I love how mad gen xers get when it comes to admitting they were very privileged. They are proud of it, but also insanely mad about it.
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Old mystery/thriller book by John D. MacDonald. 'The Brass Cupcake.' In the story, the hero explains that in prison slang, a 'cupcake' is a privilege that can be revoked at anytime by any guard. Everything under our system is a cupcake.
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I got bad news for you gen X, we millennials were beaten by our parents too. We had the same fucking parents
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"I am a victim of physical assault and an alcoholic kept functional by my squeezing into the last drop of prosperity afforded by the looting of the eastern bloc, this is why I am not to be pitied"
Millennials are gonna be in hospice and people are still gonna treat that generation like they are little kids and blame them for another industry under-performing capitalists' expectations.
"Why millenials ruining hospice care"
It's really endearing you think they'd let us have hospice care.
That's already becoming the cash cow of a fucked industry, you're going to have to prove three times active income to be admitted to hospice care.
Millenials retirement will look like the next generation setting a loaded gun on the table next to us and then looking at us expectantly.
Yeah, my retirement plan is ending up on one of those "creepy, unsolved disappearances" compilation videos on youtube.
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the thing you need to remember about generation-x is we are the most lead-addled generation in history
you're gonna need to kill us all, for the good of the planet, I beg you
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Y'all
shut the fuck up
"You really wanna start things with us while we drink our wine in our homes we bought through our sheer tyranny of will?"
Oh no, you're not taking credit for what the millennials went through. But sure, keep it classy by rubbing your house that you were lucky enough to buy before investors ruined everything in our faces, you sure showed us.
I think they realize they were spoiled and got the easy gig, but they find it emasculating so that's why they lash out at us.
The sheer force of will required to have been handed a job you aren't qualified for that pays more than you're worth and in so doing been made able to afford a house that was bought for TWO paperclips and the string in their pocket that they unfortunately have to sell for 2 million dollars now...
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The reactions you get when you say "my parents didn't hit me and I turned out fine."
Oh cute. I was both given time-outs, beaten with a belt, and got the added bonus of getting beaten with a stick on my hands and feet as a millennial child. Where's my oppression trophy
I have it, I got beaten with a rolling pin.
Ooo that sounds like an awful experience. If I may ask, was it more of a clubbing than a whacking?
Millennials are closing in on 50 years old now lol. It’s incredible that every millennial is a college freshman going into gender studies in the minds of these people
Millennial cut-off is generally agreed to be 1981, so the oldest elder Millennial is, at most, 42
Point still remains that referring to a generation that’s on average in their mid 30’s as “snot-nosed little shits” is peak “I stopped registering that things change in 2004.”
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These fucking losers are gonna be bitching about millennials way after we are all dead. I'm waiting for us to be blamed for the heat death of the universe when that happens.
Be proud, no other generation is powerful enough to bring about the apocalypse
Knowing boomer luck, they're going to become fucking immortal and most certainly will blame us long after our entire generation died off.
I might workshop this into one of my short stories while I pretend to be a writer until I get a new job actually lol.
As a Gen X - fuck this guy. You have to be an ignorant ass to write off all the issues faced by everyone trying to make a life for themselves these days. We've all been fucked by capitalism, and we shouldn't be blaming each other.
the fuck you say bitch? you think you're tough? well i was abused as a defenseless child by people with more physical and social power than me who abjectly failed in their responsibility to protect and nurture me! bet you're scared now!
Boomers weren't the parents of gen x wtf 😂
They were for plenty of gen Xers. An early boomer having kids in their mid 20s would have made a mid to late gen X.
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the fuck is he even upset about?
It seems someone in the Internet was mean to them.
the way his life and personality turned out
Nothing says gristled tough guy like drinking Pinot Grigio in your paid-off McMansion.
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This is peak Foucault posting, i mean down to the fucking belt buckle, beautiful 
There is something special about them trying to sprinkle in some "I fucking love science" bullshit and completely fucking it up.
The boomers would be proud
“Gen X saved democracy you ungrateful shits, also it’s good to beat children into submission”
Not wrong that their generation is the one propping up this dying system.
Also that @ just screams "drone pilot supervisor". He's the tough supervisor that won't let them take their breaks until the wedding is double-tapped.
the marketers have won
Broke: boomers suck
Woke: pretty much 80% of every generation sucks
In 50 years we’re gonna see these types of posts from people who made danganronpa-themed discourse infographics on instagram in 2020
Generational fights are stupid and fix nothing.
Edit: Emphasis on fix.
Eh, 80%+ of American boomers support genociding Palestinians while only like 15% of young people do. There is certainly something going on
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true. that said, every elder millenial must undergo a reeducation process.
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New site tagline pls
What are you doing to do, buy avocado toast?
Coldsteel the HedGen X
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