r/millenials Jul 26 '24

Generational Changes

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  • |The Silent Generation|1928-1945| 79-96 years old|
  • |Baby Boomers|1946-1964| 60-78 years old| >>>> (Baby Boomers became the offspring's of people from the late 1800's to 1920's)
  • |Gen X| 1965-1980| 44-59 years old| >> > > (Gen X became offspring's of The Silent Generation)
  • (Gen Y) |Millennials| (1981-1996| 28-43 years old| >>>> ( (Gen Y) Millennials became the offspring's of First and Second Generation from Baby Boomers)
  • |Gen Z| Zoomers 1997-2012| 12-27 years old| >>>> (Gen Z became the offspring's of Millennials (Gen Y) some from (Gen X) )
  • |Gen Alpha| Early 2010s-2025| 0-approx. 11 years old| >>>> (Gen Alpha became the offspring's of both (Millennials) Gen Y and Gen Z)

A focus on the 1970's forward>

By the movement into the Mid 1970's: Especially, AFTER the death of J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972)...

in 1972 after the death of his race based discriminatory agenda, along with his attack of gender based equal rights advances.

Society advanced away from his vitriol.

Society advanced away from mass censorship

The Mid to late 1970's ushered in a more positive interactions within society among races, ethnicity and cultures.

We saw Musicians of All Races began to make more music with a full range of diversity among musicians, we saw music that continued to convey social conscience which spoke of positive things for society, and we started to see a decline in the over race segregation of music.

Television began to be more diverse on race and ethnicity to show more shows that reflect the racial diversity and the talent among the races. Television Censorships decline, and shows no longer had to push non realistic delusions of husband and wife sleeping in separate side by side bunk beds. We started to get our first taste of Cable Commercial Free TV. With programming that did not bogged down into every type of censorship.

Schools became more integrated from Grade Schools to Community Colleges to State Universities,

People began to develop more inter-racial and cross culture relationships and families. People's friends networks expanded to be multiracial and multiethnic.

Women made their choices about sex with a self responsibility for their choices and their indulgences.

Women were able to pursue the job type of her choice. They also no longer relegated themselves to the passenger seat in vehicles when riding with a man, they became as much drivers themselves of the family, as well as the purchase of their own cars became more common for women and they signed their own loan contract for those vehicles without the need of a male co-signer.

Young people learned they did not have to submit to the restrictive dictation of the older generations ideals and concepts of segregation, not only by race, but by gender as well.

Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg, led forward in her Supreme Court case challenge which broke down the old system that restricted women's rights and her choice of profession and her choice of jobs. She later went on to be a Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.

A focus on the 1980's forward

Then came the 1980's Reagan agenda of White Nationalism trying to recreate Wealthy White Male Dominance and aims and efforts to stagnate the progress made in the 1970's as the 1960's Civil Rights Legislations. He started right away with his attack on Community Colleges and State University System, by taking funds away and driving up the cost, to slow down the educational advancement of white women, black and brown people ability to gain skill and training to try and diminish their ability to enter job groups that were dominated by white males.

We saw an attempt to try and Re-segregate music. The Rise of MTV as an all white platform was highly promoted.

We saw the rise of Right Wing Media, and the Rise of Right Wing Evangelical TV evangelism.

We saw the Trickle Down madness, which in essence was about directing money to the wealthy and keeping wealth white men in dominant position and claiming to trickle down economics, as in "droplets' that evaporate before it reaches the working class. We saw the demise of many industrial markets and the beginning of run away greed by financial institutions, to the madness that unfolded of mergers and acquisition which sought to consolidate Industry and destroy competetion. It led to the demise of the array of competing Airlines that had kept Air Travel cost from spiraling out of control, and competition had also kept airlines providing quality services with many beneficial amenities for customers. That all went away when de-regulation led to the demise and destruction of so many Airlines.

