Survival of the fittest
Generational politics are bullshit.
Some things, yes. Others… nah, thats the nanny state in full effect. Telling people that theres danger, and trying to take away personal freedoms arent the same thing. If someone wants to drink, smoke, eat fatty foods, let them. All you we should be doing is saying “yo, that shits bad for you.”. And leave it up to personal choice. This is how it should be for drugs as well.
Seatbelts, why isnt this a personal choice? If you want to fly through the windshield at 70mph, you should be allowed to. Wearing helmets on a bike. If you want to end up with brain damage after a nasty fall, that too should be your choice.
We spend all our time trying to keep dumb people alive. And these are the people who dont rubber up. The more of them who reproduce and you get… well, take a look around…
Second-hand smoking is a thing. People without seatbelts turn into missiles in accidents or just lose control of vehicles and cause accidents, injuring others. All of these plus riders without helmets end up in hospital, costing everybody taxes and lost work days (covering for colleagues even if you don’t care what it costs businesses). You can’t just renege all responsibility for safety because you don’t exist in a vacuum.
Yes, mummy…
I’m mid GenX, and frequently have to trot out the saying, “regulations are written in the blood of innocents” to people a lot more ignorant than I am. And I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.
You can refer to those people as “not the sharpest knife on the tree”. You’ll get rewarded with a thoroughly confused look.
I’ve always been a fan of
Not the brightest brick in the box.
Some are, most are not.
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.
They weren’t the brightest of the bunch though.
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.
They experience neither highs nor lows so it makes sense
They experienced the beginning of the internet and computers becoming a main part of people’s lives
They experienced the height of the cold war and experienced genuine concern for nuclear armageddon
They experienced the end of the cold war and a few years of peace
They experienced the beginning of grunge, hip hop music, heavy metal, MTV , and the peak of Michael Jackson
They experienced 9/11, the dot com bubble burst, the housing crash of 2008, the pandemic of 2020
They lived under the thumb of the silent generation and the boomer generation dominating politics for their entire life (as we all still do today) so there voice was never really heard.
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.
Railing against windmills
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.
Still tide pods
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?
Yeah, bring back leaded gasoline! /s
The good old survivorship 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
Innocent question, are gen X more right than left? My brothers is Gen X and its hard for me to think of the generation that was obsessed with MTV and watched Beavis ans But head and South Park be constantly attacked would veer right. I remember my brother playing “rape me” by Nirvanna and audibly the teachers freaking the fuck out. But my brother is conservative now so what do I know.
Gen X are the new boomers. The older they get the more the lead poisoning shows.
People in general tend to veer toward conservatism as they age, have kids, and accumulate wealth. Many of those Boomers who were hippies in the '60s became yuppies in the 80s and voted for Trump in recent years.
I’ll rather live 13 years as a boomer than a life time as a zoomer.
Are you 13 yet?
I have always found evening time quite the gamechanger in the popular saying.
