i feel sorry for gen Alpha when they start working. alot of young people seemed to think being an influencer is thier future, its not as easy as it sounds you need something unique and original, only a small percentage ever make it, and often the most succesful comes from wealthy families. ppl like BEAST, KSI, HASAN come from wealth(despite him pretending to be a lefty tankie, hes part of the bourgeoisie)
My 35-year old sister thinks being an influencer is a job I should pursue with my Film & TV degree…
despite him pretending to be a lefty tankie, hes part of the bourgeoisie
I don’t understand this argument. Engels (& by extension Marx), Lenin, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong of the ones I know of, all were part of the bourgeoisie. They could have just chosen to rest on their unearned laurels but instead chose to leave all that behind to try to uplift the working class, to varying degrees of success. Surely that deserves some merit?
All known philosophers past present and future came from or lived in bubbles of privilege. Working class people don’t have the time or mental energy to philosophize and present our thoughts to hordes of people, we are too busy working.
When you hate certain people online but want to wrap that hate in some kind of societal prescription as if we haven’t had wealthy celebrities talking about social issues and infecting kids with brainrot since media began. Gen Alpha is going to be like every previous generation with their own sets of challenges and abilities.
If you want the influencers to go away, you have to stop baiting people to argue about them, just let them be.
This isn’t really new, when I was young a lot of kids wanted to be a pro footballer or singer.
Yes, but that actually requires working on a skill, which is a valuable lesson for kids.
Being a douche live on a phone doesn’t.
I love that Gen X is forgotten. Yet again.
We’re the ones quietly keeping the place running and not being hyperbolic and infected with social-media spawned WWE theater and brainrot.
No, really, we are young enough to have a firm grasp on current events, but old enough to have lived in a time before ALL of this media/information deluge started changing people’s brain structure, and we have boomer’s work-ethic beat into us so we’re just getting our shit done and surviving as the world spirals into weird nonsense all around us.
Ehh I wouldn’t give us that much credit. Our skills are somewhat nullified by the fact that we were the biggest trump voting generation. Not really a thing I’m proud of my generation for.
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The panel for GenX is exactly what I expected.
half of us are like boomers half of us care and the other half are baked and aren’t any good with numbers
nah but actually why do i NEVER hear Anyone discuss anything about gen x. i know Nothing about this generation
We have a lot of meetings trying to figure out ways to stay under the radar.
That’s how we like it.
They kinda lived in a semi peak, I remember the nineties and early 2000’s being pretty kickass, and they had their adult years through that.
These are just assumptions tho, I’m a millenial.
Gen X was the last generation to have a shot at the traditional path of school-college-career, but not old enough to fuck things up, and still suffer things like the dot com crash, major offshoring of tech jobs, 9/11, S&L crash, etc. but still able to get their foot in the door of a stagnant career. We didn’t suffer as bad as the millennials, but didn’t get the success of boomers either. Just generally ‘meh’ generation. Well, except for some kick ass music and movies. The hair tho…
And we’re old, and our dating pool looks like the secretary from Monsters Inc.
There was a micro generation between Gen x and millennials too, they’re more like Elder Millennials. The last generation that didn’t have the Internet until they were older kids, like middle/highschool age. I’ve heard them called Xennials.
I’ve heard it split into ‘old millennials’ being digital immigrants, and ‘young millennials’ being digital natives. Both are shaped by the wider macroeconomic effects and have similar outlooks, but older millennials are more likely to have been in work with some career progression under their belt before the crises hit.
I spanned that divide. We got an Amiga in the home when most families had no computer and even then, I had to log all my computer time in a little book to make sure I didn’t spend too much time using it. I was frequently told to “go play outside”. I was taught not to give out my name or personal information online. A few years later, I remember downloading the full resolution Hubble Deep Field images, completely filling the family computer’s hard drive and probably saturating the dial up for quite a few minutes. Now I work for questionably evil companies (on my computer all day) then go home and do computer/tech related hobbies. I went from digging holes on the edge of the woods for fun to sitting in front of a computer, phone, tablet, or other tech most of the day.
Is life better post-digital? In some ways yes; in some ways no. We’ve kind of hit dopamine saturation where everything is just a click away and everything has already been done/thought/built/conceived. I have communities for the most niche of interests and I can find info on almost anything that tickles my fancy. On the other hand, there’s very little reason to leave your home and anything that makes you (or your friends) special probably looks like shit compared to the accomplishment of some random 10 year old kid from a foreign country. When the world was smaller everyone could feel bigger and more significant, but post internet, it’s clear every day that we are one of billions of people. The ads still tell us we’re special… to sell us stuff.
I find my solace in the outdoors and in regularly scheduled fully-offline social activities. I imagine being a kid got a whole lot harder after my little micro-generation.
i feel like those are closer the gen x, and they are more X and boomerish than a millennial, they represent the OLD guard. think people like isaip actor, mac, kaitlyn, glenn they are older millineals.
