Let's be GENERATION X!!

I drank hose water.

yada yada latchkey yada yada

Why are you more conservative than Baby Boomers?

I am Gen X and R1 made me laugh.

I'm the new conservative old white people

fuck off, OP. I'm class of '87 (in high school) and i would have never agreed to this bullshit.

Way to jump on the bandwagon. you know, they used to teach us about all the different biases in school, and the bandwagon approach was one of them you're spreading.

DIAGF.

I’m the traumatic brain injuries from dangerous playground equipment and helmet-free biking.

I own the Libs!

I’m ironically hip, which peaked in the 80s.

I'm the street lamps flickering on to signal supper

I'm the muppets

Can't believe that people don't generally teach conformational bias anymore.

I'm the fading tramp stamps

I’m the obesity and mania from eating too much processed cereal loaded with sugar while watching Saturday morning cartoons during the formative years.

I'm disappointed in my generation, they voted 53% for Rump. But then, I've felt that way since high school (also Class of '87 here). We got hosed by NAFTA, faced ridiculous hiring criteria because the economy was flush with laid-off workers as everything started to leave overseas. The oldest X-ers are now 60. We've had, what, five US economic downturns? 1981–1982, 1990–1991, 2001, 2007–2009, and 2020. The world economy experienced global recessions in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009. The US also experienced the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Russian financial crisis, and the 1998–1999 Ecuador economic crisis. And every time, employers took care of the boomers, first.

Civics had been removed from school curricula, as had western civ. Very few of us got a classical educatiion. And far too many of my peers thought the dick movie characters in John Hushes' films were the cool ones. I can't even count the number of girls in HS and college I knew who got abortions, their entitled boyfriends weren't about to support some slut's child. And guys thought most girls were sluts. And most of the girls would rather take their chances with the patriarchy than stand on their own. To this day, I'm astonished at how many of them look forward to the weekend to party and "get wasted."

Too many of us went to college and then couldn't find jobs that paid a living wage, much less enough to pay back our debt. I went back to grad school and got an MBA in '08. Worst timing possible, we were well into the slide of the Great Recession. Classmates who became teachers, cops, firemen, or any kind of government employee are starting to retire with great pensions. I've been laid off and restarted my career several times because the companies I worked for either consolidated or merged and laid half the staff off. I'll be working til I'm dead.

And yeah, most of them thought Reagan was a father figure. So what if he said that AIDS was "killing all the right people." So what if he began taxing Social Security, borrowed billions from the SS fund that would never be paid back, and started our addiction to wildly increasing the national debt to pay for tax cuts for the rich?

In my observation, Gen Xers think every complex problem has a simple answer. Yep, 53% of Gen-X are still GOP-voting assholes. The other 47% of us watched Star Trek and thought that's what the future was supposed to look like.

I can't stand you assholes.

Did the hose water fuck them up?

I'm the lawn darts in the skull.

I'm Gen-X and have been liberal since the first dinner table lecture my father gave on the evils of Reagan.

It puzzles me seeing so many of my peers get sucked into worshipping Trump. How embarrassing for them and how horrifying for the rest of us.

I'm the canes.

I'm the slouchy socks!

I covered my Tribal Taz tattoo with sick ass panther amd had my celtic knot reworked into an even bigger Celtic knot

Stop feeding Teacake’s latest cosplay, The I Hate Gen X Troll.

KatyBuscemi was a far better alias. This one is so one note.

I'm the brain damage from the lead paint that covered every wall, in every place I resided, attended school, or hung out.

It explains so much.

I fucked around and found out.

**rolls eyes** Whatever.....

Honestly, I’m GenX and I’m perplexed. No one i know liked reagan or trump.

If Kurt Cobain were alive he would have voted for Jill Stein.

Looking at them, I can see why their parents rejected them at every turn: kicking them out of the house from dawn until bedtime, taking on so many hours at work they never saw them, and left them to fend for themselves like stray dogs.

Nature just instinctively realizes these things.

See R29 / Teacake, you went too far again.

The I Hate Gen X Troll has zero motivation as a character. Nothing. Even “Teacake” had a continuously evolving - and absurd - backstory. This one has zilch.

Just a bunch of stereotypes with no motivation.

Conjure up one and come back.

I'm the 27 diet cokes a day. By the time you're 63, my Aspartame will make you remember nothing but your first Lollapalooza show. Coming down the mountain! 🎶 🎵

I'm the foot issues from a lifetime of Doc Martin's

I'm the Mommy and Daddy issues from being left alone 18 hours a day

I'm the doxycyxline teeth.

