Any Gen X folks on this board? Why do you guys always sound so salty?

This is the type of millennial that gives us a bad name, and they're EVERYWHERE. This is not just a tiny minority or stereotype of millennials; many millennials think just like this libtard.
i only watched the first minute and her repsonse to who's gonna pay was "umm good question .. (let me make some s*** up on the fly) 

thats exactly the types that give us a bad rep. Im 29 feel like i dont really belong. I guess its all dependent on your upbringing and what YOU CHOOSE to do with yourself growing up. 

Like above said, growing up and living life in time without internet and cellphones, where basically the only time we watched tv was probably 30 minutes before school and maybe an hour after school. Internet came around when I was in 5th grade it was so new that only 1 classroom had it, i dont recall having it in my middle school at all or i just was never interested in finding out. Now I see first-hand with toddlers using iPads and knowing what to do with them and operate to different apps etc. 

the perception is that many think things should be laid out for them, or handed to them ... but why? and then there is never a legitimate answer
 
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Millenials have this idea of entitlement.

There's one person I know who complained about how they'll have to pay x amount in taxes because of how much they make and even considered quitting their job because of it. If they didn't work they wouldn't even have money to begin with so why complain about that. Makes no sense to me.
 
There are so many ppl across all generations, income levels, etc that all complain about taxes. One of the weakest examples you can use


Millenials have this idea of entitlement.

There's one person I know who complained about how they'll have to pay x amount in taxes because of how much they make and even considered quitting their job because of it. If they didn't work they wouldn't even have money to begin with so why complain about that. Makes no sense to me.
 
i was shocked when i heard millenials accounted for such a wide range.
 a "generation" is typically characterized (unofficially) as a 20-25 year period (at least thats how we have been measuring them)...

there are millennials with kids that are also considered millennials, if they had them around 18-20 or so...
 
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If you were a minor when y2k went down, you are a millennial. It's so lame when these people who are in their early 30's are like "well I'm not a millennial because I was too old to get into Pokemon" or they say that because they listened to CD's in high school they are not a millennial."

We all clown Ninjahood until the cows come home because he tells himself and the world that he is not black. We laugh but any reasonably informed observer knows that he and millions of other folks like him are being pushed by white supremacy. To be considered "black" is to have a giant "come loot me sign" floating above your head.

Now the stakes for generational conflict are usually far lower than that of racialized plunder but the same dynamics apply. To be labeled a millennial is to be green lit for plunder. Unpaid and serial interneships, huge and undischargable student loans, credential inflation, rigged housing markets and low paid and precarious labor are ways to transfer money from poor young people toward wealthy older people. Just like white supremacy, the dominant group blames the plundered group for getting plundered. They blame some singular lack of virtue for their distress, hence the whole participation Trophy meme.

Millennial responses follow the same responses that far too many black folks use. Some young folks mention their military service. Some young folks point out the fact that they have a long and continuous employment history that goes back to their mid teens. Some young folks try to opt out of the hated group but the wealthy, older elites don't care that you remembered the early 90's just like they don't care that your black *** is 1/4 Taino Indian.

We, young adults, got to organize and demand policy changes and stop with this divide and conquer respectability politics that only confirms the stereotypes.


Addendum: I am not trying to discount anyone's personal stories. When I say that you are black or you are a millennial, whether you like it or not, I am speaking through the lens of the dominant society and its willingness to assign you to a binary group and mark you for plunder.

The complex family tree of many black residents of the Western Hemisphere is complex and interesting and the European, indigenous, South Asian and African admixtures tells a very unique and intriguing story.

To a much lesser extent, the experience of the 30 something millennial and how he or she relates to technology is very interesting. If you were born between 1982 and 1986,you were old enough to know how to write and properly address letters, use library card catalogues, use encyclopedias, write and read cursive, use pay phones and navigate a fairly low tech world. At the same time, you were still young enough to seamlessly become a "netizen" at the close of the 1990's.
 
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I'm 27, can't relate to my so called "generation". Most of them don't have ANY social skills, are unoriginal, mentally and physically soft. They don't appreciate much, and lack accountability. I've their lives online or mobile, yet are clueless in the public realm. There's nothing wrong with technology or forward innovation but, a lot of these people do not live balanced lives.
I'm 27 and I agree ... mostly women though don't really have skills ( social practical ) anymore
 
born in 83, all da cats i hung out with and looked up to were all Gen Xers...that Reagan era was Dopeness.

i stopped taking people who were born past 96 serious, if u wasn't around when It Was Written, and Reasonable Doubt was out, what do u know that i would care about? :lol:

I don't think I talk to anyone after 94 in real life besides my nephews
 
Maybe its my hue, but all the young millennials I know would still get their **** pooped by moms if they felt entitled to anything.
 
