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[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 205 points 3 months ago

Kamala Harris was born October 20th, 1964.

Gen X starts at 1965 and Baby boomers end in 1964.

You were this close Gen X....

[-] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 169 points 3 months ago

Joe Biden is too old to be a Boomer, technically. He's part of the Silent Generation. So really he's just doing the traditional Silent Generation part of bowing out so a Boomer can take over.

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 36 points 3 months ago

Mark my word... Boomers will be way more savage.

They hate the poors and they hate young people outright. Policy will reflect this bias.

Younger ones feel like they didn't get their fair share since clowns like buffet etc are still running the regime. So once they finally get that power, get read for the fuckening

[-] darvocet@infosec.pub 39 points 3 months ago

Boomers have been in control for a long time. They are dying now thankfully. Gen X is just now up and most of us aren’t dipshits…

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago

Ehh I’d say quite a good amount of Gen X are like “Boomer-Lite” in how they act and live, if not full on Boomers. Especially the earlier half of the generation.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, we seem to have split into either "boomer-like" or "millennial-like" groups.

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 9 points 3 months ago

Boomers have been the public face of the regime ran by the silent generation owners and their crotch fruit.

It is changing now as tech daddies and other newer oligarchs are taking over, who are mostly boomer.

Gen X sold out in my personal experience at least the ones who got out of middle management. They act just like boomers, it is their turn to get paid.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

They hate the poors and they hate young people outright

You're describing basic human psychology. There's nothing special about boomers in this regard.

I think it's weird that "hatred of the poor" has no convenient name, like "hatred of other races" or any number of other biases do. It's almost universal.

[-] ohmyiv@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago

Not once have I, or any Gen Xer I know, said "Boy, I hope the next president is from my generation."

As far as my Xer family, friends, and coworkers go, we couldn't care less on which generation is elected as long as they aren't fucking things up even more.

[-] the_artic_one@programming.dev 15 points 3 months ago

That's pretty fitting with Gen-X's reputation of being the generation that gave up on having influence on the state of the world. As a millennial constantly stressing about the impact I'm having on things, that sometimes sounds like a really sensible choice.

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago
[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

That's the Gen X spirit! We need more of that these days.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

My dad was born in the same year, falls under that category; but by all accounts he is far more like a gen X than a boomer since he early adopted computers, liked younger music, skateboarded, etc.. Things get blurry along the line.

That said, I doubt Kamala is cool like that... but probably not because she's a boomer, lol.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago

The named generations stuff almost resembles astrology or a D&D alignment charts when you look at it under a certain light.

[-] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Sounds like something a millennial human warlock would say.

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[-] sudo42@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago

UNPRECEDENTED

unpresidented

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[-] kirbowo808@kbin.melroy.org 68 points 3 months ago

This straight up should be on not the onion at this point LMAOOOOO

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 51 points 3 months ago

This is how I find out. Wow.

[-] ansiz@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago

Biden isn't a boomer, he's from the generation before, the silent generation.

[-] meliaesc@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

When informed that he predated the Boomer generation by four years, Biden explained that taking a title away from a younger generation “is actually the most Boomer thing one could do, so it still counts!”

You should always read the article, even if it's satire.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

And he made place for an actual Boomer.

[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

When informed that he predated the Boomer generation by four years, Biden explained that taking a title away from a younger generation “is actually the most Boomer thing one could do, so it still counts!”

Kamala Harris was quick to assure ageing employees across America that she, while younger, was also technically a boomer.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

Kamala, OTOH, is a boomer. She was born in 1964, and generally the Boomer generation is defined as 1946-1964.

The generations of the presidents are interesting. Kennedy (1917), Johnson (1908), Nixon (1913), Ford (1913), Carter (1924), Reagan (1911) and Bush Sr. (1924) were all "greatest" generation presidents. Clinton (1946), Bush Jr. (1946), Obama (1961) and Trump (1946) were all Boomers. Biden was the first (and presumably last) silent generation president (1925-1945).

There's also a weird clustering of ages. Nixon and Ford were both 1913. Carter and Bush Senior were both 1924. Clinton, Bush Jr. and Trump were all 1946.

There has never been a Gen X president, and until Biden, never a silent generation president. If Kamala wins, it makes me wonder if Gen X is going to be skipped over the way Silent was. If she wins and serves 2 terms, she'll be out of office at 68 in 2032. The youngest possible Gen X candidate at that point will be 53, and maybe people will start skipping right to Millennials.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

I wish Trump was from the silent generation.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 18 points 3 months ago

Well, we certainly live in interesting times. Fucking hell.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 16 points 3 months ago

That someone younger is 59 years old

[-] DxK@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Correct. Kamala Harris is 22 years younger than Joe Biden and 19 years younger than Donald Trump.

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[-] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And Elon Musk is 53. So?

Edit: This wasn't meant to be about Musk, it's supposed to point out that 59 isn't old and that age cutoffs are largely arbitrary.

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago

He is a nepo baby... That factor supercedes age..

He is in the same camp as trump, pelosi and jayden Smith.

[-] Nicoleism101@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don’t really care about this nonsense boomer vs millennial talk. There are some terrible zillenials and awesome boomers, it’s very rigid thinking to say they are all bad.

Unproductive way of looking at things

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 3 months ago

It’s a joke. We all take so much generational shit from boomers a light knock like this is absolutely fair game.

[-] Nicoleism101@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Idk maybe it was a light knock once but now it feels like a trench war based on flawed premise

However I cannot argue it can be fun to shit on iPad kids even it isn’t super fair

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

If you’re comfortable shitting on kids for wanting to be entertained and parents needing 5 minutes of sanity then yes you can handle this joke

[-] Nicoleism101@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I am super comfortable, chair with massage levels comfortable

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[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Eh I know I would have been quite happy with one if I'd had it as a kid, especially during road trips. Even the Walkman was a boon.

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[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago

Lmao fantastic one

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago
[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Haha, thank gunness this was written.

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