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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:05:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By missychapo: Life is what you make of it. Blaming others is the most common form of denying one's own problems. The young must be pissed at themselves. Whatever leftist/islamic ideology they've been brainwashed into is not working. They must re-learn the basics of a maintaining a civilization, starting with restoring law and order. They've been listening to what the criminals and terrorists say too much. Listening to the wise elders can save them and the nation. Wise elders? Like the geriatrics in Congress? |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:11:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: el_hombre]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By -Sabot42-: Self fulfilling prophecy. The glass is half full and damned near every human on the planet would give everything they own to have a "poor" American's life. The power to create and destroy dreams is between your ears. ETA. I don't pay much attention to politics or the MSM. And I've cut out social media. Too many people look at IG/TikTok and get pissed they don't have the life of an "influencer". I just focus on me and mine and try to make my bubble a better place. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:15:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cavedog: Not all of them. Some are determined to make a life for themselves. Thread is doom porn, and the doomers will be flagellating up and down this mother. This 100%. Too many lazy ass pussies among the young. My kids are kicking ass. They’ve got good lives and plans they’re achieving. Stop complaining, and start working. Shit Tonne of money to make in this world, but you have to earn it. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:17:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By eagarminuteman: Wise elders? Like the geriatrics in Congress? 
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:17:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cyclone: And when they vote it in, they soon realize they cannot vote it out again......then they really will see no future but one of servitude 
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:17:46 PM EDT
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Disclaimer: I have not watched the video in the OP yet.
Statement: I use my words carefully, and I challenge anyone reading this to find me using profanity, obscenity, or blasphemy, in any casual or common manner in my writing. Response: Fuck the entitlted little shit young people. I live, against my desire, in the midst of the current crop of college kids, "special" and "unique" to a one in their own estimate, but useless brainwashed human filth with no respect, empathy, or apparent capacity for same in execution. An "environmentally conscious generation" who tosses trash to the ground as they walk, a group who "cares for the future" which wastes power and plastic by partying for 18 hours straight 3-4 days a week, dropping once-used plastic cups and nitrous canisters all over the ground as they stroll from party to party. A pack of putrescent assholes who are more stimulated by using electricty to provide constant noise pollution to a four block radius than by reading and learning, but who will gladly vote to steal my hard earned (and I have been shot, stabbed, had a collarbone broken with a 2x4, suffered a TBI that changed my personality, and on and on I could go, suffice it to say, hard earned,) money to pay off their student loans they are using to party away with. Fuck young people. They are the prime source of their own angst, though the boomers get a little credit for setting this nonsense up. |
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ND, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:17:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BillofRights: That's cute, but both buttons happen to be true. Mash them BOTH! Obviously, the optimal move in any economic situation is working as hard as possible. But apparently you're the president and CEO of MissedThePoint.com so let me break it down for you: If week after week GD supports threads pointing out how real wages aren't keeping up with inflation, illegal immigration is at record levels, we have a geriatric potato with the nuclear football, Marxists are running academic institutions, the national debt is unsustainable, DEI is infecting our culture, feminism has negatively affected a generations of women, college costs are exponentially higher, gun rights are being eroded, globalism is exporting jobs, and the political divide in the country is getting worse. AND THEN completely ignoring everything listed above and telling young Americans to "pull them bootstraps and stop whining you snowflakes" is the definition of cognitive dissonance. Either we acknowledge as a conservative cohort the country is rapidly heading in the wrong direction so we can fight it or we stay divided. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:34:47 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DayandNight1701]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dboy11: I’m 33 and started my own business when I was 17. I have bought and sold over 10 of them to this point You can do it too, but I spent many years not taking any more money than I needed to survive. While everyone was in college I was working 14 hours a day 7 days a week. While people were partying and getting their first jobs after college, I was working. The dream is there, but it’s the ones that go and live that dream that are the difference between just a dream vs reality. This is absolutely true; and those with the drive will always do well in the country; but the vast majority of people have been conditioned; as the reality has been for 70 years, if you work your standard 9 to 5, and save your pennies, you'll be just fine, retire, etc, because that's how it was. The younger generation see boomers, that worked as receptionists, teachers, mechanics, typical middle class jobs, acquire houses in relatively crime free areas, afford reliable and newer cars, and raise 2.5 kids on menial salaries and still have a decent 401k to retire on. My co-worker and I are both at the peak of our income in my trade. 5 years ago, I got divorced, had to sell the house, etc. About the same time, he got married and bought a house, just before the market went crazy. Gas and food sure went up, but his property tax increases have been negligible, so he's doing ok. With my child support and rent increases, continuing to go up, 100% in 4 years...I was getting crushed while he was doing ok. I had no choice to start a side business, essentially working 6 and 7 days a week keeping my head above water. I'm not mad at him..not his fault my life went the way it did, but he has empathy while we bullshit at work about it. What I'm getting at is I understand how younger people are pissed off, doing exactly what their parents did, and probably a lot more, and still getting their shit pushed in. (What I really kick myself in the ass for is not starting the side thing sooner, and will eventually make it full time) |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:38:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By emsjeep: Isn't that the way of things? Successive generations have same/better quality of life, assuming they work as hard and generally have similar abilities, of course? Similar effort for similar results. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By emsjeep: Originally Posted By dmnoid77: Is it reasonable to believe that you should? Assumptions not in evidence. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:42:39 PM EDT
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I'm sure he gave that generation all HIS wealth.
