Spectators

TheRealKuni

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.

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Lavender Marriages, she couldn't be out.

/s

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Events in one’s lifetime impact them more than the alignment of the stars

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Wow, I can't believe you'd just ignore Girl's Generation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls'_Generation

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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.

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And then fortnite dance in their face while they're hunched over.

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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.

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The world has been fighting Boomers for 4 decades. They're not all villains, but certainly the majority of villains are Boomers.

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The comic is funny, but only in the sense that is a media presentation trying to make an age war rather than class war.

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That's how most of the electorate approaches political analysis unfortunately: the parties supply their politics.

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(The boxing arena is on fire.)

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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.

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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 🤪🤪🤪

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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."

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

Probably because the majority of people are boomers. They're called baby boomers because their population exploded across the world.

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Gen X are not young.

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Obama was a far more compelling candidate. Don't blame the voters for the DNC pushing milquetoast candidates.

AItoothbrush

Nowadays 55 is actually pretty young still in comparison to the rest of human history. If you live in europe at least you can easily go another 35 years. Of course this does not apply to the rest of the world just the rich parts of europe and east asia but yeah.

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"This is just astrology for the politically feeble."

Brilliant.

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Also let's be frank, it's a class divide. Boomers had a huge leg up, and then those who amassed great wealth are the ones we see in power making decisions that close doors to the younger generations.

But back to my point, of course those who have had 60+ years to amass and invest wealth are going to be richer, especially when they had something to invest at the start.

I think when we consider that Gen Z men are running to the right, we should rethink boomers as a scapegoat. It's not the boomers. It's the rich and the Andrew Tates of the world who are in the boxing ring.

Like I could probably take down a random boomer, but a billionaire could hire Mike Tyson and I'd be fucked in the ring.