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Millennial about to turn 41.

I'm tired.

I'm not particularly fond of my fellow Americans anymore.

And I don't have an ounce of patriotism left.

This country can go ahead and fuck itself. Which it appears to be doing pretty thoroughly. Dumbest fucking country in the history of the world if you take into account its wealth and influence compared to its quality of life and happiness index.

Weighing how much effort/money it would take to get Canadian citizenship and whether I have that kind of energy left in me.

I didn't just go through them... I got rekt by them

At least we didn't have to live through 2 world wars I guess? (except for all the places that had local wars... 😢)

It's not like this is a millennial thing:

• 2000-02: dot-com crash
• 1990-92: early 90s recession
• 1987: Black Monday
• Mid-1980s: Savings and Loan Crisis
• Early 1980s: Early 1980s recession
• Mid 1970s: Mid 1970s recession

And you can keep going back. Also, the plural of crisis is crises.

And yet we are the coddled, snowflake generation xD make it make sense. I feel worse for the younger generations, tbh. At least we got to spend our childhoods and teens relatively carefree, if a bit aimless and with the feeling of not being needed in society.

Young people and kids today are dealing with constant existential crisis. I guess the upside to that is that they won't have to deal with this aimlessness that we dealt with, but maybe it's better to feel aimless than to carry the future of our planet on your shoulders before the age of 10.

In the end, we are all dealing with the same problems right now and we can only do our best.

Yeah. I want to run for Congress in 2026 on a platform of "I can't trust you fucking fucks to not fuck up this fucking fucker any fucking more."

"Unprecedented"

It's all good I just turned 30 and I finally have a job where I can break even with my finances. Now for the second job so I can use the next 30 years to pay off my debt. At this rate I'll be just ahead enough to get my retirement job with no social security. 😎

Just wait til you're in your 40s...

In the 2020s alone we had COVID, Russian Nazis, and now Trump Nazis. Oh, and we went past 1.5 degrees.

Some of us millennials have been extraordinarily lucky.

I'm an old millennial but I avoided any personal impact from the 2001 recession by being in college, on financial aid.

Then the 2008 recession didn't hit me very hard because I wasn't a homeowner was a single childless dude who was flexible enough to just up and move wherever there was a job, across the country if necessary. I had a different job in a different state each year from 2008 through 2011, taking big raises with each move, then eventually back to school.

Then the 2020 recession didn't hit me very hard because my wife and I both had counter-cyclical jobs (I tend to be busier when businesses are failing) and already owned a home, allowing us to bypass much of the inflation of the post-2020 period with a fixed rate mortgage we had refinanced to below 3% in 2021.

Now, the 2025 recession is probably gonna hit us hard. But I've basically escaped the last 3, so maybe I'm due.