I prefer it that way.
Stop. It’s a class war, not a generation war.
Once can acknowledge the class war while also acknowledging the cancer that has been the Boomer generation. Both can be and are true.
Seriously. Fuck all this generational bullshit. Artificial divides cooked up by ad agencies. Such a waste of time and energy.
similarly fuck all this class bullshit. weaponizing emergent differences in society cooked up by extremist pseudo-scientists to replace one authoritarian system with another
rather than finding progressive solutions for different roles in society
What an utterly myopic argument that is devoid of critical analysis of our societal systems that dictate what those roles in society are to begin with.
Bet you think communism is “inherently authoritarian” don’t you?
Once we all figure out that we outnumber them millions to one they will have a very bad day, but I do feel like if that ever happened a good number of us will stand on the side of tyranny.
All they have to do is offer a certain small percentage of the population a job in “enforcement” with barely any benefits or pay.
That new law enforcement will then protect the system that lets them look down on “the poors/immigrants/[insert boogie man]” and admire their ultra wealthy generous “saviors.”
Fan in some hate, add some racism, a bit of bigotry. Baby, you got a stew going.
How much do ICE thugs make again?
yep - any day now
Nope, we must pit ourselves against each other while Musk and company point and laugh.
America right now is going to create so many gangs and “terrorists”. And what’s fucked up is that America will profit off it… Any way you look at it.
The billionaires would be in some faraway island while the 48 states collapse.
And no Americans will admit they paid for that far away island. It was all worth it to watch netflix.
I’m okay for a new retirement system where I volunteer at a soup kitchen or food pantry.
I think Gen Z is more right-wing than millennials; at least the younger men.
Gen Z is also more receptive of Socialism
Its how Mamdani won
This. They’re more widely pissed off at the status quo because they never had the future that millenials were tricked into believing but received scraps for. Now the scraps are all gone and gen z knows it.
Socialists like Mamdani give an actual hopeful future with a real tangible promise.
The ones who voted for trump didn’t have that at the time and were faced with forever status quo of insufficiently paid debt servitude, or try something. Even if it just breaks everything there’s at least a chance for a better future in the aftermath.
I’m not saying there’s a shortage of fascist gen z, but there is absolutely a shortage of better options in politics. I hope we see more unapologetic socialists like Mamdani. I’m happy to bet the vote would swing amongst gen Z significantly even in deep right territory.
It’s almost like an entire generation isn’t just one person. Maybe “generations” is just another made up thing used to divide people?
It’s not a crazy idea to group people born around a certain year range together. There’s a lot of shared experiences and often similar outlooks. The boundaries between these groups are a little stupid though.
It’s also a useful tool to understand how global events affect people in different parts of life. Often quoted is a gen z divide that is missing in other generations. I think this was caused because of when covid hit during their lives. A difference of a couple years made a big difference where the younger half leaned hard right and the older half leaned left.
Older generations gained their experiences in a monoculture, so maybe it kinda worked in the past. But with social media becoming a dominant force in culture, there is no longer any monoculture. A Gen Z person brainwashed by the “manoshpere” internet culture has a completely different way of understanding the world from someone brainwashed by the “leftist” internet culture.
Also older generations aren’t exactly frozen in time. When I was a teenager I laughed at the jokes at the end of Ace Ventura. In the decades since I learned some things and one of the things I learned was that trans people are people and those jokes were really mean. Others may not have learned that. Social media has caused algorithmic divisions in all generations, so thinking of things in terms of “this generation thinks this way and that generation thinks that way” is completely false. It’s just a way to make someone in Gen Z think “the other generations don’t think the way my generation does” which compartmentalizes people into left wing Gen Z vs. right wing Gen Z AND right wing millennials AND right wing boomers.
Kinda ironic that Gen X, the generation that first used the internet and watched all of it go down a dark path, is just being ignored completely in all of this.
I’m a 1982 “elder millennial” and I used to rail against generational divides but honestly I do see a change even from people born a couple years before me. I had digital everything as it came out, my lunch card was a bar code, we had computers everywhere in elementary school. But we also remember the very last of the old world, analog was still everywhere, parenting was much looser.
So now I have become a little protective of the millennial grouping because they feel like my people.
I hear the same from the Gen Z folks who were in HS and college when COVID hit, absolutely. Shared experiences build camaraderie.
in NYC, but in general they may go for trump.
Gen Z is more reactionary than millennials, and that’s because we’re more fucked. Fascism provides an outlet and gives direction and purpose to the general discontent and resentment harbored by young people today, same as it ever was. Gen Z appears more right wing because more Gen Z can see the status quo isn’t working for them, and in the absence / suppression of the populist left people turn to the populist right.
the status quo didn’t exactly work out for millenials either.
significantly more blame was put on millennials than a gen-xer or even a gen z, the boomers largely ignored gen z, because they assume they would be non-voters.
