• @[email protected]
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    552 minutes ago

    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

  • Jolteon
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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.

    The are no other generations.

  • @[email protected]
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    114 hours ago

    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.

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

      • @[email protected]
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        Fuck the generational war. The class war is real and it’s one sided, it’s basically a class genocide.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 hours 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]
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    277 hours ago

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

  • JackGreenEarth
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    809 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    489 hours ago

    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]
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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      Gen X was Trump’s biggest supporter in the last election.

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

      • @[email protected]
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        108 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?”

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    179 hours ago

    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]
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        188 hours ago

        GenX has been fighting boomers from the start,

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

      • @[email protected]
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        97 hours ago

        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.

      • metaStatic
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        Thanks for the apathy, I don’t think it worked but it sure as shit looked cool.

      • @[email protected]
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        89 hours ago

        In the same way boomer hippies were “fighting” against their progenitors, sure.

        Wearing flannel and complaining about the status quo does not make you a freedom fighter.

    • @droporain
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      Gen z - the generation raised by their boomer grandparents, dresses like them, I have a big surprise for you how they think… Yaba daba skibidi toilet dooo!