Gen X here…. After arguing and having many disagreements with many many boomers over the years, we are not the same. While I have had similar disagreements with younger generations they are fundamentally different because we are old enough to see the mistakes the boomers made but young enough to see the world is very much different and that rampant capitalism and greed is often the blame. Case in point, student loans. I am all for all education should be free and things like crippling student debt should not be a thing. Every boomer I have talked to still thinks either education should be a privilege or that you should be able to put yourself through college and get a masters working at McDonalds or Walmart.
They don’t even think that though. If they wanted McDonald’s to pay enough for school, they wouldn’t aggressively oppose any attempt to raise the wage
Or more likely they think school still costs $1000 a semester which is what they paid for there kids (me included… since my parents were boomers) to attend college. Not the 80k it cost to send one of my kids through school. Want proof? Go ask any boomer what college costs now.
Some of us Gen Xers ended up more Boomer-like, and some ended up more Millennial-like.
It’s almost as though huge masses of people can’t just be simplified into lettered groups like some kind of social media horoscope.
And yet historical events influence the identity lf age cohorts.
That doesn’t make sense my magic 8 ball told me so!
My wife is slightly older (still Gen X but barely) and she definitely has more boomer qualities than me.
My girlfriend is solid Gen X and I’m Xennial on the Gen X side. We are both decent folks.
I’m an older millennial on the cusp of being GenX.
You guys definitely aren’t the same as Boomers. Some similarities, but not enough to be grouped in with them.
Boomers think it was normal. Genx look back with “holy shit why was that allowed”
I don’t think they understand how demanding studying at university is. That shit is not like high school, where going to class was enough to get by.
older millennials next in line for intergenerational hate
Who? Us avocado toast swilling, quiet quitting, not consumery enough losers who still live with our parents?
I know, right?
For a while it looked like everyone was just going to stick with calling the older folks boomers and the younger folks millenials, but I guess some intelligence leaked through into the “futile generational hate” machine.
Is every generation working to make things better than it was? No! Clearly the old folks don’t want the young ones to have anything good, otherwise the world wouldn’t have any problems by now!
Just give yourself some more years, time for life experiences, and to be shocked and apalled when you learn how hard it can be to coordinate a group of people who all want the same outcomes to a concentrated cooperative effective course of action. Hell, how hard it can be to get them to even agree on the same path to the desired outcome.
They bitch about group assignments but don’t realize that it’s all group assignments and that the school version is easy mode where there’s an authority figure to punish the shitheads and cheaters.
When we’re talking about the general population it’s highschool mentality forever. Higher intelligence/maturity really only shows on the individual level.
We’ve been getting it our entire lives
I fell off my bike once because I fucked around with these v brakes.
Only older, we gen z already blame milennials for everything wrong with the world.
and that’s why you’re dumber than boomers.
Zoomers fell off so hard. Man, we were cheering for y’all so much, and you biffed it. And I’m not naive, I don’t think a single generation was going to save the world, but damn… I guess the progressive, radical buck stopped at Zillennials.
(I am responding to your comment but not directing this comment at you)
For real… All the information in the world, and still going to blame millenials? The mind boggles.
And, at last, it finally happened: we’ve been bundled with boomers. The forgotten generation, just lumped in with the old fuckers. My back hurts.
The forgotten generation, just lumped in with the old fuckers.
I don’t even think you’re being “bundled” per say. You’re just living long enough to take the generic “Old People Ruined Everything” flak that internet click-baiters loves to saturate younger people with. On the flip side, you’re now reaching the era in which every TV Show, radio program, and mega-mall marketing team thinks the 1980s was the peak of human civilization. So enjoy being sheep dipped in Reagan Era nostalgia for a decade or two.
My back hurts.
Back aching builds character, or so I’ve been told.
What’s scary is that some people are conflating what they see on stranger things with the real 80s. People over here definitely didn’t have the means to buy all that
What we see on Stranger Things is just advertisements for IP from the 1980s. Everything from Ghostbusters to Neverending Story to D&D is just a brand name. Hell, the centerpiece of Season 4 was a mega-mall.
