We saw the better world that could be and cry as it is stripped away piece by piece.
DubsideDangler on
Oh you think shot was sweet before your time. It was filthy then.
Mash709 on
I miss the 90’s
blueisthecolor13 on
It always was. We just never realized how stupid the people in charge actually were.
dalgeek on
I graduated from HS and went to college right when the world shifted from “get a college degree and work hard” to “Hahaha fuck you, you’ll never own a house or retire”.
Describing_Donkeys on
This millennial is never nostalgic. Politics felt better, but it was mostly a facade while the LGBTQ community faced harsher opposition, and we largely ignored our racial and sexist issues. It was nice having fewer concerns, but there were plenty of issues, they were just less visible.
Sillylittletitties on
It was also a time when people ‘went online’ vs now always being online
SublimeTimeLord on
Then George W Bush came along… then the tech bros … the rest if history.
marcusobiwan on
We saw and lived that life and promised a better one, only to have it ripped away by the literal dumbest fucks to ever dumb fuck.
SinceWayLastMay on
I really stupidly thought we were heading towards a Star Trek future and everyone was just gonna be cool
Sea-Mango on
Agree with the caveat that they weren’t any less malicious and probably would’ve wrecked things as badly and as quickly as what’s going on now without the guardrails of societal shame, which weren’t great then but are nonexistent now.
ChicoBroadway on
When publicly misspelling *Potato* would prevent you from running for president out of shame for your ignorance.
Desenrasco on
I’m not asking for much, you know. I mean, we were informed about climate change, we grew up in a media environment where fascism was a laughingstock, and we saw the ’08 crisis first-hand show that money rules (a huge portion of) politics worldwide.
So I get it if we don’t have a decent life. It’s not like we fought for one like our grandparents did. Most of our activism was performative rather thatn strategically disruptive. I can swallow that bitter pill.
I just wish the younger kids in Gen Z and Alpha had the same opportunities, you know? The small town music festivals, the sense of trust and optimism in eachother and in the future, the little serendipities of quirky and cliché young adult big-city love, the internet as a weird little gizmo that you could safely pour your heart into.
That’s what really depresses me. It’s that the younger gens never even had a chance to be happy like we did.
NlactntzfdXzopcletzy on
I think it’s less the taste and more that we were raised in that bubble
It wasn’t like we had a vacation, we were born in the lie, so it feels like some kind of apocalpytic event to learn that nothing about it was real, like we came out of a bunker expecting green grass and instead it’s just dirt, and the bunker blew up as soon as we stepped outside.
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Evil AND stupid.
Ah, life before Citizens United, what a good time
We saw the better world that could be and cry as it is stripped away piece by piece.
Oh you think shot was sweet before your time. It was filthy then.
I miss the 90’s
It always was. We just never realized how stupid the people in charge actually were.
I graduated from HS and went to college right when the world shifted from “get a college degree and work hard” to “Hahaha fuck you, you’ll never own a house or retire”.
This millennial is never nostalgic. Politics felt better, but it was mostly a facade while the LGBTQ community faced harsher opposition, and we largely ignored our racial and sexist issues. It was nice having fewer concerns, but there were plenty of issues, they were just less visible.
It was also a time when people ‘went online’ vs now always being online
Then George W Bush came along… then the tech bros … the rest if history.
We saw and lived that life and promised a better one, only to have it ripped away by the literal dumbest fucks to ever dumb fuck.
I really stupidly thought we were heading towards a Star Trek future and everyone was just gonna be cool
Agree with the caveat that they weren’t any less malicious and probably would’ve wrecked things as badly and as quickly as what’s going on now without the guardrails of societal shame, which weren’t great then but are nonexistent now.
When publicly misspelling *Potato* would prevent you from running for president out of shame for your ignorance.
I’m not asking for much, you know. I mean, we were informed about climate change, we grew up in a media environment where fascism was a laughingstock, and we saw the ’08 crisis first-hand show that money rules (a huge portion of) politics worldwide.
So I get it if we don’t have a decent life. It’s not like we fought for one like our grandparents did. Most of our activism was performative rather thatn strategically disruptive. I can swallow that bitter pill.
I just wish the younger kids in Gen Z and Alpha had the same opportunities, you know? The small town music festivals, the sense of trust and optimism in eachother and in the future, the little serendipities of quirky and cliché young adult big-city love, the internet as a weird little gizmo that you could safely pour your heart into.
That’s what really depresses me. It’s that the younger gens never even had a chance to be happy like we did.
I think it’s less the taste and more that we were raised in that bubble
It wasn’t like we had a vacation, we were born in the lie, so it feels like some kind of apocalpytic event to learn that nothing about it was real, like we came out of a bunker expecting green grass and instead it’s just dirt, and the bunker blew up as soon as we stepped outside.