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Posted: 4/29/2023 10:35:03 PM EDT
Here’s how the left’s doomsday lies created the awesome generation of Generation X.
Our teachers were the adult hippies, and so we were constantly told we would soon die in a nuclear blast. Even in our Weekly Reader, death was right around the corner. Over and over, they had us participate in useless and terrifying “duck and cover” nuclear drills. Imminent death was pounded into us. And if it wasn’t nukes, it was the depletion of the ozone layer, acid rain, Global Cooling, the population bomb, worldwide famine, the exhaustion of natural resources, or something else that ended up being exposed as a hoax. These manipulative leftists mistakenly believed scare tactics would convince my generation to extend their socialist peace movement through the anti-nuke or environmental movement. Well, thankfully, they were wrong. Instead, we became the awesomest generation—Generation X. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/29/nolte-how-lefts-doomsday-lies-accidentally-created-awesome-generation-x/ |
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As a GenX'r...I don't give a fuck what other generations think. They're all pussies.
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“Acid rain will kill all the trees!”
“Another blizzard like the last one and we could be spun into a new ice age!” Yeah, I remember the bullshit hype. Global warming before global warming was cool. |
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Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity.
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Quoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. View Quote Attached File |
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Quoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. View Quote My GenZ kid just got done with a 2 year college to become an electrician. He found a lady that has 200 customers that she sprays lawns for. Average is $150/lawn 4x per year. He's buying her business. Say what again... |
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Quoted: My GenZ kid just got done with a 2 year college to become an electrician. He found a lady that has 200 customers that she sprays lawns for. Average is $150/lawn 4x per year. He's buying her business. Say what again... View Quote So you're gonna raise your ONE kid against the aggregate and say it somehow disproves the rule? Walk your ass into a HS or college and see what kind shit is being pumped out. Be thankful your kid is 3 standard deviations out most of the rest of them want a fucking participation trophy and $20/hr just for showing up. |
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Quoted: So you're gonna raise your ONE kid against the aggregate and say it somehow disproves the rule? Walk your ass into a HS or college and see what kind shit is being pumped out. Be thankful your kid is 3 standard deviations out most of the rest of them want a fucking participation trophy and $20/hr just for showing up. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: My GenZ kid just got done with a 2 year college to become an electrician. He found a lady that has 200 customers that she sprays lawns for. Average is $150/lawn 4x per year. He's buying her business. Say what again... So you're gonna raise your ONE kid against the aggregate and say it somehow disproves the rule? Walk your ass into a HS or college and see what kind shit is being pumped out. Be thankful your kid is 3 standard deviations out most of the rest of them want a fucking participation trophy and $20/hr just for showing up. Actually I have two kids. My youngest is a junior and has been working for a plumber during the summer the last two years. He's going into micro robotics when he graduates HS next year. I live in rural SD though, so the kids here are a little tougher than the kids in the rest of the world. You work or you don't get to go drive around. ETA:We are the GenX parents that raise our kids the way we were raised. |
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Most people in America: OMG what are we going to do about_______ or aren't you worried about _____?!!?!!
Gen X, fuck it we will figure it out when we get there. |
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We are literally the children of hippies. We watched the "communal farm" and mom's "market stall" turn into Stock Market dad and Career Mom. Raised ourselves pretty much from the time we could feed ourselves. Sorta the fruition of Timothy Leary's "Tune in, Turn on, and Drop Out."
We have seen that shit not work. We have seen kids that were named "Moonbeam" in kindergarten, change their names to Chad in elementary school. If that sounds oddly specific IT IS MOTHERFUCKER. Now try and sell me some government cheese. |
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In on one. Thread has great potential.
ETA: Gen X. I would say Gen X is the greatest since 'the greatest generation'. |
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They forgot about the constant threat from ninjas and quick sand.
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Gen X here. The generational thing is overblown. Dumb fucks in every generation. I associate with those of a like mind, not what year they were born.