It’s history through the eyes of Madison Avenue. Great if your goal is to recycle period kitche at obscene mark-ups. Which… in fairness… was the design philosophy of much of 1980s mass media.
I can’t wait until my childhood is seen as the peak of civilization, because it might actually have been with how shits going lately
Get used to it. No generation seems to understand that they too will grow old and be reviled by the next generations. It has ever been so.
Grandpa Simpson was always right about “It.” We once had “It”, then we lost “It”, and now we can’t even remember what “It” was.
***This response was helpfully generated by ChatKittytm my very old Orange Boomer Kitty Cat.
The oldest Millennials are about 43 right now, “over the hill” and it hurts, it hurts (mostly lower back and knees)
Ahhhh, you ain’t old yet. I got tennis shoes older than you. Literally. I still have a pair of original Converse tennis shoes I bought when I was playing basketball in high school back in the 1970s. Why I still have them, I don’t know. But they are still in my closet along with a slide rule I used for math classes.
That’s a good indication of old age. Having things and memories that were once commonplace, but are now totally obsolete.
Nah.
/s
What the fuck is up with all of the generational hate memes lately. Fuck off with that shit. Literally exactly what billionaires want you to fight about rather than realizing there’s no fucking difference between any generation.
I want to counterbalance the hate with something cool. Do you know what the fastest growing demographic of gamers is? People over 50. People are legit taking the time they have now that their kids have grown up and picking up video gaming. Its honestly cool and speaks to both the accessibility of gaming these days and people’s general desire to try new things
Granted a subset of these over 50 year old gamers may have been gamers their entire lives, but gaming was pretty niche in the 80s and 90s, and didn’t really become mainstream until the early 2000s, and even then it was seen as pretty dorky and geeky
How many are people who have been gaming their whole lives and just never stopped?
The good old survivorship bias.
I’m mid GenX, and frequently have to trot out the saying, “regulations are written in the blood of innocents” to people a lot more ignorant than I am. And I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.
You can refer to those people as “not the sharpest knife on the tree”. You’ll get rewarded with a thoroughly confused look.
I’ve always been a fan of
Not the brightest brick in the box.
Some are, most are not.
True, but also fun and growth involves risk.
We want to remove the kind of risk you don’t recover from, but a lot of folks seem to want to remove any risk that could possibly cause injury.
gonna guess that OP is gen z because they’re attacking gen x.
as a gen x resident, I’d like to tell you to fuck off but I just don’t care about you enough to do anything more than this comment.
🤷
So you don’t care enough to tell them to fuck off but do care enough to tell them you would like to tell them to fuck off and you’ve decided that this is somehow a lesser amount of caring. Sundowning already?
My charitable interpretation of their comment is that if they were going to tell them to fuck off, it wouldn’t just be the words “fuck off”, but rather an essay-length diatribe listing their failings and personality flaws at length. Therefore a comment saying they’re not going to do that is caring less…?
Oh, that’s so much worse.
I don’t care, but lemmy tell you what I would’ve said if I did care anyways.
Kids these days don’t even squash coins on the train tracks.
Still, they’ve got dodgy Temu e-bikes to kill themselves on now.
Still tide pods
Still AI induced psychosis and body dysmorphia from social media
I still ride this. We let our weak die on purpose.
Bring back lawn darts!
Lol ageism is great because we all eventually get some.
I was born at the tail end of Gen X but we were definitely getting up to some crazy stuff.
It was a normal afternoon to take our bikes off the highest jumps we could build in the middle of the road, constructed from the neighborhood wood pile. When a car came speeding through we’d yell out “car” and quickly move our stuff to the side. We used skateboards on vertical ramps built from whatever, and roller skates on shoddy pavement. Our playgrounds were made of reflective metal hotter than lava attached to towers that seemed to reach 20 ft above the ground.
We built dangerous tree houses with rusty scrap in the ravine behind the neighborhood, next to place where the neighborhood’s older kids were surely taking all the drugs and hiding from their D.A.R.E. officers.
I used to load my sisters in the back of a red radio flyer wagon and we’d all ride down the neighborhood’s steepest hill, occasionally tipping at high speed and then sliding the rest of the way down likely removing several layers of skin and rolls of gauze from my mom’s medical kit in the process.
