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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#185551: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:26:14 PM

These kinds of Millenial bashing things always make me think "Well we may be little shits but who raised us to be that way?" Seriously, all the tech that's supposedly making us entitled pricks was invented by Boomers. The participation trophies they whine about? Given to us by Boomers. Even our spending habits get criticized despite the fact that we're struggling to survive in the economy the Boomers ruined.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#185552: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:29:07 PM

this article has what is possibly the best description I've seen of Trump yet: The Razzle-Dazzle President.

This is only part of it so just for posterity: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C9dFKRZ8EbU

http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/opinion/singularly-awful-100-days-president-trump-article-1.3104735

edited 28th Apr '17 5:37:34 PM by megaeliz

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#185553: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:37:10 PM

Great. Like I needed more reasons to think the generation that came after mine is as dumb as a sack of hammers. Like it wasn't bad enough that their popular music and books sucked worse than most of my generation's, they just had to dive headlong into sociopathy and fascism on top of that.

Using Milo Yiandjfksjdnfopolous and pop culture at large to characterize all millennials sounds like a shallow characterization and a poorly researched judgment.

edited 28th Apr '17 5:38:04 PM by Aszur

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#185554: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:43:05 PM

All I can think about now is that song from Bye-Bye Birdie where all the adults are commiserating abouf "kids these days"

edited 28th Apr '17 5:47:37 PM by megaeliz

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#185555: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:47:15 PM

Newfangled things scare me. I am terrified by change. Vaccines cause North Korea. Autism is on the rise because the chemtrails are melting steel beams. And asian doctors on airplanes are just asking for it with those clothes they are wearing.

I read it on the internets, so it must be the trues.

edited 28th Apr '17 5:47:46 PM by Aszur

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
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#185556: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:48:36 PM

Trump complains about giving money and support to Saudi Arabia, who he says treats America unfairly.

I guess it would only be a matter of time before he attacked an ally everyone agrees shouldn't be one. Too bad he's harder on an actual ally then on a frienemy.

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#185557: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:50:58 PM

You will have to excuse poor Donald. He is not used to handling large amounts of actual money. He is more used to bragging about large amounts of money than actually handling it.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#185558: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:52:56 PM

Great. Like I needed more reasons to think the generation that came after mine is as dumb as a sack of hammers.

So if Millennials are the generation after yours, that would make you, what, a Gen Xer? The generation who stood up and proclaimed in a single voice, "Meh, whatever," and disengaged from any and all activity toward shaping the future, thereby allowing the goddamn Boomers to stay in power and feel justified in screwing over Millenials because they assume we're just as lazy and self-absorbed as you wads were?

Let he whose generation is without sin throw the first stone.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#185559: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:53:34 PM

[up][up]As I said, he's the Razzle-Dazzle president. He thought this job would be a nice relaxing break from his previous life of luxury.

edited 28th Apr '17 5:55:04 PM by megaeliz

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Confirmed Doomer
#185560: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:58:28 PM

[up][up] No, actually. Millenial. I guess I just counted the radicalized 13-to-15-year-olds that Yiannopolous mentioned as a completely separate generation to the millenials due to the cultural differences to the early-Millenials (namely, the return to the nihilism of the Gen-Xers and the support of Trump) regardless of actual time spent.

edited 28th Apr '17 6:05:19 PM by TrashJack

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#185561: Apr 28th 2017 at 5:58:45 PM

[up]x3 Also, aren't Gen X'ers technically responsible for making Nihilism cool, at least culturally, in the US?

[up]Oh, you're referring to Gen Z'ers...

... I hope and pray they don't follow Yiannopolis's lead of 'Troll' Politics, regardless of what side it's on.

edited 28th Apr '17 6:00:24 PM by DingoWalley1

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#185562: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:07:19 PM

Y'all handle weird ass definitions of "generations". Belonging to certain generation does not accurately predict your political leanings, interests. The ones we can know more of are the baby boomers: After all the impact they had was the largest one so far.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#185563: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:09:04 PM

Millenials, in my mind, are people born in the mid eighties up to 2000. The people in high school now were born after 2000. A lot of people consider them separate from Millenials.

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#185564: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:10:36 PM

Yes, wonderful, lovely, but, again.

Date of birth does not predict political leanings. Might as well use the Horoscope. Spoiler alert: Gemini are total libertarians.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#185565: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:12:09 PM

Nobody is saying it does but it does dictate what trends and environment you'll be exposed to. There are obviously conservative Millenials. We're just saying they aren't as common.

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#185566: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:12:42 PM

[up][up] Which is funny, my brother is a Gemini and he's a Republican (Yes, he voted for Trump), while I'm a Libra and I'm the Libertarian! (Albeit, of the Bleeding Heart kind. No, I didn't vote for Trump, and never will.)

edited 28th Apr '17 6:12:51 PM by DingoWalley1

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#185567: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:12:57 PM

[up][up][up]This. And just because Milo said he would look at the next generation doesn't mean it'll work, aren't we being a tad presumptive writing off an entire generation?

edited 28th Apr '17 6:13:12 PM by Fourthspartan56

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Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#185568: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:13:04 PM

I wouldn't start worrying until the majority of them start reaching adulthood and they are expressing those opinions.

At their age I was a very religious, neo-conservative . Now I am atheist, liberal, social democrat. So there is still plenty of room for them to change, if indeed as many of them are alt-right as Milo would like you to believe.

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#185569: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:13:58 PM

[up]And trusting Milo would be incredibly stupid, he has every reason to hype up his support being its actual size.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
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A procrastination in of itself
#185570: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:20:44 PM

Wait, why is Milo Yiannopoulos of all people being treated as a definitive voice on the political opinions of a generation that the oldest member of hasn't even reached legal adulthood yet?

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
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#185571: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:26:09 PM

[up]Because knee-jerk reactions to questionable sources that confirm one's own pre-conceived notions is not restricted to the right.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
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#185572: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:26:52 PM

NSA will stop collecting Internet Information unless it goes to, or comes from, a foreign target.

That's nice. Not sure I completely believe them, but that's nice. It's odd how they're doing this during Trump's Administration, though...

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#185573: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:29:23 PM

Yeah, your political and social opinions at 13-14 or even younger than that are not necessarily indicative of what they will be several years down the line. I was much less receptive to social justice at that age myself.

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#185574: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:30:40 PM

NVM, came late to that one.

edited 28th Apr '17 6:35:02 PM by CenturyEye

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CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#185575: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:32:47 PM

When I was thirteen (2003; Iraq War all day e'rry day), I felt like I was a lone liberal swimming in a sea of neoconservatism.

Teenagers are fucking morons — you can't really gauge their political leanings until they vote and their minds are still porous.

edited 28th Apr '17 6:33:32 PM by CrimsonZephyr

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