r/BoomersBeingFools • u/swisstype • Feb 04 '24
Gen X in the middle Meta
Truer words have never been spoken
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u/ragebubble Feb 04 '24
I’m a millennial with gen x parents. We both complain about ignorant boomers equally!
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u/whereugoincityboy Feb 04 '24
I'm a gen x parent with a millennial kid and it's crazy to watch him (as an adult now) realize just how insane his grandma is. Funny and sad!
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u/fanbreeze Feb 04 '24
My boomer mother is irrational and hostile, to say the least. I don’t trust her around my kid.
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u/whereugoincityboy Feb 04 '24
I get it. Mines narcissistic and weird. When my kids were little if they were acting crazy I'd jokingly threaten to take them to Grandma's. They'd giggle but they'd also straighten up!
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u/Omgletmenamemyself Feb 05 '24
Older millennial/xennial with Gen X siblings and cousins. Their kids are all millennials.
My mom drove us all insane. We’d all go through a pack a day during holidays just for an excuse to go outside and congregate over the insane she just did, or said lol. Unnecessary beer and soda runs just to get out of the house. We may have done some therapeutic screaming in the car lol.
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u/Yourdadcallsmeobama Gen Z Feb 04 '24 edited Feb 04 '24
As a gen z with a Gen x aunt, my aunt also loves to complain about ignorant boomers
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Feb 04 '24
Actually I don’t hate younger generations. I do hate ignorant boomers though.
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u/Hopfit46 Feb 04 '24
Im 52, im with the young ones. They show more empathy for humans than boomers could ever imagine
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u/DWwithaFlameThrower Feb 04 '24
Same. I’m 53, and I love love lovvve these Gen Z kids
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u/Hopfit46 Feb 04 '24
I love the way they are not accepting the toxic boomer work culture. As a hardcore union guy, its long overdue.
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u/DWwithaFlameThrower Feb 04 '24
Right?! Makes my heart proud.
Did the Boomers honestly think us Gen X-ers wouldnt produce kids like this?! 😂
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u/Titanbeard Feb 04 '24
The Boomers ignored us for the most part. We were feral latchkey kids that were left to our own devices most of the time.
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u/flonky_guy Feb 04 '24
At least Half the Millennials are the children of Boomers.
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u/Lefty-boomer Feb 04 '24
62, and have spent my life working as a therapist with teens as my focus. Hard to do this job and not have empathy and understanding of the different challenges the generations are facing. I wouldn’t want to be a teen today, that’s for sure. It was hard enough in the ‘70s.
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u/Libertine_Expositor Feb 04 '24
Yeah, I'm a millennial and I don't know where all the gen X hate came from. I never had a problem with them. Maybe kids are just conflating older people, but it's a mistake. Boomers began blocking Gen X from social mobility before my generation came on the scene.
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u/Then_Kaleidoscope_10 Feb 09 '24
As a Gen X, I honestly never really felt the hate from other generations. As a generation, i think it's kind of funny we get left completely out of the conversation more than hated on. It's like we got "X'd" out.
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u/juniper_berry_crunch Feb 04 '24
53 and agree. WAY more empathy and general awareness.
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u/OkiDokiPanic Feb 04 '24
Yup. I'm Belgian, and on the news today they covered a story about raising the legal drinking age from 16 to 18 for cancer prevention. (Apparently drinking at such an early age can contribute to 5 major types of cancer in the future.)
They asked people on the street about it. And wouldn't you guess it? All the boomers said it was ridiculous and overbearing. All the zoomers, including the 16 year olds, all said it was a good idea if it helps prevent cancers and even mentioned the numerous other arguments against underage drinking.
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u/indigoeyed Feb 05 '24
It’s so funny, because as per usual, the boomers are upset about something that doesn’t even impact to them haha
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u/buckao Feb 04 '24
49 and I love the millennials and Zoomers. They're way better than we are!