Bwa HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Who am I kidding. My son is doing pretty well other then asinine texas housing costs but he decided F it because ya'll's property taxes are on meth and voted on by slack jawed tards who scream ''muh 40 million dollar high school foozball stadium.'' |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:43:28 PM EDT
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The way the govt is acting lately, the whole world might not have a future.
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:50:05 PM EDT
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While I admit that our country is more fucked up than I ever imagined it could be there is still a lot of opportunity right now. There is shitloads of rank available in the military, I see billboards on the freeway begging for people to become union carpenters and plumbers- they will for your training, Merrill has a class to teach you how to become a welder and then they can hire you. Yeah, these are blue collar jobs but they aren't shit jobs and you can make pretty good money at any of them.
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:51:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: who's "they"? They are the people, many young, who will vote socialism in given the chance...... |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:58:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cyclone: They are the people, many young, who will vote socialism in given the chance...... |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:59:02 PM EDT
[Last Edit: fxntime]
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Young people are not hooking up seriously, getting married, pooling their money and growing up like previous generations. Why do they expect things to remain exactly as they used to be, especially when they also want a 32 hour 4 day work week?
I have no issue with them remaining single but one income is far less money then two incomes when it comes to house buying and such. And even when boomers roamed the workplace, most of them as parents worked for a great deal of their lives to acquire enough money to retire on. Young people absolutely refuse to acknowledge that even though the paid time off when they have a kid is ASTRONOMICAL compared to previous generations. TWELVE weeks of pay for EACH parent to be off? Crazy, I'd hire neutered and spayed people only if I had my way. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:02:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By maxima2: NAILED IT! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By maxima2: Originally Posted By MADMAXXX: Yet they continue to vote Democrat.  |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:05:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: arfreak223]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By missychapo: Life is what you make of it. Blaming others is the most common form of denying one's own problems. The young must be pissed at themselves. Whatever leftist/islamic ideology they've been brainwashed into is not working. They must re-learn the basics of a maintaining a civilization, starting with restoring law and order. They've been listening to what the criminals and terrorists say too much. Listening to the wise elders can save them and the nation. Just like the boomers did in the 70's with free love, anti-war rhetoric, drug use, and generally being more liberal? Were boomers listening to wise elders then? If Gen Z/millennials have to take responsibility for rise of wokeness, will boomers take responsibility for the the things i listed above? Where does that get us? |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:09:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Cypher214: I'm 40. When I was 4 years old, my parents had a combined income around $85k and they had a 2,200sq-ft house built on an acre in a nice neighborhood for right at $100k. They both always had decent vehicles and put me through private school. "Starter wages" haven't changed much since then but the cost of literally everything sure as fuck has. True, but 36 years ago they weren’t paying for cell phones. High speed internet. Streaming services. Loaded cable. Door Dash. Think of the cars we have now vs. then. There are so many things we pay for now vs. then. Not saying things are great. But we choose to spend on entertainment, convenience and electronics that eat up a chunk of a budget. It’s the truth. We did a dive into expenses at tax time. We have almost $100/mo in online subscriptions… not counting the cable/internet bill. 36 years ago I ate well on $100/mo… Cell bill is over $200/mo. (6 phones, unlimited). We pay for cell service. Then we pay for extra cloud storage. Apple Music, etc… Now, we have a large family, so we expect things to cost more. (5 kids, three in or through college) But it’s in categories that we didn’t have back then. Not sure if that bridges the gap, but it adds to it for sure. