I'm early GenX. Me and my friend embraced the new tech. We were 10 years old and hammering out Basic on a little computer attached to my TV. Typing in code from a magazine so we can play a game. Saving it to tape and trading with another kid who typed out some other game.

Later, when the internet came out, the guy who could connect at the highest baud rate was the coolest. Winsock and Mosaic baby.

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KingPorkChop @lemmy.ca 4w ago

My boomer mother has no clue what she votes for. She's completely uninformed. Lives in the states. Fox News has made her terrified of brown people crossing the border for a better life. Doesn't think ICE is bad, but the people they kill should have just complied.

She's voted Trump every time. Thinks he's going to fix everything because she watched his reality TV show and thought it was all real. The worst part, she follows the party line her boomer friends follow. I've spoken to a bunch of them. They're all fucking idiots.

She and her boomer friends are definitely contributing to the downfall of the US. They don't see it. They don't care.

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KingPorkChop @lemmy.ca 4w ago

its a lot more common now so its not nearly as uncomfortable

That was the point of punk though. It wasn't about dying your hair purple, it was making it a colour hair wasn't. It was to be different. Run against the grain of society if you didn't like the way the grain was going. Be who you wanted to be and dress however you wanted. If someone said boo, you gave them the finger. If someone was racist or a homophobe, we'd scream at them and get in their faces.

Now that you can buy any colour hair dye in the grocery store, green hair isn't much of a statement. Same with clothes. The common folk were trying to dress above their class with Izod shirts, a sweater draped over their back, and penny loafers - like they just came from tennis at the country club. Ripped jeans, or worn out 30 year old clothes were considered low class and trashy which is why we loved them. Now you can buy pre-tattered clothes. That isn't a statement.

HOWEVER: If you want blue hair, ripped jeans, and a nipple piercing, do it!

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KingPorkChop @lemmy.ca 4w ago

I'm GenX and have voted since I could. By the time I was in my early 30s I liked by politics like my music - independent. I don't usually vote by party but by candidate history and ideals.

I'm way the fuck left though. I support left parties like the NDP, but I'm not registered with them. I recently voted for the Liberal dude over NDP because I thought the NDP running was a serious twit.

I don't think I'd ever voted conservative.

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KingPorkChop @lemmy.ca 4w ago

MAh iNbLocKs R bLoWin uP!

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KingPorkChop @lemmy.ca 4w ago

Here's the thing.....

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KingPorkChop @lemmy.ca 4w ago

Don't abandon the subreddit. Make a new one here. Then lock the subreddit with a pinned post pointing to the new Lemmy one.

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KingPorkChop @lemmy.ca 4w ago

I got banned for saying something about Musk during the height of the DOGE circus. I don't know what I said exactly because they delete the comment and then ban you.

I think I said I'd like to see him test his rocket and go to Mars. Which, I guess implies,.. something.

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KingPorkChop @lemmy.ca 4w ago

Malachai Huffman.

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KingPorkChop @lemmy.ca 4w ago

My old account was banned from reddit a bit over a year ago. I don't remember what I said that caused it, but it was anti-Musk.

I used to contribute a ton to that site, but after the ban I didn't bother making a new account. I just leeched the site using old.reddit and had ad-block on. I found my use was reduced over the last few months because it's just recycled posts these days.