In primary school, I don’t think there was ever a moment without at least one kid on crutches or with a limb in a cast.
While it did harden us up, and provided some amazing memories, just about everyone I know who was a kid at that time knows of some kid who died while digging a tunnel, or got hit by a car, or spent half of his early teenage years in a cast, or who always seemed to have a finger splint.
Somehow through all of this we moved from thinking this is normal childhood stuff to blaming anyone and everyone by way of lawsuits.
There was nothing “safe” about that time. The debate seems to hinge on whether a dangerous childhood results in better adapted adults, perhaps by culling a few unlucky kids who hadn’t learned their own limits, and who know how to be creative in the absence of almost any artificial or algorithmic stimuli.
You can do all of that on Roblox from the safety of your toilet nowadays.
The future is now.
just mind all the pedophiles and human traffickers.
News TV in the 90s was non-stop filling people’s heads with images of paedophile kidnappers and serial killers lurking behind every hedge. In reality the chances of anything like that happening to your kid is ridiculously small; like nothing on if you sent them to an American school.
I am going to teach my kid how to traumatize an adult, so they can annoy the pedophiles back. Fight fire with nuclear bombs.
sounds like enablement of pedophiles and groomers.
where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Same situation, more or less … but I honestly don’t remember anyone meeting their grim fate the way you described … you’d see people with a cast here and there (I got mine in gym class, of all locations), but I think all kids in my extended social groups made it to adulthood without major, life-altering physical damage …
we hate boomers more than you do
this is the first meme i’ve seen mention gen x at all and no, we are not like boomers, they all said that “we used to drink out of a hose” bullshit to us too… helmet and seatbelt laws started with x
seriously fuck you, and fuck boomers.
you know why congress is all geriatric? that’s because they know how bad gen x wants to burn everything down and they won’t let them take the wheel….
now zoomers are all voting for trump and becoming nazis. Lump zoomers and boomers together but not us.
now zoomers are all voting for trump and becoming nazis. Lump zoomers and boomers together but not us.
Speaking of factually wrong things… There was a larger portion of Gen X voters for Trump than there were Zoomers… by a large margin.
In fact, Trumps biggest demographic in the last two elections was ages 50-64. But sure, you’re totally the good guys and it’s the young people who are the cause of all your problems. Totally not proving the exact point you’re arguing against.
while technically true, on paper, not by very much… i guess somehow it’s more upsetting when i see young people doing it.
like shouldn’t most have you have progressed by now? also they’re going to live a lot more.at any rate the election was stolen, and it’s been conclusively proven by election truth alliance, but since they’re statisticians they can’t outright say it. (and reddit r/somethingiswrong2024, but they’ve branched out to much broader topics… the sidebar is good).
also, i salute you in our shared hatred of trump voters, whatever age they are, comrade.
(also i’m not in that age bracket).
Gen X is very closely following a lot of the same patterns boomers did including being much better off financially. Your rugged individualism is classic boomer too.
TIL I’m much better of financially when I’m one missed check away from homeless, have one car and zero “toys” like boats or trucks or whatever. You can go fuck yourself by the way.
Edit: old used car, it’s not even nice. Fucker.
You are all people, eh? Must be tiring.
ok zoomer…
Back at ya sweetheart.
wait! i’ve seen this pattern before:
rugged individualism
meaningless cliché that doesn’t even slightly apply to this scenario.
lot of the same patterns boomers did
baseless, vague condemnation
being much better off financially
absolutely made up stats….
…
OK, zoomer… you’re much closer to boomers than gen x or millennials, and it fucking hurts me. I really had hope for your generation but you’re all out there saluting hitler and shitEmotional overreaction is another boomer-esque tell. By the by I was born in 81.
i cuss casually, saying “shit” doesn’t mean i’m having an “emotional overreaction”, zoomer
Then you ought to know better.
I like old people who argue that they didn’t wear seat belts, sat in the cargo area of a wagon and say heavy old cars are safer. It’s like we know better but because they did it it’s okay. Don’t they realize that you use the knowledge as the advantages you’ved learned in order to make live better?
These are the same people who constantly pull the ladder up behind them, so it fits. They were miserable, so now you have to be miserable.
