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- This seems more accurate.
  
  The top labels are reversed. I doubt a lesbian icon would be something boomers would appreciate.
  Not to mention her capacity for change.
- You're gonna need it kiddo.

Pitting 'generations' against each other is a classic tactic to divide the people on meaningless bullshit. Don't fall for it.
- Culture war is a means to distract us from class war

Gen X was Trump’s biggest supporter in the last election. More than boomers even.
Obviously not true of every Gen X’er, but when Gen Z talks about boomers they’re usually inadvertently referring to Gen X.
- Gen X was Trump’s biggest supporter in the last election.
  We were never known for our political acumen, I'm afraid.
  
  "Caring about things is cringe, like, gag me. Voting doesn't do ANYTHING so I sit it out unlike you chumps, and I'm telling my kids the same thing."
  "Why aren't any interests represented? That must be somebody's fault. Somebody who isn't me. Hey, did you get your tickets for Star Wars Celebration yet?"
- And the current poster child for Gen X is Elon Musk.
- I am disappointed but not surprised by my generation at all. Last generation where general racism and other boomer traits could really take hold thanks to boomer parents passing them on. We’re also getting old enough for some of us to embrace that “get off my lawn” mentality.

That Gen Z fighter is going to turn around, hit their trainer in the nuts and call them a boomer.
- And then fortnite dance in their face while they're hunched over.

The world has been fighting Boomers for 4 decades. They're not all villains, but certainly the majority of villains are Boomers.
- Probably because the majority of people are boomers. They're called baby boomers because their population exploded across the world.
  
  Also let's be frank, it's a class divide. Boomers had a huge leg up, and then those who amassed great wealth are the ones we see in power making decisions that close doors to the younger generations.
  But back to my point, of course those who have had 60+ years to amass and invest wealth are going to be richer, especially when they had something to invest at the start.
  I think when we consider that Gen Z men are running to the right, we should rethink boomers as a scapegoat. It's not the boomers. It's the rich and the Andrew Tates of the world who are in the boxing ring.
  Like I could probably take down a random boomer, but a billionaire could hire Mike Tyson and I'd be fucked in the ring.
  
  A breakdown of the U.S. population by 5-year age groups, based on the 2018-2022 American Community Survey estimates:
  0-4 years: 5.7%
  5-9 years: 6.0%
  10-14 years: 6.4%
  15-19 years: 6.5%
  20-24 years: 6.7%
  25-29 years: 6.9%
  30-34 years: 6.9%
  35-39 years: 6.7%
  40-44 years: 6.3%
  45-49 years: 6.0%
  50-54 years: 6.3%
  55-59 years: 6.5%
  60-64 years: 6.3%
  65-69 years: 5.3%
  70-74 years: 4.3%
  75-79 years: 2.9%
  80-84 years: 1.9%
  85 years and over: 1.9%
- I propose a name change for them.
  Their parents were "The Greatest Generation"
  I think we should start referring to Boomers as "The Worst Generation."
  
  Hate is fun?
- Yeah! Hit him! Right in that soft boomer belly! [munches popcorn]

The generations are:
Boomer: anybody older than me who I disagree with.
Millennial: anybody younger than me who I disagree with
Gen Z: anyone who uses whichever social networks are taboo at the moment.
The are no other generations.
- Wow, I can't believe you'd just ignore Girl's Generation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%27_Generation

Let's ignore discrepancies in economics, geography, race and culture and suggest people behave, en mass, based on the decades they were born in.
This is just astrology for the politically feeble.
- Events in one’s lifetime impact them more than the alignment of the stars
  
  Yes, but those events and the relative importance of those events are highly variable.
  Someone living in the 80s in a small town in Scotland is unlikely to have lived through the same 80s as someone running a FTSE company in New York at that time.
  There's this idea, and I think it is particularly American, that the whole world lives to their narrative. The narrative of the rather privileged middle class.
  For example when we talk about the 80s the narrative is big hair, cocaine, excess... But that's only true of a very small proportion of the world. I know plenty of folk that didn't see a cell phone until the early 2000s.
- "This is just astrology for the politically feeble."
  Brilliant.
- Hey, it's no worse of a grouping than any of the categories you mentioned.
  
  Fuck the generational war. The class war is real and it’s one sided, it’s basically a class genocide.
  
  I disagree.
  It's a question of granularity and correlation.
  I think culture is a pretty useful grouping for assessing a lot of traits and behaviours. Sure, it depends on the culture and the trait you are assessing, but as groupings go there are entire academic fields devoted to the study of how those things work.
  Similarly with economic factors and class. These can be useful in describing proportions of a population. And how they react relative, again, providing the trait we are assessing is relative to that factor.
  I know you are probably just being glib, and you are right that and generalisation can be pretty useless. But I still think the exceedingly broad "generation" is the most useless.

