Topic: Have millennials ruined the U.S.?

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM started this discussion 11 years ago #46,588

My brother uttered something upon hearing a reminder during Monday Night Football about the new Star Wars trailer about how it was just Star Wars and how all of the teeny bopers are excited failing to take into account that this franchise most likely has twenty year olds and adults who saw the original back in 1977 before mentioning how millennials ruined the country.

This is what I do not understand. If Generation Y really is to blame for most of the country's problems then how is Generation X (his genderation) innocent? Why do people tend to place blame on either the Millennials or the Baby Boomers whenever picking a scapegoat? Why does it seem like Generation Xers are arrogant? I refer to the likes of 4channers who most likely in that generation.

Poll option	Votes	Percentage
Yes.	2	22%
No.	6	67%
Who cares?	1	11%
Sprite.	-	0%
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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later[^] [v] #614,132

how old is your brother? if he is born after 1980 he's still a millenial

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #614,133

@previous (B)
I guess he just missed that mark by a few years.
He was born in 1978.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 13 minutes later, 20 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #614,137

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

regardless, millenials didn't ruin shit, they aren't the ones in positions of power churning out rehashed franchises, most of them are still young and starting their careers and even if they are shit it's not their fault they get pushed by companies

Meowth joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 22 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #614,138

MEOWTH is confused!

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 59 seconds later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #614,140

@614,137 (B)
I should note that I never really thought about this until a certain scene in the game GTA V where Franklin and this one girl were discussing the Baby Boomers and Millennials. It was then when I realized these two generations seem to be the most singled out in the media and I don't know why it seems so.

Also, my brother seems to hate the millennials because of social networking, narcissism, blah, blah, blah. Same crap I see them get blamed for.

Syntax joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 15 minutes later, 38 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #614,142

Fact is a disproportionate number of baby boomers are still living with parents. Not trying hard enough to get out of the nest.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 47 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #614,143

@previous (Syntax)

i'm not defending this but, some people traditionally never move out of their parents' house and live with extended family and the like

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 56 seconds later, 48 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #614,144

@previous (B)
What is necessary wrong with living with extended family?
I would suspect it beats living with a stranger.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 54 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #614,145

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

i don't think there's anything wrong with it, i'm just not arguing with the statistics

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 52 seconds later, 55 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #614,146

@614,143 (B)
@614,144 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

Staying in the nest is not so much so great for our economy. Kids are supposed to go out and get into debt buying a house and all that goes with it. Also when they leave the nest they are more then likely going to have a new family of their own.

Notwithstanding the added water and pollution as this gets complicated. Also consider that the house property tax remains the same no matter how many people live in the house so the local Gov infrastructure suffers.

(Edited 51 seconds later.)

Meowth replied with this 11 years ago, 29 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #614,154

@614,143 (B)

> i'm not defending this but, some people traditionally never move out of their parents' house and live with extended family and the like

Yes. My blood family is my second family. Now I'm finally living in my own room with my blood parents in the same house. I told them I'm planning to live with them for at least the next 5-10 years. Of course, I've only been living with them for maybe 8 or 9 months now, and life changes so... I have my own house, but it's old and overall a pos unfortunately.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,193

ugh catherine

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,194

I do want to call you people retarded for obsessing over "the millennials" and "the baby boomers" and "Generation Y" so much. So I am going to do it.

You are retarded.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 11 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,200

@previous (F)

fuck you anonymous f

Anonymous E replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,201

@614,194 (F)

> you people

Anonymous F replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,207

@previous (E)
There are multiple people who do it.

@614,200 (B)
fuck too b

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 8 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,264

people put it on the baby boomers because its their dumb policies and continued unwillingness to change as to why were in such a mess

why the fuck do you still post? stop

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 15 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,266

@614,142 (Syntax)
> Fact is a disproportionate number of baby boomers are still living with parents.

