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[–] [email protected] 5 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

The generations are:

  • Boomer: anybody older than me who I disagree with.
  • Millennial: anybody younger than me who I disagree with
  • Gen Z: anyone who uses whichever social networks are taboo at the moment.

The are no other generations.

[–] adam_y 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Let's ignore discrepancies in economics, geography, race and culture and suggest people behave, en mass, based on the decades they were born in.

This is just astrology for the politically feeble.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago (3 children)

Hey, it's no worse of a grouping than any of the categories you mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 30 minutes ago

Fuck the generational war. The class war is real and it’s one sided, it’s basically a class genocide.

[–] adam_y 1 points 22 minutes ago

I disagree.

It's a question of granularity and correlation.

I think culture is a pretty useful grouping for assessing a lot of traits and behaviours. Sure, it depends on the culture and the trait you are assessing, but as groupings go there are entire academic fields devoted to the study of how those things work.

Similarly with economic factors and class. These can be useful in describing proportions of a population. And how they react relative, again, providing the trait we are assessing is relative to that factor.

I know you are probably just being glib, and you are right that and generalisation can be pretty useless. But I still think the exceedingly broad "generation" is the most useless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Gen X: Whatever.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago

That Gen Z fighter is going to turn around, hit their trainer in the nuts and call them a boomer.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Pitting 'generations' against each other is a classic tactic to divide the people on meaningless bullshit. Don't fall for it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 hours ago

Culture war is a means to distract us from class war

[–] jordanlund 82 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Zorque 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The top labels are reversed. I doubt a lesbian icon would be something boomers would appreciate.

Not to mention her capacity for change.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

The first woman in space was a lesbian and I wouldn't want it any other way.

[–] Lydia_K 10 points 6 hours ago

You're gonna need it kiddo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Whatever you do, don't become a referee, they will all turn on you.

[–] Bleys 39 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Gen X was Trump’s biggest supporter in the last election. More than boomers even.

Obviously not true of every Gen X’er, but when Gen Z talks about boomers they’re usually inadvertently referring to Gen X.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

And the current poster child for Gen X is Elon Musk.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 1 points 52 minutes ago

I am disappointed but not surprised by my generation at all. Last generation where general racism and other boomer traits could really take hold thanks to boomer parents passing them on. We’re also getting old enough for some of us to embrace that “get off my lawn” mentality.

[–] masquenox 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Gen X was Trump’s biggest supporter in the last election.

We were never known for our political acumen, I'm afraid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

"Caring about things is cringe, like, gag me. Voting doesn't do ANYTHING so I sit it out unlike you chumps, and I'm telling my kids the same thing."

"Why aren't any interests represented? That must be somebody's fault. Somebody who isn't me. Hey, did you get your tickets for Star Wars Celebration yet?"

[–] shalafi 14 points 7 hours ago

Typical. Slacking, unseen.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You can always tell you've become a stupid person when any of these generation terms come up in your speech in any capacity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago

As a millennial I ... welll ... uh ... fuck you're right