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I love how mad gen xers get when it comes to admitting they were very privileged. They are proud of it, but also insanely mad about it.
Yeah, that’s very fair. I have a BiL and SiL who are on the tail end of gen x that definitely seem more like older millennials then they do gen x. They are my favorite family members to hang out with at this point.
Old mystery/thriller book by John D. MacDonald. 'The Brass Cupcake.' In the story, the hero explains that in prison slang, a 'cupcake' is a privilege that can be revoked at anytime by any guard. Everything under our system is a cupcake.
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I got bad news for you gen X, we millennials were beaten by our parents too. We had the same fucking parents
Millennials are gonna be in hospice and people are still gonna treat that generation like they are little kids and blame them for another industry under-performing capitalists' expectations.
It's really endearing you think they'd let us have hospice care.
That's already becoming the cash cow of a fucked industry, you're going to have to prove three times active income to be admitted to hospice care.
Millenials retirement will look like the next generation setting a loaded gun on the table next to us and then looking at us expectantly.
Yeah, my retirement plan is ending up on one of those "creepy, unsolved disappearances" compilation videos on youtube.
We'll be lucky if we end up like those guys that have like a large tent, a couch and a TV under a highway bridge.
"I am a victim of physical assault and an alcoholic kept functional by my squeezing into the last drop of prosperity afforded by the looting of the eastern bloc, this is why I am not to be pitied"
the thing you need to remember about generation-x is we are the most lead-addled generation in history
you're gonna need to kill us all, for the good of the planet, I beg you
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"You really wanna start things with us while we drink our wine in our homes we bought through our sheer tyranny of will?"
Oh no, you're not taking credit for what the millennials went through. But sure, keep it classy by rubbing your house that you were lucky enough to buy before investors ruined everything in our faces, you sure showed us.
I think they realize they were spoiled and got the easy gig, but they find it emasculating so that's why they lash out at us.
The sheer force of will required to have been handed a job you aren't qualified for that pays more than you're worth and in so doing been made able to afford a house that was bought for TWO paperclips and the string in their pocket that they unfortunately have to sell for 2 million dollars now...
The reactions you get when you say "my parents didn't hit me and I turned out fine."
Oh cute. I was both given time-outs, beaten with a belt, and got the added bonus of getting beaten with a stick on my hands and feet as a millennial child. Where's my oppression trophy
Ooo that sounds like an awful experience. If I may ask, was it more of a clubbing than a whacking?
As a Gen X - fuck this guy. You have to be an ignorant ass to write off all the issues faced by everyone trying to make a life for themselves these days. We've all been fucked by capitalism, and we shouldn't be blaming each other.
Millennials are closing in on 50 years old now lol. It’s incredible that every millennial is a college freshman going into gender studies in the minds of these people
Millennial cut-off is generally agreed to be 1981, so the oldest elder Millennial is, at most, 42
Point still remains that referring to a generation that’s on average in their mid 30’s as “snot-nosed little shits” is peak “I stopped registering that things change in 2004.”
Generations need to be shortened to 10 year spans or leven less. 86-96 is what I consider a millennial. The people born between 80-85 try to claim they are a special generation called xennial and I agree with them. Being born in 85, you would be an educated adult during the great recession while the rest of the millennials gets scapegoated as ignorant children.
These fucking losers are gonna be bitching about millennials way after we are all dead. I'm waiting for us to be blamed for the heat death of the universe when that happens.
Be proud, no other generation is powerful enough to bring about the apocalypse
Knowing boomer luck, they're going to become fucking immortal and most certainly will blame us long after our entire generation died off.
I might workshop this into one of my short stories while I pretend to be a writer until I get a new job actually lol.
the fuck you say bitch? you think you're tough? well i was abused as a defenseless child by people with more physical and social power than me who abjectly failed in their responsibility to protect and nurture me! bet you're scared now!
They were for plenty of gen Xers. An early boomer having kids in their mid 20s would have made a mid to late gen X.
I wouldn't call that "plenty"; that's an edge case at best
Early boomer and mid 20s are hardly edge cases. The generation is called "boomers" because of the baby boom that happened at the very beginning of the generation, and mid 20s is honestly late when it comes to boomers having kids. My grandmother had all 6 of her kids while she was the same age as or younger than I (early zoomer) am now with no kids.
Yeah, boomer is the largest cohort, 1946-1964. The oldest boomer having a child at 22 puts them at 1968. The oldest boomer having a child under 18 would have another boomer. It’s in no way an edge case.
Nothing says gristled tough guy like drinking Pinot Grigio in your paid-off McMansion.
Maybe you made some bad choices in life, honey.