Are you using some fun, personal definition of "baby boomer" here?

brie⭐️ !uXWPG0MygI joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 34 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,275

@614,146 (Syntax)
So to summarize: Baby-boomers mad cause GenX didnt do more to force GenY into the mold?

It can't be that simple, can it?

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Anonymous G replied with this 11 years ago, 27 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,279

syntax has no clue what the term baby boomer means how shocking, just kidding, it isn't shocking since he knows fuck all about anything.

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,295

@614,266 (H)
@614,275 (brie⭐️ !uXWPG0MygI)

@previous (G)

> syntax has no clue what the term baby boomer means how shocking, just kidding, it isn't shocking since he knows fuck all about anything.

Actually so far you're the only one to point out
> what the term baby boomer means how shocking

> Topic: Have millennials ruined the U.S.?

Someone was supposed to point out that baby boomers have nothing to do with Millennials other then as Great Grand Parents or Late blooming Grand Parents

brie I don't think any Baby boomers are mad - just disappointed at wot they Begot

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,296

@previous (Syntax)

have you watched the film begotten? legend has it, it was one of the first films based xenu showed humanity in his giant cinemas

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 10 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,299

@previous (B)
Have not viewed that film. Me thinks you need to get in touch with these people - Place is where I was born
Join that church and meet Xenu eventually after they drain your wallet dry

Anonymous H replied with this 11 years ago, 13 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,305

@614,295 (Syntax)
> Someone was supposed to point out that baby boomers have nothing to do with Millennials other then as Great Grand Parents or Late blooming Grand Parents

And Great Grand Parents or Late blooming Grand Parents are still living with their parents?? What bath salts are you sniffing old man? I want to try some.

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,307

@previous (H)
Ah ok see what you failed to see waz this
> Fact is a disproportionate number of baby boomers are still living with parents. Not trying hard enough to get out of the nest.

Convert to
> Fact is a disproportionate number of millennials are still living with parents. Not trying hard enough to get out of the nest.

Its near IMPOSSIBLE for Baby Boomers to host offspring albeit I imagine a few examples do exist.

Anonymous H replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,308

@previous (Syntax)
I figured that was the mistake. Writing Baby Boomers when you meant millennials, but I haven't taken my autism meds today. I had to point it out.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,309

what generation are you from syntax?

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,310

@614,308 (H)
Waz not a mistake. Bottom line blame goes to Baby Boomers for how we end up with messed up millennials.
Don't want anyone to take this to the point of how Donald Trump blames George W Bush for cause of World Trade Towers mess.

Oh and given I am not even a Baby Boomer such cannot be blamed on me.

Syntax double-posted this 11 years ago, 32 seconds later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,311

@614,309 (B)

> what generation are you from syntax?

The lost and found generation

Anonymous H replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,312

@614,310 (Syntax)
> Fact is a disproportionate number of baby boomers are still living with parents

Yes, a disproportionate number of 60-70 year-olds are still living with their parents. What exactly is your source here? The Golden Girls? Dorothy is living with her mum right?

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,313

@previous (H)
Wot part of this did you fail to read?
> Its near IMPOSSIBLE for Baby Boomers to host offspring albeit I imagine a few examples do exist.

Anonymous H replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,314

@previous (Syntax)
Please type in future responses in English.

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,316

@previous (H)
Use this when need be

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,317

@614,311 (Syntax)

if you literally mean the lost generation wouldn't that make you like 100?

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,318

@previous (B)
I did say Lost and Found
Mean it literately, with one very important memorable in all history textbooks (the day that is)

Anonymous H replied with this 11 years ago, 52 seconds later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,319

@614,316 (Syntax)
> Fact is a disproportionate number of baby boomers are still living with parents
> Its near IMPOSSIBLE for Baby Boomers to host offspring albeit I imagine a few examples do exist.

I'm totally lost about what you are saying. Baby boomers are living with their parents and it's near IMPOSSIBLE for them to host offspring? Are you in your 60s and still living with your parents? You can't keep your wife and kids in your parents basement? Most people in their 60s aren't having these problems. I really, genuinely, don't understand what the fuck point you are trying to make.

