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[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 250 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I do enjoy how GenX doesn't appear at all. Very appropriate.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 131 points 1 week ago (2 children)

After trying and failing to reach them for comment, we finally heard from them. They just told us "whatever, man."

[–] Nanook@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

Whatever… just whatever.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gen X: you pussies should have been around in the 70's and 80's

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We have a stronger survivorship bias than the following gens, but we also sucked on leaded gas fumes for a while when our brains were still developing.

So anyway, whatever.

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[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Gen X had it's Part in Memes and grew up. Like tech savvy boomers, Generation X seems predominantly stuck in the middle tier of the career ladder, overshadowed by their Boomer parents. However, they maintain a benevolent and generous attitude toward younger generations. They are fully aware that they will likely never own property, and having children is a significant risk. This painful realization hit them some time ago, hence their sense of empathy. The later you're born, the more pain you inherit.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

We will age and die in our office chairs, and our Zalpha children will burn our bodies to fuel their air conditioners. We will finally find our purpose. Don't worry about us: we are content enough.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You realise Gen Xers are all in the 40-65 age bracket now, right? Nearly all way beyond the deciding-on-children age. And heaps of them own property (at least where I live).

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 5 points 1 week ago

Or just get some more decades to marinate in hatred.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

I am a middle child in the generational equivalent of a middle child.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

GenX what's that, a new shoe coming out?

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We've been around for like sixty years now. If we were milk we would have developed culture. But we're not so we didn't.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

Tony Hawk is the best Gen Xer, and dude's chill AF.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

We are too busy getting shit done to worry about the idiots.

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Shh! We don’t want them to notice us.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

votes for Trump at a greater rate than any other generation

Wonders why no one wants to acknowledge them

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

we are "the maps without new zealand" generation

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[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 118 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I get so confused with people portraying Gen Z as these radical socialists when time after time voting shows they are anything but. Especially Gen Z men as a group are extremely conservative. At least in the US.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
  • Ages 18-24: 44% for Trump, 54% for Harris
  • Ages 25-29: 52% for Trump, 48% for Harris
  • Ages 30-44: 52% for Trump
  • Ages 45-64: 56% for Trump
  • Ages 65 and older: 61% for Trump

https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election

More conservative than in the past, but so is the whole country (by votes- most Americans don't vote). Compared to other age groups though, gen z voted less conservative (unless you consider that Harris is basically a conservative)

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I didn't mean to imply that Gen Z is less conservative than older generations. A pretty low bar to pass under lol

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 6 points 1 week ago

how does the word "conservative" mean the same thing from generation to generation if the issues important to conservatives change every generation? I'm asking about the term, not the politics

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Keep in mind that those numbers are always going to be off from reality. Also it will vary heavily by state.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gen Z is just more extreme in their views, regardless of what their actual politics are.

The rightists want a Reich, the leftists want a global communist revolution, and there's no center.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.prri.org/research/generation-zs-views-on-generational-change-and-the-challenges-and-opportunities-ahead-a-political-and-cultural-glimpse-into-americas-future/#page-section-8

This poll suggests otherwise.

Gen Z adults (21%) are less likely than all generational groups except millennials (21%) to identify as Republican. Meanwhile, 36% of Gen Z adults identify as Democrats, and this rate is similar to other generations, with the exception of Gen Xers, who are less Democratic (31%).

With the exception of millennials (24%), Gen Z adults (28%) are notably less likely than other generational cohorts to identify as conservative. And Gen Z adults (43%) identify as liberal at a higher rate than other generations. A plurality of Gen Z teens (44%) identify as moderate.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Might be the “horseshoe effect” where they (ultimately) converge on a few things. Change the tshirt, and that would fit trumpy gen z too.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Horseshoe theory is an incorrect oversimplification of extreme politics. If it were true then anarchists would be no different than fascists, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

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[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

They are the least liberal generation since they grew up surrounded by the failings of liberalism. They are either hardline conservatives or leftists. Very few fall between those camps

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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

PLEASE stop this.

It's not left or right

It's not this generation or that generation

It's not black or white

It's not men or women

These are distractions amplified through for profit media and captured education to keep us undermining one another, can you not see that?

As ever, it Owners vs Laborers. I don't mean your 3.111110 shares of apple in your 401k BTW.

The owners leverage all of the above to keep us at each other's throats instead of looking up.

Don't hate the class traitors like McDonald's lady, pity her. She was made into a self hating beaten dog by guess who?

We. Have. A. Common. Blight. The ones killing us and our planet for short term profit.

The one's perpetually encouraging the poors tear eachother apart over every petty difference to maintain their class occupation and subjugation of us.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Louder for the people in the back:

THERE IS NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean there are others but the others shouldn't be fought really but it's insanely hard to cure dumb with these drug laws.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not left or right

[proceeds to make a solid leftist argument]

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've never heard a solid conservative argument.

no, because I'm racist isn't a sound reason to do things lmao

[–] Lennny@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

CEOs need to start dropping around the holiday season, instead of prices.

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[–] sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I see GenX didn't answer. Typical slackers

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can't answer when we were forgotten about again. IF we had been asked we would have replied, "meh, whatever."

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I didn't get the fax either, maybe it went to my pager

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I worked at a Kinkos (a small printing and office supply shop) around 1999 and so many people set their faxes to the main stoore number instead of the fax number

Me: Hello, Kinko's.

Phone: short pause [hellish screetching noises]

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"It's my retirement plan." Man I feel this.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

"It's my retirement plan"

Uff that hit too close to home

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gen z is all about gambling for their future, because there's no other way. Influencer careers, crypto scams, scalping

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[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At first I was like a cocktail and a vibrator. Then looked at the previous panels and it's actually microphone... Maybe..

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's true, I'm saving for retirement, but I sure as shit am not expecting it to exist when I get there.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gen Z is going to start [REDACTED] the CEOs.

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