My favorite was the desperate headline, “millennials kill napkins” because we can’t afford so many different paper products (if they knew we were using TP for kleenex, they’d have run with that too).
What really sucks is living near Millennials who were handed jobs and houses by their parents, and live life effortlessly, which makes it seem like the “dream” is still alive and I’m just failing at it.
Have a friend whose Boomer dad said that he’d best hope he, the father, dies early otherwise he’s going to blow all of the inheritance. The dad is also a MAGAt so it tracks.
I don’t hate to say it, Boomers are the most out of touch, entitled, enriched generation the USA has ever seen and they’re going to be the downfall of this country.
And a lot of boomers who have substantial retirements think they’re the 1% and others protect them because they’ve been misled via propaganda to believe they’re the job creators and back them fully.
I got arrested for possessing a dust-amount of cannabis when I was 13
then I had to work through the pandemic as a cannabis dispensary manager because we were “essential medical personnel”
with no medical benefits. Earning less money than I would’ve if I had been able to go on unemployment.
It’s a shit country. The social contract does not exist anymore. Thinly-veiled threats of violence are the only thing still keeping the population in line, including the threat of homelessness which is also a form of violence.
Once, when I was on acid, I asked myself - how would I define America? The answer I settled on is, “America is everyone who is stuck here” (or forced by economic or otherwise imperially-orchestrated hardship to come here, even if they would prefer to remain in their home country otherwise). Everyone who lives in America and cannot comfortably escape lives in a prison. You may get the equivalent of a Nordic prison if you’re privileged, but look how many wealthy celebrities live miserable lives - it’s still a prison.
And so I live by advice I heard from a prisoner. I wish I could remember the source, but I can’t. The advice, as to how to survive in prison, was: “Take everything they give you. Give nothing in return.” It’s important to note that this applies to the government, to corporations, to capitalism, NOT to your fellow prisoners (Americans). The only way we get through this is each other.
Xennial putting up with Reagan onward:
99 dotcom bust, 911, 2008 great recession, covid, idiot tarriffs and this ai bullshit, all while in the worforce.
Yeah, the older millenials be eatin lean cause they always been eating lean.
Don’t forget being blamed industries failing because recognizing our lack of income is impossible for boomers.
Oh and being blamed for receiving participation trophies our parents generation forced on us.
My favorite was the desperate headline, “millennials kill napkins” because we can’t afford so many different paper products (if they knew we were using TP for kleenex, they’d have run with that too).
What really sucks is living near Millennials who were handed jobs and houses by their parents, and live life effortlessly, which makes it seem like the “dream” is still alive and I’m just failing at it.
Have a friend whose Boomer dad said that he’d best hope he, the father, dies early otherwise he’s going to blow all of the inheritance. The dad is also a MAGAt so it tracks.
I don’t hate to say it, Boomers are the most out of touch, entitled, enriched generation the USA has ever seen and they’re going to be the downfall of this country.
Going to be?
They have plenty of time to fuck things up further.
Its the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.
And a lot of boomers who have substantial retirements think they’re the 1% and others protect them because they’ve been misled via propaganda to believe they’re the job creators and back them fully.
I got arrested for possessing a dust-amount of cannabis when I was 13
then I had to work through the pandemic as a cannabis dispensary manager because we were “essential medical personnel”
with no medical benefits. Earning less money than I would’ve if I had been able to go on unemployment.
It’s a shit country. The social contract does not exist anymore. Thinly-veiled threats of violence are the only thing still keeping the population in line, including the threat of homelessness which is also a form of violence.
Once, when I was on acid, I asked myself - how would I define America? The answer I settled on is, “America is everyone who is stuck here” (or forced by economic or otherwise imperially-orchestrated hardship to come here, even if they would prefer to remain in their home country otherwise). Everyone who lives in America and cannot comfortably escape lives in a prison. You may get the equivalent of a Nordic prison if you’re privileged, but look how many wealthy celebrities live miserable lives - it’s still a prison.
And so I live by advice I heard from a prisoner. I wish I could remember the source, but I can’t. The advice, as to how to survive in prison, was: “Take everything they give you. Give nothing in return.” It’s important to note that this applies to the government, to corporations, to capitalism, NOT to your fellow prisoners (Americans). The only way we get through this is each other.
You forgot the two bullshit wars they shipped us off to fight