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Technically I am a boomer but since I was born in ‘58 I am on the cusp of gen x. I experienced all of those things but my parents were definitely not hippies. They grew up poor farm kids.
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Quoted: Quoted: As a GenX'r...I don't give a fuck what other generations think. They're all pussies. This pretty much sums it up Attached File |
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All their bleating did was hone our witty sarcasm razor sharp and it created a fatalistic calm in accepting our imminent death, lol.
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Quoted: My GenZ kid just got done with a 2 year college to become an electrician. He found a lady that has 200 customers that she sprays lawns for. Average is $150/lawn 4x per year. He's buying her business. Say what again... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. My GenZ kid just got done with a 2 year college to become an electrician. He found a lady that has 200 customers that she sprays lawns for. Average is $150/lawn 4x per year. He's buying her business. Say what again... What is she spraying? |
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Quoted: “Acid rain will kill all the trees!” “Another blizzard like the last one and we could be spun into a new ice age!” Yeah, I remember the bullshit hype. Global warming before global warming was cool. View Quote Don't forget the OZONE HOLE! And we're all gonna die because of the loss of the amazon. |
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Quoted: Actually I have two kids. My youngest is a junior and has been working for a plumber during the summer the last two years. He's going into micro robotics when he graduates HS next year. I live in rural SD though, so the kids here are a little tougher than the kids in the rest of the world. You work or you don't get to go drive around. ETA:We are the GenX parents that raise our kids the way we were raised. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Actually I have two kids. My youngest is a junior and has been working for a plumber during the summer the last two years. He's going into micro robotics when he graduates HS next year. I live in rural SD though, so the kids here are a little tougher than the kids in the rest of the world. You work or you don't get to go drive around. ETA:We are the GenX parents that raise our kids the way we were raised. Fine, I'll call your first random kid in rural SD and play my 18 year old intern we have here at work who is 2 weeks away from graduating: He just got his driver's license but his parents don't let him drive so his mom drops him off to work. I'm not sure why he wanted to work here as he can't do anything. He broke a band saw blade so I told him replace/fix what you break and the blades are in one of our cabinets in the back. 20min later the blade is off but he's sitting in a chair watching TikTok or YouTube. I'll also raise you a 21 year old we have who spent two weeks trying to figure out how to use our printer/fax/copier. She knows how to keep her hair pink though Gen X's own shit parenting of just letting kids wander around kinda worked when smart phones didn't exist. You could only screw up in person but you still had to show up. Gen Z just phones it in. Someone else will handle that. Gen X gave their 9 year olds cell phones and left em alone like they were and now we have 15 years worth of kids who never grew up, got addicted to porn/onlyfans, and think virtue signaling on social media is life's most important calling. The vast majority of people even here in GD using their own kids is going to use data points in the top 1%. Gen Z is max ~5% capable adults. I'm 36. I see Gen X's shit parenting every day. I'll take one retired 65 year old man over 3 Gen Zers. Boomers get shit done. Quoted: As bad as Gen Z is reputed to supposedly be, I can say with 100% certainty that they are much more squared away than any Millennial I’ve met. Zero fucking chance. Millennials are like the talented kid who is too cool to do work. Get on their ass or tie their performance to money and they'll produce. Most of Gen Z is worthless and it's from Gen X passing on their non-existent parenting. Ship me all the millennials you've got and I'll trade em for 2 of my Gen Zers. |
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Quoted: We are literally the children of hippies. We watched the "communal farm" and mom's "market stall" turn into Stock Market dad and Career Mom. Raised ourselves pretty much from the time we could feed ourselves. Sorta the fruition of Timothy Leary's "Tune in, Turn on, and Drop Out." We have seen that shit not work. We have seen kids that were named "Moonbeam" in kindergarten, change their names to Chad in elementary school. If that sounds oddly specific IT IS MOTHERFUCKER. Now try and sell me some government cheese. View Quote What about the Gen X raised by Vietnam Vets? Not everyone was a hippie or liberal. |
