Gen X: "First time?" meme.
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Its not like most of us care we are not mentioned in the same place these losers are.
Exactly the point of GenX, please keep ignoring us. It's why we dress in black.
Is that the reason? I just prefer not to wear light colors that get visibly dirty so easily.
I made a millennial joke in front of my coworkers after a two month break. (They have said waaaay worse). Anyway they HR’d me and I almost got a free vacation to the grippy sock hotel. Now I keep my mouth shut. They’ll never see it coming! Assholes.
Just gonna put on my plaid shirt and strum mournfully on a guitar now.
My gen x ass was coming to post this exact thing. Well done.
Generation self defined by apathy and nihilism gets overlooked?
Meh. Whatever.
Right here, right now. Watching the world wake from history.
Generation "Mentions not getting mentioned any time people talk about generations"
Generation bitches and whines about being ignored while being the largest voting bloc behind the return of fascism
I just wish most gen x were actually disaffected and alienated and not just constantly demanding relevance. You were a latchkey kid and you have better references than us, get over it.
Where's Gen X?
Oh right. Forgotten.
Not forgotten, just not relevant
X marks the spot, still looking though.
As my mother would say, "Whatever."
The true forgotten generation. But Gen X are eating popcorn while the rest are having generation war.
Edit: lol at people who are downvoting and taking my comment seriously. It's a jab at Gen X not being mentioned at all in mainstream discourse of generation fight amongst boomers, millenials and zoomers. I don't know what nerves I have hit but I am owning it.
the generation war is not real, just distraction from the class war.
While I agree that it is a distraction from the real war at large, the class war, I do want to point out that it very much is real, as you have actual people out there who argue about stupid shit like this. Sad, but that's humans for ya.
I used to think generational fighting is stupid, but the stats are undeniable, boomers own much of the wealth. Boomers are least likely to vote far right, but they are more likely to vote down affordable housing because they don't want their property value to drop. That is an indirect support for the far right, because it leads to younger people being resentful and voting for populist far right who promise them the stars and blame the wrong types of people. This is a trend across the world. Generational and class conflict are one and the same in this case. Sorry to older folks of Lemmy, but older generations have become greedy.
and that's mostly rich people policy to end ownership.
we should be blaming rich people for that, not exactly boomers.
False.
I am eating peanut butter pretzels.
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Every generation thinks they invented dark and surreal humor and without fail people who should know better act likes its some new and unique thing... it's more of an anomaly IMHO if a generation doesn't do this.
Yeah but instead of joking about suicide like a normal person, boomers write confusingly veiled songs about it and pretend they're family friendly.
Looking at you, David Bowie! Space Oddity isn't for children!
I feel like Boomers' jokes about hating their spouse is thinly veiled suicidality jokes. Like, they're giving big "I did everything I was meant to and I hate my life" energy
Dark humor comes and goes in cultural waves, it seems.
Gen X, the least worst generation
You mean the statistically most pro-Trump generation, more so than even boomers?
And the one that bitches and whines when everything isn't about them?
Pay no attention to that behavioral correlation.
The top level comment made a claim that Gen X is de facto the best. I just pointed out an observable fact that suggests otherwise. And then apparently my comment that Gen X is perhaps not actually better than every other generation then triggered you so hard that you had to comment calling it “bitching and whining because everything isn’t about [my unknown generation]”. Lol.
Oh IDK…makes us seem inconsequential. For some awful reason my gen were the top trump voters. Somehow that slid under the radar.
Generation proxmox?
Joking?
Pretty sure their leading cause of death is suicide, just like the millennials. Although millennials are going to be getting old enough soon that heart problems will probably take over at some point.
Hey, blame Kurt Cobain about why Gen X takes it too seriously. You also can't joke with them about using too much heroin without a diatribe about Kate Moss and Anthony Kiedis
Fuck Andy Dick with a rusty spoon
X'er here. Fair.
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