President Biden is the First President Elected From The Silent Generation

This is kinda blowing my mind right now.

I know generation bounds can be inconsistent, but I’m using this as the guideline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_social_generations

That puts Clinton, W, Obama, and Trump all as Baby Boomers and Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and HW all as Greatest Generation.

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Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 21 pts · 2y (7 replies)

This is an entirely too rigid definition of generation. Biden was born in 1942. Clinton, W, and Trump were all born in 1946.

digger@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 2y

Your fact that those three were all born the same year is what I'm finding interesting.

ccunning@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Generational boundaries are all made up anyway. A lot of people put Obama in Gen X being born in 1961, while the linked graph steadfastly places anyone before 1965 as a Boomer.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Speculater@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Or all the "elder millennials" that are actually Gen X, like bro, 1980 is not a millennial. You were 20 when Y2K happened.

card797@champserver.net · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I was 16 when y2k happened. I'm definitely a Millenial.

Speculater@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Correct. If you couldn't legally vote when Y2K happened and thought the Power Rangers were cool and not a kids show, you're a millennial.

card797@champserver.net · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I wanted to be the White Ranger so bad.

Speculater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Green ranger for me, but yes. :-D

sparkle@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

That's not something I would have expected. This is one of the only interesting things to me I've actually seen on a mildly interesting community

sunny@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

You mean blowing your ear?