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@xAsmiru @mattvanswol Evil is real. Don’t blame God.

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@EndWokeness Oh, this is gonna be fun!

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@memikede @its_The_Dr I love RC cola!

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@its_The_Dr Frosty root beer I

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There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

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@lady_valor_07 Roy Orbison

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@unhealthytruth Never use that crap

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@ianmiles Why would anybody give a rats ass what this girl has to say?

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@amandaamdg @realBrandonGill Exactly

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@OliLondonTV NO ONE CARES!!!

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@MmisterNobody Never use them

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@KaegensNews @MmisterNobody I smoke a pack a day I was with my family during Covid at Christmas and they all came down with Covid. Me nothing. Never had Covid never had the VX never had a booster never been sick. I haven’t had a cold or flu in years.And

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@babybeginner What a pussy!

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@Kittenwaffin It is so unbelievably rude and gross to eat with your mouth hanging open your lips smacking you smeared juice off your mouth. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

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@TheMarcitect God has a plan. Not to worry.

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@WatchChad And for crops sake, get rid of tic tok,

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@OliLondonTV That is so disgusting

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@BuzzPatterson Astounding!

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@Notwokenow Watching this with the sound off is interesting. She’s so bulky she can’t even grab her Coochie if she wanted to.

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@AmiriKing The Dems took the blacks off of one plantation and put them on another and they love it and they keep voting for it freaking insanity