Us Gen X'ers really hoped not to be here We grew up watching the Berlin wall collapse and the Iron Curtain fall We thought our grandparents took care of everything - ThreadSky

tonyiknow.bsky.social • 47 days ago

Us Gen X'ers really hoped not to be here

We grew up watching the Berlin wall collapse and the Iron Curtain fall

We thought our grandparents took care of everything

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impersonatingfine.bsky.social•47 days ago

Too bad a good amount of us decided to go with the dark side despite our in depth knowledge of fascism communism, and star wars

justicehassan.bsky.social•47 days ago

Kind of the problem, no? History doesn’t stop. I think a lot of Gen Xers tuned out because we all thought it was fine, not realizing the guardrails were supported by many people doing small things every day to protect. When you do things right, sometimes it seems like you’re doing nothing at all.

pinkberryga.bsky.social•47 days ago

Your grandparents thought they had.

thechantalsnow.bsky.social•47 days ago

Took care of it? Are you kidding me?
Gen X was abandoned to fend for themselves. LOL Latch key kids, outside all day, drink from the hose, take care of the siblings and the house, walk to school in kindergarten, and buy cigs for our moms 🤣

wormfood-local-510.bsky.social•47 days ago

History does not end. We must kill the Francis Fukuyama in the mind of every liberal.

samspade1941.bsky.social•47 days ago

I remember watching the wall come down and listening to Winds of Change by Scorpions.

History rhymes.

Peace is over.

Now we're facing our own generation's mid 1930s, pre WW2 type of hellscape.

Mixed in with AI and Big Tech.

The Tech Utopia has become a Tech Dystopia.

It is what it is.

pfinecy.bsky.social•47 days ago

..this tracks for Gen-Xers. Grew up "watching" but couldn't be bothered to get your asses to the polls to vote, expecting "grandma" to do it for you. Sorry, not sorry.

thechantalsnow.bsky.social•47 days ago

Say wha..?
The latch key generation?
The 10 year old siblings babysitting the younger children generation?
The 4 year old going to the store with a note and money for your mom's cigs pinned to you generation?

I vote. So do my millennial adult children.

kscho65.bsky.social•47 days ago

Same. Started voting in 1984, as soon as I was eligible. Raised my son to understand the importance of civic participation. He tells me how shocked he is at his Millennial generation’s lack of political literacy. It’s easy to tune out and blame others

pfinecy.bsky.social•47 days ago

I was just feeding it back! I don't really believe it, however, I did see that Gen X had more votes for Trump than any other generation. I'm a Gen Jones Boomer.

thechantalsnow.bsky.social•46 days ago

Did they?
Well, you know some of those kids ate glue soo...🤷‍♀️
🤣

tonyiknow.bsky.social•47 days ago

We vote in Australia

skeenaman.bsky.social•47 days ago

Every generation needs to be vigilant. There is no such thing as someone else taking care of everything.

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