WASHINGTON DC — In a move that has shocked employees around the world, Joe Biden announced today that he would be stepping out of the presidential race, making it the first time in recorded history that an ageing boomer has ever retired in order to let a younger person take their job. “Folks, I’ve had […]
Kamala Harris was born October 20th, 1964.
Gen X starts at 1965 and Baby boomers end in 1964.
You were this close Gen X…
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.
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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.
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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