Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress

Re:Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress by biglyburrito on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:30AM (#50453177)

Too bad my generation (X) is shaping up to be garbage, just like the Boomers. You'd think we would have learned from the example they set, where we had it fairly good as kids & young adults but saw the Boomers hellbent on trying to keep it all for themselves as we got older. Nope, apparently a lot of us are seeing fit to try and do it to the generations behind us: Millenials, Z, & Alpha.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/11/02/are-gen-xers-the-new...

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Re:Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress by bluefirebrand on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:38AM (#50453988)

Not too surprising I guess. Gen Xers I know paint themselves as more laid back than Boomers, and in some ways they are, but they are exactly as corporate and bureaucratic as Boomers in many other ways. Whatever rebel spirit they had decades ago seems long gone now

They're better parents than Boomers were I think, but not really better bosses

Obviously a generalization though

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Re:Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress by breakyerself on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:31AM (#50454601)

I just overheard a GenXer telling some gen z newhires at my work that social security is going to cut benefits in 2030 because 90% of immigrants are on welfare. I was in the next room so it was too awkward for me to jump into the conversation and straighten him out. It's very frustrating. Stop watching conservative media. It will rot your brain.

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Re:Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress by add-sub-mul-div on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:52AM (#50454849)

Immigrants are like the free square in bingo to many people. Anything you don't like, you can blame on them. It makes life easier for a certain kind of person.

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Re:Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress by nemomarx on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:37AM (#50454672)

Didn't X get more childhood lead than anyone else? Dealt a bad hand maybe.

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Re:Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress by steego on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:06AM (#50455009)

We did and we were statistically the most violent generation. Anecdotally, when I was a dumb kid, we honestly went looking for fights.

What many people forget is that more GenXers wanted to beat up Kurt Cobain than to listen to his music.

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Re:Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress by pixl97 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:45AM (#50455470)

>the most violent generation

As a late GenX, gas was still leaded when I was a kid. It's usage peaked in GenX years and dropped after that until it was mostly phased out. Biggest mistake human kind ever did. (oops, GP mentioned this).

I went to school with a bunch of these idiots. While there were a lot of intelligent and nice individuals, this was before the "don't be bullys" thing really took off. There was no shortage of uncontrolled assholes running around that thought they could get away with anything. My mom worked for booking at the jail at the time and reported back to me how many kids in the yearbook ended up incarcerated and it was a lot.

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Re:Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress by pixl97 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:47AM (#50455502)

Yep, I remember 69 cent leaded gas as a child. Also sitting in the back of station wagon with the window open breathing the fumes. I wonder how many IQ points I burned that way.

1970 was peak leaded gas, but unleaded didn't overcome leaded in usage until 1980.

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Re:Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress by talon8635 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:13PM (#50455825)

Calling whole generation “garbage” is not very mature and reasonable

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