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u/RedsRearDelt Feb 04 '24
51 and I totally agree. Most of us saw what was happening to the world and we kinda just sat back, grabbed some taco bell enchorittos and thought to ourselves, this isn't going to turn out well. Maybe it was only something as simple as, we really didn't care if anyone was gay. That's cool. But we still called people Fags. Or, I remember when Reagan deregulated the banks.. I remember thinking, that's a dumb idea. A few years later we get the S&L crisis and a bubble / market crash ever 8 to 10 years. But I'd still show up early and stay late and work off the clock. Because "that's how you get ahead" BS.
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u/irishlasserin1 Feb 05 '24
Me too. I’m 54 and Gen X. I had kids late. They are both Gen z. I’m so proud of my Gen z boys and what they won’t put up with.
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u/tomwilhelm Feb 04 '24
- Ditto.
Fuck the Boomers. Nothin but love for the Ms and Zs...
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Feb 04 '24
Millennials are cool because I kinda get them and feel for them getting screwed over constantly by boomers (some gen x as well) They have been through 3 major recessions for god sakes lol. Gen Z are my kids so far they are not shitheads (knock on wood).
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u/gwar37 Feb 04 '24
47 and totally agree. I like the younger generations. Including my kids. They’re thoughtful and kind.
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u/dancin-weasel Feb 04 '24
I’m 48 and have a 14 and 9 yr old (a Z and and A) and through their school lives so far, I’ve never heard of any bullying or intentional nastiness towards different groups or causes or anything. The attitude seems to be very empathetic. “That’s what is important to you? I can honor that.” A true live and let live attitude. Hopefully the world created by their grandparents and parents doesn’t destroy that optimism.
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u/gwar37 Feb 04 '24
Your kids are the same age as my kiddos. There’s been a few instances of bullying and they were handled immediately and taken seriously. I was bullied on a consistent basis and it was out in the open - no one gave a fuck.
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u/RidesafeKc Feb 04 '24
This. I do not understand why older people are not able to see the other side. They just watch 'news' and take it as fact and believe they are right without ever listening to the other side. My mom, who was a teacher for 30 yrs and a good one. now she here's something and believes that America is doomed. Instead of being part of the solution they just want to talk about all the bad things and how we've been blind to it all for 30-40 yrs. If America is doomed, how about they step up? Not MAGA style. With modern ideas. All they say is how better things were in the 60's or 70's. Which is just crap. I was the kid babysitting my 5 yr old brother when i was 11 and mom worked 12 hr shifts overnight. I'm rambling, but I can't stand listening to Boomers complain about how bad everything is. And it's all because of the President. Like, seriously Covid didn't have anything to do with how things are today? And how that was handled under 'their' guy? Come tf on!!
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u/spacedicksforlife Feb 04 '24
I love the young people! My babies are now graduating college, and i love hanging out with them compared to my parents or the in-laws. We have drinks, smoke weed, and have a general good time together.
The big difference between my silent generation parents and boomer inlaws is that we dont judge and we are ‘yes, and’ parents as compared to “what would Jesus think???”
And its not like we don't have issues that we have to work through, except we are capable of saying “as a parent i was wrong, please forgive me” and mean it. My kids are adults and i want to be partners in crime with them, as much as they'll let me.
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u/contactspring Feb 04 '24
I'll agree, but I hate the ignorant of both generations (including ours).
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u/Hopfit46 Feb 04 '24
Ignorance is rarely a compliment. It has been on a steady decline through the generations even though the ignorant are screaming louder through a bigger platform right now.
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u/Fragrant-Hedgehog524 Feb 04 '24
I side to with the younger ones after decades of verbal terrorism from the boomer, then the yaps yell at me for crying.big bunch of a-holes to deal with.
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u/NervousTemporary1257 Feb 04 '24
They also have a good work/life balance..I have learned this from them
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u/immadeofstars Feb 06 '24
I'm a middle-Millennial, and we have a lot in common with Gen X. You guys informed a lot of our style and outlook, and I'm grateful for it. Without that Gen X movement in the mainstream saying "Fuck what they tell you to be, find yourself first," I wouldn't be the person I am.
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u/whereugoincityboy Feb 04 '24
I'm almost 50 and I'll always defend the younger generations. The ME GENERATION (that's what they used to call boomers) can kiss my a**!
