• TipRing
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    2501 month ago

    I do enjoy how GenX doesn’t appear at all. Very appropriate.

    • @[email protected]
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      1311 month ago

      After trying and failing to reach them for comment, we finally heard from them. They just told us “whatever, man.”

      • @Hikermick
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        111 month ago

        Gen X: you pussies should have been around in the 70’s and 80’s

        • @[email protected]
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          61 month ago

          We have a stronger survivorship bias than the following gens, but we also sucked on leaded gas fumes for a while when our brains were still developing.

          So anyway, whatever.

          • @Hikermick
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            11 month ago

            Don’t forget those delicious paint chips

    • Zement
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      Gen X had it’s Part in Memes and grew up. Like tech savvy boomers, Generation X seems predominantly stuck in the middle tier of the career ladder, overshadowed by their Boomer parents. However, they maintain a benevolent and generous attitude toward younger generations. They are fully aware that they will likely never own property, and having children is a significant risk. This painful realization hit them some time ago, hence their sense of empathy. The later you’re born, the more pain you inherit.

      • @HowManyNimons
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        251 month ago

        We will age and die in our office chairs, and our Zalpha children will burn our bodies to fuel their air conditioners. We will finally find our purpose. Don’t worry about us: we are content enough.

      • @naught101
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        71 month ago

        You realise Gen Xers are all in the 40-65 age bracket now, right? Nearly all way beyond the deciding-on-children age. And heaps of them own property (at least where I live).

    • snooggums
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      311 month ago

      I am a middle child in the generational equivalent of a middle child.

    • @HowManyNimons
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      81 month ago

      We’ve been around for like sixty years now. If we were milk we would have developed culture. But we’re not so we didn’t.

    • @MehBlah
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      71 month ago

      We are too busy getting shit done to worry about the idiots.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      votes for Trump at a greater rate than any other generation

      Wonders why no one wants to acknowledge them

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        That’s not the point they made. They pointed out that Gen X isn’t in it, which is appropriate being the silent generation. They were punk rock as kids, but reformed the moment they had to and didn’t try to make any sort of change as a whole.

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          The Silent Generation is an actual generation and it was the one before Boomers and after the Greatest. Biden is a Silent Gen. Too young to kill Nazis, not part of the Boom, no one cares about Korea, they were just old enough to get the Cold War brainwashing and fuck up everything with Reaganism.

          • @CaptnNMorgan
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            229 days ago

            That’s my mistake. Gen X is still known for doing nothing and staying silent

  • @[email protected]
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    I get so confused with people portraying Gen Z as these radical socialists when time after time voting shows they are anything but. Especially Gen Z men as a group are extremely conservative. At least in the US.

      • Ages 18-24: 44% for Trump, 54% for Harris
      • Ages 25-29: 52% for Trump, 48% for Harris
      • Ages 30-44: 52% for Trump
      • Ages 45-64: 56% for Trump
      • Ages 65 and older: 61% for Trump

      https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election

      More conservative than in the past, but so is the whole country (by votes- most Americans don’t vote). Compared to other age groups though, gen z voted less conservative (unless you consider that Harris is basically a conservative)

    • queermunist she/her
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      Gen Z is just more extreme in their views, regardless of what their actual politics are.

      The rightists want a Reich, the leftists want a global communist revolution, and there’s no center.

    • @brucethemoose
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      Might be the “horseshoe effect” where they (ultimately) converge on a few things. Change the tshirt, and that would fit trumpy gen z too.

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        51 month ago

        Horseshoe theory is an incorrect oversimplification of extreme politics. If it were true then anarchists would be no different than fascists, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

        • @brucethemoose
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          21 month ago

          I’m not asserting that they are close to the same, but that they end up aligning on certain issues more than either “side” would admit, especially at the ends of the horseshoe (like violent frustration over the same things, and disdain for some common institutions).

