The world has been fighting Boomers for 4 decades. They’re not all villains, but certainly the majority of villains are Boomers.
I propose a name change for them.
Their parents were “The Greatest Generation”
I think we should start referring to Boomers as “The Worst Generation.”
Yeah! Hit him! Right in that soft boomer belly! [munches popcorn]
The comic is funny, but only in the sense that is a media presentation trying to make an age war rather than class war.
Oh was this not a meme about dipshit influencer fighting Mike Tyson?
I thought it was more about young people willing to watch garbage because 🤪🤪🤪 what if how zany 🤪🤪🤪
(The boxing arena is on fire.)
Weren’t the statistics from the last election a big deal because Gen Z actually didn’t align with Millennials?
I’m pretty sure I saw people getting mad at the number of young voters who opted to vote for Trump
Could be wrong though
No, they’re just less left leaning than Millennials were at that age. 66% of Millennials voted for Obama, whereas only 54% of Gen Z voted for Harris.
You didn’t need to be “left leaning” to vote for Harris. Just, you know, not insane.
Is it that they’re less left leaning? Cause when you put the names of the candidates there (Obama vs Harris), it just sounds like a weaker candidate that didn’t move their base as much.
That’s how most of the electorate approaches political analysis unfortunately: the parties supply their politics.
With Gen Z there’s also a huge gender disparity, the boys are NOT okay, they’re the Hitler Youth.
That said, Gen X voted for Trump in greater numbers than the Boomers.
Gen X aren’t spectators. They’re fucking MAGA, and they were also the ones writing the shitty generation war articles.
Gen X is the generation that got just enough from their boomer and silent Gen parents that they don’t really care to change anything and keep up the system but pretend they hate it.
They act like they are separated and completely uninvolved but they are the last generation to have a semblance of a nice thing and they won’t rock the boat. Especially now that they are getting more of the positions their parents held.
They may pretend they aren’t here, but they are, and pretending they stuck to themselves and they don’t do anything that impacts others is just wishful thinking on their part.
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.
Wow, I can’t believe you’d just ignore Girl’s Generation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls’_Generation
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.
Events in one’s lifetime impact them more than the alignment of the stars
Yes, but those events and the relative importance of those events are highly variable.
Someone living in the 80s in a small town in Scotland is unlikely to have lived through the same 80s as someone running a FTSE company in New York at that time.
There’s this idea, and I think it is particularly American, that the whole world lives to their narrative. The narrative of the rather privileged middle class.
For example when we talk about the 80s the narrative is big hair, cocaine, excess… But that’s only true of a very small proportion of the world. I know plenty of folk that didn’t see a cell phone until the early 2000s.
Hey, it’s no worse of a grouping than any of the categories you mentioned.
Fuck the generational war. The class war is real and it’s one sided, it’s basically a class genocide.
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.
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That Gen Z fighter is going to turn around, hit their trainer in the nuts and call them a boomer.
And then fortnite dance in their face while they’re hunched over.
Pitting ‘generations’ against each other is a classic tactic to divide the people on meaningless bullshit. Don’t fall for it.
Culture war is a means to distract us from class war
This seems more accurate.
The top labels are reversed. I doubt a lesbian icon would be something boomers would appreciate.
Not to mention her capacity for change.
The first woman in space was a lesbian and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
The first woman in space was a lesbian and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
No, the first American woman in space was a lesbian.
Valentina Tereshkova, who beat Sally Ride to space by twenty years and two days, isn’t a lesbian (as far as we know). She’s been married twice, both times to men.
Lavender Marriages, she couldn’t be out.
/s
You’re gonna need it kiddo.
Gen X sitting around doing fuck all as usual.
We had our turn being adults when we were 10.
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.
And the current poster child for Gen X is Elon Musk.
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.
Gen X was Trump’s biggest supporter in the last election.
We were never known for our political acumen, I’m afraid.
“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?”
You can always tell you’ve become a stupid person when any of these generation terms come up in your speech in any capacity.
As a millennial I … welll … uh … fuck you’re right
Typical. Slacking, unseen.
Whatever you do, don’t become a referee, they will all turn on you.
Gen X: Whatever.