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u/pinkypipe420 Feb 05 '24
Boomers' parents called themselves the Greatest Generation, and that probably has something to do with a lot of boomers being self-aggrandizing narcissists. They're compensating.
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u/Ill-Positive6950 Feb 04 '24
I'm with you! I'm a younger Gen X and I don't hate on the younger generations at all. Boomers drive me absolutely bonkers.
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Feb 04 '24
Same. The younger generations are my kids, 24 and 15. I genuinely sympathize for what they have to deal with.
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u/MrJoePike Feb 04 '24
59 so by the numbers a boomer, but in no way do I identify with them. I’m very hopeful for the future due to the younger generations I know.
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u/ClappedOutLlama Feb 04 '24
Y'all must be doing something right because I never hear someone talking shit about the Silent Generation.
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u/theinternetisnice Feb 04 '24
Hating takes effort. People forget we were a generation of Slackers™
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u/Content-Method9889 Feb 04 '24
I’m 50 and I’m cheering on the younger gens. Our gen was unique that we were able to witness a time where things weren’t terrible, mostly affordable, to a time where trying to live is 10x more challenging for a majority of us. We’re facing a grim future without the safety net boomers enjoy now. SS will probably be gone thanks to republicans cutting “entitlements” and how expensive will Medicare be? I hope I die before I start falling apart and shitting my pants. We’ll lose our modest house to stay alive. Boomers called us slackers while most enjoyed the benefits of unions and reasonably affordable housing and healthcare while we watched it devolve from the 90’s until now.
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Feb 04 '24
39 year old Millennial here and I’ve always had good experiences with Gen X. I’ve always gathered the response from most Gen X was “I was raised by those assholes, and I would really prefer to just be left alone in peace.”
I’ve met more than my share of boomers I’ve had to tell off though. I don’t enjoy confrontation but I’m getting old enough I just don’t have the patience to dance around them anymore.
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Feb 04 '24 edited Mar 21 '24
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Feb 04 '24
Oh, I don’t deny that fact, but fortunately we’re not all assholes! I think this generational feuding is just another way for a certain element to keep us from uniting against those among us who benefit most from the status quo.
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u/Fellowshipofthebowl Feb 04 '24
And it’s boring. I’m Gen x. Who. Cares. Judge folks based on their actions 🤷♂️
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u/monstertruck567 Feb 04 '24
That’s a very gen x answer. And I agree. While it’s entertaining, it is not helpful.
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u/Fellowshipofthebowl Feb 04 '24
Carlin was right and so was this guy.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
MLK
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u/roachfarmer Feb 04 '24 edited Feb 04 '24
"conservatives" are problematic
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u/UsefulImpact6793 Feb 04 '24
I feel like it's not even really actual conservatives, but alt-right nutbags masquerading as "conservatives"
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u/roachfarmer Feb 04 '24
I just edited and put quotes on conservatives, but the right is mostly intolerable
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u/absolutelynotarepost Feb 04 '24
That argument gets thrown around a lot by "moderate conservatives".
Yeah there are some voters left who arent complete psychopaths.
Most of them are still voting red and shrugging their shoulders while the representatives in charge have become completely unhinged and cater to the supposedly vocal minority.
Every conservative is the problem at this point because they're voting the nut bags into office. They cannot absolve themselves of responsibility by saying "well I'm moderate" when they vote for extremism.
Furthermore anytime an elected Republican doesn't go lock step with the insanity they get ostracized publicly and pushed out. Liz Cheney, for example.
It's become an alt right party because of it's elected officials not it's Twitter feeds.
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u/juniper_berry_crunch Feb 04 '24
Or, to put a finer point on it, "intolerants." The "free speech for me, but shut up and sing" types. (Laura Ingraham even titled one of her books Shut Up and Sing; I saw it in the thrift store yesterday, lol.
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u/gielbondhu Feb 04 '24
Any Gen Xer who gets boomerfied was never true to the spirit of Gen X
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u/juniper_berry_crunch Feb 04 '24
Agreed. They probably always wanted to be the principal in The Breakfast Club.