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        21 month ago

        I don’t believe authoritarians of different feathers flock together, but that doesn’t mean I’m right.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      They are the least liberal generation since they grew up surrounded by the failings of liberalism. They are either hardline conservatives or leftists. Very few fall between those camps

    • @randon31415
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      21 month ago

      Gen Z men think being rude and unrespectful will get the girlfriends. They are in the not fucking around phase of not fucking around and not finding out.

    • @Squorlple
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      21 month ago

      People tend to be among their age group online. Social media and online forums are conducive to echo chambers.

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    PLEASE stop this.

    It’s not left or right

    It’s not this generation or that generation

    It’s not black or white

    It’s not men or women

    These are distractions amplified through for profit media and captured education to keep us undermining one another, can you not see that?

    As ever, it Owners vs Laborers. I don’t mean your 3.111110 shares of apple in your 401k BTW.

    The owners leverage all of the above to keep us at each other’s throats instead of looking up.

    Don’t hate the class traitors like McDonald’s lady, pity her. She was made into a self hating beaten dog by guess who?

    We. Have. A. Common. Blight. The ones killing us and our planet for short term profit.

    The one’s perpetually encouraging the poors tear eachother apart over every petty difference to maintain their class occupation and subjugation of us.

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        I mean there are others but the others shouldn’t be fought really but it’s insanely hard to cure dumb with these drug laws.

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        I’ve never heard a solid conservative argument.

        no, because I’m racist isn’t a sound reason to do things lmao

    • @Lennny
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      171 month ago

      CEOs need to start dropping around the holiday season, instead of prices.

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        Especially with the Caesar-ish garb, it conflates boomers with owners

        Most owners are boomers, but few boomers are owners.

        The owners are our enemy.

        It’s important to maintain focus on who the enemy is. This is subtle but derails entire movements.

        The owner’s bread and butter is sowing division between the peasants. They are very efficient at it. Kind of their signature move.

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      181 month ago

      Can’t answer when we were forgotten about again. IF we had been asked we would have replied, “meh, whatever.”

        • Rhaedas
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          11 month ago

          Y’all…People my age who did vote for him deserve your rant, especially since they’ve known both Republicans and Trump for decades. But we all aren’t that gullible.

          My X-Gen brain still reads “woke” as the opposite of “asleep”, even in its slang version. So some of us are woke, we’re just tired of not getting anywhere after all this time. So in the spirit of the comic and societal collapse, I’ll stick with my “whatever”.

        • snooggums
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          101 month ago

          I worked at a Kinkos (a small printing and office supply shop) around 1999 and so many people set their faxes to the main stoore number instead of the fax number

          Me: Hello, Kinko’s.

          Phone: short pause [hellish screetching noises]

        • @HowManyNimons
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          31 month ago

          What’s the three-digit pager code for societal collapse?

  • themeatbridge
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    221 month ago

    “It’s my retirement plan.” Man I feel this.

  • @Dasus
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    211 month ago

    “It’s my retirement plan”

    Uff that hit too close to home

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    171 month ago

    Gen z is all about gambling for their future, because there’s no other way. Influencer careers, crypto scams, scalping

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      41 month ago

      Yeah some risks need to be taken now but also gambling is not the same as taking risks when like… Gambling only ever pays the bank else casinos wouldnt be the favorite profit maker of corrupt men.

  • @devfuuu
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    121 month ago

    At first I was like a cocktail and a vibrator. Then looked at the previous panels and it’s actually microphone… Maybe…

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      • @devfuuu
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        61 month ago

        It’s a cocktail, it’s irrelevant where it comes from 🙃

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          It’s only a Molotov cocktail if it comes from the Putsch region of Russia, otherwise it’s just sparkling arson.

  • @NocturnalMorning
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    111 month ago

    It’s true, I’m saving for retirement, but I sure as shit am not expecting it to exist when I get there.

  • nifty
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    41 month ago

    Fr if social security goes away for young people in the U.S., it may as well be lol