The comic is funny, but only in the sense that is a media presentation trying to make an age war rather than class war.
- Oh was this not a meme about dipshit influencer fighting Mike Tyson?
  I thought it was more about young people willing to watch garbage because 🤪🤪🤪 what if how zany 🤪🤪🤪
  
  Gen X are not young. Not any more, to our great displeasure and horror.

Weren't the statistics from the last election a big deal because Gen Z actually didn't align with Millennials?
I'm pretty sure I saw people getting mad at the number of young voters who opted to vote for Trump
Could be wrong though
- No, they're just less left leaning than Millennials were at that age. 66% of Millennials voted for Obama, whereas only 54% of Gen Z voted for Harris.
  
  You didn't need to be "left leaning" to vote for Harris. Just, you know, not insane.
  
  Is it that they're less left leaning? Cause when you put the names of the candidates there (Obama vs Harris), it just sounds like a weaker candidate that didn't move their base as much.
  
  With Gen Z there's also a huge gender disparity, the boys are NOT okay, they're the Hitler Youth.
  That said, Gen X voted for Trump in greater numbers than the Boomers.
  Gen X aren't spectators. They're fucking MAGA, and they were also the ones writing the shitty generation war articles.
  
  Obama was a far more compelling candidate. Don't blame the voters for the DNC pushing milquetoast candidates.

You can always tell you've become a stupid person when any of these generation terms come up in your speech in any capacity.
- As a millennial I ... welll ... uh ... fuck you're right

Typical. Slacking, unseen.

Xer's never really got over that "everyone is dumb except for me" phase that most ditch after they actually get kissed.
- Meh. Whatever man.
- I'll give them cred for not being like the boomers.
- Eh. The Gen Xers I know all admit they'd be fucked in today's housing market if they didn't already have theirs. The are generally very sympathetic and appreciate how lucky they are.
  To modify this comic, they sit down for a show and are quickly horrified at the brutality of the spectacle.

Gen X looks too young in this.
- I get that a lot.
  
  I mean we are talking about people 45 to 60 years old at this point.

We should be fighting the 1%, not each other.
- You forgot the fact that the 1% keep us poorly educated and propagandized against our own interests on purpose.
  We're so fucking stupid as a result, that Americans believe the following unironically:
  
  I've met some people that are that fucking stupid.
  It's incredible to me that they manage to put on pants and get to work on time each morning.

I'm so tough. I'm the toughest. Gen Z and Boomers aren't tough enough. I'm the though one. Yeah, I might have been neglected as a child but that made me tough, definitely not emotionally stunted. Tough tough tough. I'm tough.
—Average Gen X'er to the mirror every morning

(The boxing arena is on fire.)

Meanwhile gen x are the most conservative generation

Me who's both:
- I'm near the start of the millennial generation, my older brothers are Gen x and more in-between than I am. There's about 5-6 years between all of us and we represent two generations in varying degrees.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
  Xennials are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts.
  Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983,[1] though some extend this further in either direction.[2][3] Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. Xennials are almost exclusively the children of baby boomers and came of age during a rapidly changing period that was the 1990s.

So who sold them the popcorn
- the millennial, working two jobs to afford rent...

Whatever you do, don't become a referee, they will all turn on you.

Gen X sitting around doing fuck all as usual.

Gen X: Whatever.

TBH I blame Gen X the most. Boomers are going extinct soon, Gen X at the oldest are about 60 or more.
This fucked up world is Gen X's world.
- Ehh. They mostly rode the coattails of the boomers. I dunno if I can reasonably get angry at them for taking advantage of the opportunity that the boomers made for them to prosper.
  It's the boomers that own, and frequently still run the companies that are ruining the economy. That's for fucking sure. Gen x just got a free ride.
  Of all the people I know, the Gen x are the most likely to just be coasting through life because they were downright given all the opportunities and never really struggled for much.

Where is the ipad?

Gen X is usually on the boomer’s side.
- GenX has been fighting boomers from the start, we're just exhausted now.
  
  GenX has been fighting boomers from the start,
  Bullcrap. We were too busy pretending politics didn't affect us to fight anyone.
  
  Thanks for the apathy, I don't think it worked but it sure as shit looked cool.
  
  Fighting? Us Gen Xers followed in the system the boomers laid out. What fighting??? The older Gen Xers got past the door. The younger half got shut out.
  
  When a bunch of old MAGA bastards stormed the Capitol, were they using walkers because they're over 70 on average or were they a crowd about 45-60 in age?
  
  In the same way boomer hippies were "fighting" against their progenitors, sure.
  Wearing flannel and complaining about the status quo does not make you a freedom fighter.

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