• lemmytry@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      "In her recollection, her interest in Trump was prompted by his positions on trade. However, looking back six years later she confessed, “I’m going to forget all the facts.” She tried to recall: “I did my research back then into what was happening with Paris Trade Accord [a reference to the climate agreement that the Obama administration had entered into] and things … I didn’t like it, and Trump was against it. I said, ‘Ok, great.’”

      This is roughly consistent with Bonier’s analysis of Gen X voters, which has found that they are very concerned about the economy, somewhat concerned about retirement (although nowhere near as much as Baby Boomers) and not terribly concerned about issues like the environment or guns."

      ☝️ these are not serious people. 👇

      " In her first term, she’s sponsored legislation to ban vaccine mandates, to prohibit libraries from making obscene materials available to minors and to nullify federal enforcement of gun control laws in the state."

  • Secret Music@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Cringe is teenagers and 20 somethings hero worshipping Joe Rogan and supporting right wing christian nationalists. Lamest fucking generation around. Even boomers had a hippie phase before becoming old and bitter. Gen Z just skipped that and went straight to the conformist bootlicker phase.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      “But iswearimnotaracistjustracerealist1488 told me I will eventually become a conservative, so I decided to skip liberalism altogether!”

  • the_swagmaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    As someone on the boundary between millennials and gen Z. Sometimes I am cringe as fuck and sometimes I am based. The worst part is, it’s hard to predict when either will happen.

    • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      On the Xennial side - hard agree.

      But we all know that Boomers are the scourge of the earth and may very well kill us all before they shuffle of this mortal coil… Right?

    • StitchIsABitch@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Yup as soon as I saw gen Z based I knew. 5-10 years ago this would have been the opposite, it’s always the generation of new adults that thinks they’re hip and cool while looking down on the “kids”. When I was younger we (millennials) all thought we were the coolest and made fun of gen Z for being cringe. Now gen Z thinks they’re cool but soon enough they’ll be old and lame too and gen Alpha will have the spotlight.

      Just wait till a kid hits you with “sir” for the first time and then looks at you weird when you insist you’re not that old.

    • Silk@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, took me a while to realise generational stereotypes etc. were more inflammatory culture war, as much as it often seems ‘in good spirits’.

      Entelechy is a new word too ty

  • toadjones79@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Silent Gen raised Gen X which raised Gen Z. Seems simple enough to me.

    Also, millennials are just Boomers replayed. Hippies are almost a mirror image of millennials. I totally can’t wait (sarcastic) for them to turn into yuppies (they already have) and become overtly materialistic to the point of robbing their own childrens’ futures to keep up with the rising cost of avocados.

    • musubibreakfast@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Toad, I would love to have all the advantages boomers had and I would gladly agree with you and chuckle and call myself a hypocrite BUT I CAN’T EVEN BUY A FUCKING HOUSE IN THIS ECONOMY.

      • toadjones79@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I can’t argue with that. But as a late Gen X, I graduated highschool at the time when my age was the wealthiest generation in human history. The politics that led us here is not just Boomers fault. Millennials, Gen X, and even the Silent Gen have blame here too. We were all too happy to see Clinton continue Reagan’s pandering and then felt shoehorned into most of this by the 911 attacks. The economy collapsed and then Bush’s policies totally saved us… for a few years. Then the recession hit and the Bush era legal changed wrecked our ability to regulate our government officials leaving us vulnerable to corporate slavery.

        • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Not a single millennial was old enough to vote for Clinton. Barely any were old enough to vote for Bush, even during his second term.

          Do not lump millennials in with that mess. We didn’t make it, we were just forced to grow up with it.

  • Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Guys I think we should take this shit post seriously and get into fights with strangers on the internet about generations in the comments.