I think one of the most infuriating things to me is how well our enemies can overcome their disdain for each other to work toward our destruction while we seem to be obsessed with dividing our communities even in the face of existential threats.
in 2013 I saw a man get a 100,000 hour probation on the SomethingAwful forums and today I saw him come off probation and immediately pick up the same argument, quoting a reply from 2013, absolute next-level hater, I can't even imagine, my man is the Count of Monte Posters
the gut punch that Oregon Trail Millennials experienced--everyone younger or older sidestepped this--is hard to explain, but the cataclysm of 9/11 occurring the precise moment we became legal adults obliterated the world we had been raised to function in. this isn't unique to our microgeneration but
unless you were lucky enough to be in one of the good subcultures (rave, goth, club kid, et al) at the time it was mostly just people talking about Seinfeld and waiting for the century to end
Begging and pleading progressive folks to stop spreading the bullshit lie that voting doesn't matter or is flat out rigged every time I hear an otherwise smart left leaning person say this it makes me want to eat my poli sci degree and shake them violently.
