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Kamala Harris was born October 20th, 1964.
Gen X starts at 1965 and Baby boomers end in 1964.
You were this close Gen X....
Joe Biden is too old to be a Boomer, technically. He's part of the Silent Generation. So really he's just doing the traditional Silent Generation part of bowing out so a Boomer can take over.
Mark my word... Boomers will be way more savage.
They hate the poors and they hate young people outright. Policy will reflect this bias.
Younger ones feel like they didn't get their fair share since clowns like buffet etc are still running the regime. So once they finally get that power, get read for the fuckening
Boomers have been in control for a long time. They are dying now thankfully. Gen X is just now up and most of us aren’t dipshits…
Ehh I’d say quite a good amount of Gen X are like “Boomer-Lite” in how they act and live, if not full on Boomers. Especially the earlier half of the generation.
Yeah, we seem to have split into either "boomer-like" or "millennial-like" groups.
Boomers have been the public face of the regime ran by the silent generation owners and their crotch fruit.
It is changing now as tech daddies and other newer oligarchs are taking over, who are mostly boomer.
Gen X sold out in my personal experience at least the ones who got out of middle management. They act just like boomers, it is their turn to get paid.
You're describing basic human psychology. There's nothing special about boomers in this regard.
I think it's weird that "hatred of the poor" has no convenient name, like "hatred of other races" or any number of other biases do. It's almost universal.
Not once have I, or any Gen Xer I know, said "Boy, I hope the next president is from my generation."
As far as my Xer family, friends, and coworkers go, we couldn't care less on which generation is elected as long as they aren't fucking things up even more.
That's pretty fitting with Gen-X's reputation of being the generation that gave up on having influence on the state of the world. As a millennial constantly stressing about the impact I'm having on things, that sometimes sounds like a really sensible choice.
Whatever.
That's the Gen X spirit! We need more of that these days.
My dad was born in the same year, falls under that category; but by all accounts he is far more like a gen X than a boomer since he early adopted computers, liked younger music, skateboarded, etc.. Things get blurry along the line.
That said, I doubt Kamala is cool like that... but probably not because she's a boomer, lol.
The named generations stuff almost resembles astrology or a D&D alignment charts when you look at it under a certain light.
Sounds like something a millennial human warlock would say.
There is definitely more in your birth cohort than in the positions of the constellations. People often point at X being the generation with a free outdoor youth, but computers and mobile phones in their late teens and/or adulthood. Millennials never had a time without internet, were often baby sat by iPads.
The earlier generations were defined by wars and the great depression, perhaps future generations will only be useful to demographers
Maybe there's no real meaning in generations beyond Millennials (the last group with a different digital life to the prior generation), at least until some major crisis or advance makes us point out the groups affected