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Some millennials are over 40. Doesn’t change the point but let’s be factual here
Fuck I’m old :((((((
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.
All Biff and no hoverboard? Bogus!
Fake Biff and fake hoverboards!
totally not not-heinous
Considering Biff was based on Trump in the 80s…
They almost nailed it…
He wasn’t quite evil and stupid enough.
Oh shut up.
—GenX
I envy gen x. Last generation to be home owners.
Not all of us.
Yeah, you can change high-school to college, and 40 to 45 for me, but the point doesn’t really change.
I’m 43. Look at me go.
I was trying to think of some shit going down in the 80s.
All I can think of is Chernobyl melt down in 86.
Challenger explosion, televised straight into so many classrooms
Wow. Looking into this for a few minutes I now realise I’ve been completely naive to this for most of my life. It’s an awful but fascinating disaster.
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Not the 80’s, but the early-mid 90’s were rife with evidence of the U.S.’s decline.
Rodney King beatings, the highway of death in Iraq, the rise to prominence of Fox News, the mass destruction of the ‘93 floods, all those communities destroyed by the shift to zero tolerance policies, and the deevoludtion of national political debate into contentious identity politics by 24-hour news channels.
In the 80’s you had Bhopal and 3-mile island, too. And the savings and loan crisis, I think.
Mutually Assured Destruction was pretty big at the time. The rot really started to set in with Reagan.
This isn’t about them.
you boomer
Also the middle-eastern millenials getting bombed, occupied, and bombed again during each of these.
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.
Watching your mom die is a bit more shocking at 12 than it is when you are 40
These are millennials having main character syndrome about watching stuff on tv.
Meanwhile there are actual war zones in which all age groups are getting physically wiped out.
They actually are losing their moms at any age . Not just watching stuff on tv.
What pain olympics are you trying to win, dude?
Projecting confession so in right now.
The circle of life. We’re about due for a depression and a war. Humans are so predictable it is mind numbing
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.
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.
My high school experience started with Columbine freshman year and ended with 9/11 senior year. Life has been so crazy.
Now we get one every week!
It is insane how common it’s become.
It’s hard to even explain to people that there was a time when it used to be a very shocking thing to hear about.
“Back in my day, parents didn’t have to send their kids off to school every morning pretending everything was normal, but internally struggling with anxiety they might never see them again.”
We had some copycats here in Germany and of course Counterstrike or some other game was to blame. Not the very real weapons the people were shot with.
And Marylin Manson.
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.
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.
Everyone glosses over the Spanish Flu ;)
At least the wars since the 50s have not been on European or US soil. Well, except of the wars that were actually on European soil.
But yeah, it’s totally true that constant chaos is constant.
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.
Let‘s convince Iran of the existence of space jews so when they get a nuke, they light up the atmosphere and kill all the powergrids and servers forever. Peace, out!
I’m 42 and this is deep.
Aye gather round elder Millennials, our watch has begun
Back in ye day we hath this magical place called “limewire” it could brick your mothers gateway computer without a moments notice.
Heh, I don’t think that’s as old as you’re expecting; I’m 35 and I, too, installed Limewire on the family computer (and probably downloaded so much malware…).
28 and also downloaded some Linkin Park that was actually George W. Bush on the good ol limewire. Admittedly I was probably the tail end of that.
Nice; that’s the most early 2000s sentence I’ve heard in a long time.
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…”
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.
Amen. As a millennial I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard that WW3 is starting. Every time shit pops off in the Middle East (almost always thanks to the good ol’ US of A) the media starts handwringing and people start panicking.
But even if we do end up in a world war, the world won’t stop turning. People with bombs raining down on them still need to go to work and cook dinner and pay their bills.
War has always been a reality for someone somewhere in the world. But if/when it’s our turn, we’re so self-centered we think that it’s the actual apocalypse.
All we can do is keep working to make life better for each other. Even though shit is pretty bleak for everyone with late stage capitalism and climate change, it’s not nearly the worst thing any group of people have ever experienced.
So you can give up, or you can embrace radical nihilism and choose to cling to any scrap of joy you can find while working to make things better, even if it’s just the tiniest bit.
In the grand scheme of human history, western civilization as we know it is a tiny blip. It’s incredible that we’re here to witness this moment. If nothing else, let sheer curiosity and spite drive you to keep going.
The people that make the news for this kind of crap are also the ones who report it to you in that sensational way to get those reactions. Some of those who work forces…
Yeah I feel like if a direct attack on American soil that killed thousands of civilians didn’t spark WW3, then nothing will
We kinda attacked a decent percentage of the world after that, and have barely had time to catch our breath since the “end” of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
You’re expecting old farts in charge to be always rational about everything. They need to let their rotting brains to slip up once, and we’re all fucked.
We watched the second plane hit live on a shitty CRT in my Geography class. Shit was insane. I’m so damn tired…
I was having computer science class and I remember seeing the news… Felt so unreal to see something like that in America. Went home, watched news for the entire day.
Then I read a lot about 9/11 the following years. I think it changed the perception about America in a lot of people.
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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.
The Cold War never ended
I don’t think anyone is seriously “declaring” WW3. It’s just an acknowledgement that there’s a lot of unrest in many different regions.
A global conflict in 2025 would be very different to WW2.
Cyber attacks could decimate a country’s ability to make war.
I fear at this point the two are not even incompatible.
Cold War 2 is not so much the superpowers vying against each other, but desperately attempting to retrench their power over the global south and their own citizens. The adversarial stance is largely political theatre to manifest the narrative of great powers locked in competition, while in reality Moscow and Washington meet in private to decide the fate of Ukraine and Iran. (I’m also counting China here)
Did the Cold War ever really end? I feel like the names of the players may have changed, but the board is still there and the pieces are still moving.
There was a bit of a moment after the USSR dissolved where the US was just kinda spinning its wheels without any clear purpose. We still had all the institutions for weapons manufacturing, intelligence gathering, financial strong-arming – they were still doing their thing, but without an overall narrative to give a unified sense of purpose.
You can almost imagine 9/11 being somewhat of a relief – like, oh thank god a clear external enemy, now we don’t have to struggle justifying our continued existence. And, of course, now our leaders can’t agree on weather we’re in existential conflict with Russia or China or both. This go round, we are the crumbling gerontocracy.
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.
You forgot Y2K. That was wild.
Ah, yes, the one crisis we managed to avert during our lifetime…
It’s not the only one. Ozone Hole has been recovering since the 80s thanks to people who actually listened to scientists.
Well, there have been plenty of potential Covids, that were nipped in the bud, because we had more competent leadership that heeded scientists, and systems in place to catch them early. It’s just that when Covid hit we…didn’t.
Was it? Other than media overhyping the dangers and saying it’ll end the world, I don’t think it had much of an impact.
The dangers were very much real, we just took them seriously and fixed the problem so it didn’t have an impact.
Y2K is the perfect example of a crisis averted. There was a major problem that would’ve crashed computer systems all over the world, potentially bringing down power grids, financial institutions, hospital networks, etc. But the problem was identified well ahead of time and programmers and engineers spent like a full year working to ensure that the problem was fixed and wouldn’timpact anything, so it never became A Problem like the media said it was.
Millenials in America while dropping bombs wiping out all generations in other countries:
“I had to see that on the tele. Poor me”.
