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[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

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

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

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

All Biff and no hoverboard? Bogus!

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

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago
[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

He wasn't quite evil and stupid enough.

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[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

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

[-] the_wiz@feddit.org 19 points 1 week 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..."

[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] EldenLord@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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!

[-] zerofk@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week 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.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Binturong@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

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

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

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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[-] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] breecher@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 points 1 week ago

Watching your mom die is a bit more shocking at 12 than it is when you are 40

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week 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.

[-] Godofdirt@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] FreeAZ@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

I can't remember why but I didn't go to school that day. I remember finding out because I was arguing with my brother about what movie to watch, then complaining to my mom, and her freaking out going "You're complaing about this when there's a national crisis going on?!"

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

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

They also become worse before they become the worst

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] walktheplank@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

You mean your government and their Saudi money men?

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[-] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
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[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

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.

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