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:09:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By arfreak223: "listening to wise elders can save them and the nation" Just like the boomers did in the 70's with free love, anti-war rhetoric, drug use, and generally being more liberal? If Gen Z/millennials have to take responsibility for rise of wokeness, will boomers take responsibility for the the things i listed above? Where does that get us? Everyone likes to say the education system made millenials and gen z into leftists, so I ask what generation(s) was in charge of teaching millenials and gen z? |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:12:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: merica's been socialist for 100 years at this point. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Originally Posted By cyclone: They are the people, many young, who will vote socialism in given the chance...... Well, not completely but the dumbasses advocating for it will try and go full on socialist or communist..... |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:13:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PacNW5: "That can't be right as that wasn't my experience. You must be doing something wrong" - the older generation "You're lazy and stupid for not doing what I did when and where I did it" |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:25:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: HourOfAngle]
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I picked up the start of my careeer in high school. The magnet school for engineering I went to had a computer with AutoCad donated to the drafting class in 1986 and AutoCad was pretty new. The instructors didn't know a thing about it so I went to the bookstore and got a book and played around with it for 2 years. My dad was a draftsman drawing on the board and I had an idea what it needed to do so I got a very early head start and at 18 I was getting paid to teach draftsman that had years on the board how to draw on the computer.
That said I still run into a number of people that have limited experience in the field that can't understand why they are struggling compared to their parents that spent 40 years in the career. I've known a lot of their parents since I was a young teen or longer. They didn't go to work at 18 and buy a nice large house, a couple of cars/trucks and such. Took time. The entire industry just not designers and such. Hired girl to file our paper drawings that go out to the shop and she had a cow she wasn't making as much as engineers and stuff. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:38:49 PM EDT
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Hey! What's all this laying around shit? What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough.....................The tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:47:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By arfreak223: "listening to wise elders can save them and the nation" Just like the boomers did in the 70's with free love, anti-war rhetoric, drug use, and generally being more liberal? Were boomers listening to wise elders then? If Gen Z/millennials have to take responsibility for rise of wokeness, will boomers take responsibility for the the things i listed above? Where does that get us? Boomers weren't in power in the 70's, the Silent Generation was. I enlisted in 1977, a year after I graduated from high school. Jobs were few and far between in the Carter years. Other than wearing a powder blue leisure suit to get laid, I didn't embrace much of the anti war mindset. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:48:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By scotchymcdrinkerbean: Disclaimer: I have not watched the video in the OP yet. Statement: I use my words carefully, and I challenge anyone reading this to find me using profanity, obscenity, or blasphemy, in any casual or common manner in my writing. Response: Fuck the entitlted little shit young people. I live, against my desire, in the midst of the current crop of college kids, "special" and "unique" to a one in their own estimate, but useless brainwashed human filth with no respect, empathy, or apparent capacity for same in execution. An "environmentally conscious generation" who tosses trash to the ground as they walk, a group who "cares for the future" which wastes power and plastic by partying for 18 hours straight 3-4 days a week, dropping once-used plastic cups and nitrous canisters all over the ground as they stroll from party to party. A pack of putrescent assholes who are more stimulated by using electricty to provide constant noise pollution to a four block radius than by reading and learning, but who will gladly vote to steal my hard earned (and I have been shot, stabbed, had a collarbone broken with a 2x4, suffered a TBI that changed my personality, and on and on I could go, suffice it to say, hard earned,) money to pay off their student loans they are using to party away with. Fuck young people. They are the prime source of their own angst, though the boomers get a little credit for setting this nonsense up. You do realize Animal House came out in 1978, we learned it from boomers. [Shrug] |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:48:55 PM EDT
[#26]
oh,well!