I'm the locomotive sized SUV with dumb stickers I made on my Cricut machine

I am Gen X. These people that voted for Trump are classmates, colleagues, and in some unfortunate cases, friends. They are terrified. They are in the sandwich generation. They do not live as well as they were raised, they will never be able to retire, their kids will go to state schools, if at all, and they have to care for aging parents who are living longer and spending most of their own retirement savings. There is no significant intergenerational wealth to inherit. They are desperate and panicked.

It doesn't explain their support for Trump but it might explain why they are unable to make rational decisions.

I’m the mandatory school busing to remote neighborhoods that inflamed racial tensions.

[quote]Can't believe that people don't generally teach conformational bias anymore

They also don’t teach spelling and grammar anymore.

I can sign my name in cursive.

R36 thank you. That's an excellent summation.

I'm another Xer, class of 87 and most of the people I know voted Democrat. I do know a few Trumpsters but not many. I know more than just plain didn't vote, than voted for Trump. Not everyone wanted Kamala and there was little else, in their opinion.

[quote] These people that voted for Trump are classmates, colleagues, and in some unfortunate cases, friends. They are terrified. They are in the sandwich generation. They do not live as well as they were raised, they will never be able to retire, their kids will go to state schools, if at all, and they have to care for aging parents who are living longer and spending most of their own retirement savings. There is no significant intergenerational wealth to inherit. They are desperate and panicked.

I don’t feel one bit sorry for them and they deserve what they get now.

But what about their feelings?

Fuck their feelings. They certainly didn’t consider mine when they cast their ballot, putting a felonious rapist in office and endangering the lives of countless people for the sake of a cheaper Big Mac. Why should I consider theirs?

I mean, isn’t that the MAGA way? Everyone for themselves.

Compassion and empathy were on the ballot this week and America said “Fuck you.”

It works both ways.

Meanwhile, the typically more compassionate blue state folks will see their stock investments thrive while the broke-ass, ignorant MAGATS stay broke and continue to blame everyone else for their white trash woes.

Don’t expect us to feel a lick of sympathy.

That is the irony they will live with now. If they knew what irony meant.

I’m the not getting who Cardi B is, or why she’s speaking at Kamala’s rally.

I didn't feel like a racist when I said lets go play on the monkey bars.

I'm retarded

^ Teacake.

I'm the Rachel Haircut that she'll never get rid of some version of

No one i know liked reagan or trump.

Everyone I knew liked them both, step out of your little bubble, there's more than your keyboard.

we got our own asses home after school. there was no pickup line

I'm the Moon Boots! They're back at Nordstrom!

I'm the tingly feeling you still get from Two Moon Junction

I'm the socks and underwear for Christmas.

I'm the cigarette habit. Soon to be the emphysema

[quote] Meanwhile, the typically more compassionate blue state folks will see their stock investments thrive while the broke-ass, ignorant MAGATS stay broke and continue to blame everyone else for their white trash woes.

R41, I understand your rage. However, this is all about class, the end of the American dream, and the delusion of trickle down economics. An apartheid-era South African neurodivergent is the richest man on the planet, and has more wealth than any one person should ever have. All he wants is to end DEI and send people to Mars. It is not simply about broke "white trash," although they have played their part successfully, it is about distraction and obsfucation -- they are being told migrants and minorities are making them poor as they are being pick-pocketed by the rich.

I will be in a drunken stupor until next summer. I can make better sense of it then.

Gen X really is a sandwich generation. We're totally outnumbered by boomers and millennials. They didn't pay attention to us at all as a cultural force till we came of age..(grunge/hiphop, say) So it was a trip to watch a more complicated media environment generate endless writing about the needs wants and desires of Millennials. I enjoyed the recent wave of Gen Zers making fun of your Harry Potter fandom and side parts on TikTok.

Our current voting tastes are appalling but everyone knows we're still the overlooked older sibling who's effortlessly cooler than everyone else!

I'm the No tattoos or the tribal tattoos a few of us got in our 20s in the 90s. A little uncommon to have one or two in college and then some of us got into tats at 35 I guess. What people 10, 20 years my junior did with tattoos is on another level.

The millennials are now the most sensible generation. Maybe Gen X is experiencing early onset dementia?

No wonder Gen Z turned out so entitled when their parents are so defensive and lack accountability.

I am voting against abortion even though my generation was the only one to have safe abortion all our young adult lives.

