Damn, my feelers are all hurt and shit. 😂 How will I cope?
Let us please not start pointing generational fingers at each other. There is more than enough corruption and stupidity that transcends generations in our government and in society. We also have more than enough division without this.
Deeply disgusted with Gen X defectors be they boomer lites or zealots. This Gen X remains Gen X with a big assist in expanded perspective from my Gen Z offspring.
Lolololol imagine being so young and uninformed you think that the alt-right just popped into existence in 2010 because a millennial decided it should be so.
Yeah I’m 50 this year. Fact is, GamerGate & the Alt-Right happened on the millennial’s internet. I had a kid in 2001, went mostly offline til 2015, and - things had changed. If I gotta cop for other GenXs (I do) then youse gotta cop for yours
I'm Gen X and didn't forget that Neocons love to rebrand. Alt-Right is just the newest name on the same ideologies. Rush Limbaugh was before 2001. Project For A New American Century was before 2001.
Oh look yes the Ron paul libertarian shit was definitely us. But that was dweebs and olds. Marginal cranks. The millennial accelerationist and outwardly racist version was -not- what the 90s were about. Dog whistles, sure, always. Open race science b.s. - that was new
Fuck that. Stay out of it. We have too much to do and not enough energy for that as it is
Keep up with the kids, help them out, try to repair the boomer damage. All we can do is the best we can do and it's not much but we have to do it. Avoid this nonsense and fight fascism
i have maintained for years that elder xers are racing boomers to the bottom
i pray to god i die before it happens to old millennials and i become the very thing i hate (a fat guy listening to Helmet loudly in a jeep wrangler full of rubber ducks at the grocery store parking lot)
It really depends on which subset of us you're talking about.
Cause no. Hell no. Not those of us who read Mya Angelou, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X. Not those of us who knew Tupacs lyrics on every album & went to NWA concerts
I think we are all of us somewhat sane people of all ages, deeply unhappy about what is currently happening. And nothing will change unless we push hard…together.
Every negative generalization about a generation inadvertently insults those in it who are been fighting the good fight, which is more difficult when you're in the minority. I didn't go in for Okay Boomer when it was for Boomers, and now that I'm an honorary Boomer, all I can say is welp.
Good point. I shall joined forces to defeat the evil, it doesn't matter how old they are. In my area, a ton of the people showing up to "resistance" events are my age or older.
They've been boomering for awhile now. They hide behind the infamous apathy they so love to throw about. Yeah we get it, you are so dark and mysterious and tough.
I don't think they are, some are just really aggressively right wing in a way that there are a lot that have aligned with a lot of boomers in a small amount of time which is why people have more recently been saying that but like Gen X and Millenials are mostly on the same page overall.
Yeah, people make the mistake of identifying generations by their most prominent subcultures. For all the punk and grunge kids, there were a lot of just dumbass bigots. I grew up saying the f slur, and now I realize how f’d up that was. Seems like a low bar, and yet it’s still too high for too many
Yeah, I knocked that off when it occurred to me it wasn't up to me to decide that I could stand up and be an ally while still throwing that word around
Fuck you Square, Most Punks in the Scene are exactly the opposite of the the shit you spewed. Try Listening to maybe DJ, or Crass. Shocker white guy in a suit used slurs and what's to be a punk. Tool stay in your lane
I think you are misreading me. I said punk subcultures weren’t reflective of the general culture, even though they get retrospectively identified with it. I didn’t say punks were particularly noxious.
And that’s before taking into account how many people died from AIDS, or how many black people are dead or imprisoned from the drug wars. Gen X is leaning fascist because almost only suburban white heterosexuals were left able to vote
True. My friend's list is practically a graveyard and now cancer is taking out a lot of the antifascist og hardcore musicians. I'm also sorry the dude responding to you doesn't seem to understand what you're saying.
Again you garbage takes. One we lost the election BC White Straight men Voted maga, and 1/3 of didn't Vote at all. So let that sink in, chances are 1/3 of your social circle couldn't figure out the Difference between a Well Qualified Woman, and a Goddamn Nazi. They chose to sit out Champ
First of all, I’m an elder millennial, so I’m not speaking about my generational demographic, and secondly, nothing you said disagrees with my post; and lastly, I live grew up and live in dc so your poll numbers do not reflect my social circle.
No! I refuse to take that moniker. Boomers are fucking Boomers, full stop. I would like to apologize for our brethren who became the Karens & Kens, though. I have no idea what shit went down for them from age 18 to 30 to make them this way but it's not an excuse to be the massive twats they are.
It’s more effective than supporting a party that provides funding and arms to overseas fascists and uses extralegal tactics against protestors, which the trump guys can point to as precedent.
The democrats’ contribution to fighting fascism is expressed as a negative number.
Apparently so with some of my peers posting about 'Today's ❄ wouldn't survive one hour of being out without adults dusk 'till dawn!' as though we were out running iron mans for 8 hours rather than playing in a park with our friends for an hour or two
yes they got old. all old people suck, it’s what happens when you face death in the eye. do we need to keep having this conversation for every generation? tbh i suspect gen z will be even worse then they get old, they’re already bitter and dull because covid robbed them and they lack survival skills
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Let us please not start pointing generational fingers at each other. There is more than enough corruption and stupidity that transcends generations in our government and in society. We also have more than enough division without this.
In 10-20 years all Millennials will be eviscerated constantly, mercilessly, for what the worst of them do. And so the cycle will continue.
No the fuck I didn't. I didn't get all of the same Gen X angst just to get seated at the kids table fuck that.
Keep up with the kids, help them out, try to repair the boomer damage. All we can do is the best we can do and it's not much but we have to do it. Avoid this nonsense and fight fascism
GenX not even mentioned in this article. Of course.
i pray to god i die before it happens to old millennials and i become the very thing i hate (a fat guy listening to Helmet loudly in a jeep wrangler full of rubber ducks at the grocery store parking lot)
Cause no. Hell no. Not those of us who read Mya Angelou, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X. Not those of us who knew Tupacs lyrics on every album & went to NWA concerts
They remember all the great counterculture music & movies from the 1990s, & forget that it was countering something.
How much trouble are these people causing from six feet under?
Are we GOOD at it?
Time will tell
...but then refers to you as a cabbage patch kid instead of a latchkey kid:
Or cared, truth be told.
Sure grandpa, let's get you back to bed.
The democrats’ contribution to fighting fascism is expressed as a negative number.
And you should be very very happy about THAT. Don't make us follow our models because it wouldn't matter because there are so few of us.
my brother in christ you engineered the society etc etc
Dude. not cool.
it's sort of like how a virus spreads