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Lol ageism is great because we all eventually get some.
I like old people who argue that they didn’t wear seat belts, sat in the cargo area of a wagon and say heavy old cars are safer. It’s like we know better but because they did it it’s okay. Don’t they realize that you use the knowledge as the advantages you’ved learned in order to make live better?
These are the same people who constantly pull the ladder up behind them, so it fits. They were miserable, so now you have to be miserable.
“Back in the day we got beat by our father’s and thats how you knew he loved you, kids these days, smh”
Posting this in between my angry rants about “Breeders” ruining society over in /r/ChildFree.
And, at last, it finally happened: we’ve been bundled with boomers. The forgotten generation, just lumped in with the old fuckers. My back hurts.
The forgotten generation, just lumped in with the old fuckers.
I don’t even think you’re being “bundled” per say. You’re just living long enough to take the generic “Old People Ruined Everything” flak that internet click-baiters loves to saturate younger people with. On the flip side, you’re now reaching the era in which every TV Show, radio program, and mega-mall marketing team thinks the 1980s was the peak of human civilization. So enjoy being sheep dipped in Reagan Era nostalgia for a decade or two.
My back hurts.
Back aching builds character, or so I’ve been told.
Get used to it. No generation seems to understand that they too will grow old and be reviled by the next generations. It has ever been so.
Grandpa Simpson was always right about “It.” We once had “It”, then we lost “It”, and now we can’t even remember what “It” was.
***This response was helpfully generated by ChatKittytm my very old Orange Boomer Kitty Cat.
The oldest Millennials are about 43 right now, “over the hill” and it hurts, it hurts (mostly lower back and knees)
Gen X in the firing line. Bring it on mfs, I’ve survived far worse and now I’m pulling the ladder up.
I think Gen X went from “invisible” to “the enemy” in a lot of folks’ minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024 by a greater margin than any other age group. Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.
I think Gen X went from “invisible” to “the enemy” in a lot of folks’ minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024
All those polls are cucked anyway. You’re taking a national composite by age when the regional variants are overwhelming. More Florida and Texas Zoomers are voting for Trump than California and New York GenXers. The Gulf Coast suburbs are absolutely choked with people in their 30s and 40s brain-poisoned by decades of consumer slop and corporate culture. Age has far less to do with it than family politics, education/business environment, and media diet.
Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.
Unfortunately, they still are. And the result is this deep reactionary clinging to the Clintons and Obamas as some kind of panacea for the modern moment.
Nobody ever really talks about Gen X.
There are no widespread positive opinions. Not really any negative ones either. They just kind of exist. Silently.
I have to say the Wall coming down was a crazy exciting thing to experience.
Now I’m sick and tired of living through once in a lifetime events. I’d love to go back to boring.
They experience neither highs nor lows so it makes sense
no idea what gen x is but looking at the comments the meme seems right
- Greatest generation (fought in WWII)
- (baby) Boomers
- Gen X
- millennials
- Gen Z
Don’t forget the current crop of kids which is Gen Alpha. Gen Z are all adults now
The good old survivorship bias.
Kids these days don’t even squash coins on the train tracks.
Still, they’ve got dodgy Temu e-bikes to kill themselves on now.
I don’t know a single GenX who disagrees with the first statement. (I an on then Millennial edge, though, so could be bias)
What the fuck is up with all of the generational hate memes lately. Fuck off with that shit. Literally exactly what billionaires want you to fight about rather than realizing there’s no fucking difference between any generation.
I want to counterbalance the hate with something cool. Do you know what the fastest growing demographic of gamers is? People over 50. People are legit taking the time they have now that their kids have grown up and picking up video gaming. Its honestly cool and speaks to both the accessibility of gaming these days and people’s general desire to try new things
Granted a subset of these over 50 year old gamers may have been gamers their entire lives, but gaming was pretty niche in the 80s and 90s, and didn’t really become mainstream until the early 2000s, and even then it was seen as pretty dorky and geeky
What safety precautions is this about? Is it about warning labels on plastic bags or not letting your kids play outside because they will get kidnapped?
I’m not thinking about safety precautions, but about “new(…ish…?)” health and nutrition guidelines for children.
For example: no honey before the age of 1, no raw meat during pregnancy, sturdier/bulkier car seats, and kids wearing bicycle helmets is more or less the norm where I live.
I can’t think of any more examples, but whenever my parents-in-law are visiting, there will inevitably be at least one thing where they scoff at us and say something like, “Ugh, kids these days… We did/didn’t do this or that, and it didn’t harm us, and we turned out just fine…”
Whenever someone says they turned out fine, I don’t believe them
It’s a very cope thing to say
If I got a penny every time I heard “my mother never went to a doctor during her pregnancy and I’m fine” I would probably had like 5 cents now. I’m not sure it’s a generational gap though. I think it’s more stupid vs. not so stupid people. I know old people that understand how medicine works and young anti-vaxxers.
Don’t dry your cat in the microwave. Don’t drink battery acid.
Railing against windmills
Im supposed to be mad about it? Or are you mad about it? Is that you in the picture? I’m confused. Did I do it wrong?
True, but also fun and growth involves risk.
We want to remove the kind of risk you don’t recover from, but a lot of folks seem to want to remove any risk that could possibly cause injury.
gonna guess that OP is gen z because they’re attacking gen x.
as a gen x resident, I’d like to tell you to fuck off but I just don’t care about you enough to do anything more than this comment.
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So you don’t care enough to tell them to fuck off but do care enough to tell them you would like to tell them to fuck off and you’ve decided that this is somehow a lesser amount of caring. Sundowning already?
My charitable interpretation of their comment is that if they were going to tell them to fuck off, it wouldn’t just be the words “fuck off”, but rather an essay-length diatribe listing their failings and personality flaws at length. Therefore a comment saying they’re not going to do that is caring less…?
I don’t care, but lemmy tell you what I would’ve said if I did care anyways.
