The same group of Americans all worried about the anti-Christ found the one guy who matches the profile and decided to make him President. Twice.
Accelerationists and bigots make up a large chunk of that bloc, and “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” make up the rest.
(The oligarchs that bought him don’t count in the same group as the plebeians.)
There are a lot of us who’ve been paying close attention, though, and are doing all we can.
I was 17 when 9/11 happened and I’ve been watching and learning. Now is the time to move
You may be able to survive the shakeup. Maybe a loved one doesn’t end up in Lubbock or Alcatraz or CECOT. Maybe your neighborhood looks like it always did.
Maybe your state plays nice with the feds. Maybe it doesn’t. Maybe shit gets hairy. The people pulling Trump’s strings want Christian Nationalism and they’ll get it, at least here in the South. We fought em before and we’ll fight em again. We may lose, though.
The time for action is here.
I’m tired of living through “interesting times”.
“Shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times” -Tav, Baldur’s Gate 3
Young me in 2012 “I want to live through interesting times” 🤔 rather than being bored. Little did I know.
Except it’s not interesting anymore. It’s been a cycle of the same bullshit over and over again.
Its getting uncomfortably accurate
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I mean… per the meme, very much not our first time.
We got lulled into thinking everything was going to be fine. Then we got whacked with all the tech outsourcing, dot-bomb, 9/11…etc. but at least we had cheaper college first and that gave us a foot in the door without as much of the crushing college debt that millennials got.
Being born in the early 80’s… we’ve seen a lot.
Correct. When I was living in Reno there was a doomsday DATE people decided on. It was a huge thing. A bunch of people just bought in. People euthanizing their pets, just madness. Day came. Nothing happened. It’s amazing what people fall for. It’s very sad.
Meanwhile gen-x: So have we. Plus growing up during the Cold War, Iran hostage crisis, and 9/11.
Yes it sucks.
You could afford a house and got a free or cheap education
The state has sold off everything in your lifetime to keep your taxes low, including housing. Which you bought and now own.
Millennials are generation rent with a government renting back what it sold as taxes rise.
And the cold war is still going on, what is it about Gen X that makes them think it stopped. Putin is at war in Europe right now. The cold war only ever paused.
Proxy wars didn’t stop with Vietnam, the cold war didn’t stop with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
You get to experience the events of the world while being comparatively rich.
You got to experience the only decade or so without a cold war threat while millennials experience the threat of Russia and an increasing threat from China.
And millennials were told as children the world would burn if we did nothing. Gen X and the Boomers did nothing.
Yes it sucks.
But you had it good, and politically you’ve fucked us recently. After being previously politically apathetic.
We’ve got a world to repair and it remains to be seen if Millennials will actually move past apathy into fixing it with Gen Z or continuing to fuck it up like Gen Z.
You still had to be not poor to take advantage of all that. College was cheaper, but nowhere near cheap. Homes were possible, but many lost them in the crash. It wasn’t like the boomer and earlier days where you could support a family to retirement on one job needing only a GED.