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:49:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GoBigRed: Hey! What's all this laying around shit? What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough.....................The tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:49:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cavedog: Boomers weren't in power in the 70's, the Silent Generation was. I enlisted in 1977, a year after I graduated from high school. Jobs were few and far between in the Carter years. Other than wearing a powder blue leisure suit to get laid, I didn't embrace much of the anti war mindset. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:50:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By -Sabot42-: Self fulfilling prophecy. The glass is half full and damned near every human on the planet would give everything they own to have a "poor" American's life. The power to create and destroy dreams is between your ears. This right here. The keys are in your pocket. Figure out what to do with them. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:52:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lokifox: This right here. The keys are in your pocket. Figure out what to do with them.  Jude Cole - Start The Car (Video) theme song i play whilst pulling on me bootstraps every morning at 0500.  @eagarminuteman |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:54:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: arfreak223]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cavedog: Boomers weren't in power in the 70's, the Silent Generation was. I enlisted in 1977, a year after I graduated from high school. Jobs were few and far between in the Carter years. Other than wearing a powder blue leisure suit to get laid, I didn't embrace much of the anti war mindset. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cavedog: Originally Posted By arfreak223: "listening to wise elders can save them and the nation" Just like the boomers did in the 70's with free love, anti-war rhetoric, drug use, and generally being more liberal? Were boomers listening to wise elders then? If Gen Z/millennials have to take responsibility for rise of wokeness, will boomers take responsibility for the the things i listed above? Where does that get us? Boomers weren't in power in the 70's, the Silent Generation was. I enlisted in 1977, a year after I graduated from high school. Jobs were few and far between in the Carter years. Other than wearing a powder blue leisure suit to get laid, I didn't embrace much of the anti war mindset. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:57:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By runcible: That's because, for them, there isn't one. Young people today are proper fucked. I’m 57 and plan to retire at 62, I don’t care anymore. These last few years I’ve realized we’ve been sold a bill of goods in the US. Unless self-employed, or top of the chain, you are screwed and it’s getting worse. I have good employment and paid well. But see past it now. The one thing Europe does right is work/life balance. Many of our clients are overseas and they are always on holiday or a sabbatical. My kids are educated and work hard. But at this point I’m ready to tell them as long as they are comfortable and fund retirement and make some investments for the future, that they should focus more on living and enjoying life than slaving their lives away for another. They have their own homes, thank goodness. Others aren’t so lucky. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:57:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HecklerKac: Have you been in the dating market in the last 10 or so years? Shit has gotten bad. I blame influencers, onlyfans, instagram, snapchat, etc Women have unrealistic standards along with their choice of more men than ever and don't figure out that they're on a clock until it's too late. Redpill, mgtow, men giving up and whatnot is very real. I think I read that a third of all males under 30 are now virgins? Most younger men cannot afford homes, families or anything else that used to motivate, they are surrounded by bad information and propaganda....of course they're pissed off don't see a future. Eta: I'm mid 30s and recently engaged but can definitely sympathize Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HecklerKac: Originally Posted By PDP_Main: I've read multiple studies that found Milli and Gen males were opting out of dating because they watch porn on the web and jerk off all night. I guess you can call them "Voluntary Incels", which would explain their attitude. I suspect it's hard to bring a girl back to your mom's house. That means young Milli and Gen females don't have anyone to manipulate and string along, so they're unhappy too. They're messed up pretty bad. I guess participation trophies did more harm than predicted. Have you been in the dating market in the last 10 or so years? Shit has gotten bad. I blame influencers, onlyfans, instagram, snapchat, etc Women have unrealistic standards along with their choice of more men than ever and don't figure out that they're on a clock until it's too late. Redpill, mgtow, men giving up and whatnot is very real. I think I read that a third of all males under 30 are now virgins? Most younger men cannot afford homes, families or anything else that used to motivate, they are surrounded by bad information and propaganda....of course they're pissed off don't see a future. Eta: I'm mid 30s and recently engaged but can definitely sympathize You forgot to add how the colleges are set against men. Women get the government handouts and scholarships, not men. Divorce courts are set up against men. Women can fuck over their husband, divorce him, take his money and kids, and the government helps her. Women are never held accountable for their actions. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:58:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hp6: You forgot to add how the colleges are set against men. Women get the government handouts and scholarships, not men. Divorce courts are set up against men. Women can fuck over their husband, divorce him, take his money and kids, and the government helps her. Women are never held accountable for their actions.
