• ashok36@lemmy.world
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    The guy behind me that watches fox news all day because “he needs something to help him focus” immediately started spouting fox talking points as soon as the verdict was read. My younger coworkers were like, “no way, that’s crazy” to all his bs. I just had to say, “no that’s not true. I read the jury instructions and they don’t say that.” He moved onto insisting there was no evidence and Cohen perjured himself and at that point I was already on my way out the door.

    He’s Gen x, a landlord, new York exile, classic gabagool. Ugh.

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        Gen X here too, Lock him up!

        I think most of GenX were just crushed by the boomers, you just have to listen to GenX music to see how fatalistic and powerless they were. When Millenials came around, they started to have enough distance to the boomers to do their own thing. And i really have the highest of hopes for GenZ and beyond.

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          Gen X came right after the Baby Boomers, just as Millennials didn’t run society for Zoomers, neither did Boomers run it for X’ers.

          So no, you weren’t overshadowed and made helpless by them, many of you outright relate with them just the same as I would a Zoomer.

          Gen X was the last generation to get a chance at the dream life of a family, a house, and a career. They’re institutionalised.

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              You’re right, 30 year old boomers were ruining your life at the time, not the 70 year old politicians etc.

              I’ll tell you about my life, every Gen X I’ve ever met is closer to a Boomer than a Millenial in their mindset. Even the lefter ones who went and volunteered in some developing country and did all pretend make the world better shit.

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      Last week I had to remind my parents that FBI agents are cops and pretty much always are authorized to use deadly force…

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        I asked my right wing mother if she had heard the news. She asked me if I thought the gop was finally going to pick another candidate. I like my mother.

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      I’m Gen X, former New Yorker…and well, he probably is a gabagool. He is representative of all of us…too many, but not all.