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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Cries in Elder Millennial

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

90s Babies.
U live the easiest life in the history of humanity.

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

Correct. And I weep about it almost every day. One, because I miss it (and my youth), and two, because I look at kids today and it can't be fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's not mutually exclusive with frustration at the world falling apart around us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I am comfortable with the knowledge that I spent the best years of my life in the '90s. The music, the clothes, the general vibe, the prices... The few wars of the era look like kids playing Risk compared to what's brewing now.

The lifestyle and material conditions enabled by a century and a half of fossil fuels are coming to a close.

It will only get worse from here. There is no recovery.

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

Idk, my life is pretty fuckin great right now.

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

I agree, but people dont like to hear that.

There is always the possibility that we are wrong also.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm just happy that I'm old enough not no be immediately drafted.

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

I wouldn't have had to worry about that anyway.

I would be considered 4F

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

I don't have to worry about being drafted, I'm officially morally unqualified to serve in my nation's armed forces!

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

Don't worry they make waivers for everything.

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

Then i get free shot at some officers!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

70s and 80s too

this is happening to everyone.

Just imagine living in Ukraine or Iran…at any age right now.

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

Oh man I'd prefer to not compare myself or my problems to active war zones. Lifes rough no matter the place but I have plenty of opportunity to make good on it. That may or may not be the case for folks in Ukraine or Iran... and then I think of Pakistan....fuck

Edit: fat finger spelling

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It's difficult being a millennial and trying to confront the nostalgic feeling (that naturally comes with aging) that "things were better in my youth," because things objectively were better in my youth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Idk, I wanted to kill myself as a kid and don't now. So personally, the world seems pretty okay to me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno, I hear stories from my coworkers about how bad East Germany and other former Soviet states were in the 80s/90s. It depends a lot on where you were fortunate enough to grow up.

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

I dunno man, there was an atomic cloud over Europe from a reactor meltdown which meant we couldn't go outside when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Also ignorance is bliss and as kids we didn't give a shit about politics. But in this instance things were 100% better no doubt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

80s babies too

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I, for one, feel a lot less crazy now that people are seeing what I have been seeing for a long time. I hear about it more even from old folks, my in laws now ask more questions as do my own parents. That gives me a lot of hope. Change is inevitable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same here. I've been saying for 25 years that the right wing Christian clowns were going to ruin this country and eventually the world. At the time my folks, family and friends all thought I was just some conspiracy nut.

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

I've felt like Courage the Cowardly Dog until the last year or two.

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

I chose cheerful nihilism a long time ago.

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