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[–] JesusSon@lemmy.world 189 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I hope all these sources get on the same page soon because I have some old head friends who read all this stuff and believe he was a Chinese national working for the Iranians, set up next to snipers in a building cleared by locals. They say he was then confronted after he climbed a ladder but before he bear-crawled 25 feet to aim, only to be interrupted by local cops forcing him to fire quickly but was killed by snipers who had been watching him use a range finder for hours.

Please get it together, all these 50-year-old conspiracy theorists are going to start having heart attacks lol.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 75 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Gen X isn’t the problem here. It’s boomers. It’s always been boomers who were the problem.

[–] JesusSon@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh now there old friend, I wasn't making a generalization as to a whole ass generation. I am sure I could commiserate with you as to the fuckery boomers have shit down our backs since they traded in free love for free hate but I try real hard not to drag ass on a bitch after 5pm if you get my meaning.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll do it for you. They all have Reaganite Brain Worms, throw them in the trash.

[–] JesusSon@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Generalized hate, how progressive of you.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -2 points 3 months ago

It's based on science 🔭

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then Trump will only have 1% of the vote then, I feel better.

Unfortunately, far too many of the 99% see themselves as temporarily embarrassed 1%.

[–] match@pawb.social 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

you have to forgive them for forgetting about Gen X, it is sort of a theme

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In my experience GenX is almost as bad, they have a huge fucking chip on their shoulders instead of believing they are God's chosen generation

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Depends. Older Gen X is basically like young Boomers. Younger Gen X are basically like older Millenials.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

there were far more Boomers than ever existed in Gen X, likewise for Millenials

[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

All that lead they consumed growing up. Distorted their brains and making them clinically insane.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There's a lot more of gen x than boomers. Maybe y'all should have been voting.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Aight. Like 5 million off still.

Regardless, more than 5 million still alive are in nursing homes and too ill to manage to vote. 11% of the 65 and over bunch have dementia. The majority of those people won't vote.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

And your point is (somehow) still that no one from Gen-X votes... or something?

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It's exactly the opposite--more boomers than Gen X. Also I'm Millenial so relax a bit.

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey now, don't go there, because you are right

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’d suggest reading the article. It gives the play by play of how the events occurred. I think you’re reading headlines and then constructing your own picture of what happened.

[–] JesusSon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bless your heart, I read it right before I posted. Thank you kindly for the advice though.

At some point, everything I wrote was in an article just like this one, only citing "sources in (insert official entity here)" and always starting with "sources say." Well, except for the Iranian one, that one was a separate incident but a buddy of mine mentioned it right before I read the post so I added it.