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90s Babies.
U live the easiest life in the history of humanity.
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.
That's not mutually exclusive with frustration at the world falling apart around us.
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.
Idk, my life is pretty fuckin great right now.
I agree, but people dont like to hear that.
There is always the possibility that we are wrong also.
I'm just happy that I'm old enough not no be immediately drafted.
I wouldn't have had to worry about that anyway.
I would be considered 4F
I don't have to worry about being drafted, I'm officially morally unqualified to serve in my nation's armed forces!
Don't worry they make waivers for everything.
Then i get free shot at some officers!
70s and 80s too
this is happening to everyone.
Just imagine living in Ukraine or Iran…at any age right now.
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
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.
Idk, I wanted to kill myself as a kid and don't now. So personally, the world seems pretty okay to me.
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.
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.
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.
80s babies too
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.
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.
I've felt like Courage the Cowardly Dog until the last year or two.
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