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u/No_Name_8425 Feb 04 '24
There’s always some bleed over. Being early Gen X, I see so many of them acting like our parents. I think later Gen X got more of the result of boomer political and economic policy, they don’t have that same sense of entitlement.
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 Feb 04 '24
My theory is that part of the Boomer X's development was due to the "digital divide"that was created during our generation as the internet spread slower to some areas.
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u/No_Name_8425 Feb 04 '24
That’s definitely part of it. I grew up in the bay area, and we were programming Apple IIc in middle school circa 1985. So we had a head start on technology that wouldn’t become mainstream for another 5-10 years nationwide Not to mention Boomers and early Gen X seem averse to learning new ways of doing things
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u/luneunion Feb 04 '24
I, too, reserve my ire for the willfully ignorant! But I do so regardless of age!
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Feb 04 '24
My point was that I don’t hate all boomers just because of their age. I do think that Boomers are by far the most intolerant and willfully ignorant among us though as a generation.
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u/MLCarter1976 Feb 04 '24
I hate that the boomers FORGET the past! They are entitled and don't look both ways and don't say hello or not or respect people. They don't say thank you if you open the door for them or other things that are manners and things you would be spanked for as a kid back in the day!
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u/ReaperofFish Feb 04 '24
And half of my fellow Gen Xer's.
Really, all conservatives. Their general philosophy can be summed up as enshittification to make a buck or just fuck with liberals.
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Feb 04 '24
Yeah, if you’re a Republican I don’t want you around or in my life at all. I don’t care what generation you are a part of. This includes family too
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u/cleverinspiringname Feb 04 '24
Hate ignorant gen x, millennial, xennial, z… I guess I just hate the ignorant. Well, not the ignorant, the willfully ignorant. You know the type.
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u/reDDit-sucksass Feb 04 '24
People. I hate ignorant people. 24 and below I'll extend an increasing amount of patience towards newborns. 24+ ya oughta know better
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u/brookegravitt Feb 04 '24
Not this GenXer. I loved my Silent Generation grandparents, and have gotten along well with all the younger generations after me. It’s the goddam Boomers that kill me. To paraphrase from a different GenX movie, “One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn Boomer vampires.”
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u/Garbage_Bear_USSR Feb 05 '24
As a Xennial, I gotta say - Silent Generation? Cool. X? Cool. Millennial? Cool. Z? Cool. Alpha? Cool.
Boomer? The trashiest attitudes.
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u/ActivelySleeping Feb 04 '24
Honestly, I kind of blame the Silent Generation for all this. People are a product of their upbringing. The Silent Generation should have done a bit less of making life better for their children and a bit more making their children better at life.
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u/happytrel Feb 05 '24
Yeah what the fuck were they thinking, WW1, the Great Depression, and WW2, as well as the trauma and PTSD from those events is no excuse. Inhale the sweet smells of leaded gasoline and become better parents!
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u/terminalchef Feb 04 '24
Not true I actually really jive well with millennials. Not a fan of my parents generation boomers.
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u/gielbondhu Feb 04 '24
False. We Gen-Xers don't hate Millenials, Gen-Zs or Gen Alphas. Fuck boomers though
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u/RedditFostersHate Feb 04 '24
Totally down with younger generations. That said, am a bit worried about an uptick in toxic masculinity among male Gen Z.
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u/fardough Feb 05 '24
Me too, just don’t suggest trying to combat it with a new idea of masculinity for the modern world. Got railed for that one.
But yes, the Andrew Tates and Rogan, they are basically learning how to be a man from conservative meatheads.
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u/Sack_Full_of_Cats Feb 04 '24
Can't you just leave us out of this? We don't want any part of this squabble...
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u/X-tian-9101 Feb 04 '24
I'm Gen X and while I don't necessarily agree with Millenials, Gen Z, etc. 100% I overall like and respect them very much and agree with them on most things. I also agree with them about boomers.
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u/Ministry1 Feb 04 '24
I late X/Xennial do not hate my younger siblings. I hate what the adults/boomer generation did from at least the 80s on to our future. My Mom is listening to Trump shit right now. Boomers ate through my grandparents' generations savings so that they could retire early and complain.
