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Since when the fuck is saying âYouâre Fuckedâ considered vulgar. especially when its an absolute truism. Reality bites, thatâs all.
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This is why I chide my fellow Boomers (who make up the bulk of Baggers)
Aside for the brave souls who fought in the Vietnam War, most of us had it much better than these kids.
More student aid
More job opportunity
Much less expense in terms of Cost of Living
My doctorate was paid forâŚ
B.A. Student scholarship (much easier to get)
M.A. Grant
Ph.D. Fellowships and Grants
all free
These kids average thousands of dollars in student debt.
The big Distractor for young people in the United States is Being Young. No other culture attaches so much focus (and distraction) on Being Young. That makes living with Mom and Dad okay. That makes not being able to buy a home okay. That makes $60,000 in student loan debt okay.
That makes not voting okay, especially when the connection is not made with
voting----------competent elected officials----------policy-----------quality of life
For the Life of Me, I sometimes wonder why BaggerBoomers are so angry, seeing as how their lives were so much more benefited by âgubmintâ than these poor waifs of today.
De Niro is on to something.
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De Niro is on to something.
Bitter pills are often hard to swallow when theyâre not sugarcoated.
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wonder why BaggerBoomers are so angry,âŚBecause it was never enough ⌠because they now want more ⌠because there was always somebody else who got a âbetter dealâ that they did not get.
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Definitely true if you are a white male. If youâre a woman or black boomer, you have grounds to disagree. Additional benefits for white male boomers: didnât have to compete with 50% of the population, everything was cheaper. I could waste all morning on this but I need to go make money for my boomer bosses.
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Spare all us boomers your broad brush - as baggers. Iâm taking it you have no children? If you did, then indeed you would be very angry as they have less opportunity then we boomers did. And as you should know (with a doctorate) itâs suppose to work the other way - our children should have more opportunities, not less.
âbrave soulsâ my ass. We were fucking conscripted by our government. Think about that for a minute. Those of us who dropped out of college or happened to be 18 with no upward mobility in their future (poor people) had nothing to say about the next two years of their lives. And those chumps that volunteered or followed the family tradition got truly fucked over.
And yeah, De Niro is right. BFD. Tell me something I donât know.
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Was this supposed to make some sort of coherent point?
All free?
Could you send me a few seeds of your dollar tree? Free for you means someone else did shell out the money, nothing is free in this world.
Unless you have a dollar tree of course.
âYouâre F*ckedâ, literally, the day of your conception. For most of us itâs an uphill daily battle to stay alive and comfortable thereafter as nothing is granted in life, nothing! I hear a whole lot of whining from a generation who have been spoon fed by their parents well into their 20âs and, quite honestly, itâs getting annoying.
Quite true, indeed. In fact, my own brother belies the idea of âBoomers all had it madeâ. It is difficult to make blanket observations dealing with groups without the valid caveat of nuances and exceptions. In the Jim Crow era (which some say has not ended yet), millions of Southern whites behaved and are behaving in ways that give exception to the so-called âRedneckâ broad brush.
What I find interesting with some posters is the tendency to riposte in the most combative manner possible.
Which makes you, JinNJ and SRfromGR much more pleasant to interact with.
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Could you please explain or elaborate on any of your ridiculous statements:
what was ânever enoughâ?
what is it we now âwant moreâ of?
what is the âbetter dealâ?
Basically, what the fuck are you talking about?
You didnât seem to have much difficulty:
âThis is why I chide my fellow Boomers (who make up the bulk of Baggers).â
"No other culture attaches so much focus (and distraction) on Being Young. "
That makes living with Mom and Dad okay.
That makes not being able to buy a home okay.
That makes $60,000 in student loan debt okay.
âWhat I find interesting with some posters is the tendency to riposte in the most combative manner possible.â
Iâm sooo sorry if your sensibilities were bruised.
Hear hear. Well said indeed
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Actually those of us from the latter end of the boom experienced something more like what the new grads are experiencingâŚunderemployment, once promising fields that were filledâpartly because so many people were advised to major in those areas, but also because of consolidations in fields like accounting. i eventually went to grad school and was lucky to get into a field that even now is still in demand, but often less lucrative than in the past.Most of us didnât have much debt from undergrad, but I knew people heavily in debt from grad school. Mine wasnât as bad, but I worked extra jobs during the first 5 years after grad school to make sure I paid it down as much as possible at the front end.
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Possibly fucked is possibly more accurate. Someone, some generation, some graduating class is going to make the difference and the change. Its universal really and the time just comes for one thing to end and another to begin.
The era of greed is waning. The realization is the first big step and that has happened.
Deniro knows from Deniroâs time but youth is inspiration, youth is our future. Who among us just said fuck it at that age and decided that the effort wasnât worth it? There were doomsday naysayers then as well as now. In fact, the fact that none of the fear mongering and predictions ever manifested, fluoride in the waterâŚthe commies are coming, etc., etc., is inspiring in and of itself.
Deniro seems to be doing fine and so are lots of the people spreading dread. Basically they are saying, do as I say but not as I do. The f-word spoken out loud at such an event may signal more than any other of Deniroâs words. The times have changed, always will and as a society we are more open minded than ever and still improving.
Deniro concludes by saying that being fucked may not be such a bad place to start.
Thatâs an odd way to make a point and leaves room for speculation but Iâm thinking that he means that from the ground floor there is only one way to go and the opportunities are limitless.
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There is a different with the younger Boomers, who dovetailed with X-ers. Technically, some people call those born in 1963 Boomers
The âProtest Playâ that was enacted in the 1960s was done with early Boomers. With a number of programs we also took advantage of.
Quite frankly, I thought the main riposte to my original post would be my intimations about âBeing Youngâ, because, if there was E V E R a generation which milked âbeing youngâ for all the value it was worth, it was those born between 1945 and 1955. In addition, most of us were quite content to hustle our parents as wellâwe just didnât have FOX, for-profit colleges and Louie-Gohmert-Ted-Cruz-type-insane-people-being-taken-seriously-by-a-debauched-MSM to worry about.
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Google anger management sitesâŚ
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Google this.
Ah, life in the Parallel Universe. It must be good!