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.
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 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.
I don’t know a single GenX who disagrees with the first statement. (I an on then Millennial edge, though, so could be bias)
The good old survivorship bias.
I’ll rather live 13 years as a boomer than a life time as a zoomer.
That’s fucking stupid.
Are you 13 yet?
I have always found evening time quite the gamechanger in the popular saying.
“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.
Generational politics are bullshit.
LOL. So true.
-Gen Xer
“Claim to have done?” Lol
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.
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.
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.
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?
By the way, you may never know if spanking your kids ends up turning them either into boiling teapots ready to blow or someone who may later be into it a little too much to be a porn star. Never know.
I’m just shocked someone remembered we exist…
…and a little bit annoyed tbh…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…
Yeah, bring back leaded gasoline! /s
Very accurate.
