#silent-generation — Public Fediverse posts
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Two men in their 80s take a trip in a self-driving car, and it's an absolute must-watch
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/elderly-tries-self-driving-car
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#Lead started being added to #gasoline in the 1920s. There wasn't a big boom in #car sales so it didn't start picking up until the 1940s perhaps early because of the war. It peaked in the 1970s. The #silentgeneration wasn't subject to a ton of lead poising as a child but even adult lead poisoning can lead to early onset dementia and cognitive decline. #Boomers were subjected to a higher level of lead poisoning as children and reached its peak as adults. #GenX got hit the worst of any generation during their most crucial time with the most damage. Elder #millennials got hit with probably what the early boomer got hit with and but wont have to face it as they age as adults. Younger millennials and beyond will be some of the most clear headed and smartest old people if they can figure out how to build social community networks. GenX on average is shaping up to be the meanest, angriest and dumbest elderly generation thanks to what was done to them by the corporations. It kind of explains Trump. They vote conservative but their new conservative is in your face fascist. Feral like they were raised, screwed on both ends of things taking care of their parents and kids losing so much of their best like stressed to the max during the worst recessions. That anger was perfectly directed by fascism. This next election will be when GenX finally has the same number of voters than the boomers for the fist time in history. As someone on the cusp of millennial and genx I have to be aware of this so I don't turn into a scared angry bigot when I get old because I might well have the ability to do so. . -
For all those searching for moral and ethical clarity in what seems a nation gone mad — I may have good news.
Hang with me for a little 🧵 thread about how, for reasons we may never understand, the #BabyBoomers and the late #SilentGeneration are criminally inclined to an abnormal degree.
First, this article from the Atlantic titled “AMERICA’S INCARCERATION RATE IS ABOUT TO FALL OFF A CLIFF.”
Here’s a non-paywalled link from Archive Today: https://archive.ph/mi5Wn
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Just realized that It there is a #genx , #geny ( #millennials ), #Genz and #genalpha that means
The #lostgeneration is Gen T
The #greatestgeneration is Gen U
The #silentgeneration is Gen V
and #Boomers are Gen W. -
The #GreatestGeneration - or #SilentGeneration - is departing the third rock from the Sun in real-time.
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@susankayequinn das a high-quality #SilentGeneration #HistoryMeme
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Among Gen X, Baby Boomers, and the Silent Generation, men are considerably more likely to identify as gay than bisexual.
8/x
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The #SilentGeneration was encased in silence due to PTSD.
You would have been, too, if you lived through what they did.
Oh, you disagree?
That’s super interesting to me.
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Thanks. @MisuseCase
So only 30.7% of #TikTok users are older than 34, I.E.
Older #Millenials (Born before 1990)
#GenX,
#BabyBoomers, #SilentGeneration, and maybe a few exceptions from the #GIgeneration. -
However much the reactionary "religious" right rages, younger generations are overcoming the #LGBTQ+ stigma.
Every generation about doubles identification. 💪🏳️🌈 :BlobhajTransPrideHeart:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/611864/lgbtq-identification.aspx
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My dad turned 82 this week. I asked him how it feels, and he replied, "It sucks."
Y'know, I appreciate the honesty. 🫤
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The Lemon Grove to Brown v Board arc is from #SilentGeneration children to Baby Boomer children.
How does the pattern of #civilrights, #education and #learning replay for #GenX, #Millennials, and #GenZ with a legal precedent around the time they are entering middle school?
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@johnjolley
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@TaiwaninMchrome
Being following this photobot 👆showing many historical photos during Japanese colonization of #Taiwan...didnot realise how visually Japanese Taiwan was transformed into during those years (altho I did know most of th #silentgeneration Taiwanese are fluent in Japanese)...this must be upsetting when Nationalist Chinese fled to Taiwan at 1949 after the bitter and bloody war with #Imperial Japanese Army. -
The #SilentGeneration was labeled as such after surviving the Great Depression, industrial-scale genocide, and deployment of thermonuclear weapons.
