• LangdonAlger [any]
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    4 years ago

    can relate hugely; for me, the weirdest is the Gen Xers. they pretty much get it, but they're still established and comfortable and just a bit out of touch

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      the weirdest is the Gen Xers. they pretty much get it, but they’re still established and comfortable and just a bit out of touch

      Except those of us who've spent half our 30s battling depression and living on disability.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        My parents are genX and they decided to lean hard into the evangelical cult even though their parents were just regular once a month christians. Weird shit happened to people growing up right at the beginning of the collapse.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Post 60's was when it started going visibly downhill. Nixon/Reagan eras basically.

            I mean specifically US collapse. For a while people were sure that the Soviets would outlast Amerikkka, but then neoliberalism/neocolonialism got a second wind and saved the empire just long enough to finish the siege against them and create the world we have today.

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

      My Gen X brother not only had no tuition costs, he got fucking non-means tested grants from the government to go to university.

      He is against tuition free college as too many people have “useless degrees”. An opinion he shares as someone that works as a software engineer, while oddly having a PhD in physics.

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I agree, far too many people have degrees in law, management, marketing, communications, and administration.