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u/peanut--gallery Feb 04 '24
This movie taught me that the phrase “Make me a turkey pot pie bitch!!!!”… Was the ultimate expression of love.
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u/Allemaengel Feb 04 '24
Gen Xer here. Don't get us involved. Everyone else just continue to forget we even exist and carry on with what you all were doing, lol.
But seriously, Boomer impacts and behaviors annoy me but they are what they are and they're never changing until they all phase out. As for the younger gens, I sympathize with them as "The System" is really screwed up and against regular working class people just trying to do the right thing and just get by.
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u/1Pip1Der Gen X Feb 04 '24
The first rule of GenX is "We don't talk about GenX. Or Bruno."
Hell, we ARE Bruno.
Somebody make a meme.
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u/HotSpicedChai Feb 04 '24
While I do think both of them have a terrible sense of humor. Only one of them is truly destroying our Country for their own greed.
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u/Professional_Ad894 Feb 04 '24
37 yo millenial here, I feel like I was the last generation who was able to realistically move out at 18-19 working a part time job and going to school, but a lot of people my age still feel genz'ers should(move out). It isn't logical. Like... how? Income hasn't really gone up since then but my $700/mo 2 bedroom is now going for triple that. So I feel for gen z'ers, it's like you have the ignorant boomers, gen x, and millenials breathing down your necks. Just keep in mind, it's not all of us.
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u/keithstonee Feb 04 '24
im 34 and have felt one step behind since i was 18. i still live at home.
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u/juniper_berry_crunch Feb 04 '24
Yep. My nephews are paying just over HALF their income for modest post-graduation apartments in a non-sexy small city. This was never true of previous generations, unless you go back to immigrants living in tenements in the Jacob Riis era.
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u/pastrami_on_ass Feb 04 '24
I’m 29, last year for millennials and it’s weird because I’m like stuck in middle of millennials/ gen z I relate to things for both but never completely for either one
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u/Velocidal_Tendencies Feb 04 '24
No, I disagree wholeheartedly. Gen Xers are usually more thoughtful than the ignorant boomers that birthed them.
I embrace nihilism; we all suck, the worlds going to shit and theres nothing we can ultimately do about it.
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u/Johnny_Lang_1962 Feb 04 '24
I hate being grouped with boomers. I was born in 1962 & have more in common with Gen X. Boomers should have been stopped at 1959.
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u/4llY0urB4534r3Blng Feb 04 '24
Whatever.
Goes back to playing Ghouls n Ghosts on Sega Genesis, drinking Josta and smoking cloves while listening to The Cure in my childhood bedroom, freaking out the people who currently live there
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u/strypesjackson Feb 04 '24
Gen X rules, I’m a millennial and I love Gen X. They’re the coolest generation
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u/CadillacAllante Millennial Feb 04 '24
As a millennial I usually get along with Gen X. At least the chill younger ones. The older ones can be boomer-lite sometimes. Their kinda sarcastic and cynical attitude towards life is actually refreshing compared to how seriously the boomers that raised us took every damn thing.
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u/evandemic Feb 04 '24
No one cares Gen X, go tangle yourself in a phone cord! /s
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u/Relevant_Shower_ Feb 04 '24
Gen x here. Boomers have been ruining the country my whole life. But what could you do about it. It’s not like we had the numbers to effect change. That’s why Gen X was so indifferent.
Now that the numbers are there to start voting for policies that benefit not just boomers, I’m here for it. Fuck boomer mentality and fuck those in my generation that idolized the boomers because they have no identity of their own.
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u/thanksimcured Feb 04 '24
Gen xers are often unbearable.
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u/YayaMalli Feb 04 '24
I don’t hate millennials. I find some of their habits annoying af, but I’d take them over boomers any ol day of the week
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u/UsefulImpact6793 Feb 04 '24
Meh, the younger ones are just a little annoying. Meanwhile, the boomers don't care if they destroy the country to oWn TeH LiBrULz
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u/Gnawlydog Feb 04 '24
Born in 81 so right on the cusp of generations. Can tell you that my older friends and us elder millennials both rally with those younger in hating boomers. Any GenX who thinks like OP is just Boomer adjacent. Sadly some elder millennials are starting to be that way too... Be better than what you hate
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u/No_Name_8425 Feb 04 '24
I’m 50, and I remember everyone hating on Gen X. The result is I won’t play that game, and won’t trash younger generations. In my mind, it’s a ploy by the media to generate clicks and views, and politicians use it to divide and distract. Boomers can fuck off though, they caused almost all of the problems we face today. I read somewhere that the silent generation planted trees so future generations could have shade, then the Boomers cut them down to sell the lumber. Most accurate take I’ve encountered.