I am a Gen X-er. HS Class of '89. I have been a liberal all my life (as have my Silent Gen parents who are still liberal voters to this day at ages 85 and 86). I voted for Harris. I don't even live in the US anymore, but I still pay US taxes, plan to live part time back in the US at some point, and I am terrified about what is going to happen to my parents' medicare. Oh and all the other crazy shit that Trump is promising, yeah, I'm pretty worried about that too.

I'm REO Speedwagon!

I'm their worship over 1980s Brit baby boomer bands.

I am Marjorie Taylor Greene.

I am Ted Cruz. I am Tucker Carlson. I am Ann Coulter. I am Megyn Kelly.

I am Elon Musk. I am Tom Cotton. I am Laura Ingraham. I am Peter Thiel.

I'm hoping everybody keeps blaming Baby Boomers for everything when I am the actual asshole!

I am the better version of what Gen Z men are imitating.

I'm the OP, obsessively posting Gen X threads all over DL.

I'm Gen X eating humble pie right now.

I'm not, because I voted for her.

I am the nasty attitude they've been throwing at millennials for years now.

What comes around, goes around.

I’m ALF

I am 18 out the door whether you want to or not. Good parents read all the books at the time on how to avoid raising a spoiled child.

Reality was I wanted to live on my own, parents wanted me to stay.

I am Millennials.

We are larger than you, younger than you, pushier than you, and we will put you in your place.

You left out: entitled and bigger whiners than you.

Oh no, R74. MAGAt GenX who stormed the Capitol and couldn't handle a black president thinks we're more entitled than them.

I'm so hurt. :(

And in any case, who gives a fuck?

You're going to be irrelevant and you will never, EVER be president.

Poor Millenials, they just don't know how to handle two thoughts at the same time. I voted Democrat since the age of 18. Imagine that, millions of Gen X still voted for Kamala. Now lets talk about the Gen Z boys/men Incels that couldn't vote for a woman because Joe Rogan told them to.

Oh no, R77. Gen X's fee-fees make a much more compelling argument than actual voter data.

I'm the reason jeans will never truly die

I'm the tramp stamp

I'm the reason for Ben Stiller's career

I'm sundried tomatoes. You still like us!

I'm the Depo Provera lawsuits

I'm the sideburns. Last cool on 90210, now gray muttonchops

I'm the tribal tattoo on the aging insurrectionist.

I'm sleeping in the doghouse. I am where this generation belongs for the next four years.

I'm the worries that shoulder pads and pleated pants will make a comeback.

I'm the over the top Halloween decorations. Yeah the 12 foot skeleton cost 500 bucks

I'm the Dustbuster with NO DUST IN IT!!!!!

R23 Bitch I didn’t make this thread. Stop lying.

I played outside until the street lights came on!

I am the lead! I am the lawn darts in the skull.

I am the Gen X dude sporting my graphic tee (some hardcore metal band), knit beanie, scraggly beard and sleeve tatoos. Nobody has told me how stupid I look. Nobody told me that I'm wll into my 40s and this looks really dumb.

I don't own a mirror.

Mostly we Gen-Xers wonder whatever happened to Liz Phair

Where did it all go wrong.

And also:

... why did Bjork marry Matthew Barney and what was the Cremaster Cycle all about

R91 I’m a Millennial and I did too.

I’m the three hundred threads that OP has started about Gen x. Hi! (Said three hundred times.)

I'm r96 and I will just have to put up with it because his generation just delivered Trump and they can fuck off right now.

We'll forever have grunge music because of Gen X. Our last era of rock. For that, I'm grateful.

I thought grunge rock would morph into something else. Alas ...

R98 You don’t consider The White Stripes, The Killers, Gnarls Barkley and alternative rock to be rock?

Divisive troll r97 would like nothing better than to completely splinter democrats so his beloved Trump can rule forever.

R99, I guess so, but rock used to be so much more pervasive and just a part of life. Now, you've got to go out looking for it.

I am Gen Alpha. I will view Gen X as the old out of touch racist white people just like Gen Z viewed Boomers.

OK genxer

I'm wearing my frosted hair way high with product, tooling around in my mom's wood paneled Dodge Caravan in my white Ray Ban knockoffs thinking I'm all that.

I am the presidency. Gen X will never see it. Kamala was the closest you would ever get.

OP Let’s be you! The Millennial troll.

I am the trans obsession, there must be a blue haired non-binary teen hiding under my bed now!!!!!!!

I'm the last generation that was allowed to have any fun.

R102 um wasnt the big beef between Millenials and their Boomer parents? Gen Z could give less of a fuck

No you weren't, R107.

