Actually it's our useless fucking generation that spent their whole lives making snarky comments from the sidelines, then when it really mattered, jumped in to elect Trump.
Agreed — totally true with this election! Point I was making was that Boomers not contented with relinquishing leadership roles for the last 33 years did a lot to get us here. Intergenerational conflicts aside, much of what’s happening is a result of complacency, a collective failure of imagination.
I’ve said this many times to myself. They should go down as “The worst.” The most ungrateful, and pitiful generation.They learned nothing from the times they grew in and only enhanced their prosperity with more greed, leaving the world worse off when they had ample time and experience to be better.
Gen Z isn’t a monolith as their politics has been statistically shown to be more race/gender-defined. Young white males have gone full MAGA, but women/POC are more likely to be lefties.
Right wing extremists have been aggressively targeting white Gen Z boys through algorithmic feeds & gaming. I think there's a good chance many of them will grow out of it in a way that people who come to those views more organically do not.
Nah let’s not do the generation blame game. Boomers did that to millennials for years and all it did was breed resentment and further disparage communication.
Yeah, I never understand people thinking someone else is gonna save you. But it wasn’t long ago, there were Bernie Bros and Khive and pantsuit nation, thinking we were gonna dance our way into the future.
ive said it before, the new generation always gets hailed as the savior meanwhile the generation responsible for parenting them never teaches them to be such, they in fact work very hard on perpetuating mistakes and generational trauma and abuse
Well I'm 30 now and when I was in elementary school, 9/11 happened. We In a multi generational war with the elites of this world. Good luck to those kids but nah, each generation is more fucked than the previous and lying to them is shameful
They love country music, believe in god, like trucks and cars, don't care about the planet. They have failed to learn anything from previous generations.
I see tons of hope in Gen Z + Millennials & probs Gen A. The Boomer-Ang Machine is Manufacturing The Worldviews [Intentionally Corrupting] The Hopeful Innocence + Generative, Naturally Liberatory Trajectory of the Gens “beneath/after” them, trying to Boomer-Ang The World “back” 2A nostalgic “norm”
It’s like every generation has to have its “are we the baddies?” moment, after a confluence of effects have siloed the non-baddies to be overrepresented in breathless mainstream kids today reporting, meanwhile there’s no arresting the silent inexorable pull of the status quo.
1980s babies remain the only cohort that grew up in both pre/post internet world, understood the evil of the GOP as we were teenagers during GWB era, and were too developed by smartphone invention to let it dominate our youth development.
All of us in the older generations failed them by not pushing back harder at the GOP takeover of school boards and the reactionary right’s dominance in social media.
We know you're going to do just fine. Ignore the haters.
Boomers have been bashing genx since the 70s, we just nod and ignore them.
You're going to do great things.
Not really but I noticed a lot of libs treating Gen Z like they all agreed with the Tik Toks they watched. Older people used to say millennials would save the day too, for the same myopic reasons. Young people are dumb, I sure was when I was younger and you probably were too.
I didn't want to seem like an old man millennial, but when people were saying this, I was noticing very weird left-coded puritanical and libertarian trends that were borderline reactionary when you gave them a second of thought.
I think me the xenial dad with my purple hair and piercings has scared my GenZ kid 😳 I keep the faith he won’t vote Tory when it most matters… (I did worry my ex had got to him) My hope rests on my GenAlpha kids 🤞
Just to touch on this.
Even if you've never done drugs, in HS you knew the other students that did. If you never had sex in HS? You knew that your peers were.
And it wasn't some terrible thing leading to the collapse of society.
Wish people would stop thinking other people are going to save them. They’re not. We all need to work. It’s like watching an accident & expecting someone else will call 911. Just do it!
That’s like Boomers expecting their kids to take care of them when they’re old. 🤷♀️ That’s not why we have children. That’s not why I had mine.
My Gen Z kids are pushing for their fellow employees to join the local retail workers union. Guess what? Everyone else is too scared to make waves. 🤷♀️
Gen x has been hands down the most useless generation, boomers have been the most destructive, don't get pissy at the generations that have to clean up the mess left behind by the old parts unqualified to wipe their own ass much less vote
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They were right.
Don’t think those incels stand for a whole generation. The kids are alright.
Attainable goals people.
We remain the only hope.
Boomers have been bashing genx since the 70s, we just nod and ignore them.
You're going to do great things.
Now GenX gonna have to light it all aflame - WW3 here we come!!
Glad to do it, really - we told everyone not to forget about us…
It was perfectly fine for US to do drugs and have sex in HS.
But, no, you all had to go and kill that.
Now you've raised a generation of right-wing kids in their twenties. Who vote.
/I'm not really joking
Even if you've never done drugs, in HS you knew the other students that did. If you never had sex in HS? You knew that your peers were.
And it wasn't some terrible thing leading to the collapse of society.
Grow up. And let your kids grow up, too.
That’s like Boomers expecting their kids to take care of them when they’re old. 🤷♀️ That’s not why we have children. That’s not why I had mine.
My Gen Z kids are pushing for their fellow employees to join the local retail workers union. Guess what? Everyone else is too scared to make waves. 🤷♀️