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[–] 2 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Generation X lived through the Cold War, the oil crisis, the Powell Memo (the beginning of the corporate takeover), Reaganomics, neoliberal deregulation, the aids epidemic, the threat of nuclear annihilation, Y2K, 9/11, a pandemic, 2 economic recessions, and a possible AI apocalypse along with more nuclear annihilation threats and watches as America turns into a fascist hellscape all before they hit 57 years old.

Yay, we win.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Most of those happened before we were 10 years old therefore we were unaware & unaffected, and Y2K was a big ball of nothing. So I'd say we're about equally politically traumatized as millennials except we had way funner childhoods 😜

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  • [–] 1 point 55 minutes ago

    I very much remeber being a kid and having a very cold apartment in winter because the energy costs were sky high. I still layer like I'm in Antarctica every winter and try to never turn up the heat (though that is a meme I guess).

    We were the first with video games though.

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