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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
I graduated college last year and I'm still in unemployment hell. I have a CS degree so now I'm too overqualified for retail and too underqualified for tech jobs, despite the fact that I have made numerous projects and have tried my best to upskill, I'm still not good enough apparently. It is super frustrating and demotivating to wake up to rejection emails month after month after month.
Just in time for the age of deployment.
This must be a mistype, here I fixed the meme
Weed is illegal where I am. I am a illegal American. Ready for my deportation.
I with visit you in SECOT, my narco-terrorist friend 🙏
As a millennial I’m going to lose my shit if they try to draft my only child after the shitshow I’ve survived
Get in or you're antisemitic
LOL
I would absolutely no shame in claiming Bone Spurs, or shooting myself in the foot to get out of a war for Greenland..
Boomers had it good.
Gen X had it mediocre.
Millenials and Gen Z have been shafted.
Given the state of education, economy, and politics, Alpha is straight up doomed.
Nobody realised at first but gen Alpha isnt named as suchbecause they looped the back around after 'Z', but its actually the first gen in NewGame+ mode.
Graduating right after the Great Recession started. Woooh
I feel especially bad for the immigrant gen-z.
Imagine you just fled a political dictatorship with your family, and now you watch a new political dictatorship form but with AI and racism.
At like fucking 15.
No need to imagine. I am that guy.
I'm Gen Z, was born in China after the CCP failed to terminate me under the One Child Policy, which resulted in my birth. Parent had to pay a massive fine for my existence. Even politics aside, economy was shit at the time, hard for my parents to find stable jobs. My mom told me that work was just brutal, I remember my maternal grandmother had to take care of us often times because both parents were either at work or looking for work from morning to late at night.
Government is so corrupt, they didn't even enforce food safety regulations (not even sure if such regulations even existed). I remember my mom constantly warning us about food safety. Also you need to boil the water cuz its toxic. Steets were dirty, well at least the neighborhood I used to live in. Other areas might have it better.
Hukou system meant that since my parents were from rural areas, they didn't have all the rights of someone living in the city. Even though me and my older brother were born in the city. So the city didn't even allow us into their public schools.
And if we had stayed in the country, it'd be a struggle to get outside information. Like not just for political information and stuff (which honestly, probably doesn't even matter when you're struggling and you can't change the system), but most importantly the entertainment would be limited, anything considered anti-government would be much harder to find, if not impossible, in mainland China. Unless you get lucky and somehow, as a local, manage to find a VPN if you never stepped foot outside the country. (Not sure if I'd even find out what a VPN is if I remained in the country)
Like imagine you're under a "rat race" for money then you go home and can't find anything interesting to watch, because its "too political" and blocked.
So yay, jumping from one boiling pot to another. Life is amazing! The universe do love its trolling.
(Tbf life did get better in the US, for us, at least from around 2014 to now. But I'm now more of fearing for the future, such as a Chinese Exclusion Act v2: Electric Boogaloo)
the immigrant gen-z
the immigrant gen-z that fled to the usa
Nah, not just to the US. We do have problems with emboldened neonazis in Europe, too. While not to the extend you might experience in the US, I wouldn't want to be black or southern/eastern mediterranean here either.
I really worry about the younger generations, they're growing up in a toxic landscape of end stage capitalism. I'm worried they'll think this is normal like a kid in an abusive household. This isn't normal, this is beyond reproach in how abnormal it is. Please, fight with us.
Did you think the world was good before 1970? Are you a person of color in the US? This is capitalism. This is normal capitalism. It's just white people feel it now too. The enslaved white employees are finally now feeling what capitalism does because they no longer benefit from it as the rich white were tolerant of until recently.
Life was materially much harder but in the early 20th century there were real labour movements and tight communities and that counts for a lot. We have to find a way to recreate connections and a shared sense of struggle (but without pining for some glorified imaginary past like the fascists), but it might just take conditions getting a lot worse still to drive people to that.
Before Reagan there was more unionization, more push for workers rights and increase of wages. But I do agree with you, if you're a POC, this is a Tuesday for you.
Time to organize
Worked with a Gen-z guy on an H1B visa who was super happy Trump got re-elected. (He was pretty unimpressive in terms of job skills, among other things.) Then he got laid off. And everyone was very concerned about him. I think he was supposed to get married or something.
I spent a lot of time trying to teach that guy stuff. He had trouble grasping the most basic concepts.
It makes me angry and sad and annoyed all at the same time.
I really try to not waste my energy worrying about assholes anymore. "but maybe they're a good/nice person in other ways" - I don't give a fuck. that's not good enough.
if you are an asshole to other people, in any way, I will be an asshole to you, for at the very least I will simply not spend any effort to not be an asshole to you
Xennial putting up with Reagan onward:
99 dotcom bust, 911, 2008 great recession, covid, idiot tarriffs and this ai bullshit, all while in the worforce.
Yeah, the older millenials be eatin lean cause they always been eating lean.
Don't forget being blamed industries failing because recognizing our lack of income is impossible for boomers.
Oh and being blamed for receiving participation trophies our parents generation forced on us.
My favorite was the desperate headline, "millennials kill napkins" because we can't afford so many different paper products (if they knew we were using TP for kleenex, they'd have run with that too).
What really sucks is living near Millennials who were handed jobs and houses by their parents, and live life effortlessly, which makes it seem like the "dream" is still alive and I'm just failing at it.
I don't hate to say it, Boomers are the most out of touch, entitled, enriched generation the USA has ever seen and they're going to be the downfall of this country.
I got arrested for possessing a dust-amount of cannabis when I was 13
then I had to work through the pandemic as a cannabis dispensary manager because we were "essential medical personnel"
with no medical benefits. Earning less money than I would've if I had been able to go on unemployment.
It's a shit country. The social contract does not exist anymore. Thinly-veiled threats of violence are the only thing still keeping the population in line, including the threat of homelessness which is also a form of violence.
Once, when I was on acid, I asked myself - how would I define America? The answer I settled on is, "America is everyone who is stuck here" (or forced by economic or otherwise imperially-orchestrated hardship to come here, even if they would prefer to remain in their home country otherwise). Everyone who lives in America and cannot comfortably escape lives in a prison. You may get the equivalent of a Nordic prison if you're privileged, but look how many wealthy celebrities live miserable lives - it's still a prison.
And so I live by advice I heard from a prisoner. I wish I could remember the source, but I can't. The advice, as to how to survive in prison, was: "Take everything they give you. Give nothing in return." It's important to note that this applies to the government, to corporations, to capitalism, NOT to your fellow prisoners (Americans). The only way we get through this is each other.
yall supposed to be mad about it
This is my first time reading the phrase, “age of enjoyment.” I guess I wasn’t ever meant to know that I missed out entirely?
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