Born 81. Don't mind being a millineal or whatever the f. It's 2017, **** stupid out here. Santa ain't real
 
How'd I miss this thread? Username says it all. Gen X up in this.

I'll come back and read through when I have more time.

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gen x lucky guys with cheap college education basically cheaper better quality on most things

everything is tight n competitive nowadays

we think we made racial progress during obama, but quite number of gen x, maybe even before are trapped in that "mindset" :smh:

younger multi race prez to older gen white prez
 
Maybe its my hue, but all the young millennials I know would still get their **** pooped by moms if they felt entitled to anything.
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22 and since 16 I've had to work for pretty much anything I wanted that wasnt an essential.

Now I make more than over half of most grown men.

Some of us winning lowkey.
 
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Not sure what Gen Xers got to complain about. Millennials just entered the work-force within the last 10 years or so, we sure as hell didn't cause 20 trillion in debt in that time.

Gen Xers got rid of many subsidies for schools to reduce budget deficits, thus pushing the costs towards millennials, giving our generation the debt.

Millennials gotta pay off the federal debt that is at our doorstep from the gen Xers, our own debt, and not screw over our childrens' generation

"The average cost of tuition  and fees at a private, non-profit, four-year university this school year was $31,231—up sharply from $1,832 in 1971-1972 (in current dollars). At public, four-year schools, tuition and fees cost about $9,139 this year. In the 1971 school year, they added up to less than $500 in current dollars, according to the College Board.

"If you look at the long-term trend, [college tuition] has been rising almost six percent above the rate of inflation,"In 1971, for example, Harvard's $2,600 tuition amounted to about 13 weeks' worth of the median household's annual income of $10,285. Today, the median household needs to work for almost a year to pay the full sticker price."

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/16/why-college-costs-are-so-high-and-rising.html
 
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Who cares about this crap. You cant generalize all millennials as entitled social media addicts and you cant generalize that all gen xers are cranky old people
 
(context: I'm 28.)

I see a few issues that contribute to the chasm between generations:

- you really don't have to put much effort out there to live a socially acceptable and somewhat sustainable life these days.

you'll pass high school as long as you give a quarter-**** and from there you can get a nice job as a cog somewhere and have just enough money to pay your bills, get to work, maintain your monthly streaming subscriptions and go to Applebe--um, to the movies 1.5 times a month.

this is perfectly normal now, and while that's not a bad thing in and of itself it is worth noting that a generation ago if you weren't saving up for a car, a house and a ring by my age you were pretty much labeled and known as a loser to the public. the "goals" have changed.

- for the first time in American history, the average quality of life is declining noticeably. that'll make everybody good and cranky.

- social media is a legitimate drug. like soma. maybe I'll start calling it that.

-anyone born 5 or more years after me literally does not know a world without cell phones, etc. it has fundamentally altered how humans interact, and they know only the new system.

- the world is changing too quickly for EVERYONE. each generation thinks the others have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to navigating the society we now live in, and they're right.

- it's much more illegal to hit people now. in years past, folks held their tongues if they didn't want to lick knuckles, now people can just type up some crowd-pleasing ether or provoke a person they clearly can't handle under protection of the law, like kicking dirt at a big dog on a thick chain.

hell, thinking about it is there any real-life consequence for most of the flagrantly disrespectful actions we've all seen in various YouTube videos? as my pop so often says..."back in the day, that woulda got your *** whooped."

- plain ole jealousy. the Xers are right in saying we have opportunities they never had...I mean, Tinder alone, jeez. it's the same feeling I get when I see little kids allowed to take their smartphones to school...or have ******* smartphones.

-the world is demonstrably ****** from multiple angles, and the last 20 years has seen a massive awakening to that fact. that might be the most disturbing thing about it, that this might be a natural response to the environment in which we find ourselves...I once saw a meme that said something to the effect of "society might only have 20 years left, leave us millenials alone and let us enjoy our cartoons."

it stuck with me because sometimes, it's hard to offer a compelling rebuttal.
 
^ millennials never had any real cartoons to enjoy anyway & how smug to assume there might only be 20 years left - of course it has to happen on the millennial's watch...how could such a defining moment forsake them?
 
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All those excuses by cosmiccoffee

Lol...

Theres young people in this new generation which I call the
SAVAGE generation... out here doimg big things without anyones permission...

Cosmiccoffee sounds like a kid still asking for permission
 
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depending on who you ask, I am one and I'll be good and goddamned if I'II sit here and let you badmouth One Saturday Morning
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...this whole generational classification thing is pretty nebulous anyway but the takeaway is that it's a brave new world and nobody knows quite how we humans fit into it.
 
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