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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Shoutout to our parents for hitting an absolute timeline sweet-spot. Drop in right after a world war, have a bunch of weird sex before HIV, buy a house for like 20.000€, start a family, retire young and peace out right before the ocean kills us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

They should be called generation G for hitting that sweet spot.

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

What about Korea, Bay of Pigs, Vietnam and the fact that ptsd was treated with electrical shocks or drilling holes in your brain

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also constant threat of global nuclear annihilation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That hasn't gone anywhere though although the media doesn't keep drumming about it as much I guess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Also lead in the air

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently hurt people also disappoint people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Absolutely. It's no coincidence that many of the people who committed atrocities in WW2 had lived through the trench wars of WW1.

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

I don't blame old people, they lived the best of times, their lives were comfortable because they were in a boom. They had high hopes, had kids with a bright future in mind for them, but things change, some see it, others are oblivious to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it's not "things change" all the current mess was created by them in the decades after the time period of the op tweet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

A lot of the world's problems are generally made by the greed of mankind in general.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's still fair to blame them. Old people blame young people for everything afterall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

My parents don't, well not completely. They know the world be screwed up, but they also think there's a degree of responsibility on my part too. We are all stuck in this shit show together, and old people thought they'd be dead long before it got really really bad, but Trump SA'd the money, and now we all get to suffer.

I'd keep friends and loved ones close.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I 100% blame them for pulling the ladder up behind them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If the roles switched we'd probably do the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, no. Speak for yourself please.

I already have so much less opportunity than the average boomer, and I'm still not doing that. Because I'm not a piece of shit. It's really not difficult.

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