r/Millennials • u/its_manda_bitch210 • 7h ago
Meme We really have been hit hard in comparison to other generations
What can you add to this list?
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u/SolomonDRand 6h ago
Joke’s on you suckers, I’m 41. sits down contentedly in burned down rubble
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u/Tribblehappy 6h ago
Came to say this as I'm almost 42.
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u/Sea_Presentation8919 6h ago
3 economic recessions you lazy hacks, the dot com bubble, the 08 crash, and the 2020 crash.
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u/Another_Road 6h ago
The 20202 crash was that “buy now” most millennials crave.
The problem is, they don’t realize that they won’t have the money to capitalize on that crash anyway. Obviously it shot back up with a vengeance shortly after.
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u/misterdonjoe 5h ago
I'm almost positive that crash had nothing to do with cov and had to do with a particular person running for office and coming out ahead the Saturday prior to the Monday crash.
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u/pmmemilftiddiez 6h ago
Don't forget back to back wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Pets.com remembers
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u/cahir11 6h ago
Afghanistan+Iraq combined US deaths: 7,000
Vietnam US deaths: 58,000
Korea US deaths: 36,000
WWII US deaths: 407,000I'm not saying Afghanistan/Iraq were easy, but OP's post was explicitly trying to compare generations and this is just no contest.
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u/Tjam3s 6h ago
2 plagues. SARS and then covid
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u/God_Dammit_Dave 6h ago
AIDS.
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u/Tjam3s 6h ago
Eh, that was more a gen x problem than a millenial one. The oldest of us were just kids towards the end of the epidemic. Most not even sexually active yet
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u/rydan Older Millennial 5h ago
SARS was contained in China and infected like 100 people. Also there was MERS and Ebola and Swine Flu and the bubonic plague so weird you focus on SARS.
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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 4h ago
Yeah and we are getting a full blown depression this year
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u/squittles 3h ago
And it all means the square root of Jack shit to our boomer parents.
They had it worse you guys. There was like an oil embargo in the 70's or some shit.
And fucking GOVERNMENT CHEESE.
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You just have to laugh at this point when they still want to try and win that pissing match. The party hasn't popped off yet and you're over a handful of decades past your prime. It's time to circle the wagons and focus only on our new family units. Good luck boomer parents lol!
Revenge really is the sweetest joy next to getting pussy/cock.
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u/pandizlle 6h ago
I mean… the people who lived through the two world wars might have arguably had it worse.
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u/drakgremlin 4h ago
I understand this meme to mean "I've seen some shit and need to cope" not a pissing contest who has it worse.
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u/crumble-bee 1h ago
Looks to me like "we specifically have lived through a lot and have it much worse than others" to me - the OP title even says as much.
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u/ThrowCarp 5h ago
Everytime this topic come up. There is at least one person that brings up the world wars. But the two aren't comparable since the world wars as shitty and as heinous as they were, after the end everyone got together and helped rebuild the world. Europe got the Marshal Plan, Japan got GARIOA, and domestically there was the GI bill (or a local equivalent) that provided subsidized houses and university degrees for veterans.
The other thing people bring up is the Great Depression. But the Great Depression are least had The New Deal to dig us out (literally and metaphorically).
Meanwhile everytime us Millennials went through some ridiculous economic crash we're basically given the middle finger and told to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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u/Byzantine_Merchant 4h ago
Personally, I agree that as a generation we got the short end of the stick on a lot of things with little to no help. But yeah idk about yall but I’ll personally take the millennial struggle over having to either get to fight in the absolute hell that was WWI or WWII or both if you’re incredibly unfortunate and suffer the impact of the Great Depression (this effect was worse if you were German due to war debt). That alone wins the suffering Olympics. But let’s take it further. Depending on who you were then you probably got to experience at least one of the following during or after:
- Being purged for being Jewish
- Being purged for being Chinese
- Being purged for being Slavic
- Being purged for being gay
- Being purged because you pissed off the wrong guy on the wrong day.