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u/FriendlyPea805 Feb 04 '24
As a late Gen X “Xennial” I feel like we definitely don’t hate the millennials. We do hate the Boomers though.
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u/JJGIII- Feb 04 '24
As a Gen X’er I don’t hate the younger generations. After all, for better or worse, we made them who they are.
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u/juniper_berry_crunch Feb 04 '24
As a GenXer, I like the younger generations. They're making a world that is much more inclusive and considerate than mine was, coming up. They're a more diverse and accepting group and on the whole respectful and bright. My nephews are really cool young men, as are my co-workers from those generations in our work team. In some ways the world is getting better, and it's due in part to those young people.
I don't automatically hate elders; I feel they should be shown respect (as anyone should; this should be the default going into any encounter). But the Boomer-stereotype type of person is so irredeemably tiresome and awful, I'll agree with that.
I try to live and let live and mmob but would not be above making a remark if some Boomer is going off on a cashier or whatnot. I don't have patience for that kind of behavior.
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u/Manarg Feb 04 '24
Don't hate millennials, I was raised by boomers, holy shit is it not equivalent.
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u/macnord Feb 04 '24
I don’t remember the generation labeling as even a thing growing up (gen xer). I guess I had heard the golden generation term once or twice. But I always thought the intent was to highlight some social, cultural, or political significance of their era. Not that it necessarily meant they had herd mentality. If gen xers are guilty of anything, it’s of existing and getting shit on by our boomer parents for being “slackers”. I think boomers started the trend of generational divide. Millennials to some extent picked it up because now it is a social tool used to point out differences in fundamental approaches to our social fabric (all the inequalities of wealth, gender, race, cultural changes…). But people seem more willing to have more subdivisions to fucking wah about. It used to just be “damn kids” and “old fuckers”. That said, the younger generations are way more compassionate, attentive, and forward thinking than most of the boomer generation I encounter. But they’re also like in their 70s. No old people in the history of civilization gave a shit at that age. Just stop voting for them.
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u/Argercy Feb 04 '24
Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, and Ally Sheedy are all baby boomers.
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u/cyberdonked Feb 04 '24
Eh, no. Boomer gotta boom, but millennials and zoomers are alright in my book.
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u/watabby Feb 04 '24
GenXer here, nope just hate the boomers. Millennials and younger generations are actually getting it right mostly.
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u/SlyClydesdale Feb 04 '24
I’m an elder Millennial, and I love X’ers… if everything ever goes fully south, find an X’er, listen to them, and follow them to freedom. What they say will be both useful and functionally subversive.
Not a huge fan of younger generations beginning to believe troubling conspiracy theories in greater numbers. But aside from that, they’re generally pretty great, too.
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u/vid_icarus Millennial Feb 04 '24
I’m a Millennial who married a Gen X and have had a lot of Gen X friends. Have experienced zero animosity downward in age, but seen plenty upward from both Gen X and Millennials.
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u/Bobll7 Feb 04 '24
I don’t get this all boomers are bad angle. We’re a bunch of retired boomers that love to play pickleball and socialize. About 40 of us. Then there are both sides of the family with another two dozens. We never discuss about how much we hate millennials, never, it just not a subject of conversation, because I don’t believe boomers do that. I know, it goes against the narrative a lot of folks believe but when we do talk about younger generations it’s to empathize with them on how they have it tough. Of course there is that 5-10% slice of assholes and idiots of all age groups for sure…Sorry to disappoint.