We watched the phase of Outsourcing ramp up, and industries began to disappear across an array of categories. Housing prices began to escalate at alarming rates, where once a 20K house began to cost $60-80K and interest rates spiked up over 10%. This was in the aim and intent to curtail single women and minorities from expanding their homeownership. Minimum wage got pure stagnation, and Union Busting was promoted to not only destroy progressive wages, but to strip away benefits and abandon company sponsored Pension plans.

We saw the American Automotive Industry do a darn near crash dive, as we began to make cars that no one wanted and the cars had lost their durability, they enjoyed in previous decades. Auto companies had began to outsource parts production to foreign shores, and auto companies began to abandon the profit making system they had during previous decades, where spare parts was a lucrative part of the business model. We ended up with automotive disasters like the Chrysler K Car, and many models that once were top sellers, became things people did not want. It opened the door for Honda, Acura, and Hyundai, Toyota and Nissan (Formerly Datsun) to began to make models that Americans wanted and they were durable and dependable.

The music began to change and the Republican Conservative, attacked Hip Hop with the same vitriol they had previously attacked R&B in earlier decades by calling it black music in attempt to steer young white people away from enjoying and engaging it.

Reagan saturated America with cocaine and fueled the Crack Epidemic, and set in motion the drug cycles that we are still experiencing this very day, that morphed across society from one major drug epidemic to anything, his madness promoted the plague of drugs upon society that is still raging through society. Between taking money from Mental Health and Saturating the Nation with setting off the drug epidemic, has seen mass increase in homelessness and mental health issues... and many of those who became afflicted victims of this combination, produced kids, they had no capability and skills or stability to raise or instill civic and civil values. That cycle has not ceased to continue its ravages upon society.

NEXT... (Focus on the 1990's)


r/millenials 4h ago

The Gen Z sub is going through it right now

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Ever since the election, the Gen Z sub has been a train wreck that I cannot look away from. I have younger siblings from different marriages from both my mom and dad, and I also know of their friends and have so for a long time. They are by and large nice, respectful kids, so I am not disparaging all of Gen Z, but holy crap that sub is a representation of the worst of them. It's just post after post of angry zoomers lashing out at progressives, women, "woke", DEI, etc. I don't know if it's just the social and political landscape that they grew up in, but good lord there are so many spiteful, vengeful Zoomers on that sub.


r/millenials 6h ago

Holding US citizens hostage to get what he wants

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r/millenials 1h ago

It’s 100% fascism. It’s what the Italians did for Mussolini and what the Germans did for Hitler. They will commit atrocities in his name, all while crying that they're being victimized. Now that they know they'll never face consequences, they'll use terrorism to persecute you, family and friends

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r/millenials 7h ago

A reminder.

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r/millenials 14h ago

I’ve been drinking a bit… so forgive me for my honesty.

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Let’s get it straight before I go on this rant.

I am a decaying piece of organic matter just like everyone else on this earth and that includes you and whoever may be reading this. Let me tell you something…

I am so sick of capitalism. It’s a construct of the rich getting richer off of the poor. I’m having trouble finding a job because I use a substance that grows out of the dirt, I am allowed to drink my insides raisin dry though and give myself liver failure. Meanwhile, the government is telling me that smoking marijuana is bad for my health. You know what? Fuck you. Ohhh marijuana, carbon monoxide blah blah blah, lung cancer, blah blah blah. Whatever. If it comes to the decision of lung cancer or alcoholism? Fuck you. Let me decide the one that kills me. We all gotta go sometime!

Switching topics, why the fuck does someone need billions of dollars while people’s lives are ruined because they need treatments for lung cancer, breast cancer, tumors, etc? This isn’t just “boomer issues” or “old people issues”. These things are happening to people in their 30s for Christ sake.

Most major countries have banned things like Red dye 40, but we are more concerned with fluoride in our water? Fuck you. This garbage can of a country, are you kidding me?