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,321

@previous (H)
Simply put:

"Fact is a disproportionate number of millennials are still living with parents. Not trying hard enough to get out of the nest."

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,349

Star Wars is fucking shit.

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 37 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,358

@614,321 (Syntax)
Thanks for correcting your previous statement. Now it makes sense.

squeegee joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,375

@614,321 (Syntax)
> Not trying hard enough to get out of the nest.

uh, no, this is fucking ignorance talking. My dad got a job from the mother fucking classified section of the newspaper with a 2 year degree in the 1960s and it afforded him a house, 2 cars, a wife and 6 fucking children.

They that today and tell me how it works out for you.

Oh yeah, and my dad also owned 2 fucking different airplanes. But Millennials get a new iPhone every couple of years so they're spoiled.

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Anonymous F replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,376

@previous (squeegee)
Just tried it. It didn't work. :(

squeegee replied with this 11 years ago, 48 seconds later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,377

@previous (F)
oh it didn't? did you walk in and ask if they're hiring? maybe fill out an application and drop off your paper resume? you just need to pound the pavement is all, lazy.

(Edited 40 seconds later.)

Anonymous F replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,378

@previous (squeegee)
What do you want from me?!

squeegee replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,379

also, baby boomers and gen xers have ruined this country. Gen Xers are all sell-outs, and the boomers are the ones who talked them into it. Millennials are just kind of left holding the bag... of debt.

squeegee double-posted this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,380

@614,378 (F)
all i want from you is for you to work 70 hours a week to pay off the debt you accumulated while learning how to do the job you're going to work until you die.

brie⭐️ !uXWPG0MygI replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,381

It seems like nobody wants to come to terms with one simple fact: Times change.

And if they have come to terms with that, then they want to be the actor which causes such change.

Anyone who gets this far will likely go mad from trying to imagine a solution that makes everyone happy.

The idea of being able to save everyone is one of the first to go out the window.

Now we have a cross-generational clusterbuck! (nobody calls me a chicken)!

squeegee replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,384

@previous (brie⭐️ !uXWPG0MygI)
or we could, you know, not do stupid shit like raise the retirement age on social security when we're having a problem getting new workers into jobs... but, i guess if we weren't going to make people work longer then we'd have to address the problem of gouged healthcare costs. I mean, you don't want to pop a bubble before it bursts into an economic crisis, then congress wouldn't be able to steamroll emergency measures with a million shitty riders along for the ride.

brie⭐️ !uXWPG0MygI replied with this 11 years ago, 9 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,388

@previous (squeegee)
US America: No money, all problems.

Would we have all these temporary bubbles if there were a gold standard in place?

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Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 29 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,396

@614,375 (squeegee)
No one said life is supposed to be fair or easy.

squeegee replied with this 11 years ago, 12 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,399

@previous (Syntax)
yeah, but you know who says it shouldn't be manipulated by an elite few? mobs. angry, angry mobs. and every day the elite few control more and more, and eventually people are going to get sick of it. there are something like 7 billion people on this planet who are growing more and more connected every day, don't think that's not a recipe for a disaster in the making. for someone. for the majority of people it'll actually come as a great relief ;)

the world is like a plantation full of angry niggers getting whipped half to death in the sun while their owners sit on the porch drinking iced tea. What's to stop the overwhelming number from overthrowing the small few? pretty much just fear that your situation will only get worse. but, once you hear there's a better situation... you'll force it.

how's that for fair?

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 20 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #614,413

@previous (squeegee)
I guess you are looking at it as a critical mass ...ready to explode and fully melt down.

The way I figure it - From the get go cavepeople. Grunts n groans to communicate. Working before sun up to after sun down just to get enough to eat. No woven garments to stay warm and having to invent a way to start fire and figure out wot to eat that wont kill them.

Its never been easy except for say people like Donald Trump who was born with silver spoon in mouth.

So again
> No one said life is supposed to be fair or easy.

Minichan