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Nov 8Liked by Jon Miltimore

😆 great read! Gen X here, a TikTok-type gen z recently started at my workplace, I don’t get fussed over much, but when she has to “disengage”, “decompress in a safe space” because she’s “triggered” (I ain’t joking), it takes every bit of strength to hold my 💩 together 😅

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Lol ... I can only imagine.

Safe spaces are silly

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Way to lump half a decade's worth of Boomers (people born in 1960-64) into the Gen-X data.

Furthermore, those Boomer years had more births per year than did the Gen-X years. E.g., 3.2 million babies were born in 1974 compared to 4.2 million in 1962. [Cue Gen-X eyeroll.]

The salient feature of Gen-X is that there aren't very many of them. Skeezes like Hawley and Cruz notwithstanding, there aren't enough Gen-X voters to move the needle on anything, good or bad.

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Agree. I keep seeing this chart and I'm starting to think this was done intentionally.

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All the good things you say about Gen X is what I always thought of my (Boomer) generation. Sadly, it looks as though I was mistaken.

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Why do people keep showing this chsrt and making these claims about Gen X? The oldest Gen X is 59, so why is the chart 45-64 and not 45-59? I want to see that data.

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Great article. Things that impacted Gen X's mindset:

1. Cold War Fear of the soviets

2. Nuclear Winter -

3. AIDS epidemic

4. Watching our parents go through massive layoffs and recessions

5. We were in mid 20's, when September 11 happened

6. Gen X was most represented and did the fighting for War On Terror and Iraq War

As for all the above and called out - we are a tough, resilient, no BS group.

Makes sense that the ridiculous over reach by far Left this last decade was put down by Gen X delivering Trump.

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The oldest Gen X is 59. This chart lumped a large group of boomers into this data, so it's completely inaccurate. There aren't enough genix voters to deliver anyone

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