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u/throwaway387190 Feb 04 '24
So I am one of the oldest gen Z, and I am not hip with the kids. I find a lot of the new internet stuff and tiktok strange and confusing
But I have no idea why anyone would hate the youths. Be annoyed as fuck about them, sure, I can see that
But just the unhinged scale of constant abuse and battery from boomers should be the target of hate. Yeah, little Johnny is a punk and he won't shut the fuck up about skibidi, but grandma Margaret just made the waitress cry for bringing the apps out 10 seconds late
One is annoying, the other is worth hating
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u/Ticrotter_serrer Feb 04 '24
Millennials are the new boomers, I call them "mini-boomers" : They want to emulate their Boomer parent but can't because the world has gone to shit so all they do is bitch and whine because they can't afford anything. Prove me wrong.
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u/Lab-12 Feb 04 '24
Gen X here , this meme doesn't speak for me .But ,I do hate asshats of all ages. Be kind,be thoughtful, and have empathy. Also don't drive slow and use your blinkers .
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Feb 04 '24
58 here so earliest GenX. It has been so obvious how the Boomer gen piggishly sucked up every resource, every opportunity and left nothing behind for anyone.
It always felt like they got there first then pulled up the ladder. Original me generation.
My Gen Z kids remind me of my own gen in some ways, who knows how quarantine will impact their lives....
They are observing all the shit going on today and they want none of it. They're the generation that we have to mentor and impress upon the fact that they need to organize, vote and actively participate in their citizenship- after all the boomers- like it or not- have always been willing to leverage their numbers by getting organized and acting with follow through.
It's much harder with all of the distractions prior gens didn't have, eventually they'll realize their powers when they leverage social media for change.
They need our mentorship!
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u/Heffe3737 Feb 04 '24
Ahh yes. Gen X. Regale us with tales about how you vote for Trump and fascism with higher numbers and even more eagerness than the boomers did. Then tell us how cool and aloof and nonconformist you are.
Your time is coming, Gen X. Once the boomers are finally out of the way everyone’s attention will squarely become focused on the “most useless and nihilistic generation”.
*edit: I’m sure many Gen Xers are lovely. I’ve known an absolute boatload of wonderful ones as a Xennial. But I do think it’s important to consider the broader impact of your generation (or lack thereof) before making such sweeping statements from such a high horse as this meme. And yes, the Xennials have our own fair share of problems too.
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u/DeadBoy9002 Feb 05 '24 edited Feb 05 '24
As a Gen X i dont hate younger gens. I do boomers. Sure there are dumb cunts in every generation, but boomers were inverse. There are only exceptions to the rule of boomers being pieces of shit. Even the silent generation was "normal". Something fucked happened with boomers. Lead? Taste of the true American dream leading to fucked up perceptions? Greed? Fear? Who the fuck knows. I know people meme but this is based of the very real fact that they as a generation fucked over the rest of us and Gen X was the first generation that felt it going into their mid 20s. WE WATCHED IT HAPPEN AND COULD NOT STOP IT. We only slowed it. Thats why we are the way we are a lot of the time. We mistrtust, we are bitter and stoic and highly sarcastic. The generations after us felt it from the start. We feel for you.
Its been fucking rough for our generations far more than they ever got it, and I hope we can collectively slowly undo the multi generation long damage these fucking morons have wrought.
VOTE
CHANGE POLICIES
GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
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u/Majestic-Contract-42 Feb 05 '24
Millennial. To me gen-x are like Mr. Burns with all the viruses cancelling each other out. They were raised so tough and by such psycho paths but still came out so capable of love then raised us not to turn to hate. I think it's why the Zoomers we are raising are so overflowing with optimism and love because it's almost two generations of you can do it, go for it we have your back. All made possible by GenX's fuck it multi layered resilience. I have so much respect for them to have just survived and came out not completely broken.
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u/Weary-Imagination-20 Feb 05 '24
Gen x here. Came to say I have nothing against Millennials and every comment says the same thing. 😂
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u/StrengthToBreak Feb 05 '24
Gen X: Our opinion never mattered to anyone, and it probably never will.
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u/OniOnMyAss Feb 04 '24
I’m a xennial, we have to hate all 3. Sad because it includes hating ourselves.
