Spectators

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GenX has been fighting boomers from the start,

Bullcrap. We were too busy pretending politics didn't affect us to fight anyone.

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"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?"

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Fighting? Us Gen Xers followed in the system the boomers laid out. What fighting??? The older Gen Xers got past the door. The younger half got shut out.

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

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

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

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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.

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Gen X: Whatever.

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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.

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

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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.

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So you agree that it is a silly metric?

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

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

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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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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

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Gen X sitting around doing fuck all as usual.

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No, they're just less left leaning than millennials were at that age. Millennials voted for (Obama

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We had our turn being adults when we were 10.

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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.