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:58:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: pics of leisure suit? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Originally Posted By cavedog: Boomers weren't in power in the 70's, the Silent Generation was. I enlisted in 1977, a year after I graduated from high school. Jobs were few and far between in the Carter years. Other than wearing a powder blue leisure suit to get laid, I didn't embrace much of the anti war mindset. The morning after a boogie night. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:01:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 15jonshoot: My neighbor's kid started mowing lawns 2 years ago. After the year was up he sold his garden tractor and paid cash for his zero turn, over 5 grand. Last he paid a friend or two to weed whip, then he paid cash for another zero turn mower and trailer to haul the stuff for this year. Over the winter he picked up side work doing lawn mower repairs because he likes to tinker with the machines. He got antsy and asked if he could start mowing my lawn 2 weeks earlier than normal. Been an easy winter and warm spring so the lawn needed it and I said yes. He's mowed it twice already. Cha ching. He told me he has an agreement with another neighbor to buy his pick up for cash. But he has to wait on the truck, he doesn't turn 16 until October. Haven't heard him whine yet about not finding any opportunities. His dad told me the kid set up his LLC this year because he's making so much money and has to pay lots of taxes. Probably have to hire an accountant. And he's also "hired" Dad as a temp helper. Plenty of work out there, it's just not desk jobs needing a tie and a smile. I'm sure this 15yr old has an LLC because he's paying so much taxes. I'm just sure of it. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:40:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TontoGoldstein: When I was starting out in the late ‘70s, we had this weird idea that we were responsible for our own future. We started out with hand me down furniture, a worn Toyota, a POS Vega. We seemed to have survived. That's the truth. Didn't have any expectations or sense of entitlement. Just got out there and started living. Too much to work for and live for. I'm in my 50s and I've still never owned a new car, been to Europe or Disney Land, and the newest home I have owned was 32 years old when I bought it. The first house I bought was 720 SF, cost $88k, on an 8% ARM loan and I was making $10.25/hr. Had zero help from anyone. Just went out and worked for it. "I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying." Andy - The Shawshank Redemption. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:49:21 PM EDT
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We didn’t in 1977 either.
We grew up and got a clue… I don’t know about the current crop, though.  No Future (God Save the Queen) |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:50:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: merica is going back to warlords and harems. i'm strangely comfortable with it. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:51:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By scotchymcdrinkerbean: Disclaimer: I have not watched the video in the OP yet. Statement: I use my words carefully, and I challenge anyone reading this to find me using profanity, obscenity, or blasphemy, in any casual or common manner in my writing. Response: Fuck the entitlted little shit young people. I live, against my desire, in the midst of the current crop of college kids, "special" and "unique" to a one in their own estimate, but useless brainwashed human filth with no respect, empathy, or apparent capacity for same in execution. An "environmentally conscious generation" who tosses trash to the ground as they walk, a group who "cares for the future" which wastes power and plastic by partying for 18 hours straight 3-4 days a week, dropping once-used plastic cups and nitrous canisters all over the ground as they stroll from party to party. A pack of putrescent assholes who are more stimulated by using electricty to provide constant noise pollution to a four block radius than by reading and learning, but who will gladly vote to steal my hard earned (and I have been shot, stabbed, had a collarbone broken with a 2x4, suffered a TBI that changed my personality, and on and on I could go, suffice it to say, hard earned,) money to pay off their student loans they are using to party away with. Fuck young people. They are the prime source of their own angst, though the boomers get a little credit for setting this nonsense up.  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:52:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By victorgonzales: That typically leads to a lot of the peasant men ready to overthrow their leaders with violence. If a man can't get pussy then he's biologically driven to want to kill the elite who have what they want. This generation may seem soft but Gen z is surprisingly defiant in mentality. They don't give much a fuck about law and order either. Shit could get spicy if things get bad enough for them i seent it. zoomas can't even figure out their goddamn pronouns.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:56:29 PM EDT
[#42]
Fuck em if they can’t take a joke.
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:58:40 PM EDT
[#43]
Something y'all need to keep in mind with kids. If you are raising them to be competent, confident, and preparing them to take what they want with no excuses. They are going to do well in this no future we are all talking about.
