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.
Mark my word... Boomers will be way more savage.
They hate the poors and they hate young people outright. Policy will reflect this bias.
Younger ones feel like they didn't get their fair share since clowns like buffet etc are still running the regime. So once they finally get that power, get read for the fuckening
Boomers have been in control for a long time. They are dying now thankfully. Gen X is just now up and most of us aren’t dipshits…
Ehh I’d say quite a good amount of Gen X are like “Boomer-Lite” in how they act and live, if not full on Boomers. Especially the earlier half of the generation.
Yeah, we seem to have split into either "boomer-like" or "millennial-like" groups.
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.
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
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Biden isn't a boomer, he's from the generation before, the silent generation.
When informed that he predated the Boomer generation by four years, Biden explained that taking a title away from a younger generation “is actually the most Boomer thing one could do, so it still counts!”
You should always read the article, even if it's satire.
Kamala, OTOH, is a boomer. She was born in 1964, and generally the Boomer generation is defined as 1946-1964.
The generations of the presidents are interesting. Kennedy (1917), Johnson (1908), Nixon (1913), Ford (1913), Carter (1924), Reagan (1911) and Bush Sr. (1924) were all "greatest" generation presidents. Clinton (1946), Bush Jr. (1946), Obama (1961) and Trump (1946) were all Boomers. Biden was the first (and presumably last) silent generation president (1925-1945).
There's also a weird clustering of ages. Nixon and Ford were both 1913. Carter and Bush Senior were both 1924. Clinton, Bush Jr. and Trump were all 1946.
There has never been a Gen X president, and until Biden, never a silent generation president. If Kamala wins, it makes me wonder if Gen X is going to be skipped over the way Silent was. If she wins and serves 2 terms, she'll be out of office at 68 in 2032. The youngest possible Gen X candidate at that point will be 53, and maybe people will start skipping right to Millennials.
And he made place for an actual Boomer.
This is how I find out. Wow.
Biden has an eight-figure fortune.
He'll be fine.
You won't, because you're not part of that club.
I wonder why the down votes... Do we really have this many corpo democrats to be hurt by this obviously true statement?
Politically, most of the folks on Lemmy are pro-establishment, even if it means voting for someone who is in obvious cognitive decline. (Which until yesterday was both candidates.)
the ageist bullshit from the media is tiresome.
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