R108 OK Boomer was their thing. They were obsessed with hating Boomers. Unfortunately for them, most of the Boomers they were hating are actually Gen Xers.

Um no. As an X-er the endless gripping between Boomers and Millenials felt like I was watching some dumb ass boring ping pong match. As always, Gen X stayed out of it, not without side eye-ing both. Maybe there were some older X-ers involved but for the most part it was Boomers. Gen Z is more like their X parents (much less idealistic, much more blase) but time will tell if anything like the Mils vs Boomer wars of 10 years ago will happen between us and Z-ers. Time will tell, but I doubt it.

Where's the beef?

Fascinating, r104. The polls that shame Gen X for supporting Trump define jt as 45 to 64 (1960 to 1979). Yet people like you do not include Obama (1961) or Harris (1964) as Xers. Yeah, whatever.

I've got Bette Davis eyes

I'm the Millennial mentally ill drug addict who is on DL 24/7 and whose latest drug-fueled obsession is hating on Generation X. Unfortunately the crack my mother smoked in the 80s wasn't enough to cause a miscarriage.

I'm the one black kid in my graduating class.

Oh there is a Gen Alpha now? Really

Lol

Bart Simpson had the right idea.

Oops wrong link.

[quote] As always, Gen X stayed out of it, no

Yeah right! You are notorious shit stirrers and trash talkers which makes seeing you with egg on your face all the richer.

I have always known you are far worse than baby boomers. And now the whole country knows it too. You are not going to slither your way out of accountability.

Btw, if Gen Z is a lot like X, does that mean they are racist MAGAt trash too?

R115 how cute that you think I'm the only one hating on Gen X right now. I hope the sand that your head is buried in is warm.

Teacake/r120 you need to find a new hobby. Hating on an entire generation is a futile exercise and doesn't accomplish anything. But you'll just light up your crack pipe and keep hating anyway.

Bruh I didn’t make this thread. It’s funny because it appears the actual Op responded at r121. I did just make a thread inspired from all this discussion about generations tho

Some of the users of this site are just like the media in regards to Trump. You have essentially made me more popular than I should be by accusing every fucking poster of being me. It’s just ridiculous.

No R122. Only now when Gen X is getting raked through the coals do they want the generation conversation to end. Oh no. Boohoo. Who is the little snowflake now?

So hate on Gen X. It won't accomplish anything. The world will still turn.

I've been riding the Baby Boomers' coat tails for decades.

I worship the Baby Boomers.

r126 I know right? OP is nothing but a Millennial/Gen Z obsessive-compulsive.

I'm how this election ended up shaking out generationally.

Millennials >>> Boomers >>>> Gen Z >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gen X

“ Yet people like you do not include Obama (1961) or Harris (1964) as Xers. ”

Because ALL charts consider 1961 as boomers and a lot of them consider people born in 1964 as boomers as well.

R131, that misses the point that all of these polls that say how Trumpy Gen X is define Gen X as 45 to 64 (1960 to 1979). You literally ignored my ALL of my first sentence.

Gen X starts at 1965 and ends at 1980

Nope hon R132 there are more people who were born from 1965 through 1979, than people born in the 1960 - 1964 period.

So the fact remains that the generation who supported Trump the most was generation X.

R134, please link to a poll that shows the voting breakdown for Gen X as you define it. Thanks, hon.

People get more conservative as they get older. We saw it with the Boomers in the 80s with Reagan and now we're seeing it with Gen X and Trump. Eventually we'll see it with Millennials and Gen Z. It's just the cycle of life.

Google.com is a wonderful tool R135

Google doesn’t find things you pulled out of your ass, r137. All the polls I have seen show stats for voters 45 to 64.

I’ll let this go, but the point is that voters born in 1960 to 1964 had many advantages and experiences that 1965 to 1980 did not. That cohort would have seen their first three elections go strongly for Republicans, and also would have been spared graduating into a recession. These people are the most conservative Xers.

1960-64 are Boomers.

“All the polls I have seen show stats for voters 45 to 64.”

Are you slow or do you just like to contradict yourself???

There’s a greater number of boomers who are 65 - 78 than the ones who are 60 - 64

There’s also a much greater number of people who are now 45 - 59 ( GENERATION X ) than people who are 60 - 64.

Therefore the point remains Generation X is largely responsible for Trump being elected once again. Yes, younger boomers vote like Generation X, that was already a trend on the previous presidential election when people born between 1961 through 1975 were reported as the largest supporters of Dump, now it has worsened with people born in the late 1970s also supporting Trump.

R136 Nearly half of Gen Z is either conservative or Trumpian and that’s scary.