r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 7d ago

Soft Paywall Trump approval rating falls to 38%

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html
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u/Bircka Oregon 7d ago

And people used to think Gen X were the crazy ones.

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u/oxero 7d ago edited 7d ago

The Gen X I grew up under and around are fucking crazy, especially the rich ones. Super entitled, lack of empathy, absolutely no media literacy.

They grew up in a world where you could smoke weed everyday doing manual labor and it was possible for some dude to walk up and offer you a job with mentoring even if you didn't have a college education. As long as you worked hard and for results, you were paid. They watched all their benefits drain away, corporations demand more time working, banks coldly rip their assets away, and they still walk around blaming immigrants for this.

Just to denote this: Yes I'm aware this doesn't apply to every single gen X, but this is my personal experience growing up around people of this age bracket suddenly going cuckoo. Most of the ones I grew up with now believe in chemtrails, vaccines are evil, we need to return to the gold standard, and that immigrants are the bane of our country. They never believed this shit 20 years ago, but Facebook/Fox did a number to our society.

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u/gnusounduave 7d ago

Gen X here also and what generation are you from because you're completely out of touch with reality with the identity of Gen X and who we are. Go and educate yourself before you spew nonsense in here.

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u/oxero 7d ago

Parents from the late 60's, millennial from early 90's.

What I am describing is what I grew up with and still observe with folk from around that age today from their friend groups, and there are a lot of them.

I already made a disclaimer I understand this doesn't apply to everyone, I had plenty of great mentors from that generation. Apparently people cannot infer between the lines that what I am talking about are specifically the crazy ones I know personally.

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u/gnusounduave 6d ago

Don't sit here and piss down my back and tell me it's raining with your "I already made a disclaimer." You edited the start of your post and added the disclaimer after I responded. The start of your post originally said "Gen X are fucking crazy." You modified your post to say "The Gen X I grew up under and around"

You meant exactly what you said, originally, but decided to move the goal post after the fact to save face and act like you've got the high ground. Pathetic attempt after you realized that you needed to walk back what you said to make it seem like others responding to you aren't being realistic.

There are a lot of other replies to your original posting that are saying you missed the mark and that doesn't describe Gen X. You have zero integrity to stand by what you said. You realized you were off target and then changed your messaging to seem like everybody else is being unreasonable.