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[–] 49 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

Gen Xer, we're mostly cool. Still some ass hats but most of us try to be cool, do the right things

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    Boomers: we went to woodstock! Free love

    Gen X: I know just the way to rebel against that!

    (I kid, of course)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Seeing the Woodstockers of yesteryear become the Boomers of today means that my secondary retirement plan is a bullet. If I ever so fundamentally betray my values like that my friends and family have explicit instructions to put one through my brain stem and put me in a hole. There is no event, experience or injury that exists that can turn me into a conservative without first removing all parts that make me myself. At that point, that is no longer the Skul you once knew, that is a zombie, and it needs to be put down. I will never, ever understand how yesteryear's free love hippies became today's "fiscal conservatives".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    You won't... The so-called "hippies" turned Trumpers never actually believed in anything, they just enjoyed the music, vibes, and aesthetic.

    I should know, my dad is one of them.

    I was told my whole life that I'd become more conservative as I got older and started working and paying taxes, etc. Literally the exact opposite has happened. If anything, those things radicalized me against capitalism.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I hear you and agree, I know some people I grew up with went full maga. I think my use of "most" could have been "some". Which probably applies to all generations, sadly. Also, fuck Nazis. 💯

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I'd say we Gen-Xers are at a crucial age in human development where, for whatever biological or other reasons, people lean into their base beliefs hard. Much like booze, age reveals who you really are.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I hear you bro I've been drunk for as long as I can remember and it really does make you an honest human being. Sometimes it's painful but most of the time it's beautiful. I could just be a normal sad guy but instead I choose to be this

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