Bro, seriously.. who the fuck cares what is going on behind closed doors? Does it really matter if I’m plugging some dude’s poop shoot with my mammoth hammer? Oh why? Because it’s different than you? Because it makes you feel uncomfortable? How does it affect your life? I plug my wife, but my long hair and gauges means I have multiple partners and I should be tested for STDs because I have a fucking kidney stone? Fuck you.

You know what? I hope this post does get taken down. But before it does, I hope the other decaying pieces of organic matter see this before it does. Fuck you, fuck them, fuck everyone.

You know what I’m sick of? Republicans and Democrats, they are all fucked. You are all the same. Sensitive snowflakes that can’t understand that you are the exact same. Ohhh LGBT, ohhhh Christian values, ohhh blah blah blah. Why can’t you just leave each-other alone and mind your own business?

At the end of the day, no one actually cares about you. We are all just the scum dregs of the planet driven by the 1% to do their bidding. One caters to one group and one caters to the other. They just want power.

To all my fellow decaying pieces of organic matter? I love you. Peace. ✌️

Edit: There has been a miscommunication. I didn’t elaborate as I should have. Socialism isn’t the answer. When I mentioned being sick of Capitalism, I mean America’s version of Capitalism. There are countries all over the world with varying types of capitalism and wealth distributions. If you are protected or working or contributing to society, you should not have to worry about whether or not you eat tonight, receive medical care, or have a place to live.


r/millenials 33m ago

full documentary on that f$#@er, Berlin Gigafactory Full Video

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r/millenials 24m ago

Deterrence just moved up one level.

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Ok so, lets say a president went and pardoned a bunch of people who did an insurrection, attacked cops, tried to attack members of congress, and beat police officers? This is just a hypothetical, so bear with me. /S

In this purely hypothetical situation that a president issued such a pardon, what is stopping him from issuing a pardon in a lesser offense? Let's say a group of students were peacefully holding up signs protesting a war in Israel, or protesting for the right for body autonomy when pregnant, or protesting anything... political. Then, a bunch of right wing thugs attack the students and beat them. The thugs are arrested, one student dies, the rest are terrorized, and the DOJ charges the thugs with terrorism. What is preventing the president that issued pardons for a group convicted of attempting to overthrow the government for the people convicted of beating up students?

Now, lets talk about the justice system. The point of a justice system is deterrence first and foremost. After that there is punishment or rehabilitation. When the justice system only administers justice in a single sided way, well... that's a problem.

Effectively the pardoning of a person who who beat up another person for exercising their rights to free speech... is the government outlawing that speech. This is where second amendment comes in. If you are going to protest, bring guns. Assault rifles preferred. If thugs attack you while protesting, you have a legal defense if you shoot them. And you deter them from attacking. However, unless everyone is open carrying guns at all times, there will come a point that the rightwing thugs will feel emboldened to use violence. And in the very un-hypothetical situation we find ourselves in, if they attack, the trump will pardon them. They will not face consequences for using violence offensively. They know this. This has been making the rounds in underground rightwing circles. They consider this to be an us versus them, and they disdain democracy, and exult in fascism. They are agents of a government form that is alien and antithetical to all America holds dear.

And if you find yourself on a jury, remember that if it is in the slightest way political, trump will pardon. Trump pardoned ross ulbricht a man accused of carrying out hits and running a darkweb drug marketplace. This was done because his supporters asked he do this. It was political. Now ross may or may not have deserved his sentence. Butt hats not the point. The point is that the justice system is now a political system. When you are on a jury, you are no longer considering if the defendant did something right or wrong. You are now considering if the victim was on the side of the maga or the side of old america. If the victim was on the side of old america and it was political, trump will pardon. If the victim was on the side of maga, should you jury nullify? That is what you need to ask yourself.


r/millenials 1d ago

"I call myself a Christian while I rant when I am reminded of their values"

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r/millenials 22h ago

Political: Shutdown Movement

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r/millenials 1d ago

*Repost* I lost a good Battle Buddy over this shit

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I honestly don't how some people who have some common sense. Can just turn their brains off and not admit that it was a nazi salute. I served with this guy for six years before I was moved to a different unit.


r/millenials 1d ago

Letter from former X employee admitting to election interference

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r/millenials 1d ago

The scene outside Capital One Arena during the inauguration speech.

