for this. I’m sure the cost varies by location and practice, but mine was only about $1,500 US.

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m just trying to exist in peace. That already feels like an impossibility.

Rookwood ,

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.

SteveFromMySpace , (edited )

There are a lot of radical conservative millennials I’m not sure where you’re getting this from. I’d need to see numbers before I agree with a lot of this. All the YouTube/new media grifters personalities and radical passionate members of the house are millennials.

Omegamanthethird ,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

I’m worried about the Alphas and younger Zs who weren’t paying attention until after Covid. The news doesn’t talk about Trump’s laundry list of controversies or extremism. They just yell about the economy and the border and point at Biden.

As usual, they make rationalists look alarmist.

Carrolade ,

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.

Samvega ,

But we should at least have a better handle on the information age problems, so that’ll be nice.

Technology keeps creating new problems. The problems don’t stay still and wait to be fixed.

crank0271 ,

Not to be contrary, but the problems aren’t technology’s fault. That’s all on us.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Spoken just like the boomers. Heads up your own asses just like them.

65 million X compared to 72 millennial. Wow. Carry on.

Whatever.

boogetyboo ,
@boogetyboo@aussie.zone avatar

Are you ok

radivojevic ,

Are you?

boogetyboo ,
@boogetyboo@aussie.zone avatar

I’m absolutely spiffing, thanks for asking! Yourself?

radivojevic ,

Adequate.

boogetyboo ,
@boogetyboo@aussie.zone avatar

Fair to middling?

radivojevic ,

Sufficient to acceptable. Not good—but not bad! I’m… fine.

boogetyboo ,
@boogetyboo@aussie.zone avatar

Sounds perfectly cromulent.

radivojevic ,

Yes Ms. Hoover

modifier ,

I am not, but I think that’s unrelated. Mostly. Or not at all.

radivojevic ,

In an existential sense?

pixel_prophet ,

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

classic ,

And life stages

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

There’s apparently 65.2 million Gen Xers vs 75 million millenials. Smaller, but “too small to matter” seems like a really weird take.

magnetosphere ,
@magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

This headline makes me incredibly happy.

expatriado ,

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

radivojevic ,

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

Pacattack57 ,

Retirement age is 55. She is 59.

TSG_Asmodeus ,
@TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world avatar

I think it’s like 65 or 70 in the US.

Pacattack57 ,

Holy fuck it’s 67. We’re fucked

radivojevic ,

You should have known this at 13. Oh, public education. 🤦‍♂️

Pacattack57 ,

When I was 13 the retirement age was not 67 bud

MagicPterodactyl ,

If you were taught retirement age was 55 when you were 13 you must already be retired or thought you were very close to retirement. It hasn’t been 55 since the early 80s.

Pacattack57 ,

Yes I’m old thank you for reminding me

radivojevic ,

The full retirement age in the United States varies depending on the year of birth:

  • For people born in 1960 or later, the full retirement age is 67.
  • For those born between 1943 and 1954, the full retirement age is 66.
  • For those born between 1955 and 1959, the full retirement age gradually increases from 66 and 2 months to 66 and 10 months.

However, individuals can start receiving Social Security retirement benefits as early as age 62, though benefits will be reduced for early retirement. Conversely, delaying retirement beyond the full retirement age can increase benefits until age 70.

radivojevic ,

Retirement for her is 67.

Voyajer ,
@Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

Generational cohorts care more about events that shaped you in life rather than birth year

AshMan85 ,

Uh i wouldn’t boast about Boeing lol

nobleshift ,
@nobleshift@lemmy.world avatar

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

xmunk ,

Every generation has plenty of those - no worries!

folekaule ,

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 ,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,

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 ,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Supervivens ,

I feel like the judge cannon stuff is a very good example of why jury trials are a thing. Corrupt judges are real yo

folekaule ,

Very good point, and I did not intend to make an argument about generations being different. Generations indeed consist wholly of individuals with their own opinions. On an individual level, age is no better an indicator of personality than your zodiac sign.

In my comment I just wanted to express that, after a long period of dread, I am feeling more hopeful after seeing so many members of the young generation getting engaged and making a difference where I personally feel we failed.

It was also meant to express appreciation and gratitude to those who are getting involved and as encouragement to those who are yet to do so.

