I love that Gen X is forgotten. Yet again.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2025
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The panel for GenX is exactly what I expected.
We're the ones quietly keeping the place running and not being hyperbolic and infected with social-media spawned WWE theater and brainrot.
No, really, we are young enough to have a firm grasp on current events, but old enough to have lived in a time before ALL of this media/information deluge started changing people's brain structure, and we have boomer's work-ethic beat into us so we're just getting our shit done and surviving as the world spirals into weird nonsense all around us.
Ehh I wouldn’t give us that much credit. Our skills are somewhat nullified by the fact that we were the biggest trump voting generation. Not really a thing I’m proud of my generation for.
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half of us are like boomers half of us care and the other half are baked and aren't any good with numbers
nah but actually why do i NEVER hear Anyone discuss anything about gen x. i know Nothing about this generation
We have a lot of meetings trying to figure out ways to stay under the radar.
That’s how we like it.
They kinda lived in a semi peak, I remember the nineties and early 2000's being pretty kickass, and they had their adult years through that.
These are just assumptions tho, I'm a millenial.
Gen X was the last generation to have a shot at the traditional path of school-college-career, but not old enough to fuck things up, and still suffer things like the dot com crash, major offshoring of tech jobs, 9/11, S&L crash, etc. but still able to get their foot in the door of a stagnant career. We didn’t suffer as bad as the millennials, but didn’t get the success of boomers either. Just generally ‘meh’ generation. Well, except for some kick ass music and movies. The hair tho…
And we're old, and our dating pool looks like the secretary from Monsters Inc.
Roz could get it
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I prefer it that way.
Stop. It's a class war, not a generation war.
Once can acknowledge the class war while also acknowledging the cancer that has been the Boomer generation. Both can be and are true.
Seriously. Fuck all this generational bullshit. Artificial divides cooked up by ad agencies. Such a waste of time and energy.
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Once we all figure out that we outnumber them millions to one they will have a very bad day, but I do feel like if that ever happened a good number of us will stand on the side of tyranny.
All they have to do is offer a certain small percentage of the population a job in “enforcement” with barely any benefits or pay.
That new law enforcement will then protect the system that lets them look down on “the poors/immigrants/[insert boogie man]” and admire their ultra wealthy generous “saviors.”
Fan in some hate, add some racism, a bit of bigotry. Baby, you got a stew going.
How much do ICE thugs make again?
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I think Gen Z is more right-wing than millennials; at least the younger men.
Gen Z is also more receptive of Socialism
Its how Mamdani won
This. They're more widely pissed off at the status quo because they never had the future that millenials were tricked into believing but received scraps for. Now the scraps are all gone and gen z knows it.
Socialists like Mamdani give an actual hopeful future with a real tangible promise.
The ones who voted for trump didn't have that at the time and were faced with forever status quo of insufficiently paid debt servitude, or try something. Even if it just breaks everything there's at least a chance for a better future in the aftermath.
I'm not saying there's a shortage of fascist gen z, but there is absolutely a shortage of better options in politics. I hope we see more unapologetic socialists like Mamdani. I'm happy to bet the vote would swing amongst gen Z significantly even in deep right territory.
It's almost like an entire generation isn't just one person. Maybe "generations" is just another made up thing used to divide people?
It's not a crazy idea to group people born around a certain year range together. There's a lot of shared experiences and often similar outlooks. The boundaries between these groups are a little stupid though.
It's also a useful tool to understand how global events affect people in different parts of life. Often quoted is a gen z divide that is missing in other generations. I think this was caused because of when covid hit during their lives. A difference of a couple years made a big difference where the younger half leaned hard right and the older half leaned left.
I’m a 1982 “elder millennial” and I used to rail against generational divides but honestly I do see a change even from people born a couple years before me. I had digital everything as it came out, my lunch card was a bar code, we had computers everywhere in elementary school. But we also remember the very last of the old world, analog was still everywhere, parenting was much looser.
So now I have become a little protective of the millennial grouping because they feel like my people.
I hear the same from the Gen Z folks who were in HS and college when COVID hit, absolutely. Shared experiences build camaraderie.
Older generations gained their experiences in a monoculture, so maybe it kinda worked in the past. But with social media becoming a dominant force in culture, there is no longer any monoculture. A Gen Z person brainwashed by the "manoshpere" internet culture has a completely different way of understanding the world from someone brainwashed by the "leftist" internet culture.
Also older generations aren't exactly frozen in time. When I was a teenager I laughed at the jokes at the end of Ace Ventura. In the decades since I learned some things and one of the things I learned was that trans people are people and those jokes were really mean. Others may not have learned that. Social media has caused algorithmic divisions in all generations, so thinking of things in terms of "this generation thinks this way and that generation thinks that way" is completely false. It's just a way to make someone in Gen Z think "the other generations don't think the way my generation does" which compartmentalizes people into left wing Gen Z vs. right wing Gen Z AND right wing millennials AND right wing boomers.
Kinda ironic that Gen X, the generation that first used the internet and watched all of it go down a dark path, is just being ignored completely in all of this.
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Gen Z is more reactionary than millennials, and that's because we're more fucked. Fascism provides an outlet and gives direction and purpose to the general discontent and resentment harbored by young people today, same as it ever was. Gen Z appears more right wing because more Gen Z can see the status quo isn't working for them, and in the absence / suppression of the populist left people turn to the populist right.
the status quo didn't exactly work out for millenials either.
significantly more blame was put on millennials than a gen-xer or even a gen z, the boomers largely ignored gen z, because they assume they would be non-voters.
All the eroding of education worked on them, and most Gen z men are fucking idiots
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Gen X: Not pictured
Haha, sounds about right. We're the forgotten generation. But that's okay.
Xennial here. I'm glad to stay out of this manufactured generational conflict drama.
I've been called boomer and merrily laugh in the face of the kids that think they are just as clever that I thought I was in their age.
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America right now is going to create so many gangs and "terrorists". And what's fucked up is that America will profit off it... Any way you look at it.
The billionaires would be in some faraway island while the 48 states collapse.
And no Americans will admit they paid for that far away island. It was all worth it to watch netflix.
I’m okay for a new retirement system where I volunteer at a soup kitchen or food pantry.
As a millennial I might live in my parents basement and eat avocado toast but I'm still ready to throw some molotovs
mr moneybags can afford kerosene and a lighter
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It has been said that for the outlying regions of the Roman Empire, the collapse only meant that when the unused bridge fell down, no one came to fix it. (Undoubtedly I have garbled it.)
It has also been said "We are a long way from Beijing", which means the central government is a long way away and don't know what we are doing and impact our lives little.
Some things will really suck. They will suck far more than I can imagine. We will still have local police and hospitals. Medical care will get worse. There may be less food in the non-agriculture states, but that will be fixed with trade or war.
Lots of people will die. Likely you and I will die.
Some states will link up to make their own countries. Canada may invite some states to join. Same with Mexico (New Mexico maybe...)
Very much a "things I do not control".
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THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Z_protests
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