Pretty much all those Karen compilations are Gen X-aged people, who should fucking know better but clearly don't. Millennials are on watch too, but we don't have enough wealth to be as shitty. Zoomers are going to save us all.

  • leftofthat [he/him]
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    Gen X'ers always seem like they only focus on a single opponent or enemy, and it's rarely the billionaire class

    which is probably why they eat up Orange Man media

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      I just think of everyone I ever admired as a liberal in that set and they all turned out to be disappointingly centrist at best.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I mean tom morello and the other members of Rage Against The Machine are gen x right? So there are like a few good gen xers out there?

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          Presuming Kurt Cobain never killed himself, yes basically.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            Also I think the members or Rise Against are gen x as well? Mostly vegan leftist band, even if they do some things that would be considered lib shit, like encouraging people to register to vote

            • gayhobbes [he/him]
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              Yeah they're okay, now I will tell you Foo Fighters sucks, they were all AIDS denialists.

              • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                Like how bad is the aids denialism from the foos? I come from a country that had a president that said HIV literally cannot cause AIDS, as in its not physically possible for the virus to cause AIDS, which led to 400 thousand preventable deaths. Also another president said that showering right after you potentially contact HIV can cure it and eliminate the virus.

                • gayhobbes [he/him]
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                  Well the Foo Fighters believed HIV didn't lead to AIDS and used to hand out pamphlets at their shows and donated a lot of money to conspiratorial orgs so...there's that.

                  • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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                    In January 2000, Nate Mendel led a benefit concert in Hollywood for AIDS denialist group Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives with a speech by founder Christine Maggiore and free copies of her self-published book, What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?[18][19] Additionally, the band's official website featured a section devoted to Alive & Well.[20] Sandra Thurman, then director of the Office of National AIDS Policy stated this was "extraordinarily irresponsible behavior" because "There is no doubt about the link between HIV and AIDS in the respected scientific community".[21] Links and references to Alive & Well have since been removed from the band's website and no further mentions or shows of support have been made.

                    What the hell

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        It's pretty sad. I think PZ Myers has drifted leftwards in recent years though.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          Yeah, the trans and gay acceptance front of nu-atheism became radlibs/Bernie types.

          Just checked his Twitter, he's retweeted a lot of Cornell West stuff and a protest call by a group called "revolutionary communists" so he's alright I guess.

        • gayhobbes [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          PZ Myers sucks a lot less, yes, but I wouldn't have expected that.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The leaders of New Atheism are a prime example of this.

    • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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      Nah it's the opposite of this, genX is broadly nihilistic, which is why gen Z tends to adopt some of those traits.

      They think everything is bad, their eating up of orange man bad is exclusively because he is the current president.

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        genX is broadly nihilistic, which is why gen Z tends to adopt some of those traits.

        insanely relevant point that I'd never thought of before. Blew my mind

      • sappho [she/her]
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        This is much more accurate to my experience. My parents are Gen X Republicans and they aren't actively hateful, they just have very unhappy lives and no driving philosophy or goals. They mentally and spiritually died in their twenties once I was born and they had fulfilled the obligation to create their nuclear family.

        • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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          Yeah I think going people have a desire to live a more fulfilling and wholistic life and that is a contributing factor to some of the current left wing shift even among people who come from decently well off families.