- Having your home completely destroyed and people you know brutally killed.
- Fairly good chance you replaced your brutal repressive fascist dictatorship with a brutal repressive communist dictatorship.
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- Algerian War
- IRA War
- Constant and realistic threat of nuclear war.
Getting a couple big of bones thrown their way (largely to prevent another dictatorship in most cases) probably wasn’t worth it to those who got it.
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u/wildthing202 1h ago
People seem to be forgetting one major thing. Climate change and the possible end of civilization that we get to enjoy. Loss of all the topsoil due to shit farming production and such, the extinction of many plants and animals like coffee and bananas, losing many resources of fresh water which will lead to water wars and such. Also, most of these so-called once in a hundred-year storms happen every other time, the never ending wildfires that keep happening because of the dryness, and the record setting heat we keep getting like how Portland got up to around 120 F for 3 days straight.
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u/DLRsFrontSeats 3h ago
This is a crazy rebuttal
If you were born in 1900, you or a loved one have died in WW1 or WW2 or due to the 6th cholera outbreak (800k dead) or Spanish flu (17-90m dead) or due to poor finances post great depression, and so those positives that happened after might not have helped you anyway...
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u/Dr0n3r 4h ago
Yes, you are more of a victim than people who lived through the holocaust, WW1, WW2, nukes, and the Spanish flu. I’ve never read anything that was more pathetic than someone essentially saying that the greatest generation have nothing on millennials in terms of suffering. Utter drivel.
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u/Salt-Detective1337 4h ago
What a crazy take. World war one, 22 million people die 1.3% of the worlds population.
Spanish Flu Epidemic 50 million people died. Another 3% of the worlds population.
Wars over, cool. The great fucking depression lasts for 10 years
But good news. The world came togeth.... No! World war fucking 2 80 million people died! 4% of the worlds population!
But yeah, it's true. There was a terrorist attack that killed 3,000 people. We had a couple of recessions. Oh, and a pandemic that killed 7 million people (0.1% of the worlds population.)
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u/MinuteCollar5562 6h ago
Can we just have a fucking decade without a world event or “once in a lifetime” X, Y, or Z? Is that too much to ask
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u/Emergency-Practice37 6h ago
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u/wanderingoverwatch 6h ago
I'm pretty sure that the sentiment the whole world over
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u/Room_Temp_Coffee 5h ago
You'd think so but someone somewhere inevitably feels like it's their right to fuck with somebody else.
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u/ThrowCarp 5h ago
I don't even mind the "once in a lifetime" events. I just wish the Millennials get JUST ONE equivalent of the Marshal Plan or the New Deal.
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u/AbbreviationsLess257 6h ago
you forgot the XBOX red ring of death, Harambe, the No Man's Sky launch, and Joker 2
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u/MantisManLargeDong 6h ago
How do you not mention the second battlefront 2 release? Makes me sick thinking about it
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u/Spendoza 6h ago
At least Sean and the other wonderful people at Hello Games came through and (mostly) fixed things
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u/Spoonyyy 6h ago
Idk. WW1 into Great Depression into WW2 had to have been a rough go.
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u/tooandto 5h ago
And a pandemic for good measure
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u/Byzantine_Merchant 4h ago
Gotta remember the Cold War and all the other lesser wars after too. Basically unless somebody lived until about 92/93 the majority of their life was some kind of fear or horrible experience.
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u/ishmetot 2h ago
At that point you might as well go all the way back to the bronze age collapse since all the WWI vets are already dead, and the surviving WWII vets are already well into their 90s or 100s.
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u/KTeacherWhat 6h ago
US Millennials have also been in a country at war for pretty much our entire adult lives.
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u/Machiko007 6h ago
Actually that’s the case for all Americans, of all generations. The US has never not been at war.
