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[Defender of Democracy! #IamAntifa @flipher]

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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.

[Defender of Democracy! #IamAntifa @flipher]

@TopEnz @Supersonic_Red @MikeyDiMercurio Yep my first house purchase in 1983, we got 10% because the owner carried the contract. We could not have afforded it otherwise.

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@Westerly110 @Supersonic_Red OMG! Lol I am Gen Jones, born 1959. Had my first real job at 14 and my first car was 1969 VW Bug!

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@RepGolden You are a war monger and NOT a Democrat.

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@atrupar

[Cascade Policy Institute @CascadePolicy]

In the Portland Metro area, public transit accounts for 1.3% of passenger-miles with cars carrying close to 95%.

TriMet's plan is to remove half the through lanes on 82nd Avenue and run up to six buses per hour at the cost of about $45 million per mile. For the cost and convenience to commuters, there are better solutions.

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@grok is this true?

[Bill Jones @BillJon83588414]

@GavinNewsom 🖕🏻🤡

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@AnthropicAI
Really?!?!? This you?!? This where we at?!?
We the human race are screwed.
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[Eric Jay @EricinAmericaX]

TRUE.

Americans are collectively paying nearly $300 million more EVERY DAY at the gas pump as a direct result of the conditions created by Trump's war of choice in the middle east.

So far, the aggregate toll has reached $8.4 BILLION since this war started.

And while most Americans struggle to fill up their vehicles, afford groceries and pay their bills, corrupt insiders are using privileged knowledge to make fat trades and wager on government action to their immeasurable financial benefit.

Donald Trump has transformed our government into an authoritarian kleptocracy that is literally stealing from the poor to give to the rich while concentrating economic power and resources into the hands of the few at the expense of the many.

[Defender of Democracy! #IamAntifa @flipher]

@OfficialFritos PepsiCo = Greedy bastards! A party-size bag of restaurant-style Tostitos was still sitting on the shelf for $7.29
https://t.co/KUIuU4t0YQ

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@Fritolay PepsiCo = Greedy bastards! A party-size bag of restaurant-style Tostitos was still sitting on the shelf for $7.29
https://t.co/KUIuU4t0YQ

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@Tostitos PepsiCo = Greedy bastards! A party-size bag of restaurant-style Tostitos was still sitting on the shelf for $7.29
https://t.co/KUIuU4t0YQ

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@RUFFLES @DudePerfect PepsiCo = Greedy bastards! A party-size bag of restaurant-style Tostitos was still sitting on the shelf for $7.29
https://t.co/KUIuU4t0YQ

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@Doritos PepsiCo = Greedy bastards! A party-size bag of restaurant-style Tostitos was still sitting on the shelf for $7.29
https://t.co/KUIuU4t0YQ

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@Doritos PepsiCo = Greedy bastards!
A party-size bag of restaurant-style Tostitos was still sitting on the shelf for $7.29
https://t.co/KUIuU4t0YQ

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@PepsiCo PepsiCo = Greedy bastards!
A party-size bag of restaurant-style Tostitos was still sitting on the shelf for $7.29
https://t.co/KUIuU4t0YQ

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@BradentuckyProd @DallasTexasTV @DNC @instagram

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Hey why don't you all act like you are actually doing your job? @ABC @NBCNews @CBSNews @CNN @cnnbrk @FoxNews

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Meanwhile a French news channel is showing a split screen of Trump doing his stupid dance at his Kentucky rally the other night and the other side of bombings on Iran….our news media should take notes!

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@IndiaToday

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@IndiaToday You invited @LauraLoomer, do you know what she thinks of India? She deleted all of these.