WASHINGTON DC — In a move that has shocked employees around the world, Joe Biden announced today that he would be stepping out of the presidential race, making it the first time in recorded history that an ageing boomer has ever retired in order to let a younger person take their job. “Folks, I’ve had […]
  • Nicoleism101@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t really care about this nonsense boomer vs millennial talk. There are some terrible zillenials and awesome boomers, it’s very rigid thinking to say they are all bad.

    Unproductive way of looking at things

      • Nicoleism101@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Idk maybe it was a light knock once but now it feels like a trench war based on flawed premise

        However I cannot argue it can be fun to shit on iPad kids even it isn’t super fair

        • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          If you’re comfortable shitting on kids for wanting to be entertained and parents needing 5 minutes of sanity then yes you can handle this joke

            • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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              2 months ago

              No you were just a judgmental person with no kids and a lack of imagination. Not every kid with an iPad is spoiled and/or has parents that offloaded the parenting to a screen.

              It is wild how comfortable people are judging parents based off a myriad of assumptions all informed by like 4 seconds of seeing a kid.

  • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Biden isn’t a boomer, he’s from the generation before, the silent generation.

    • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      When informed that he predated the Boomer generation by four years, Biden explained that taking a title away from a younger generation “is actually the most Boomer thing one could do, so it still counts!”

      Kamala Harris was quick to assure ageing employees across America that she, while younger, was also technically a boomer.

    • meliaesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      When informed that he predated the Boomer generation by four years, Biden explained that taking a title away from a younger generation “is actually the most Boomer thing one could do, so it still counts!”

      You should always read the article, even if it’s satire.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Kamala, OTOH, is a boomer. She was born in 1964, and generally the Boomer generation is defined as 1946-1964.

      The generations of the presidents are interesting. Kennedy (1917), Johnson (1908), Nixon (1913), Ford (1913), Carter (1924), Reagan (1911) and Bush Sr. (1924) were all “greatest” generation presidents. Clinton (1946), Bush Jr. (1946), Obama (1961) and Trump (1946) were all Boomers. Biden was the first (and presumably last) silent generation president (1925-1945).

      There’s also a weird clustering of ages. Nixon and Ford were both 1913. Carter and Bush Senior were both 1924. Clinton, Bush Jr. and Trump were all 1946.

      There has never been a Gen X president, and until Biden, never a silent generation president. If Kamala wins, it makes me wonder if Gen X is going to be skipped over the way Silent was. If she wins and serves 2 terms, she’ll be out of office at 68 in 2032. The youngest possible Gen X candidate at that point will be 53, and maybe people will start skipping right to Millennials.

    • sunzu@kbin.run
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      2 months ago

      I wonder why the down votes… Do we really have this many corpo democrats to be hurt by this obviously true statement?

      • jwt@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        My guess is it’s the tone/phrasing of the comment. They could’ve just said he has about 10 million bucks. Which imo is not an exorbitant amount of wealth to have accumulated for a (very…) senior citizen who has worked for >50 years in upper echelon functions.

        The blanket statement about readers ‘not being fine’ because they don’t have that kind of money also doesn’t help.

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Politically, most of the folks on Lemmy are pro-establishment, even if it means voting for someone who is in obvious cognitive decline. (Which until yesterday was both candidates.)

  • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Kamala Harris was born October 20th, 1964.

    Gen X starts at 1965 and Baby boomers end in 1964.

    You were this close Gen X…

    • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      My dad was born in the same year, falls under that category; but by all accounts he is far more like a gen X than a boomer since he early adopted computers, liked younger music, skateboarded, etc… Things get blurry along the line.

      That said, I doubt Kamala is cool like that… but probably not because she’s a boomer, lol.

    • ohmyiv@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Not once have I, or any Gen Xer I know, said “Boy, I hope the next president is from my generation.”

      As far as my Xer family, friends, and coworkers go, we couldn’t care less on which generation is elected as long as they aren’t fucking things up even more.

      • the_artic_one@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s pretty fitting with Gen-X’s reputation of being the generation that gave up on having influence on the state of the world. As a millennial constantly stressing about the impact I’m having on things, that sometimes sounds like a really sensible choice.

    • metallic_z3r0@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Joe Biden is too old to be a Boomer, technically. He’s part of the Silent Generation. So really he’s just doing the traditional Silent Generation part of bowing out so a Boomer can take over.

      • sunzu@kbin.run
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        2 months ago

        Mark my word… Boomers will be way more savage.

        They hate the poors and they hate young people outright. Policy will reflect this bias.

        Younger ones feel like they didn’t get their fair share since clowns like buffet etc are still running the regime. So once they finally get that power, get read for the fuckening

        • darvocet@infosec.pubEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Boomers have been in control for a long time. They are dying now thankfully. Gen X is just now up and most of us aren’t dipshits…

          • Kiosade@lemmy.caEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Ehh I’d say quite a good amount of Gen X are like “Boomer-Lite” in how they act and live, if not full on Boomers. Especially the earlier half of the generation.

          • sunzu@kbin.run
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            2 months ago

            Boomers have been the public face of the regime ran by the silent generation owners and their crotch fruit.

            It is changing now as tech daddies and other newer oligarchs are taking over, who are mostly boomer.

            Gen X sold out in my personal experience at least the ones who got out of middle management. They act just like boomers, it is their turn to get paid.