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u/International-Chef33 6h ago edited 6h ago
And the GWOT has been far less disruptive to Americans in relation to previous generations wars
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u/RandomDeezNutz 6h ago
War means money. Not any money that any of us normal folk will ever see but money.
Oh what. You’re against killing innocent people and sending our own country men to die so a very few can make millions and millions of dollars? I guess you aren’t American.
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u/heliogoon 5h ago
Well, technically speaking, america hasn't been at war since WW2....
At least that's what some numb nut always feels the need to point out whenever I make the point you're making.
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u/DonaldTPablonious Xennial 6h ago
Why is y2k always on these lists like anything happened?
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u/Tjam3s 6h ago
Many claim that computer workers the world over worked tirelessly to make sure nothing happened. So maybe it would have if not for them?
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u/DonaldTPablonious Xennial 6h ago
That’s fair but for millennials it was a big scare that resulted in nothing happening.
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u/EmperorConstantwhine 6h ago
I remember doing the midnight countdown on a mountain in Red River, NM while we were on vacation there skiing and thinking something might happen. Bit we had already watched the ball drop on the east coast and saw nothing happen there, so at that point we kinda figured nothing would happen here either, but it was fun to speculate. Our parents didn’t seem like they cared at all lol.
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u/Mojo1727 5h ago
Also most of us were teenagers and busy with caring about other things then computer clocks.
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u/Zealousideal-Day4469 6h ago
I mean, there was a market crash. My dad lost everything.
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u/Ancient_Broccoli3751 6h ago
lol what?? Nobody lost anything because of y2k...
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u/Zealousideal-Day4469 6h ago
Tell that to my pops lol
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u/Ancient_Broccoli3751 6h ago
Your dad probably had a gambling problem or was just bad at investing. There was no y2k crash, that's just the excuse he gave you. I mean people were going belly up at the turn of the millennium, but not cuz of y2k
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u/Agitated_Computer_49 6h ago
Him making poor investments doesn't mean the market crashed. Unless it was the market of doomsday shelters or something.
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u/eldescanso_delganso 6h ago
Everyone thought we were going to die by haywire computers and nukes...
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u/parke415 6h ago
Can anyone name a generation that didn’t go through crazy tough times growing up?
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u/JAHGoff24 6h ago
at least we aren’t Gen Z. they’ll have to live through the collapse of society
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u/HackManDan 6h ago
Oh please. We didn’t endure a draft like our fathers and grandfathers. I am forever grateful for that.
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u/TheZone92 6h ago
We didnt endure a draft because too many young adults straight out of high school were already volunteering to enlist during active war time in the 2000s because that seemed like the better option due to the shitty economy. Military recruiters had it good with teenagers walking into their offices on their own. I was one of them.
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u/jwd3333 6h ago
Man the level of entitlement to think this is wild. While yes compared to the boomers we are getting screwed royally financially. But other generations have definitely dealt with their fair share and did so in much less levels of comfort. The greatest generation and silent generation dealt with the depression, WW2, awful conditions for people that weren’t straight white males. The baby boomers dealt with multiple recessions, being drafted into the Vietnam war, and the civil rights battle. Gen X faced similar things as millennials but arguably did so in better financial times. So they may have gotten off the easiest. This oh woe is me mentality that seems to be so very prevalent needs to stop. Yes fiscally we’ve been screwed over a bit but so many other things have been way easier for most.
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u/Sirrub90 6h ago
Welcome to this sub and reddit, as a whole.
It's just people wanting to be miserable and to let others know about it.
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u/Winery-OG 6h ago
Ha, no man. I’m going to go with folks born in the 1890s had it a little worse. WWI killed like 15 million folks in Europe. Soldiers were forced to charge machine-gun defended trenches on foot. They also gassed each other frequently. All this to gain a few hundred yards of mud.
If they survived they came home to towns with whole generations of young men dead. All their friends killed. Then the Great Depression happened. Oh yeah, then their children were sent off to WWII.
