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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social |
What the fuck is going on with Gen X? This is from the latest NY Times poll and it's been like this for months.
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☕️ Jeremy Diamond
@dmnd.me
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Maryland Dad
@mdpoppa.bsky.social
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I simply won't believe it. I refuse to believe the majority of ppl would vote for Trump. If he is, my faith in everything will be destroyed.
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Bobby
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Largely cranky, have another high option of themselves, starting to misremember “the old days” as a golden era etc would be my guess.
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Jon With Tattoos
@jonwithtattoos.bsky.social
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Sounds like I need to just keep going further and further left to fight this trend. That’s how averages work, right?
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Orca Spokesperson
@icecolddavis.bsky.social
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I lost contact with a lot of my gen X friends because they have always been casually racist and all about tax breaks
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LonelyAF
@maggiedawitch.bsky.social
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The whole poll is extremely worrying tbh
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Svenska Doomfrämjandet
@doomlobbyn.se
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Our mothers were encouraged to drink while carrying us and US fathers were subjected to Agent Orange.
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Leprechaun
@luckyloo.bsky.social
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Was a participation trophy offered as a gratuity to participate in this poll and name the "right" candidate ???
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CJ Lemire
@cjlemire.bsky.social
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It's been like that for years. We're talking about the generation that came of age when Reagan was President.
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🌸Abbey🌸
@abbeyarletto.bsky.social
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Ok, and what about Millennials? That's even more fucked up.
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MamaOfKaos
@mamaofkaos.bsky.social
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Who tf answers polling calls?
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Bert the Kitten
@bertthekitten.bsky.social
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Trump’s pulling 40% of 18-29 year olds? Biden won that age group by almost 30% last time!
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Jon Potter
@rettopnoj.bsky.social
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Ahem. 64 year olds are NOT Gen X.
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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Old and not yet on social security
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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its coming for you too in time
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Charles Kinbote
@charleskinbote.bsky.social
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White Gen Xers are bigots, by and large
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Duncan Deeznutz
@parasocialista.bsky.social
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They about to receive the Great Inheritance and don't want tfw estate taxes
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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Trump's support actually peaks over the very oldest Gen Xers and starts falling as you go through the boomer years. So, it's old Gen Xers and young Boomers who tend to support him the most, with both generations split
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Ant Murdering She-Devil/Shelley
@shelleyelwood.bsky.social
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Apparently the same thing that's wrong with Men
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scott moon
@scottmoon.bsky.social
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What I’m seeing is people who refuse to vote for the guy currently doing a genocide, regardless of what orange turd might do. This poll is worded to not allow third parties. It is kinda what you would expect from media outlets— junk
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Carl Nyberg
@carlnyberg312.bsky.social
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Has polling been done as to why Trump appeals to the electorate?
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toothpetard
@toothpetard.bsky.social
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I went to high school with them in the 80s and they sucked back then too
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Blitzy 🩺 ⚡️
@blitz-y.bsky.social
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It's less than 400 respondents. Hardly representative. Let's not freak out just yet
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donut
@funkndonuts.bsky.social
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"boomer" and "millennial" are a state of mind. gen x is caught in the middle and split between the two.
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Elizabeth H
@elizabethh.bsky.social
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As a GenXer I have no explanation for 55% of my age bracket.
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Justin White
@jwhite.bsky.social
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We’ve reached “that age.”
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Tye
@tyed.bsky.social
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It’s either Biden or the end of American democracy/fascism Hard choice 🤔
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E-W
@edashw.bsky.social
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Among people born 1965 to 1979, only losers answer the phone.
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WildGorillaMan
@wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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The “I got mine so fuck all y’all” demographic
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Raoul Guapo
@raoulguapo.bsky.social
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They are the new boomers.
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costrike
@costrike.bsky.social
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Sure as hell isn't me
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Daniel Carlson
@danielwcarlson.bsky.social
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You mean what the fuck is going on with people bored or psychotic enough to answer survey calls
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Schooley
@schooley.bsky.social
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Based on people I see from high school on social media, nothing good.
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Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social
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Finally, somebody noticed us, thank you
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Ashton
@ashtonk.bsky.social
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Know all those memes about lead poisoning and boomers? Yeah, they’re wrong. The generation that got the most lead when they were young was Gen X, by far.
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Carolyn Kellogg
@paperhaus.bsky.social
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Gen X liberals don't pick up our phones.
