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[–] [email protected] 69 points 10 months ago

Don't get me started on the statues of Confederacy losers

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Baby Boomers practically invented the participation trophy. It's why millennials got so many. And I've literally never heard a Baby Boomer complain about them. I've only ever heard about Gen X folks and below complain about them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I guess Fox News is made up of and watched by gen x then?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My dad and his friends are Gen X and all about the Fox kool-aid, so yeah kinda

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was born near the end of Gen X and it's stark how different I am from folks just a few years older than me - my aunt is early Gen X and she's a piece of shit. I identify more with Millennials so I just go with Xennial or Inbetweener.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I've heard young Xers and old millennials called the Oregon Trail generation. Named that because we were the first ones to have computers growing up. We grew up as the tech matured and got to watch it become easier and more useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Fox News has a predominantly older audience, with nearly half of its users being 50 or older. Americans ages 65 and older account for around four-in-ten of those who say their main source of political news is Fox News.

Baby Boomers: Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. They're currently between 59-77 years old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Two points: 1) The mechanism by which individuals consume media shifts across generations. Baby Boomers watch more Fox News and MSNBC than any younger age cohort because they're still very much invested in consuming news media via television. That said, 2) According to viewership statistics Fox News and MSNBC have the same viewership percentages for Gen X - around 25%. Which is the second highest viewership percentage after Baby Boomers, who also consume liberal news media in extremely high percentages.

https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-cable-news-channel-watchers/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

That is some bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wonder who have millennials participation trophies; it's not like they bought it for themselves 🤔

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Could it be unstable parents complaining that their kids didn't get trophies for participating? 🤔

[+] [email protected] -39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah it's not like you have to interact with a variety of different parents! But yeah it's definitely the military GOP boomers and not progressives going overboard🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think you're absolutely wrong (anecdote incoming after my question), but let's assume for a second that you're correct. Why were the millennials as children blamed when they're not at trophy shops buying their own trophies?

Anecdote, as promised: I grew up in a very small, very conservative town. They love Supply Side Jesus and the Prosperity Gospel, and they hate the welfare queens that they were sure stole every dime of their tax money. In the 90s they got way into making sure THEIR kid got trophies while simultaneously complaining that all kids got trophies.

I don't believe the millennials, who were children in the 90s, bought their own trophies. I don't believe it was only progressives thinking their children were snowflakes. I also don't think you'll care because it doesn't square with your beliefs and you don't seem like the kind of person that's intelligent enough to process any new information that isn't about Jesus getting tougher on crime.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think it was mostly otherwise Gen x over compensating for the bullshit their parents pulled. I very much doubt you are going to find too many conservative families with that experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's ok, you're allowed to doubt reality. That's the cool thing about the real world. You can doubt it all you like. It's still real no matter what you believe.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

👌👍 it's gop'ers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Why are you here?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Progressives going overboard with what?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

Participation trophies. This is a progressive Gen x thing.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

A veteran I know wears a veteran hat but it's because he's too shy to ask if they have a military discount

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

On the topic of Vietnam Vets though, one battle they did win was the one against the federal government (all the way to the supreme court even) for benefits due to Agent Orange. It was unheard of at the time, and it paved the way for other benefits to be given to the veterans who came after them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

"I watched alot of good men die in a sweatshop in Vietnam and all I got was this lousy hat"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'm only gonna do it one time so you better pay attention, this is how you fake someone out and steal their identity....