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Probably not better if you were born in 1900. You were born in an European Monarchy. Life is not exactly free, but stable and prosperous.
Some psycho stabs a queen, and all of a sudden all of Europe and a lot of the rest of the world is at war. Most of Europe is razed to the ground and millions of soldiers return with heavy PTSD.
The monarchy is done, you got a completely new system in Europe and a communist revolution in Eastern Europe/Russia.
Times such, but stability returns for a few years until the Great Depression hits and boom, we got Nazis, holocaust, and yet another world war, which is ended by a literal science fiction weapon that can raze whole cities to the ground at the press of a button.
And now your country is occuped by a foreign army, while everything has to be rebuilt.
Seriously, the phase from 1955-2000 was an anomaly. That was pretty much the most peaceful time in world history. Before that, constant wars, pagues, starvation and general horrors were the norm, not the exception.
Milennials are people turning 18 at the milennium.
NO doubt people will downvote, and chime in with ‘I think milennium means this or that alternative fact’. Whatever.
I wish I could be so confident with such an incorrect and dishonest statement like you.
Your redefining words to suit yourself absoblutely renders you as bad as the average truth social user. It is sad to see on lemmy that the concept of ‘alternative facts’ is used by all sides.
We watched the second plane hit live on a shitty CRT in my Geography class. Shit was insane. I’m so damn tired…
I was having computer science class and I remember seeing the news… Felt so unreal to see something like that in America. Went home, watched news for the entire day.
Then I read a lot about 9/11 the following years. I think it changed the perception about America in a lot of people.
I just joined the Bundeswehr (the german army) a couple of weeks before 9/11. I still remember that I thought “You idiot really have managed to join the military right at the beginning of WWIII…”
Don’t forget Columbine. People always leave that out, but as far as historical milestones that shaped how awful American society has become, it was a big one.
I’m so fucking over this shit yall. Don’t forget the corporate takeover and surveillance dystopia created by quite possibly the biggest dork losers that are alive. What the actual fuck? Need a genocide. Check. Civil rights collapse? Check. Financial meltdown? Check. Pandemic that kills millions? Check. Collapse of the dollar for shitcoin scams? Check pending. Terrorist attacks that convince your country for 20 years of wars? Check. No more war excuses, and need more? No worries, we’ll just recycle the same one from 25 years ago because y’all couldn’t do shit about it then either. They have nukes so we have to attack.
Now, go be a good citizen and participate in some blind nationalism and virtue signaling with your pledge of allegiance to an inanimate object while simultaneously and intentionally starving brown kids by the thousands.
Can’t a giant EMP come and save us? I’m so tired.
Let‘s convince Iran of the existence of space jews so when they get a nuke, they light up the atmosphere and kill all the powergrids and servers forever. Peace, out!
I can’t remember why but I didn’t go to school that day. I remember finding out because I was arguing with my brother about what movie to watch, then complaining to my mom, and her freaking out going “You’re complaing about this when there’s a national crisis going on?!”
I’m 40
What’s it like?
I’m 42 and this is deep.
Aye gather round elder Millennials, our watch has begun
Back in ye day we hath this magical place called “limewire” it could brick your mothers gateway computer without a moments notice.
Heh, I don’t think that’s as old as you’re expecting; I’m 35 and I, too, installed Limewire on the family computer (and probably downloaded so much malware…).
28 and also downloaded some Linkin Park that was actually George W. Bush on the good ol limewire. Admittedly I was probably the tail end of that.
Things are gonna get worse before they get better, so buckle up.
They also become worse before they become the worst
Isnt it wild that the nothing ever happens chud has gone from /pol/ to mainstream. Its always so jarring to see people post the exact same stuff open nazi’s post.
Not saying you’re a nazi or anything, just rambling about how memes spread through communities.
Look at what happened to the 👌 sign. You can now get into legal trouble in some EU countries for doing this gesture, even though many militaries use it as the all “all right” sign with the hand beside the face. It‘s absurd
Ah, but we have the benefit of never being able to buy a house, and having the same minimum wage for 16 years.
Toss in an exploding space shuttle and the fall of the Berlin wall and you get Gen X.
2 exploding space shuttles
One exploded. The other disintegrated.
Need Another Space Agency
Born in 83.
Was there for the shuttle, remember the Berlon wall and the first Iraq war pretty well, was a senior in high school for 9/11.
Meanwhile, on 9/11 my sister was at her office working her new job she got after graduating college.
At Enron.
Elementary school for me, I think 2nd grade, but yeah
I was in kindergarten, so i get all of this before i’m even 30.
My daughter was in kindergarten and saw a man fall to his death on 9-11. Its stuck with her. Nothing was done to those assholes who allowed this to happen.
You mean your government and their Saudi money men?
No. You should be able to figure out who I meant now. Right?
