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Big agree on Idaho, and somewhat on the gen x'ers. Ive really been wanting to camp and explore Idaho because it seems really pretty, but it makes me pretty damn nervous. I'm white even, but dress alternative or whatever so I feel like there might be some kinda singling out outside of Boise, maybe.

I think some of this generational stuff depends on where you land, kinda feel like there are 2/3 different grouoings in each category. but ive noticed that a lot of gen x'ers I know seem to have turned from apolitical to reactionary. My parents are early gen X and they all of a sudden decided to become trump supporters, they've been separated for years too so they developed independently. Lame since many gen xers grew up with Rage Against the Machine and/or System of a Down. Some late gen x/early millenials can be chill though but seem to fall into this trap as well.(I am a mid millenial if it matters)

Firefly, for three reasons.

One, the "heroic" war veteran crew were basically US civil war Confederates.

Two, Whedon's sexpest behaviour during production.

Three, it cemented Whedonistic dialog into pop culture.

tbh the gen xers I've met are just are reactionary as the average boomer, they just have this veneer of "I'm just a laid back cool dude, man :)" where they'll say the same reactionary shit as boomers but instead of being sincere about it and getting worked up the way boomers do, they'll suffix it with "but I'm just joking man :) or am I? :))) don't be so serious bro :))))))))))"

Cars. Even on this site cars don't get enough hate.

Foster care. I don’t have a leftist analysis of this. Just a lot of personal experience and bitter hatred. It’s a violent ass institution that’s rife with abuse, racism, and class warfare

Gen X's parents hated them too that's why they're the latchkey generation but you're right, the younger gens could definitely punch the hate up.

Capitalism

Idaho is a very beautiful place, it's a shame Chuds have completely dominated it.

-I dunno if it's everywhere or local to the midwestern city I live in but they've quietly gotten rid of all the school busses, so now every school zone in this relatively large city has enormous lines that choke every road in and out of every school in the city twice a day for two hours. It's a massive inconvenience to the entire city that's been justified as a 'cost savings' when in reality it's just throwing that cost onto everyone else in a less efficient way.

-Low hanging fruit but Harry Potter. There's a lot of anti-Rowling sentiment these days that tries to separate her from the world she created but it's very obvious that all the nasty shit about her made it into the series. Obviously around here people don't generally like the books but the general public has not seriously read them since they were children and thinks they're awesome.

millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate

Bro people have always hated us, boomers hated us, now gen X and zoomers hate us lmao. We are cheesy as fuck nerds because advertising tried too hard to sell us "cool" when we were kids so when we hit our twenties we instead embraced being cringe as shit. Well, some of us did, the others became Ben Shapiro's.

gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth

Which is funny because gen Z aren't even that young anymore but they do seem super obsessed with generational warfare

Anyway no, I'm not going to hate gen X because generational warfare is stupid and phases like 'gen -insert letter-' were just invented by marketing to categorise advertising demographics.

to be fair, this is me half of the time

I will never forget doing a cross country road trip with my friend from Canada who had never been to the US, and as we cross the border from Idaho to Montana, and we're stopped at a light and he turns to me with a complete straight face and says, bewildered, "So Idaho is not a real place right?"