People born in 2005 probably have no idea what Nero Burning ROM is…
Exactly. I was using Nero in 2005…
Nero was in a position of power and hypothetically could have done something, hence the criticism of him for ‘fiddling while Rome burned.’ Are you suggesting the twenty-something year olds of this world have some power to turn things around?
Lol.
Older millennial here. Born way before 97.
Great Recession when I was recently out of college and trying to get into more serious employment.
Didn’t have a career or any type of financial security until I was 35. Was generally the same for most of my peers.
Welcome to hell.
Seriously. A lot of millennials I know realize our retirement plan is suicide.
End if the 80’s here. You can set your bags over there by the wall.
Pretty accurate I admit
Well if this guy was born in 97, we can’t really expect him to know that…well you just told him so NOW he knows. Or he just thinks your old and complaining and to be fair, it’s what old people are good at
97 graduated during the strong economy right before covid. They probably are doing fine and riding out the covid-AI-inflation death spiral as well as anybody else in the job market.
2005 is fucked.
We got to get inside the building right when they set it on fire
Born in the late 80s. Saw a tiny peek of the world before the rug pull.
I feel like this is almost worse in a way. We grew up with the future looking bright only to have it all collapse under us… We knew what we could have had and instead were given rampant corruption, war, economic and environmental collapse, and growing authoritarianism… Fun stuff… :/
Born early 80s in GDR (socialism part of Germany). Freedom at last in 1990. Now, in 2025, all shit again.
Mid nighties here and I feel the same way.
I think the reason I feel people had it better off back in those times could be related to the lack of a constant internet connection.
Before the internet, a lot of us couldn’t see how terrible things actually were on a global level. It’s also possible things have always been this way and just weren’t talked about by the general public UNTIL the internet (i.e. Palestine).
I could be completely wrong and just correlating things with me growing up and seeing how awful things actually are.
We’ve gone from “sex sells” to “rage sells” and it’s reflected in all media. I’ve been on the internet since 1994 and I was on BBSs before that. In the 80s we were always taught to be cautious about the motivation behind public communication, whether that’s advertising, news, posters on telephone poles, or people yelling on street corners. Nowadays people walk around in a constant state of despair and furious rage over “seeing how awful things actually are”. The conflict in Israel has been going on since 632, for example.
If there’s an active conspiracy out there, it’s a handful of super wealthy folks in media are producing content that causes you to hyperfocus on Agent Orange and his band of fascist wannabes because that’s the politics you have the least control over and has the least control over you. They want people’s minds flooded with hand-wringing anguish because it stops them from focusing on their own family and community and making things better for people in their orbit, which would cause them to potentially lose a little bit of power. If you want to buck the system, start with your own city council, I promise that your local zoning board has plenty for you to be angry with.
The president of the United States has the least control over US citizens? I was with you until you wrote that. That is absolutely incorrect. And even if it was correct, local authorities never sent the national guard just to scare and demoralize the population. If you want to tune out and pretend things aren’t worse in the US than before, in many ways, go ahead, but don’t try and delude others on your way.
It’s 100% true. The safety of your local streets, housing costs, education, availability of food and clean water, even parking enforcement, all of these are decided by your city, county, township, or state. The executive branch of the federal government has almost no control over people’s daily lives.
National guard: Little Rock Central High School and the Kent State Massacre were two notable cases where states deployed the national guard to terrorize civilians. In the late 60s Delaware deployed the national guard to Wilmington for nine months. I strongly encourage you to learn the history of what guardsmen have done in your state.
Now, please talk to me like an adult speaks to another adult or don’t reply.
Now, please talk to me like an adult speaks to another adult or don’t reply.
Condescension always helps when you started the conversation saying wrong things. Outliers do not mean much here. Things are bad. I won’t pretend they aren’t.
Now, be extremely uncivil to me because that’s what happens on the Internet.
Well, keep being anguished and angry then, I guess.
And you keep deluding yourself
I think he means scaring and demoralizing working class white people.
Yes I definitely said enough for you to totally draw this conclusion and you’re totally not strawmanning the shit out of me.
No my comment was sincere.
Hey, don’t leave early millennials out. We’re in our 40’s and barely left square 1.
IDK. If it wasn’t for my chronic health issues, I could at least have had a pretty decent career until now, and I definitely benefited from times when social security wasn’t completely eroded yet and housing prices were still affordable. And I actually remember times when you didn’t have to wait over half a year for a doctor’s appointment (not that they were much use for any of my issues…).
If you become an adult now you have even less of a chance.
Shit yeah man. I’m like $15,000 in the hole because of COVID, having to care for an elderly parent, and having my own medical crisis. And that’s after insurance! 😭
American millennials are a whole different game. I’m a pampered European social democrat. Saw the election results from New York and thought: “Good for them… He’s a bit on the conservative side by our standards, but a step in the right direction”. 😆
Hell of a thing. “Conservatives” here think he’s Mao reincarnated.
Conservatives here don’t know who Mao is because many can’t read, and the ones who can certainly don’t read history books.
There’s a reason Hitler cribbed a lot from conservative America…
Conservatives are mentally-ill fascists. They can’t be reasoned with because they have no reason.
AI slop
My mistake, changed it.
Ok Doomer.
Rage baiting are we?
You could just put 1990 to today…
More like sometime around 1971-1980. That’s when the boomers started to become a major voting block and pull up the ladders behind them; promoting neoliberalism, privatisation, and the destruction of social programs that they benefited from, thus destroying wealth equality and the working class. Women entered the workforce en mass, and out sourcing started.
Why these years in specific?
Could not finish elementary school because of the financial crisis? The f do I know
It’s 85 not 97 or whatever. Dickheads with a house and family are gen x here, very often 😆
“Now, I realize that may seem like a lot of fire, but don’t worry: You only get to pick one of them in which to burn.”
wanted Marcus Aurelius, got Nero
What’s Marcus Crassus in this metaphor?
