Kamala Harris was born October 20th, 1964.
Gen X starts at 1965 and Baby boomers end in 1964.
You were this close Gen X....
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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.
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.
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.
Whatever.
That's the Gen X spirit! We need more of that these days.
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.
The named generations stuff almost resembles astrology or a D&D alignment charts when you look at it under a certain light.
Sounds like something a millennial human warlock would say.
There is definitely more in your birth cohort than in the positions of the constellations. People often point at X being the generation with a free outdoor youth, but computers and mobile phones in their late teens and/or adulthood. Millennials never had a time without internet, were often baby sat by iPads.
The earlier generations were defined by wars and the great depression, perhaps future generations will only be useful to demographers
Maybe there's no real meaning in generations beyond Millennials (the last group with a different digital life to the prior generation), at least until some major crisis or advance makes us point out the groups affected
UNPRECEDENTED
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No no, they're actually creative they don't need stupid puns
This straight up should be on not the onion at this point LMAOOOOO
Biden isn't a boomer, he's from the generation before, the silent generation.
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.
And he made place for an actual Boomer.
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.
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.
I wish Trump was from the silent generation.
This is how I find out. Wow.
Well, we certainly live in interesting times. Fucking hell.
That someone younger is 59 years old
Correct. Kamala Harris is 22 years younger than Joe Biden and 19 years younger than Donald Trump.
And Elon Musk is 53. So?
Edit: This wasn't meant to be about Musk, it's supposed to point out that 59 isn't old and that age cutoffs are largely arbitrary.
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
It’s a joke. We all take so much generational shit from boomers a light knock like this is absolutely fair game.
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
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
I am super comfortable, chair with massage levels comfortable
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.
Eh I know I would have been quite happy with one if I'd had it as a kid, especially during road trips. Even the Walkman was a boon.
Lmao fantastic one
Hero!
Haha, thank gunness this was written.
Top post on Lemmy… oh, it’s theonion. Sigh
the ageist bullshit from the media is tiresome.