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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

The American sphere of influence is palpable here. Trudeau, Poilievre, and Singh are all gen-x. The average age of politicians here is not as geriatric as American congress.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Now they just have to vote.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yay, the conservative old people are finally dying!

Get out and vote folks. This is the time when we finally have progress.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Gen X is still bigoted af, and millenial/zoomer white males are still disputed. Not to mention the self-sustaining rural/urban divide.

I'm excited too but not too hopeful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

This is the time when we finally have progress.

hahaha woudnt count on that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Soylent green is people?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I take it that means boomers are dying? Last I checked the youngest millennials are over 30 and neither faction can increase their numbers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Immigration is a thing but yeah probably mostly boomers dying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

We must hold a vote: Do we liquidate the assets and organs of everyone over 60?

βœ… YES

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Excellent! Once their numbers are low enough, we can just drown the rest.

If we wanted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I shall make an exemption for my mother and shelter her in my attic, but the rest of them will swim.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

the future is now old man

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What about Gen X? Seriously, there's an entire generation in the middle there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

We never had the numbers to outnumber either of the giant generations on either side of us

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

My dad is a weird mix of voting for an obscure explicitly communist party while complaining how socialism ruined everything.

He expresses literal anti fasicm on principle but thinks of antifa as a violent mob.

He believes there is a woke agenda trying to manipulate society but he cant explain what woke is besides refering to cases of forced political correctness or brands changing their profile pictures to pride, he has no issues respecting lgbt, nature and is so much not a christian, he went out of his way to get debaptized.

I cant get him of Facebook, he is addicted. I told him i was probably going to delete mine this year, he told me he is certain id be back in a few weeks like his genx mates.. i havent visited my profile in over 3 years, its only the familie groups chat messenger left on it. I told him but it doesn’t compute that anyone can exist without.

In all seriousness i think there better of as the forgotten generation, technically they are allies and i am certain they have roles, positions and effects on society just like every generation. But we need a real change, a break with the old, we cannot do that by lething the brainwashed lead us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You should feel sorry for the Gen Xers. Think of how hard it is to deal with Boomers now. Now imagine being a teenager and having your thirty- to forty-something Boomer parents completely crush you over their political beliefs.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The generation that made coffee and Bill Murray the foundation of their personalities

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Proportionally ... not economically .... those old people are going to hang on to every penny until their last breath

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes and no, they will help their own children indenture themselves to the housing market.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

No, they'll spend all their money on end of life care. Nursing and retirement homes have skyrocketed in price just like everything else. Their money is going back up the chain to the billionaires, not to our inheritance.

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