• drewaustin
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    216 days ago

    Judging by the car in the background, these are not boomers, but gen-xers.

    • @jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk
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      26 days ago

      That’s cos the kids posting this stuff aren’t smart enough to tell the difference. For them “boomer” is just a term for anyone older than themselves and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it starting being used for millennials.

      • the whole concept of categorizing everyone by 2 decade increments at birth is stupid….
        the Boomer generation made sense as there was an event that cause a baby boom and such….
        there’s no single thing that ties gen x, millennials, zoomers or whatever together….
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        i am somewhat fond of the “oregon trail” generation for everyone that remembers playing that game on computers in elementary school….
        and the whole information age coming online was a big unifying event for the kids growing up in it, distinct from previous and future humans….
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        but like, “people born from 1980-2000” is absolute horseshit and just another way “the man” uses to divide and conquer us.

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Yeah, if we’re going to assume that an entire age cohort is some sort of philosophical and political monoblock, we should at least get the cohort right.