the ageist bullshit from the media is tiresome.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
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Biden isn't a boomer, he's from the generation before, the silent generation.
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.
I wish Trump was from the silent generation.
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.
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.
And he made place for an actual Boomer.
Top post on Lemmy… oh, it’s theonion. Sigh
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
It’s a joke. We all take so much generational shit from boomers a light knock like this is absolutely fair game.
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
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
I am super comfortable, chair with massage levels comfortable
No you were just a judgmental person with no kids and a lack of imagination. Not every kid with an iPad is spoiled and/or has parents that offloaded the parenting to a screen.
It is wild how comfortable people are judging parents based off a myriad of assumptions all informed by like 4 seconds of seeing a kid.
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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No no, they're actually creative they don't need stupid puns
Biden has an eight-figure fortune.
He'll be fine.
You won't, because you're not part of that club.
I wonder why the down votes... Do we really have this many corpo democrats to be hurt by this obviously true statement?
Politically, most of the folks on Lemmy are pro-establishment, even if it means voting for someone who is in obvious cognitive decline. (Which until yesterday was both candidates.)
My guess is it's the tone/phrasing of the comment. They could've just said he has about 10 million bucks. Which imo is not an exorbitant amount of wealth to have accumulated for a (very...) senior citizen who has worked for >50 years in upper echelon functions.
The blanket statement about readers 'not being fine' because they don't have that kind of money also doesn't help.
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