The true forgotten generation. But Gen X are eating popcorn while the rest are having generation war.
Edit: lol at people who are downvoting and taking my comment seriously. It’s a jab at Gen X not being mentioned at all in mainstream discourse of generation fight amongst boomers, millenials and zoomers. I don’t know what nerves I have hit but I am owning it.
While I agree that it is a distraction from the real war at large, the class war, I do want to point out that it very much is real, as you have actual people out there who argue about stupid shit like this. Sad, but that’s humans for ya.
I used to think generational fighting is stupid, but the stats are undeniable, boomers own much of the wealth. Boomers are least likely to vote far right, but they are more likely to vote down affordable housing because they don’t want their property value to drop. That is an indirect support for the far right, because it leads to younger people being resentful and voting for populist far right who promise them the stars and blame the wrong types of people. This is a trend across the world. Generational and class conflict are one and the same in this case. Sorry to older folks of Lemmy, but older generations have become greedy.
they are not. having savings and a house is not being rich.
it’s just the old normal that applied to the older generations and would apply to us, if it weren’t for actual rich people keeping our salaries low and expenses high.
So are my Gen x friends, but they all shut me down if I say anything that implies that Democrats are nothing more then the lesser evil. I ended up leaving a discord server I made because they were arguing with me if I posted anything critical of Biden and look at me like I have two heads when I say that climate change action should take priority over the economy. Most of them believe that recycling plastic works. They’ve completely bought into the narrative that keeps them enriching the powerful.
Where’s Gen X?
Oh right. Forgotten.
X marks the spot, still looking though.
As my mother would say, “Whatever.”
The true forgotten generation. But Gen X are eating popcorn while the rest are having generation war.
Edit: lol at people who are downvoting and taking my comment seriously. It’s a jab at Gen X not being mentioned at all in mainstream discourse of generation fight amongst boomers, millenials and zoomers. I don’t know what nerves I have hit but I am owning it.
the generation war is not real, just distraction from the class war.
While I agree that it is a distraction from the real war at large, the class war, I do want to point out that it very much is real, as you have actual people out there who argue about stupid shit like this. Sad, but that’s humans for ya.
I used to think generational fighting is stupid, but the stats are undeniable, boomers own much of the wealth. Boomers are least likely to vote far right, but they are more likely to vote down affordable housing because they don’t want their property value to drop. That is an indirect support for the far right, because it leads to younger people being resentful and voting for populist far right who promise them the stars and blame the wrong types of people. This is a trend across the world. Generational and class conflict are one and the same in this case. Sorry to older folks of Lemmy, but older generations have become greedy.
and that’s mostly rich people policy to end ownership.
we should be blaming rich people for that, not exactly boomers.
So boomers are rich.
they are not. having savings and a house is not being rich.
it’s just the old normal that applied to the older generations and would apply to us, if it weren’t for actual rich people keeping our salaries low and expenses high.
When you don’t have a savings or a house, it feels kinda rich.
False.
I am eating peanut butter pretzels.
I wish Gen X would shut the fuck up like you say they do. Reeks of desperate middle child every time.
Hey!!! We’re important! We were Pepsi: Generation Next and we saw Jurrassic Park in our teens, shit like that
Not forgotten, just not relevant
Traitors. They joined with the Boomers once they all turned 30.
W-what? Cmon, I’m slave labor here. I have no agency whatsoever.
So are my Gen x friends, but they all shut me down if I say anything that implies that Democrats are nothing more then the lesser evil. I ended up leaving a discord server I made because they were arguing with me if I posted anything critical of Biden and look at me like I have two heads when I say that climate change action should take priority over the economy. Most of them believe that recycling plastic works. They’ve completely bought into the narrative that keeps them enriching the powerful.
Seems like it was kinda 50-50.