All the eroding of education worked on them, and most Gen z men are fucking idiots
i saw they went for trump alot more.
Fucking idiots.
Some of them are getting woken up now that the far-right president is tanking, and they’re regretting to voting Trump to own the libs. I hope they also realize that “fandom gatekeeping” is not about keeping bad people out to preserve the quality of works, but is both a stupid tribalistic behavior, a bigoted recruitment tool, and to keep things “exotic and obscure, for street cred reasons”. I especially met the latter one within metal (and through people I knew: indie rock) circles, I knew a guy who was really angry at me for ruining Meshuggah for him, by no longer making him a special little snowflake for having several Meshuggah CDs, and thus he couldn’t show them off at meetups. (sorry for my off-topic tangent)
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The youth are truthful if nothing else
Gen X: Not pictured
Haha, sounds about right. We’re the forgotten generation. But that’s okay.
Xennial here. I’m glad to stay out of this manufactured generational conflict drama.
I’ve been called boomer and merrily laugh in the face of the kids that think they are just as clever that I thought I was in their age.
Who?
Gen X probably just hopes they’re old or dead before it gets really bad
GenX turned out at the highest rates for Trump in the last election. They out-MAGA’d Boomers.
My Boomer parents and FiL definitely seem to hope/ plan for being dead when shit hits the fan. But most GenXers will still be around in 5 years, so they’ll get to reap what they sewed.
This one does.
I mean, it is really bad… Gen X has the opportunity to do something really funny all at once…
We dont care.
You cared enough to comment, apparently
oh yeah holmes I really care … NOT
Ok boomer
Gen x is not a boomer you dippydumb dipshit.
Ok boomer
Whatever
Because a lot are MAGA pretending everything is just fine.
I hate how true this seems.
I’m being downvoted, but a big chunk of MAGA are gen X.
Gen X is definitely a mixed bag
Also Lost Generation.
THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Z_protests
No, but we still have to spread and support
Well they’re already a monarchy
Only a ceremonial one. All the royal family do is go around cutting ribbons, representing some charities,
raping kids, and getting harassed by tabloid media.The US looks far more like the old fashioned monarchies these days with the billionaires ruling the country without the law applying to them.
A “ceremonial” one that still takes taxes, influences policy, can and does appoint and remove officials, has veto powers, and is above the law unless the chief inbred agrees otherwise.
But they’re not rude about it so the more gullible peasants pretend they’re just some vestigial organ that somehow also can’t be removed.
It has been said that for the outlying regions of the Roman Empire, the collapse only meant that when the unused bridge fell down, no one came to fix it. (Undoubtedly I have garbled it.)
It has also been said “We are a long way from Beijing”, which means the central government is a long way away and don’t know what we are doing and impact our lives little.
Some things will really suck. They will suck far more than I can imagine. We will still have local police and hospitals. Medical care will get worse. There may be less food in the non-agriculture states, but that will be fixed with trade or war.
Lots of people will die. Likely you and I will die.
Some states will link up to make their own countries. Canada may invite some states to join. Same with Mexico (New Mexico maybe…)
Very much a “things I do not control”.
I hope it will be a situation of medical care being allowed to get somewhat worse, instead of the same standards and institutions being maintained despite not enough funding to keep hospitals open at that standard and so medicine is generally prohibited for the poor.
As a millennial I might live in my parents basement and eat avocado toast but I’m still ready to throw some molotovs
mr moneybags can afford kerosene and a lighter
I might be able to supply you with empty bottles.
Keeping your empty liquor bottles after drinking it all is free.
This Gen Xer supports Gen Z.
Highlights the idiocy of dividing people up by generation, they just totally skipped Gen X, because there was no neat little stereotype they could come up with.
The stereotype is that everyone forgets about GenX
This meme was obviously made by a member of Gen Z.
This is a comic. Not a meme. People need to stop calling everything a meme.
This guy is making a meme about not everything not being a meme LOL
I’ve read somewhere that sugar burns like a bitch and stay stuck everywhere.
…Just a random fact.
Wow who would have thought that your husband that’s TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLDER THAN YOU might turn out to be a nonse.
They force you to pay for not being surveilled
In this one video game I play, they said that you don’t want to stuff the cloth into the mouth of the bottle, but rather seal the bottle and tie the cloth around the neck so the fuel doesn’t ignite midair.
I heard that if you mix styrofoam into gasoline it becomes very viscous and sticky. It adheres to everything.
Lol is the anarchist cook book still kicking around?
Probably… I seem to recall there being a bit if dis/misinformation in that. At least in the one I saw in the late 90s/early 00s.
I’ve been posting this link when I can: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
There is also an OSS version floating around.
Anna’s archive has it
Is it the real one or the one that’s been tampered with to get people to blow themselves up if they try to follow the recipes?
That’s basically napalm.
Let’s stop here. Shall we 🤣
What dude, I just like video games
Oh, they do too.
