DOGE Cuts Yet Another Gen-X War Against Boomers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not generational warfare, it’s class warfare. The oligarchs are burning our future, taking our money, and lining their pockets.

Though it is infuriating to see the hatchet work being carried out by smug, sheltered 20-somethings who have no concept of what it means to be old, retired, poor, sick, or disabled.

Proof of this?

Read the paper, watch the news, read about Dark Gothic MAGA, Peter Thiel, etc. Not going to do the work for you.

[Anonymous]

I’m against generational blame and warring, but damn if I’m not disappointed in my own GenX for being more MAGA than any of the others. I don’t think I’ll ever understand how so many sadly turned into haters and traitors, when we were independent, free thinkers, who just wanted to be left alone from overreach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not generational warfare, it’s class warfare. The oligarchs are burning our future, taking our money, and lining their pockets.

Though it is infuriating to see the hatchet work being carried out by smug, sheltered 20-somethings who have no concept of what it means to be old, retired, poor, sick, or disabled.

Proof of this?

Read the paper, watch the news, read about Dark Gothic MAGA, Peter Thiel, etc. Not going to do the work for you.

+1 So tired of the “proof of this?” weasel debate tactic. It’s lazy.

Defunding education, hobbling science, gutting the FDA, and blindly slapping tariffs on everything with no plan to replace them with something better is, in fact, burning the future. It’s underpants gnome governance:

Step 1: Remove/destroy a functioning program intended to help people
Step 2: ??
Step 3: Profit!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m against generational blame and warring, but damn if I’m not disappointed in my own GenX for being more MAGA than any of the others. I don’t think I’ll ever understand how so many sadly turned into haters and traitors, when we were independent, free thinkers, who just wanted to be left alone from overreach.

I’m older Gen X, and also disappointed in my generation. In the 80s, so many movies and TV shows had a teenage male hero who wanted to go to an Ivy League college and make a killing on Wall Street (Ferris Bueller, Risky Business, Family Ties, etc.) That was the model being held up for us. Hippies were out, greed was in. Kids walked around with popped collars and Vuarnet sunglasses praising Reagan. Those are the people now voting MAGA.

[Anonymous]

My favorite generation fact is that babies born in 2025 to 2039 will be Gen Beta.

A fun thing to do to piss off MAGAs is to comment "Congratulations on your new, beautiful Beta Boy!" when I see a birth announcement.

I informed my MAGA cousin during Easter that he didn't need to worry about raising a "gen alpha p***y" that he was whining about because when he and his wife have a kid, it will be a Gen Beta. He lost it. "Grok, when does generation Beta start?" "Grok, if a kid is born in 2026, will it be a Beta?" He did not like Grok's answers, which also delights me endlessly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boomers screwed Gen X so they deserve to get hit back.

Boomers are all retirement eligible; the GenX are the ones being kicked the curb without pensions or health care options. And no job prospects either.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m against generational blame and warring, but damn if I’m not disappointed in my own GenX for being more MAGA than any of the others. I don’t think I’ll ever understand how so many sadly turned into haters and traitors, when we were independent, free thinkers, who just wanted to be left alone from overreach.

I’m older Gen X, and also disappointed in my generation. In the 80s, so many movies and TV shows had a teenage male hero who wanted to go to an Ivy League college and make a killing on Wall Street (Ferris Bueller, Risky Business, Family Ties, etc.) That was the model being held up for us. Hippies were out, greed was in. Kids walked around with popped collars and Vuarnet sunglasses praising Reagan. Those are the people now voting MAGA.

I’m a younger gen x and all I can think is these people are thinking that “Hoggish Greedly” was one of the good guys in Captain Planet. I had to google the name but at least it fits.

[Anonymous]

Im a baby Genx and i’ll be 46 next week. You’ve got your generations wrong Vlad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My favorite generation fact is that babies born in 2025 to 2039 will be Gen Beta.

A fun thing to do to piss off MAGAs is to comment "Congratulations on your new, beautiful Beta Boy!" when I see a birth announcement.

I informed my MAGA cousin during Easter that he didn't need to worry about raising a "gen alpha p***y" that he was whining about because when he and his wife have a kid, it will be a Gen Beta. He lost it. "Grok, when does generation Beta start?" "Grok, if a kid is born in 2026, will it be a Beta?" He did not like Grok's answers, which also delights me endlessly.

Nah that's not fun and you're a POS.

[Anonymous]

Boomers are the ones pushing all of this misremembered '50s nostalgia, they lived well, are retired and have pulled up the ladder behind them and now they want everything that made America great burned down.

Were there parts of the '50s that were great? Yes - back then, hundreds of thousands of Americans enjoyed received a free college education, there was a 90% marginal tax rate on the wealthiest, the workforce was much more widely unionized and Americans could buy a home and raise a family off of a single union job. NOW those are the very things the MAGA boomers want to destroy and make go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:just hit me all the fallouts re fed govt and its functions these 20-something tech bros are just screwing all boomers republicans or dems and don't give a damn about it. class warfare carried out by this administration shamelessly

By offering “the Fork,” and VERA, the DOGE is opening committing ageism, which is every bit as hateful and destructive as racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My favorite generation fact is that babies born in 2025 to 2039 will be Gen Beta.

A fun thing to do to piss off MAGAs is to comment "Congratulations on your new, beautiful Beta Boy!" when I see a birth announcement.

I informed my MAGA cousin during Easter that he didn't need to worry about raising a "gen alpha p***y" that he was whining about because when he and his wife have a kid, it will be a Gen Beta. He lost it. "Grok, when does generation Beta start?" "Grok, if a kid is born in 2026, will it be a Beta?" He did not like Grok's answers, which also delights me endlessly.

What’s wrong with the term generation beta?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not generational warfare, it’s class warfare. The oligarchs are burning our future, taking our money, and lining their pockets.

Though it is infuriating to see the hatchet work being carried out by smug, sheltered 20-somethings who have no concept of what it means to be old, retired, poor, sick, or disabled.

Proof of this?

Lining exhibit a:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-pushes-nations-facing-tariffs-approve-musks-starlink-washington-post-reports-2025-05-07/

[Anonymous]

Even the deeply weird Curtis Yarvin is now anti-DOGE. And DOGE was essentially his idea.

Billionaire tech bros love his half-baked ideas about neo-monarchy and historical revisionism that slavery was good for people while they doom prep their bunkers for "the event."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/08/curtis-yarvin-doge-musk-thiel/

[Anonymous]

No OP, Gen X is also getting laid off / screwed over in this.

It's more like entitled jerk Gen Z against everyone else, including their own generation.