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[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 247 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 130 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 15 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.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Don't forget those delicious paint chips

[–] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

I didn't have the chance

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 34 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.

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

Shh! We don’t want them to notice us.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

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

votes for Trump at a greater rate than any other generation

Wonders why no one wants to acknowledge them

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

That's not the point they made. They pointed out that Gen X isn't in it, which is appropriate ~~being the silent generation~~. They were punk rock as kids, but reformed the moment they had to and didn't try to make any sort of change as a whole.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The Silent Generation is an actual generation and it was the one before Boomers and after the Greatest. Biden is a Silent Gen. Too young to kill Nazis, not part of the Boom, no one cares about Korea, they were just old enough to get the Cold War brainwashing and fuck up everything with Reaganism.

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's my mistake. Gen X is still known for doing nothing and staying silent

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

we are "the maps without new zealand" generation

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

Aren't you dead?