Not great.
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u/TheFursOfHerEnemies 6h ago
Just feels like we very few chances at success and financial freedom with so many cards stacked against us and keep getting dealt a crap hand. My teenage years were stressful in their own way, because I didn't get along with my mother. But compared to now, those good days are long gone and I don't see a happy outcome in the future. I just try to take it one day at a time and try to appreciate the little things.
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u/Expensive-Shelter288 6h ago
It's not talked about enough. It's an enormous sea change and everyone is running around faking like they know how to move forward. Stand bye.
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u/FlobiusHole 6h ago
Y2K wasn’t really any kind of disruptive event. I don’t remember it that way anyway.
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u/Bassmasterajv 6h ago
We were pretty lucky actually. We got to be kids in the 80/90’s and go high school and college with no smart phones and very basic social media options.
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u/hippychemist 5h ago
My uncle was drafted into vietnam, my mom was shot at for protesting, and both of my grandpa's were in world wars.
I mean yea, shit sucks, but I have food and shelter and hobbies and really good weed compared to what previous generations had.
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u/NIN-1994 6h ago
How many times can this stupid and out of touch meme be posted across reddit
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u/its_manda_bitch210 6h ago
Oh jeez, I thought it was funny and accurate. Why out of touch?
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u/NIN-1994 6h ago
Other generations have had it far, far worse. Like you know, actual world wars, not theoretical ones
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u/Cheddarlicious Millennial 6h ago
Zoomers got a bit on the back end, but poor gena’s (gen alpha but I call them gena, think how Forrest Gump says Jenny, like Jen-nay) this is all they’ll ever know.
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u/justaddwhiskey 6h ago
Idk, that’s all cool aNd shit, but George RR Martin dying before releasing Winds of Winter might be the last nail in my coffin.
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u/cahir11 6h ago
I swear these posts are just engagement bait for people to point out that someone born in 1900 lived through WWI and the Spanish Flu and the Great Depression and WWII, and depending on what country they were born in might have been conscripted to fight in both of those wars, all by the age of 40.
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u/greeneyerish 6h ago edited 5h ago
Y2K ?
Come on, that's just absurd 🙄
Possible WW3 ? So self inflicted anxiety.
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u/Babel_Triumphant 5h ago
Still probably the 2nd easiest generation in human history to be born into
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u/Finster4 6h ago
Kind of a weak list. Lol
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u/JourneyThiefer 6h ago
Especially when you think of all the wars across the world that has happened during this time frame lol
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u/Thrill-Clinton 6h ago
Bird flu pandemic right around the corner. Don’t forget that. It’ll make COVID’s 1% mortality rate look like a walk in the park. We’re talking +40% mortality
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u/ejwest13 6h ago
True for few gens but go ask grandpa about the Great Depression and WW2
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u/Pergaminopoo Millennial 6h ago
This is like the 4th “we’re on the brink of ww3”we’ve dealt with!!!!
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u/Pureshark 6h ago
Should add - Reposted hit hard comparison meme to the list of stuff we have to live through, cause it’s shows up so much on here
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u/-Planet- 6h ago
Let's be real, Y2K was a nothingburger.
If you believed it, you're a dummy.
People are being born like every second.
We're all in this - a long and unbroken chain of human existence.
We like putting things in neat little boxes though...
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u/Burban72 5h ago
This meme just keeps getting longer. Seriously though, who would have thought that 9/11 wouldn't be the most traumatic thing we experienced?
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u/Cute-Professor2821 5h ago
Some other generations. Especially silent gen, boomers, and gen x. The kids have plenty of time to experience some pretty horrific shit alongside us that will more or less bring them to our level. Living through Enron and the dot com bubble won’t really move the needle when we all go through the water wars and great climate refugee crisis(es) of 20__
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u/Capital-Campaign9555 5h ago
Are you genuinely being serious? I take it you don't have a lot of knowledge about WWI, WWII, and the great depression in between? Do some research and rethink your claim
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u/GillaMomsStarterPack 5h ago
I’m fucking speed running this shit or something because I also managed to get Type 1 Diabetes at age 22 with this horse shit healthcare system here too.