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Ceiling Cat
@ceilingcat.bsky.social
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I assume midlife crisis leads to: Blaming minorities Punching down Trusting authoritarians Clicking Mad Muscles ads
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161 dalmatians
@lilorphananarchy.bsky.social
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Was the poll only off registered voters?
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Nap Gusto, Jedi/Scoundrel
@furiouslysleepy.bsky.social
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They're fucking with the poll, that's what. A lot of these participants probably don't even intend to vote because...reality bites.
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Blif
@blifff.bsky.social
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Lead
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Rosie
@rosiepone.bsky.social
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they're boomering, a lot of the gen x ers that I know have suddenly become very self conscious of their "property value" and all the mental bullshittery that comes along with that as a whole concept
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Jimmy Two Hands
@jimmytwohands.bsky.social
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Lead poisoning making them fondly remember their glory days as Reaganjugend
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Rufus T. Firefly
@rufustfirefly.bsky.social
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Nothing. Nothing is going on with Gen X, ever. 103% of X could vote for Mr. Rogers or Pazuzu and it wouldn't matter because demographically X is strictly MOE. How are Boomers vs. Every One Else polling? There's your story.
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CNY Big D
@pat0615.bsky.social
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My gen z son is a Dem. He doesn't do social media. But I'm seeing that some of his friends love Joe Rogan so I'm thinking they are Trumpers. They don't talk about it, but....don't know why. Likevhis wise guy ass???
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@golightly.bsky.social
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it's the first group that didn't have pensions & had to start dealing with no guaranteed privilege. ask me how I know. My husband who I've known since 6th grade has decided Trump is better than Biden. He's an environmental engineer. It's nothing to do with facts just anger at their perceived loss 😥
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Neon Chinchilla
@neonchinchilla.bsky.social
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Don't blame me. I am not my generation's keeper. I moved left despite the best efforts of leftists. (Leftists are their own worst enemies when it comes to advocacy.)
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how to eat fried shai-hulud
@oujii.bsky.social
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fwiw it does not track with the past two presidential elections www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Conor Conneally
@ernekid.bsky.social
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They got lead poisoning from drinking from the hose
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@calizaybak.bsky.social
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Same thing that's wrong with anyone else voting for fascism I suppose.
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@fleezlow.bsky.social
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One thing could be propaganda, as more of your childhood occurs after 1990 and the end of the Cold War, you encounter much, much less of the broad spectrum of entertainment that was either actual propaganda or inflected with Cold War propaganda themes.
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Johannah O'Donnell
@johannahodonnell.bsky.social
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It's really disappointing. I can only hope that the numbers are skewed due to the fact that so many of us grew up as latchkey kids, and were told to never answer the phone.
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Annaleigh Watts 🌹 🪶 🇲🇽 🇵🇸
@annaleighmaria.bsky.social
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Too close to the boomers for (anyone else's) comfort.
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Adeyinka Young
@jonswift.bsky.social
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I’m a Gen Xer. I have no idea. There’s not a single one of my friends or family who is voting for 45*. But we’re all black people, so not sure how that fits. Still, that’s alarming.
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The Zeppo 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦
@z-zeppo.bsky.social
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Gotta be the drooling class of Gen X. Can't see it any other way. Don't get the Z's and Millennials tho.
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Scottie
@scottie51.bsky.social
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First thing I saw, a poll from NYT.. need I look further.
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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Okay how about reeducation camps but they’re an AI Kurt Cobain explaining why fascism is bad
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MPTaylor
@mattptaylor.bsky.social
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Quickly surpassing boomers as the worst generation and somehow the stolen valor is even worse.
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Taco Bell's Cannon
@jamtoday.bsky.social
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We suck, apparently? This is what we get for being latchkey kids and having no moral guidance at home after school.
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Daniel Loxton
@danielloxton.bsky.social
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These polls always baffle me at first glance since none of my gen-x friends would *ever* lean that way… but then I remember: we were the freaks, geeks, misfits, and nerds in a huge redneck high school of people who totally would.
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Josh Sternberg
@joshsternberg.bsky.social
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I am hesitant of polls - like who is answering a phone number they don’t recognize? (Assuming cell phone; even weirder if it’s people with landlines!) But also hesitant of polls of generational cohorts; how is someone who 45 in a similar situation as a 65yo. And then there are the questions!
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josh (oldfriend99)
@oldfriend99.bsky.social
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these are the people who somehow believe rage against the machine weren't political until recently. they are the dumbest people in the world
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