Anonymous wrote:Gen X are life losers. I remember thinking when the TV show Thirty Something came on, never watched it btw, that Gen X were thirty nothings.
Sure they are Trumpers to blame somebody else.

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Anonymous wrote:Not that one but this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.UMA6.No0Xj6Q9Rmjp&smid=url-share

This article is so true but so flipping depressing.

"The inability to accept this may explain why so many Gen X-ers voted for Donald Trump. If they view him as anti-establishment, he validates their need to feel that they’re being subversive. If you see a post that used generative A.I. to make Mr. Trump look like a U.F.C. fighter or Rambo, I’ll bet you a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill that it was made by a Gen X-er. Mr. Trump is more Beavis or Butt-Head than John Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt, and that appeals in the sense that he annoys the responsible grown-ups, which X-ers have loved doing since “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” And mostly, he gives them a story that says: Yes, you were lied to, and that’s why your life sucks, dude."

This line of thought is so completely alien to me (GenX born in 1972) that when I see that crap, I assume it's Boomers who can't tell AI from real photos. I guess I do see it with a few GenX acquaintances who went full MAGA. I don't see it among my actual friends who are much more the stereotypical hyper-competent and responsible type who are always the clean up crew and get stuff done.

GenX voted for Trump? I assume they mean non college educated— because that’s the real divide.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Gen-X. Being honest, that article bored me. No I haven’t become more conservative. No I didn’t vote Trump, ever.

Anyway, I will eventually leave this earth knowing that my generation produced and experienced the best music ever.

I couldn’t make it through the article either. She was focused on throwing in Gen X cultural references but not really analyzing the actual issues.

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Anonymous wrote:Not that one but this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.UMA6.No0Xj6Q9Rmjp&smid=url-share

This article is so true but so flipping depressing.

"The inability to accept this may explain why so many Gen X-ers voted for Donald Trump. If they view him as anti-establishment, he validates their need to feel that they’re being subversive. If you see a post that used generative A.I. to make Mr. Trump look like a U.F.C. fighter or Rambo, I’ll bet you a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill that it was made by a Gen X-er. Mr. Trump is more Beavis or Butt-Head than John Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt, and that appeals in the sense that he annoys the responsible grown-ups, which X-ers have loved doing since “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” And mostly, he gives them a story that says: Yes, you were lied to, and that’s why your life sucks, dude."

This line of thought is so completely alien to me (GenX born in 1972) that when I see that crap, I assume it's Boomers who can't tell AI from real photos. I guess I do see it with a few GenX acquaintances who went full MAGA. I don't see it among my actual friends who are much more the stereotypical hyper-competent and responsible type who are always the clean up crew and get stuff done.

All this navel gazing is so boring to me. Call us the generation of losers. It no biggie.

But we’re not. Gen X largely made the internet what it is.

The point is why do we care? We’re not that weak. Let it go.

Anonymous wrote:Not the article, but the author talking about it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSWyNgXeyqA

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Anonymous wrote:Not that one but this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.UMA6.No0Xj6Q9Rmjp&smid=url-share

This article is so true but so flipping depressing.

"The inability to accept this may explain why so many Gen X-ers voted for Donald Trump. If they view him as anti-establishment, he validates their need to feel that they’re being subversive. If you see a post that used generative A.I. to make Mr. Trump look like a U.F.C. fighter or Rambo, I’ll bet you a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill that it was made by a Gen X-er. Mr. Trump is more Beavis or Butt-Head than John Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt, and that appeals in the sense that he annoys the responsible grown-ups, which X-ers have loved doing since “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” And mostly, he gives them a story that says: Yes, you were lied to, and that’s why your life sucks, dude."

This line of thought is so completely alien to me (GenX born in 1972) that when I see that crap, I assume it's Boomers who can't tell AI from real photos. I guess I do see it with a few GenX acquaintances who went full MAGA. I don't see it among my actual friends who are much more the stereotypical hyper-competent and responsible type who are always the clean up crew and get stuff done.

All this navel gazing is so boring to me. Call us the generation of losers. It no biggie.

But we’re not. Gen X largely made the internet what it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Not that one but this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.UMA6.No0Xj6Q9Rmjp&smid=url-share

This article is so true but so flipping depressing.

"The inability to accept this may explain why so many Gen X-ers voted for Donald Trump. If they view him as anti-establishment, he validates their need to feel that they’re being subversive. If you see a post that used generative A.I. to make Mr. Trump look like a U.F.C. fighter or Rambo, I’ll bet you a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill that it was made by a Gen X-er. Mr. Trump is more Beavis or Butt-Head than John Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt, and that appeals in the sense that he annoys the responsible grown-ups, which X-ers have loved doing since “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” And mostly, he gives them a story that says: Yes, you were lied to, and that’s why your life sucks, dude."

This line of thought is so completely alien to me (GenX born in 1972) that when I see that crap, I assume it's Boomers who can't tell AI from real photos. I guess I do see it with a few GenX acquaintances who went full MAGA. I don't see it among my actual friends who are much more the stereotypical hyper-competent and responsible type who are always the clean up crew and get stuff done.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Gen-X. Being honest, that article bored me. No I haven’t become more conservative. No I didn’t vote Trump, ever.

Anyway, I will eventually leave this earth knowing that my generation produced and experienced the best music ever.

I couldn’t make it through the article either. She was focused on throwing in Gen X cultural references but not really analyzing the actual issues.

This is the second shitty NYT author on DCUM this week.

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Anonymous wrote:Not that one but this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.UMA6.No0Xj6Q9Rmjp&smid=url-share

This article is so true but so flipping depressing.

"The inability to accept this may explain why so many Gen X-ers voted for Donald Trump. If they view him as anti-establishment, he validates their need to feel that they’re being subversive. If you see a post that used generative A.I. to make Mr. Trump look like a U.F.C. fighter or Rambo, I’ll bet you a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill that it was made by a Gen X-er. Mr. Trump is more Beavis or Butt-Head than John Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt, and that appeals in the sense that he annoys the responsible grown-ups, which X-ers have loved doing since “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” And mostly, he gives them a story that says: Yes, you were lied to, and that’s why your life sucks, dude."

This line of thought is so completely alien to me (GenX born in 1972) that when I see that crap, I assume it's Boomers who can't tell AI from real photos. I guess I do see it with a few GenX acquaintances who went full MAGA. I don't see it among my actual friends who are much more the stereotypical hyper-competent and responsible type who are always the clean up crew and get stuff done.

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Anonymous wrote:Not that one but this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.UMA6.No0Xj6Q9Rmjp&smid=url-share

This article is so true but so flipping depressing.

"The inability to accept this may explain why so many Gen X-ers voted for Donald Trump. If they view him as anti-establishment, he validates their need to feel that they’re being subversive. If you see a post that used generative A.I. to make Mr. Trump look like a U.F.C. fighter or Rambo, I’ll bet you a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill that it was made by a Gen X-er. Mr. Trump is more Beavis or Butt-Head than John Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt, and that appeals in the sense that he annoys the responsible grown-ups, which X-ers have loved doing since “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” And mostly, he gives them a story that says: Yes, you were lied to, and that’s why your life sucks, dude."

This line of thought is so completely alien to me (GenX born in 1972) that when I see that crap, I assume it's Boomers who can't tell AI from real photos. I guess I do see it with a few GenX acquaintances who went full MAGA. I don't see it among my actual friends who are much more the stereotypical hyper-competent and responsible type who are always the clean up crew and get stuff done.

All this navel gazing is so boring to me. Call us the generation of losers. It no biggie.

But we’re not. Gen X largely made the internet what it is.