Do you think they earned the label by being chatty about their feelings?
#trauma https://unusualwhales.com/news/gen-z-may-be-left-permanently-psychologically-scarred-by-high-inflation
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@inkican @hankg @LibrarianRA
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Lately I’ve been seeing Gen Z-ers being called Zoomers. First of all bravo you namers. You named Gen Z-ers after their most hated generation. The one they keep getting compared to, negatively of course.
Secondly you didn’t check with other parts of the world to see if someone started calling Boomers, themselves, this. They had. ZoomerMedia is an entrenched Canadian company that began in 2007, (ten years before people began calling Gen Z-ers this). Shortly before, Boomers that were more active in older ages than their parents and other generations coined the term Zoomers. As this was a positive portrayal of the generation, Canadian media pounced and Zoomer Magazine and Zoomer Radio were born.
It’s not for a lack of names that some call you Zoomers, Gen Z. Pick any of the following: iGeneration, centennials, post-millennials, and Homelanders have all been used. Why not pick one of these? It’s easy.
Otherwise we name our generations thusly: the Greatest Generation, the Silent Generation, Zoomers, Gen X, Millennials, Zoomers. So maybe the new naming convention should be every third generation is named Zoomer.
However, Zoomer Media you aren’t helping your case. Now you say a Zoomer is anyone 45 and older. I will not sit by silently while you have attempted to wipe out Gen X and all they have fought for. Do you think a swipe of the pen can erase our non-identity identity?
It really doesn’t help your case when this is on the Zoomermedia page:
ZoomerMedia focuses on Canada’s most powerful audiences — the 17.2 million Baby Boomers and Gen Xers over the age of 45 (which we coined Zoomers) and the 13.2 million Millennials and Gen Zs under 45 (which in the US have recently also been coined Zoomers). The term Zoomer now represents the whole family, from old to young.
Now everyone’s a Zoomer? I don’t see generation, I only see Zoomers?
I might give up on deciding which side to land on. But I for sure do not agree that Gen X and Millenials should get wiped out by an all encompassing Zoomer tag.
#gen-z #boomers #centennials #dont-wipe-out-gen-x #dont-wipe-out-millennials #every-third-generation-named-zoomers #gen-x #greatest-generation #homelanders #igeneration #millennial #naming-gen-z-after-their-most-hated-generation #post-millennials #silent-generation #zoomer #zoomer-magazine #zoomer-radio #zoomermedia #zoomers-are-active-boomers
https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/05/27/which-kind-of-zoomer-are-you/
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Hippy Boomers of the 50’s and 60’s freaked out the Silent Generation so badly, they went into reactionary mode, launched the War on Drugs, and now we can’t have nice things.
#reactionaries #silentgeneration #babyboomers #warondrugs #nicethings #hippies
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My #GenX butt that was raised by parents from the #SilentGeneration feels terrible doing this but I keep seeing videos claiming a woman got 40,000 people to each send her $1 to get her out of debt & can't debunk it. I've got some #medicalbills coming up, my deductible is $500 so I know they'll be high, & I've less than $100 in my checking. So I'm going to take a chance, humiliate myself & see if I can get some folks to send me $1.
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JamiJRSings
https://account.venmo.com/u/Jami-Russell-7 -
Generational Poll. What generation are you? Please boost for more responses.
The system only allows me 4 options (sorry!).
Just let me say, all generations are great! 😀
This is just for fun and curiosity.#SilentGeneration
#Boomer
#BabyBoomer
#GenX
#Millenial
#GenZ
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@Davidtoddmccarty Well of course we do need a hashtag for #OldPeopleOfMastodon to be able to find each other, but it's not gonna be just all boomers or GenX.
Don't be surprised when the #SilentGeneration folks crash that party. About 20 million of us are still hanging around tryin' to make good trouble. 🥳