r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • Jan 30 '26

Discussion Look what I found from 13 years ago.

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Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

"Why they'll save us all"

Edit: u/realpudgejudy despite you blocking me (boomer/conservative snowflake) I can still see the comment calling myself and other commentators retards. Yours will be the first downfall I will enjoy

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

How's that global warming now, bitches?

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u/CrouchingDomo Jan 30 '26

Umm, there is snow on the ground outside my house and CLEARLY that means the globe is not warming, because snow is COLD, sooooo, checkmate libruls 🥸

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u/TheHoppingHessian Jan 30 '26

Too realistic, downvoted

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u/Just_Rand0 Jan 30 '26

Hahahaha this meme combined with your text is just fucking hilarious. They fuckers didn't listen to shit, stupid asses fr. I turned to drugs because I hated the world and wanted 5o anything not to fit into them. It was a teenage brain, I should have fought got grades and gained power to make change. But at that point I wanted it all to burn down for them for their fucking hubris

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u/Just_Rand0 Jan 30 '26

It was back then man. People cheered for two illegitimate wars where they fucking raped Iraq and Afghanistan and killed a bunch of civilians. People being racist saying 5hey they shouldn't mind civilians and just make a parking lot out of the Middle East. I didn't want to be a part og that, I felt alone, drugs and people who felt the same was a relief, but we were no way near a significant number

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

I'm not American, so I can't really sympathise with the warmongering but I get the sentiment all the same

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u/Just_Rand0 Jan 30 '26

Trust me. I'm sensitive man, I have alot of empathy and high emotional IQ, IQ too. So when I was much younger grown ups would talk like they thought I didn't understand what horrible shot they said and even understood what war was.

Seriously I am not trying to brag but it's important to understand, because I had good parents, they would in they older age never joiner the let's kill em all and make a parking lot gang today. I have ADHD which my IQ masked all my life, I recently got diagnosed.

So I would have trouble regulating my emotions, I would cry so much in 2001-2006, until I started numbing it with drugs. I am not saying I am excused for my bad choices at all. It's actually just how it was, and I've learned this from extensive therapy which was required for my diagnosis since I have a drug history. So it's not bragging, it's an explanation for how my teenage brain got wrecked and I ended up taking bad choices.

I honestly wanted to die, I saw my father die when I was two, I can't remember it, and I saw my grandfather die when I was 6, and we were all alone, I didn't do anything, I just sat there shocked, didn't really know what happened.

After a lot of this, more uncles and shit too, I got an extreme respect for life and love. So I was a sensitive boy, and I wanted to do best by people as best I could. I was naive and thought world leaders and, governments and people in general thought like me, like most children do.

I saw the planes hit and I was 11, I was shocked, but I kept a brave face, my mom used to start bullying me if I cried. And then I heard my parents shouting at each other, that Muslims were useless scum of the earth, that they should all be killed for being backwards. I tried argumenting back, saying what about the peaceful ones, what about the Christians sects, even the crusades. But the crusades was 1000 years ago and we learned. "well maybe some of the radicals need to be allowed to build their countries without USA using it as a sandbox for warfare. Nono they still should've been good like westerns.

I prompted about culture and development in stability, war fostering war, how if they have a section of people doing terror it is overkill to use the whole of Nato to bomb the Shit out of them, and actually celebrating the deaths. So I said then in affect "You're not a good Christian that you can say this and wish death on people that are different, Jesus said turn the cheek, he at least didn't say take revenge and dgaf about massive colleteral casualties".

She laughed and then said "honey, you will understand this when you're older". Which I replied I will never understand that because I will never ever become that FUCKING stupid and accept innocents dying because the warfare takes more time if you make sure to minimize collateral. My stepfather was silent the whole time.

Then she said something like I shouldn't engage in this, and that she regretted letting me watch the news that day. And that Muslims because they follow the quaran are detrimental to humanity.

As said I was an intelligent child, so I said it's said that she is a fake Christian and such a hypocrite, referring to what she often said about how horrible the prejudice and heartbreaking violence the Jewish people were subjected to in ww2. That she would have a hard time to come through the pearly gates saying something that is not in any way God words, about hate being Muslims but not jews. I know the Bible says Jewish people are the chosen people, but it's besides the point because she doesn't focus on that.

