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.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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They should be called generation G for hitting that sweet spot.
What about Korea, Bay of Pigs, Vietnam and the fact that ptsd was treated with electrical shocks or drilling holes in your brain
Also constant threat of global nuclear annihilation
That hasn't gone anywhere though although the media doesn't keep drumming about it as much I guess
Also lead in the air
Apparently hurt people also disappoint people
Absolutely. It's no coincidence that many of the people who committed atrocities in WW2 had lived through the trench wars of WW1.
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.
it's not "things change" all the current mess was created by them in the decades after the time period of the op tweet
A lot of the world's problems are generally made by the greed of mankind in general.
It's still fair to blame them. Old people blame young people for everything afterall.
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.
I 100% blame them for pulling the ladder up behind them.
If the roles switched we'd probably do the same.
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.