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[–] [email protected] 118 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Some millennials are over 40. Doesn't change the point but let's be factual here

Fuck I'm old :((((((

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm here with you on that. We got to see Biff in back to the future and now we get to see a Biff Larper as president.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

All Biff and no hoverboard? Bogus!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Considering Biff was based on Trump in the 80s...

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I envy gen x. Last generation to be home owners.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Jokes on you. I watched 9/11 in elementary school.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was in my geography lesson, so I don’t identify either.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago (42 children)

This is why I don’t believe people who say things can get better.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

lol, yep, things have only became worse over time through my whole life, and I just got laid off from a sick job I scored during the Covid chaos, so i'm job searching on top of all of that

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

They certainly can - post-WWII was certainly an improvement for most people - but there's no guarantee that they will.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago

Also the middle-eastern millenials getting bombed, occupied, and bombed again during each of these.

[–] confusedpuppy 28 points 3 weeks ago

Am I numb or am I exhausted? Maybe I'll find out after another nap.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m 42 and this is deep.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aye gather round elder Millennials, our watch has begun

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Back in ye day we hath this magical place called “limewire” it could brick your mothers gateway computer without a moments notice.

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[–] ScoffingLizard 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm so fucking over this shit yall. Don't forget the corporate takeover and surveillance dystopia created by quite possibly the biggest dork losers that are alive. What the actual fuck? Need a genocide. Check. Civil rights collapse? Check. Financial meltdown? Check. Pandemic that kills millions? Check. Collapse of the dollar for shitcoin scams? Check pending. Terrorist attacks that convince your country for 20 years of wars? Check. No more war excuses, and need more? No worries, we'll just recycle the same one from 25 years ago because y'all couldn't do shit about it then either. They have nukes so we have to attack.

Now, go be a good citizen and participate in some blind nationalism and virtue signaling with your pledge of allegiance to an inanimate object while simultaneously and intentionally starving brown kids by the thousands.

Can't a giant EMP come and save us? I'm so tired.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Don't forget Columbine. People always leave that out, but as far as historical milestones that shaped how awful American society has become, it was a big one.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

We didn’t start the fire. It was always burning since the world’s been turning. No we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

I just joined the Bundeswehr (the german army) a couple of weeks before 9/11. I still remember that I thought "You idiot really have managed to join the military right at the beginning of WWIII..."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I don't really understand the age focus on this one. People older than millenials have also experienced all that plus some extra shit which millenials haven't. We are all in this together (except for the billionaires and their dictator friends), regardless of age.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Everyone's always quick to declare the beginning of World War 3, to pass every event through that lens. Inadvertently, it provides cover for the fact that Cold War 2 already started.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

The Cold War never ended

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

You forgot Y2K. That was wild.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, yes, the one crisis we managed to avert during our lifetime...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

It's not the only one. Ozone Hole has been recovering since the 80s thanks to people who actually listened to scientists.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably not better if you were born in 1900. You were born in an European Monarchy. Life is not exactly free, but stable and prosperous.

Some psycho stabs a queen, and all of a sudden all of Europe and a lot of the rest of the world is at war. Most of Europe is razed to the ground and millions of soldiers return with heavy PTSD.

The monarchy is done, you got a completely new system in Europe and a communist revolution in Eastern Europe/Russia.

Times such, but stability returns for a few years until the Great Depression hits and boom, we got Nazis, holocaust, and yet another world war, which is ended by a literal science fiction weapon that can raze whole cities to the ground at the press of a button.

And now your country is occuped by a foreign army, while everything has to be rebuilt.

Seriously, the phase from 1955-2000 was an anomaly. That was pretty much the most peaceful time in world history. Before that, constant wars, pagues, starvation and general horrors were the norm, not the exception.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And even with that, you are glossing over the Spanish Flu. The "peaceful" time since the '50s included numerous massive wars, not least of which was the Vietnam war.

The idea that every time period has its own chaos is the whole point of the song We Didn't Start the Fire, written in 1989.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I have a much lesser ww3 vibe than when the Ukraine thing started. It hasn't even crossed my mind but it keeps popping up everywhere. Perhaps I'm missing something crucial here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Perhaps I’m missing something crucial here.

For me, the crucial bit here is political ideology vs. religion. Russia invading Ukraine is purely political in my opinion, whereas the Israel/Iran conflict can't really be separated from religion. Might be spitballing here, but religious fanatics might be more extremist (willing to escalate war to defend their beliefs) than political fanatics. I also think USA's historical defense of Israel is in play here, whereas USA's involvement with Ukraine hasn't really been a thing.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We watched the second plane hit live on a shitty CRT in my Geography class. Shit was insane. I'm so damn tired...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

WW3 ain't coming, and if it was there's nothing you could do about it anyway.

Dead people don't buy oil, financial services, adverts, housing, or plastic tat from China.

Unhappy people buy lots of it, or at least go into debt trying.

The goal of the world is to keep you miserable and spending.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, but we have the benefit of never being able to buy a house, and having the same minimum wage for 16 years.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Three recessions. People always forget the dotcom bubble that was made worse by the market going down after 9/11.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Pre 9/11 you could also get like 10% interest on a savings account.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

My daughter was in kindergarten and saw a man fall to his death on 9-11. Its stuck with her. Nothing was done to those assholes who allowed this to happen.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Gen-Xer who remembers the cold war and also lived through all that other shit: Welp I guess I'm flinging myself back off the fucking wagon.

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[–] guyoverthere123 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

OJ Simpson murdered his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

One of OJs lawyers was Robert Kardashian, Kim Kardashian's father.

US President Bill Clinton impeached over abusing his power by getting a blowjob in the Oval Office from an intern. Then lying about it.

Y2K. Remember that?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

AIDS.

And in my country, a coup, a toxic syndrome, a housing bubble, terrorism, ...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Things are gonna get worse before they get better, so buckle up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Toss in an exploding space shuttle and the fall of the Berlin wall and you get Gen X.

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[–] ScoffingLizard 9 points 3 weeks ago

I love how it only recognizes the "recessions" as those that impact rich people. The metrics are fucked. We've been in a recession since 2008.

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