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Every generation has plenty of those - no worries!

As a Gen Xer I'm heartened to see Gen Z stepping up to literally save the world. Seeing the swell in support for Harris and in voter registration numbers, I for once am feeling hopeful. I hope they can accomplish what the forgotten generation couldn't.

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Already I see a lot more self awareness versus the boomers, so it looks like a net positive in any event

Yeah. X/Mil cusper here. The elder Gen X are more like Boomers than anything, but have more anger and technical acumen.

If I'm not mistaken gen X is the first generation to become more progressive as it ages

Biden is actually the first and only president from “The Silent Generation”

(Side note: Trump, Dubya, and Bubba were all born in 1946)

She's Generation Jones. So am I (b. 1963)

Damn, they even have her picture on the page 😆

Generation Jones is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older siblings in the earlier portion of the Baby Boomer population; thus, many note that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to older Boomers. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness and "jonesing" for the level of doting and affluence granted to older Boomers but denied to them

I can't tell if she looks young for her age, or if she looks super young compared to everyone else on stage wirh her

The dates for these generations are not set in stone. Lots of organizations use 1965 to 1980 but the US SSA uses 1965 as the start.

People born around the transition points are going to have more in common with each other than with people born earlier in the date range. Especially when you consider families having kids a few years apart but each is apparently a different "generation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X#:~:text=U.S.%20news%20outlets%20such%20as,born%20between%201965%20and%201980%22.

Gen X here, too.

DeSantis is younger than me.

That's all I'm going to say. Gooooooooooo Millennials and Gen Z. PLEASE.

...yeah, they're going to jump from five baby boomers straight to millennials next change of the guard, and like, whatever, man: we acclimated to disenfranchisement thirty years ago...

At least she’s under the retirement age!!!

Preach. So tired of this bullshit "generation warfare".

It's cool you'll get like four years then we millennials will take over.

Don't know about you, but I'm out here slackin' away.

As an aging millennial, I am surprised by how the process of time works.

Like you spend your life acquiring skills and using your knowledge in an ever expanding cornucopia of experiences.

Then followed by a gradual decline to be left only with your memories of who you once were. But then you realize you were only a small part of the existence of others, and ultimately the universe. Yep, the thought of faculties diminishing over time is enough to put the one into an extensional crisis.

One thing I'm looking forward to with millennial leadership is just people that finally fully understand the power of the internet, big data and what truly distinguishes the information age. If you didn't grow up with it, it's hard to grapple with just how much it truly upended ... fucking everything. They mostly still don't understand that a computer can basically read their mind now, just through indirect data gathering and comparing them to all of the other people. We all get that at a more intuitive level, we've spent too long around these algorithms and seas of semi-anonymous others.

Of course we'll be in some quantum AI room-temp-superconductor age by then, so, y'know how it goes. But we should at least have a better handle on the information age problems, so that'll be nice.

It's almost like generational distinction is meaningless and it's actually about class.

Maybe I am missing something but you do have to be born before or after some exact year to be of a named generation. That’s kind of the definition. Gen X is 1965 - 1980.