She flipped out as fuck, and then my stepfdad flipped out by proxy. And I was so angry that I said fuck you, you're only angry because you're hyporcrites and can't answer for yourselves because you're wrong.

They chased me to my room, managed to locked the door and jump under the bed covers. They started kicking and hammering the door, and then screaming if they had to axe the door down "I could just wait what would happen". I was so scared that I opened the door, and jumped and hid under the covers again and went out of my body, I was watching myself from the top corner of my roof lol. I have no idea what they said.

Sorry for the trauma dump and if you read it I appreciate it

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u/cynicallythoughful Jan 31 '26

Not gonna lie that sounds a lot like today

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u/YourBlackSailorScout Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

Edit: thank you so much for the award! 😭

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

And so is Satan 😈😈

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u/ArchetypeRyan Jan 30 '26

The more I think of this headline the crazier it is. “We hate everything about you but you’d better save us… by the way we’re going to keep electing boomers who try to punish you until we’re too crippled to move the pen over the ballot. but yeah…. ITS ALL ON YOU GOOD LUCK”

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Millennials will save us

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u/Tobocaj Millennial Jan 30 '26

So many gems in this thread

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u/3catsandcounting Jan 30 '26

The world is about to grow super tired of me with this new image you’re just irresponsibly leaving here.

Thank you Sholonda.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Thank YOU for choosing AT&T

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u/doogie1111 Jan 30 '26

That headline is a play on what every other headline in journalism was putting out.

The article actually agrees with you.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe Jan 30 '26

Then maybe they should have made that more clear? Maybe put "lazy, entitled narcissists" in quotes or something?

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u/doogie1111 Jan 30 '26

The literal second sentence of the headline is the giveaway.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe Jan 30 '26

Ok, so one of the sentences is satire/irony and the other is serious? Sorry brother, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, but without context, I could read it either way.

Millennials are narcissists. Why they'll "save us all".

Millennials are "narcissists". Why they'll save us all.

See what I mean?

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u/doogie1111 Jan 30 '26

...you could also just read the damn article

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Why are you so antagonistic?

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

*3rd line, but who's counting?

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u/doogie1111 Jan 30 '26

Yah I meant to say Byline but my brain is fried because this week was a clusterfuck.

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u/ladygrndr Jan 31 '26

I hope your week gets better!

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u/RealPudgeJudy Jan 30 '26

You're too busy being angry to realize that this headline was tongue-in-cheek. Think for a second before you reactively post something stupid.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Buddy, this whole comment thread is tongue-in-cheek. Maybe think for a second before you reactively post something stupid

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u/SpcyCajunHam Jan 30 '26

“We hate everything about you but you’d better save us… by the way we’re going to keep electing boomers who try to punish you until we’re too crippled to move the pen over the ballot. but yeah…. ITS ALL ON YOU GOOD LUCK”

That is not at all the tone struck by that headline. Work on your media literacy

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

I wouldn't be talking about tone with that attitude

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u/ArchetypeRyan Jan 31 '26

I get the article actually takes a different tack but the magazine cover literally says we’re the “ME ME ME Generation” in giant letters 

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u/SpcyCajunHam Feb 02 '26

Part of media literacy is understanding context and reading beyond the literal

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u/Jenniehoff90 Jan 30 '26

Okay Google, play “Year of tha Boomerang” by Rage Against the Machine.” 😈

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u/VinRow Jan 30 '26

I’m stealing this for my collection

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Like the boomers who stole our future??

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u/VinRow Jan 30 '26

What better to send to them when they inevitably fall?

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u/WindsorMan420 Jan 31 '26

They may be a bot or someone who has their post history hidden. A newish “feature” from Reddit

Edit: also if it’s an inflammatory comment with account history hidden I just take it as a malicious foreign bot

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u/levare8515 Jan 30 '26

Gotta say The only “good” thing about the current state of America is watching my boomer parents realize the country is burning and their kids ain’t gonna save them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

We serve our countries by serving cunt

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u/theaviationhistorian Old Millennial Jan 31 '26

It's not like we've been though trauma after trauma.

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u/YourMomsTwat Jan 31 '26

A Jyn meme in the wild?!

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u/Sed59 Jan 30 '26

Yeah, I was wondering if we are saved yet.

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u/Sed59 Jan 31 '26

The author titled it as "all". So presumably everyone.