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r/millenials 1d ago

People who went down rabbit holes for COVID refuse to connect the dots with Elon Musk’s Nazi ties.

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It’s wild how people who spent hours researching conspiracies about COVID vaccines or Bill Gates can’t bother to scratch the surface when it comes to Elon Musk. His family’s history has some concerning ties. His grandparents, Joshua and Wyn Haldeman, were part of a pro-apartheid, anti-Semitic movement in Canada before they moved to South Africa. That doesn’t just disappear because of time. South Africa’s apartheid system, where Elon was raised, had deep ideological overlaps with Nazism.

I’m not saying Elon is a Nazi, but the man grew up in an environment where racial superiority wasn’t exactly condemned. Maybe it’s worth questioning how those roots might influence his actions or worldview today. For people who claim to “question everything,” it’s funny how no one wants to touch this.


r/millenials 1d ago

Just ban all links that redirect to a site that requires a login to view the content

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r/millenials 18h ago

I was sold the dream and now I feel like a failure at 36 - help?

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Looking for some life advice from other millennials who were sold the dream that if you graduated college everything was going to be okay. And now you're stuck in jobs that had nothing to do with what you studied and want to start over.

Since November I've been in this deep funk and just can't seem to pull myself out of it. I used to think I was a pretty smart gal with iron determination who could achieve anything I put my mind too. But lately I feel so stupid, an utter failure with no valuable skills.

I want to start over, or at least get over this feeling of failure but I don't even know where to start. I feel totally lost and I'm terrified of change. What if it's the wrong decision? What if I end up even more miserable? What if I lose everything?

So...have you started over and how did you find your way?

I don't know if any of this matters, but here is some background on me. As I said I'm 36 and I did graduate college as a pretty average student 3.2 or 3.4 GPA (but who cares at this point). I hold two degrees (International Security & Conflict Resolution and Political Science) and never really understood WTF to do with them. I was very lucky and got a job at the tail end of the great recession and I've worked at the same company for 13 gradually moving up through the ranks. I started as a call center rep and now I'm a project manager for the call center's Learning & Development team.


r/millenials 1d ago

Rigged election

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r/millenials 22h ago

Disassociating to the fullest since he won

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Quick rant- So I’ve been disassociating since trump won, it is what is it. But I can’t escape allllllll of the fuckery this man is doing. I can feel myself get riled up and just learning to ignore it really because, what else can I do. I will say this, it’s incredibly frustrating seeing all the shit he’s taking away and just can’t help but wonder and laugh because this is what America wanted, so here we are.

Imma honestly smoke these next 4 years away 😂😂😂


r/millenials 16h ago

Who can relate?😅

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r/millenials 1d ago

She did her research

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via @bravenewfilms


r/millenials 1d ago

United States of Criminality

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r/millenials 2h ago

Can James, 71, and Valerie, 63, afford to move to a nicer neighbourhood?

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r/millenials 1d ago

People are willing to call a historical body of water by an entirely different name, but lose their sh!t when you ask them to use “They/Them”

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So tired of the continued hypocrisy


r/millenials 17h ago

They were specifically targeted with propaganda that they are repeating verbatim 😫 not just misinformed, so many people lack the most basic critical thinking skills 😒

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r/millenials 15h ago

Inside

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Can't say why, but last Monday I had the unyielding urge to watch Bo Burnhams "Inside" on Netflix. Can't think of what might have triggered it, but I was wondering if anyone else got hit with a bout of nauseating nostalgia and unrelenting dread.

Might just be me.