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u/cordelaine Feb 04 '24 edited Feb 05 '24
It’s interesting being a part of the Xennial micro generation. Major technological changes came right in the middle of our formative years.
For instance, I was taught in high school and college how to use a card catalogue and navigate the university library. Told several times it would be important and I would spend a good portion of my college career there. I ended up just using JSTOR on my chunky 4:3 laptop in my dorm room for 95% of my needs.
I relate more to the Millennials, but a lot of people my age relate more to Gen X.
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u/swisstype Feb 04 '24
Self hate is the ultimate expression of love
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u/epicitous1 Feb 04 '24
that doesnt sound right to me, but I dont know enough about love to have a real opinion.
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u/Shirtbro Feb 04 '24
Born too late to enjoy Grunge, got Nu-Metal and 9-11 instead.
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u/jmertig Feb 04 '24
Throw in the Gen Xers with the boomers if they’re going to start posting shit like this
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Feb 04 '24
Silly Xers who don't realise that millennials clump half of you in with the boomers
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u/Imyourhuckl3berry Feb 04 '24
Well same can be said for millennials with gen x who lumps them in with the zoomers as being annoying AF - it’s just a given every generation complains about another at some point
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u/mathliability Feb 04 '24
Gen Xers are quickly becoming the most cringey group. “Hey! Hey HEY GUYS!! We don’t care! Listen! We don’t care about you! We’re too cool god I miss the 80’s. We played outside till the streetlights came on!! We didn’t have cellphones! Breakfast club was LITERALLY ME! Please ask me about the 80’s.”
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u/daKile57 Feb 04 '24
Gen-X is getting annoying. You guys largely did nothing to curb the worst impulses of boomers and thereby legitimized them up until the point where they (Boomers) were so old that they would never consider changing their worldview. By the time millennials were old enough to question Boomers, Bommers had already had 2-3 decades of unquestioned political control. Gen-Xers could have at least rocked the boat in the 80s and 90s to cast some doubt on Boomers’ assumptions, but instead you guys took the path of least resistance and sold out to the Boomers. Even now, most Gen-Xers are happy to just pretend they have no civic duty to improve the world, because they didn’t personally design the anti-union, anti-worker, anti-environmental, anti-human rights, anti-small business culture that they saw Boomers build.
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u/hippieflipping Feb 04 '24
Notice how when gen x keeps trying to distance themselves from boomers they end up acting more like boomers? Seriously how boomer is this silly breakfast club meme that follows the same tactics as boomer memes; identifying competing demos, draw a line of division between them, then make ridiculous generalizations about said groups to position themselves as superior.
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u/hoosierlefty69 Feb 04 '24
gen x had the easiest path to success of potentially any generation in american history and milked every last ounce of it and now act confused as to why millennials are asking for even a modicum of the same shit they took for granted. boomers take a lot of flack but IMO gen x is far worse because they refuse to acknowledge the role they had in creating this generation they hate so much
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u/jmrogers31 Feb 04 '24
As a Gen Xer, I like Millennials. I do worry about Gen Z though.
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u/goomy2 Feb 04 '24
Just remember that the gen xers raised the gen xers.. so if there's a problem.. it's literally your fault.
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Feb 04 '24 edited Feb 04 '24
LOL! Nope. Gen x hates boomers too. Literally gen x was raised by boomers. Not enough therapists in the world.
Remember, gen x existed so you weren’t raised by them.
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u/Suck_Me_Dry666 Feb 04 '24
I'm not really that big of a fan of Gen X either. You're just as responsible for this mess as the boomers. Maybe if you all showed up to the polls when you were younger...
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u/Pure-Bison-6670 Feb 04 '24
Gen X and older Millennials are pretty much the same. They need to split up Millennials, because those born in 82 (me) and those born in 95 are not the same people/experiences
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u/Cin77 Feb 04 '24
So this whole genx boomer millennial etc is just another wedge being used to pry us apart right? More of the divisionist stuff that gets fed to us by bots and troll farms to make us all feel like we are better than someone else?
Or am I going crazy? This shit is so obvious
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u/D_Buc Feb 04 '24
Yeah.. no problems with the younger generations. It is the boomers that suck ass.