With the population declining and half these kids being on fucking pharmaceuticals and making excuses for everything and blaming everyone else, my kids will likely be their bosses . It may not be as easy for them to thrive as it was for us if they put in mediocre effort but if they are highly competent and make logical choices it may be even easier for them. Their worth will skyrocket in a world full of losers who have given up on themselves |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:59:28 PM EDT
[Last Edit: JLPettimoreIII]
[#44]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By victorgonzales: Something y'all need to keep in mind with kids. If you are raising them to be competent, confident, and preparing them to take what they want with no excuses. They are going to do well in this no future we are all talking about. With the population declining and half these kids being on fucking pharmaceuticals and making excuses for everything and blaming everyone else, my kids will likely be their bosses . It may not be as easy for them to thrive as it was for us if they put in mediocre effort but if they are highly competent and make logical choices it may be even easier for them. Their worth will skyrocket in a world full of losers who have given up on themselves goddamn.
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:59:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DayandNight1701]
[#45]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fxntime: Young people are not hooking up seriously, getting married, pooling their money and growing up like previous generations. Why do they expect things to remain exactly as they used to be, especially when they also want a 32 hour 4 day work week? I have no issue with them remaining single but one income is far less money then two incomes when it comes to house buying and such. And even when boomers roamed the workplace, most of them as parents worked for a great deal of their lives to acquire enough money to retire on. Young people absolutely refuse to acknowledge that even though the paid time off when they have a kid is ASTRONOMICAL compared to previous generations. TWELVE weeks of pay for EACH parent to be off? Crazy, I'd hire neutered and spayed people only if I had my way. The proof of the disconnect of the older vs younger people is astounding. I cant find the quote of the previous post in the topic, but said poster said his parents "only made" $80k" combined 20 years. 80K combined was pretty fucking decent money 20 years ago for two people. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:00:19 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: zoomas don't have the stones to git r dun. i seent it. zoomas can't even figure out their goddamn pronouns. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:01:29 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: you can afford to have kids in this economy? goddamn. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:02:57 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By eagarminuteman: Never did such a thing, none of my friends did either. Take your generalization and shove it. I was just keeping with the OPs theme. 
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:04:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By arfreak223: Obviously, the optimal move in any economic situation is working as hard as possible. But apparently you're the president and CEO of MissedThePoint.com so let me break it down for you: If week after week GD supports threads pointing out how real wages aren't keeping up with inflation, illegal immigration is at record levels, we have a geriatric potato with the nuclear football, Marxists are running academic institutions, the national debt is unsustainable, DEI is infecting our culture, feminism has negatively affected a generations of women, college costs are exponentially higher, gun rights are being eroded, globalism is exporting jobs, and the political divide in the country is getting worse. AND THEN completely ignoring everything listed above and telling young Americans to "pull them bootstraps and stop whining you snowflakes" is the definition of cognitive dissonance. Either we acknowledge as a conservative cohort the country is rapidly heading in the wrong direction so we can fight it or we stay divided. Exactly. Wife and I are mid thirties, and we’ve pulled on our bootstraps enough to have a very comfortable life, raising two amazing little ones. Within our own four walls, life is great, and we’ve worked hard to make it that way. Yes, opportunity is still out there for the taking. But I’m still fucking terrified of the path that MN, the US, and the world is headed down, for all of the reasons you list. I hate to be any sort of Doomer, due to how well we have it compared to so many people. But, as a forward thinker, I can’t help but worry about what the future brings, and how it will affect the life we’ve built, largely due to variables that are completely out of our control or ability to do anything to change. Voting harder isn’t working, both sides are bending us over and going in dry. Sticking your neck out for the morals we built our lives upon gets you black balled in society and put on domestic terrorist watchlists. Not sure how this ship gets righted. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:30:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fxntime: Young people are not hooking up seriously, getting married, pooling their money and growing up like previous generations. Why do they expect things to remain exactly as they used to be, especially when they also want a 32 hour 4 day work week? I have no issue with them remaining single but one income is far less money then two incomes when it comes to house buying and such. And even when boomers roamed the workplace, most of them as parents worked for a great deal of their lives to acquire enough money to retire on. Young people absolutely refuse to acknowledge that even though the paid time off when they have a kid is ASTRONOMICAL compared to previous generations. TWELVE weeks of pay for EACH parent to be off? Crazy, I'd hire neutered and spayed people only if I had my way. With both parents working all the time, where did those youngin’s go off to spend their days? What’s going to be real fun is when boomers expect things to remain exactly as they used to be.  Attached File |
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