4am ,

Just remember there was leaded gasoline everywhere before 1995, and av-gas mostly still is

xmunk ,

Gen Z unfortunately seems to have stepped back on the gender equality front. I hope it shifts back but self-identified feminists are down compared to millenials and misogyny is up. I’d be happy to attribute most of that to economic stress though.

Kecessa , (edited )

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

Orbituary ,
@Orbituary@lemmy.world avatar

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

nobleshift ,
@nobleshift@lemmy.world avatar

Yup

Whirlygirl9 ,

saaaaame...55 and left as hell

Nastybutler ,

Same. Grew up in a conservative household and shared many of the same views when I was younger. But the more the conservatives have shifted towards hating “the other” the more I’ve realized that was always what they, and their policies, were. They’re just not subtle about it now.

If you’re so confident in your world view, you shouldn’t be afraid of it being challenged, whether by speech, or people being free to be who they are, want to be, or were born into. If it doesn’t harm you, why should you care?

The fact that neo Nazis align themselves with the GOP, Trump,and MAGA, should tell you all you need to know. I’ve never donated to a Democrat’s campaign… Until today.

zabadoh ,

As a Gen Xer, I wish that was true, but in terms of US voting patterns, it isn’t

nbcnews.com/…/poll-gen-x-gen-z-take-different-pol…

Kecessa ,

Dang, you’re right, it’s the millennials that are changing that trend!

zabadoh ,

I hope it continues into the Millennials’ later years, but I’m feeling cynical about that…

FenrirIII ,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

Tucker Carlson.

Orbituary ,
@Orbituary@lemmy.world avatar

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

blattrules ,

This is such a gen Xer thing to say.

randompasta ,

Whatever

InternetUser2012 ,

Ok Boomer

blattrules ,

I guess my joke about the cynicism of genx is getting missed.

circuitfarmer ,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

us Xers

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

MrMakabar ,

That is true of every generation. Call it a human flaw.

ThePyroPython ,

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    wildncrazyguy138 ,

    Turn on, tune in, drop out.

    someguy3 ,

    Wiki says Gen X is 1965 - 1980. Kamala was born Oct 1964. Boomer.

    Reverendender ,

    I’m finally in charge!

    wildncrazyguy138 ,

    What are yer orders boss?

    Reverendender ,

    Let’s eat the rich. Starting with Murdoch, Bezos, and Musk. Then let’s send the entire GOP to a for-profit state prison.

    wildncrazyguy138 ,

    Deal, they seem to like to self flagellate. I’ve got the perfect name for it. Hear me out, we’ll call it “Florida.”

    brown567 ,

    Boomers? Biden wasn’t even a Boomer!

    HubertManne ,

    heck no. millenials can have it.

    classic ,

    And that's how you can tell a real Gen Xer

    PunnyName ,

    Warm bodies outnumber the dead, news at 11.

    pyre ,

    you’d think so, but boomers had it so good they hardly ever die. the amount of stress they left the newer generations while not giving a fuck themselves made them likely to outlast some millennials let alone xers.

    Akasazh ,
    @Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

    I’ll take your comment at face value and see it as a comment on the theory that ‘there’s more people alive today than have ever lived’.

    scientificamerican.com/…/fact-or-fiction-living-o…

    However that seems not to be true. The dead are more numerous. However they are unlikely to vote (unless the republicans find a way).

    CulturedLout ,

    youtu.be/y2dFN_UVmBg?si=OKcxwIdLM0OVCL2C&t=3m20s

    EnderWiggin ,

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

    padge ,

    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 ,

    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 ,
    @Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

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

    bitchkat ,

    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”.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X#:~:text=U.S. n….

    tipicaldik , (edited )

    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 ,

    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 ,

    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.

    wjrii ,

    Family context also plays a role. My wife and I are “officially” Xennials, born a year apart in the late 70s. I have a brother seven years older than me, and she was the first born. I skew way more Gen X than she does, to the point where she doesn’t see any point in describing herself as anything other than a Millennial.

    bitwaba ,

    Yeah, I was born in 84 but I identify pop culture wise much closer to my step brothers that are 1.5 and 3.5 years older as Xennails than I would my millennial counterparts.

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