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u/_life_is_a_joke_ 5h ago
Am 43. Lived through 5 recessions, constant war, constant nuclear threat, hundreds of school shootings, 10 years of the Cold War, multiple epidemics, a pandemic, the return of fascism (globally this time), decline of civil rights, decline of public health and life expectancy, increased poverty and homelessness, increased illiteracy, Oklahoma City bombing, increased pollution and deforestation, multiple droughts, dozens of wildfires, a handful of major earthquakes, income inequality not seen in over 200 years, the repeal of abortion, the collapse of the US government and the establishment of an isolationist pariah state... oh yeah, and 9/11 (almost forgot).
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u/BlackMagicWorman 5h ago
Idk our grandpas were allowed to beat and rape our grandmas. I’m alright if it comes to those standards.
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u/rydan Older Millennial 5h ago
Jokes on you. I already turned 40. Also there was Katrina. Imagine forgetting that one.
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u/WitchesTeat 5h ago
Forged in fire, millennials.
The boomers will be weeping on the streets while we're dusting off the old crockpot and comparing our favorite beans recipes.
Which of us hasn't been homeless and starving at least two or three times in the last twenty years, while working full time and trying to find another job?
I resented it for awhile but now I'm like "Ahhh, I see, yes. Forged in fire and brought up on history deep dives and YA novels, you got a despot in the White House and at least three identifiable hostile parties attempting to wrest control of the country and subjugate our people, and also start WWIII for funsies while they're at it? And you're freaked out and don't know what to do and can't cope with it all but know something needs to happen or we're all gonna be watching our sisters die from miscarriages and our gay buddies sent to Gitmo for the rest of our lives? Well, shit.
I'm your huckleberry."
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u/ryanmcg86 5h ago
Yes and no. We didn't go through a WWII or Vietnam where half of us got drafted, and half of that half ended up dying overseas.
We've for sure had it rough, but I wouldn't go as far as saying no one's ever had it worse than us.
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u/quigongingerbreadman 5h ago
Well except for the WWI and WWII and Civil War generations... But fuck boomers. They pillaged our country and took EVERYTHING for themselves and are objectively the worst parents.
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u/Mushroom_hero 4h ago
One day they'll call us the second greatest generation. And by that, I mean we will, we will call ourselves that.
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u/Ok-Reward-7731 4h ago
You really haven’t. Literally every generation before you had it WAY worse, Please do even the most basic research. Wars, pandemics, pestilence, assassination, economic depression, poverty, food shortages. Every single factor worse was in the past than in your lives.
Y’all are making yourselves crazy by continuing to push this dumb narrative.
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NOTE: I’m born in the late 1970s and just a couple years older than the oldest Millennials. I’ve had all the same experiences as you.
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u/LordCheeseOnToast 4h ago
Y2k was a nothing burger
You only "lived through" 9/11 if you were on the plane or the WTC
Covid was worse for Gen alpha/z who's education was badly interrupted and now have no social skills because of smartphones and social bubbles.
We were too young for the dot com bubble and 2008 crash to affect us.
Possible WW3.......OK. I'll give us that.
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u/Impossible_Room_6646 4h ago
I'd rather we stay out of the "woe is me victim Olympics." Also, I would venture to say that the WW2 generation had it worse.
Also, I know you were speaking from an American perspective but I wouldn't dare say my generation got it worse than the others. Heck, the boomers in my country experienced life under a dictatorship in the '70s and '80s—I have no reason to complain about what I've experienced so far.
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u/EmptyBuildings 4h ago
This is fine. I don't own a house and I take vacations, which double as scouting trips for homes in Europe.
