• Etterra@discuss.online
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    22 hours ago

    As a Gen Xer who lived through the fall of the Berlin Wall and then all of the rest of this shit, I’m so tired. Y’all millennials even got to miss there Reagan years. Nixon may have started the car, but Reagan is the asshole that shifted it into drive, tossed a brick on the pedal, and let it go off down the mountain.

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      16 hours ago

      They also missed the stranger danger years. (Which is a huge reason why we got all the helicopter parents now)

      One of the biggest reasons Genx are the invisible generation. So many went missing

      I think that is one tragedy that was exclusively genx. Things like colds and flus killed the generations before but the Genx were just basically getting wiped out as children by adults. It was also the surge of mass murderers on the heels of the vietnam war in which they had used experimental drugs which I’m sure there is a connection