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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
dont forget:
housing crisis
fentanyl crisis
destruction of unions
Billionaires purchasing all MSM
Destruction of the internet
Citizens united
Trickle down economics
2 failed invasions in Iraq, Afghanistan
militarization of police
normalization of genocide
Oxycontin crisis, satanic panic, Columbine and the proliferation of the modern school shooting crisis, all the tobacco execs lying to congress about nicotine being addictive and facing no consequences, and the open and acknowledged deployment of weapons of war in space thus opening us up to a brand new version of the Cuban missile crisis... In Space (space space space)
Oh we didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning.
War on Terror BS War on Drugs BS
It is a rather long list of BS
Oh oh oh, and that one time George Bush collectively cock teased us all by almost choking to death on that pretzel.
We also had to deal with Obama giving us an iota of hope for a short period and then ends up all he wanted to do all day was drone strike poor people.
My biggest tinfoil hat take is that the fent was put there on purpose to punish drug culture, as the public discovered that many drugs that are scheduled aren't really as harmful or addictive as we're told when done in moderation, and they hated that they were losing control of the narrative that the police state is for your own protection.
So they decided to poison dissenters so they could say "See? Told you so." I don't think they quite realized how many opioid soccer moms were trying to cope at that point, but I wouldn't expect much competence from a government that was willing to purge their own citizens for the crime of "going to a rave occasionally".
Huh.
That actually makes sense.....
Don't forget all the climate stuff happening exactly as predicted like twenty years ago.
Don't forget the return of fascism 😮💨
Purely as an excuse to post this video, Fascism never really went away.... https://youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0
Every 100 years there will be a rise of facist, and only the Avatar can stop them.
Which one? The last airbender, one of those 10 feet tall blue guys with the magical ponytails, or someone else?
This
I'm really getting why "May you live in interesting times" is a curse
2 economic recessions?? If you don't count anything in the 80s or 90s then you at least have:
Dot com bubble
Subprime mortgage crisis
Covid
Whatever you wanna call what's been happening the past 2 to 4 years. I don't care what the stock market says. Working people are experiencing an economic downturn.
2??? WTF
Don't forget Columbine and the birth of 'Zero Tolerance'
Don't forget we're hated by baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Z and younger.
We're also expected to keep everything working while also treated like we're the most entitled.
It's worse for us Gen-Xers. We remember living as adults in the time before it all went from kinda shitty to the diarrhea apocalypse.
Yep, things looked positive for a short while after the end of the cold war and the Internet became widespread when we entered the workforce. The advancement of the human race only seemed a matter of time.
But our Boomer parents weren't willing to let anyone else have a bright future, keeping us away from any real power while driving exploitation of nature and people to the max to fill their bank accounts. If you look at the US, this is thill the case, with a gerontocratic political caste that fights tooth and claw to prevent the next generations from enacting change - somewhat like fucking elder vampires.
'88 here. 9/11 sits at such a clear demarcation line for us. Happened in 8th grade where you're still straddling the fence that's childhood, while still capable of grasping the enormity of what was unfolding.
Though I also grew up in the rust belt, so there was always the sense that you were riding a wave that had long since crested.
Try being a few years older and they brought you all into the cafeteria to watch the Challenger launch live.
🤩🚀💥🤯😭🪦
It's 2 pandemies. People like to forget H1N1... & at least 4 recessions since the 90s.. & the rise of Neo-Faschism should definetly be there as well.
Am a millennial.
Okay, so:
Gen Alpha has experienced the pandemic, economic shock and recession around that time, followed by insane inflation, the AI disruption and uncertainty, and climate and extreme weather disruption as well. Not even mentioning wars.
Millennials have all that, and the Great Recession, the dot com crash, I guess we could mention 9/11, but like most people were not directly impacted by that but rather the wars after, the housing affordability crisis, and I dunno, maybe the Super Bowl Timberlake-Jackson incident, sure chuck that in.
Gen X has all that, the savings and loan crisis in the 80s-90s, Black Monday, recessions in the 80s, stagflation in their early adulthood and teen years, oil crises, and fucking Milli Vanilli.
And then Baby Boomers... well... whatever. I'm already tired of doing this. Every generation deals with a lotta shit.
And again we kinda glossed over wars.
Let's have some real fun.
The late Roman "Are We Seriously Doing This Again?" generation born circa 235-260 CE. They experienced the empire nearly falling apart as emperors were replaced like Walmart greeters, a plague to live through, a shit ton of wars and economic debasement along with political instability destroyed any economy they had, foreign invasions were an average Tuesday, and then I think Rome split into basically east and west and the Capitol lost control.
Don't forget the current climate apocalypse. That will literally end everything
Toss in the existential threat of nuclear war and you can include genx
Still easier than people born 100 years ago.
Lol @ Y2K being mentioned on par with all this other shit. Never in life have I experienced such a huge nothing burger.
There was an immense effort to rectify the issue, same with the ozone crisis. Cant say the same for current issues, most news has to both-sides everything and there are much more (or atleast more prominent) contrarians like the anti-vaxers. Never again will we see a unified front against a global issue because someone will always benifit personally if failure is on the table.
It was nothing because of the HUGE work that went into avoiding the problem.
Hmm, not a good sign that this meme is being extended every few years...
I was rippin' Rust a few years ago, especially after reading Stephen Markley's The Deluge and having a bit of a breakdown. Then I was
Then the anxiety counter got to 999,999 and ticked back over to 000,000 and broke, so now I'm just sorta
getting more weird and whimsy instead of more anxious.
I don't have any kids of my own. I feel sorry for the other people's kids but I wish them all the best in the cannibal wars to come.
FYI, there's going to be another Y2K.
Isn't this one already largely patched including most 32-bit operating systems that were still getting updates like 20 years ago?
Lol. The worst thing that can happen is war. I will be very grateful if I don't have to endure it in my lifetime.
But burgerstanis surrounded by two oceans are complaining about burgers and gas while sowing death and conflict around the world.
Like we can afford to smoke.
Not to mention the many "once in a lifetime" nature events that have happened as well.
Millennials didn’t have to do anything or worry about anything at all with Y2K. I’m an older millennial and we were barely of working age.
Living through, not working through.
There was constant reports about how disastrous it was going to be if it wasn’t fixed. That puts some strain on people. I remember thinking that it didn’t matter what I did for a job if everything collapses.
Yeah, as a fresh 44 year old, I’d really love to have a boring decade where nothing much happens. Just a bit of a breather before the inevitable climate wars. I’ve lived through so many ‘once in a lifetime’ events, it’s not even funny.
Multiple wars + Jan 6
On the older side of millennial, I vaguely remember the opening news broadcasts of the Gulf war.
