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This is the thing I love the most about the younger generations now.
- Boomers: If you don’t like it do something about it
- Gen-X: nah we’re too nihilistic
- Millennials: sorry we’re too busy trying to survive on the scraps you left us
- Boomers: that’s what I thought
Now:
- Boomers: If you don’t like it do something about it
- Gen-Z/Alpha: okay!
- Boomers: no, not like that!
As millenials I think the best thing we can do for the later generations is to just take a back seat. Thanks to boomers our generation has never held political power, and if we accept that and immediately pass to the younger gens instead of trying to make up for lost time I think we will leave them in a better spot.
As an almost 40 year old, nahh, we aren’t skipping 2 generations to give the power to zoomers just because some rich kids are protesting.
We protested too. Don’t forget that.
Definitely not - the boomers are finally on the way out. The boomers have held on way past their time, and we can’t afford to let Gen X have a turn… They’re the ones who need to take a back seat - they’re nearing retirement age if they haven’t hit that point already, millennials are in our 30s and 40s
We need to support and join together with the younger generations. We might not be as young as we used to be, but we’re prime age to start taking office and organizing/enabling
We Gen x have been practicing taking a back seat our entire lives. As a generation we still don’t outnumber the boomers. Or we just crossed them on the graph. Pre covid we were supposed to finally cross around 2027. Covid might have skewed the projections. Kind of explains why we are the way we are. Never could do fuck all unless the boomers also wanted it.
And now the millennials are the largest group. Yall got the numbers. Use ‘em.
You guys really are the forgotten generation… My dad claimed to be a millennial the other day, because he forgot there was something in between us and boomers
Millennials were told “put in your time, and eventually it’ll be your turn”, but we learned early on that “doing everything right” wasn’t going to get us anywhere.
I feel like a lot of gen X are hanging onto that like a lifeline (not nearly all of course, there’s plenty who don’t drink the Kool aid, and took me aside to lay out the truth early). Like despite how only the lucky ones came out ahead, it seems like there’s this fear of any change, like it’d tear away what little they’ve managed to hang on to
Maybe it’s because it wasn’t entirely a lie for the first half of gen x’s career, maybe it’s because most of the changes did tear more and more out of reach… Or maybe it’s just bias since most of my older family did come out ahead and that led me to find friends with similar life experiences
Granted, I’ve found older millennials tend to be just as dogmatic if they got ahead, generations are just such broad ranges
What’s your take?
The kids are alright
See also: “if you care so much about Palestine, why don’t you go there and help out yourself?”
IDF specifically targets aid workers, journalists and healthcare workers
Transcribed accurately (thank you to [email protected] for correcting my earlier attempt):
Thembo
@OnlyAWorldAwayLiberals: oh you care about palestine? stop tweeting and do something
*people organize nation-wide protests and actions at great personal risk*
Liberals: you swine. i hope the police beat you into a fine red paste. i hope they come after your families. how dare you
why does everyone lowkey suck at transcription in here lol.
no hate just confused.small hate? your claims that this is a “transcription” is deceptive and disingenuous to those reliant on alt text and screen readers.actually 100% accurate transcript as follows:
Thembo
@OnlyAWorldAwayLiberals: oh you care about palestine? stop tweeting and do something
*people organize nation-wide protests and actions at great personal risk*
Liberals: you swine. i hope the police beat you into a fine red paste. i hope they come after your families. how dare you
db0 isn’t holding back for the lemmy libs and I’m here for it
I have to say I’ve really liked this community when I’ve seen it pop up. Some good lefty stuff without falling into supporting tankies like certain other instances claiming to be leftist do.
“Liberal” means free or freely and is an antonym of authoritism. In the US, the word liberal also means left wing and democratic. Please tell me who claims to be liberal but is arguing for police beatings. Because they only claim.
Go check out WA Rep Adam Smiths (D) recent statement. Your average Democrat in politics is a wealthy right winger. Liberal democracy is the flavor of government which effectively institutes a dictatorship of the ownership class and limits the voice of the masses to a ballot box. USAs flavor of democracy is really the perfect example of the illusion of representation.