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Quoted: Here's how the left's doomsday lies created the awesome generation of Generation X. Our teachers were the adult hippies, and so we were constantly told we would soon die in a nuclear blast. Even in our Weekly Reader, death was right around the corner. Over and over, they had us participate in useless and terrifying "duck and cover" nuclear drills. Imminent death was pounded into us. And if it wasn't nukes, it was the depletion of the ozone layer, acid rain, Global Cooling, the population bomb, worldwide famine, the exhaustion of natural resources, or something else that ended up being exposed as a hoax. These manipulative leftists mistakenly believed scare tactics would convince my generation to extend their socialist peace movement through the anti-nuke or environmental movement. Well, thankfully, they were wrong. Instead, we became the awesomest generation Generation X. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/29/nolte-how-lefts-doomsday-lies-accidentally-created-awesome-generation-x/ View Quote Really just there so we wouldn't smoke pot. And they could beat us with a wood paddle if we fucked up. |
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Quoted: Wut? All the Gen Z kids thst are my nieces and nephews are kids of Boomers. All their parents are born ‘63 and earlier. View Quote You're telling me every Gen Z you know was born to parents that were 38+ when they had them. C'mon man. You need to check the age ranges for generations. |
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Quoted: Gen X here. The generational thing is overblown. Dumb fucks in every generation. I associate with those of a like mind, not what year they were born. View Quote This is my observation as well. There are some generational norms that distinguish them from each other, but I see a lot of 'woke' 50+ year olds that aren't millennials. |
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Quoted: I wipe my ass with gen x'ers. View Quote So, you're an early boomer, with severe dimentia, and your gen-x kid is nice enough to hang around and wipe your bum so the nurses in your nursing home don't have to? Wow, thank you for the compliment! Here's your pudding, now let's go back to your room and watch some more lawrence welk. |
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Quoted: You're telling me every Gen Z you know was born to parents that were 38+ when they had them. C'mon man. You need to check the age ranges for generations. View Quote Yes all of them had kids later. Most of Gen X didn’t have kids at all. We were like “what kind of dumb fuck brings life into this mess?” |
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The circlejerk generation
Too busy patting each other on the back with their free hand to do anything really useful |
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I never had nuclear drills in any of my schools (I went to 9). Born in ‘68, graduated in ‘87.
My parents did. They’re boomers. Born in ‘47 and ‘48. My teachers may have been liberal (I’m guessing?) but they kept politics out of the classroom. Even when they had a big union contract dispute when I was in high school, not only did the teachers vote not to go on strike, but when we asked them about what was going on, they said it wasn’t appropriate to discuss in school. The only time I heard a teacher express a political opinion was a Social Studies teacher who seemed really impressed with Reagan. Half my teachers were Korean and Vietnam war vets. My chemistry teacher was a WWII vet. That might have helped keep liberalism out of our classrooms. Here’s the kicker….I grew up in ultra-liberal Massachusetts. |
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Quoted: eta: hint, depends when the gen-z in question was born. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes There is no question. Everyone uses 1996 or 1997 as the start of Gen Z Quoted: Yes all of them had kids later. Most of Gen X didn’t have kids at all. We were like “what kind of dumb fuck brings life into this mess?” You are so full of shit. No one is starting their family at 38. https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/eickmeyer-payne-brown-manning-crossover-age-first-marriage-birth-fp-17-22.html https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/02news/ameriwomen.htm#:~:text=The%20report%20also%20showed%20that,over%20the%20past%20three%20decades The entirety of Gen Z range (1996-2012) shows first birth median age of 24. That would mean most of the data shows Gen Z started with people born in 1974. The stat for 5th birth or more is 34 median. You're telling me everyone YOU know had their first child beyond the national average of women having their FIFTH child. Get real. Quoted: Are you confused about how not giving a fuck works? Your generation has a lot of practice using that line on your kids. |
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