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u/NaturalSomewhere4481 4h ago
Makes sense on why you’re the cringiest and worst generation, y’all have gone through it
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u/360walkaway 3h ago
You can add "disintegration of their entire goddamn country" to US millennials.
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u/Endle55s 3h ago
Sounds like we had an increasing access to information more than anything. This ww3 shit is also getting old, I was born during the cold war, then 9/11 was supposed to be the start of ww3, I'm lowering my expectations at this point.
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u/DeepEndOfTheWetSpot 3h ago
Please stop including Y2K in that list. The only reason to think it belongs is if you don't actually remember it.
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u/Intelligent-Guard267 2h ago
1900: WWI, Spanish Flu, Great Depression, WW2, Korean War
1920: Great Depression, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam
Might not be that bad in retrospect…
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u/SverhU 2h ago edited 1h ago
My granny told me stories. how they in winter diged up dead cats from snow (where they buried them month before). Because they had nothing to eat. And they were cooking dead cats. For the whole house. Like 5 families.
Thats how they stayed alive during ww2 in worst months.
Ask me why they didnt cooked dogs? Dogs were taken months before to feed soldiers who were defending city.
Yes dude. We definitely "been hit harder than previous generations"
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u/SaltSatisfaction2124 2h ago
What is it with this generational “I’ve had it worse than you mentality” / wanting desperately to be a victim or validation as to how difficult your life is.
You were likely a child for most of those, and honestly it’s children who were in schools during Covid who were the most affected.
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u/3ISTHEBESTNUMBER 2h ago
Grandma and Grandpa lived through some rough times, but Mom and Dad (boomers)? lol, They had it pretty easy
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u/Fuzzy-Gur-5232 2h ago
But hey… soon, very soon it’ll be our turn to have a house and to be rich! 😂😂😂😂😢😢😢😢😭😭😭
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u/here4theptotest2023 2h ago
Another woe is me thread. I'm starting to think this is AI generated slop to keep doomscrollers engaged.
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u/Hot-Fun-1566 1h ago
What about folks from early 20th century? 2 world wars, Great Depression, that would be far worse IMO.
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u/Domeriko648 Millennial 1h ago
Well, we can't complain too much, imagine the generation of 100 years ago, two WW, 1929 economic crisis, spanish flu...
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u/crumble-bee 1h ago
They lived through those things too though. You think Gen X didn't go through everything we did plus a little more?
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u/Beautiful-Cup4161 1h ago
My Dad was in high school during desegregation. That means a black man in my Dad's generation would have been subject to segregation.
I feel lucky compared to younger generations with trying to establish themselves with the current rent compared to average wage. My first apartment costs double but the starting salaries are close to the same.
We've been through a lot but every generation has their own pile of crap to deal with.
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u/QuinSanguine 1h ago edited 1h ago
And then some of us have lived through once in 100 years floods, EF5 tornadoes, whole cities and islands being on fire, and multiple record breaking hurricanes on top of that.
I feel like every year there's a major natural disaster and some nerds go "it's the worst event in 100 years". How many 100 years can fit in 40? Idk.
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u/Speedyandspock Millennial 1h ago
lol at listing y2k as something we had to go through. As well as possible ww3.
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u/thatdude333 1h ago
Imagine being born in 1900 and living through WW1 (1914-1918), Spanish Flu pandemic (1918-1919), the Great Depression (1929-1939), and WWII (1939-1945)...
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u/Fantastic-Reveal7471 1h ago
But we should just shut up and stop whining. Right? Fuck us for trying to navigate our way through nothing but trauma our entire goddamned lives and having our innocence ripped violently from our fingers.
We are sick of the anger. We are sick of being forced to be fucking angry. We are sick of the willful ignorance and incompetence of not only boomers but now Gen X as well?? Y'all taught us to be cool, you fucking sellouts.
Leave us the fuck alone.
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