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Who was responsible for giving Millennials the participation trophies?

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Nothing more millennial boomer than blaming other people instead of taking responsibility.

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FIFY

Who built the cages gave the trophies and failed to raise most of a generation well? Boomers have been engaged in policies of generational theft and decline for decades. Y'all have had the reins of the country. Don't sit there and blame other people for what your generation did.

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Waffledynamics said:

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redcrayon said:

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Who was responsible for giving Millennials the participation trophies?

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Nothing more millennial boomer than blaming other people instead of taking responsibility.

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Who built the cages gave the trophies and failed to raise most of a generation well? Boomers have been engaged in policies of generational theft and decline for decades. Y'all have had the reins of the country. Don't sit there and blame other people for what your generation did.

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LOL. I'm not a boomer.

Keep blaming others instead of taking responsibility for your own life. Proving my point.

Are you incapable of quoting a post?? Is that your parents' fault, too?

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When confronted with the reality that your children don't know how to use money, because apparently you didn't teach them, you're considering giving it to charity out of spite? This is wicked!

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Very interesting that your spin is to place it back on Boomers...that it's all our fault. OK, got it.

We don't give to charity out of spite, but out of love and need. Watch a St. Jude video...or better yet, read the personal stories of parents who went to St. Jude when they had no other option. Wicked is the last thought in my mind.

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I'm guessing you probably might not even have your will written yet.

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Actually, we're in the process of updating our will so that everything goes into a Trust. Why put all the details in a will so everyone and his brother has access to what is personal to us.

Let's compare the economy when boomers were young adults Vs millennials so we can see who had it harder

My millennial children(79 and81) buck the trend. I guess as a result of my bad parenting they have had to survive on their own for some time.

We need some real hard times to thin the herd of the weakest generation and toughen people up.

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Millennials , the original Participation Trophy Generation. This news should not surprise anyone.

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Also known as the dumbest generation.

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It's not just one generation, everyone is becoming more liberal. The societal pressure to conform to the trend is enormous.

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You had me largely agreeing with you until:

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They need to be removed to make way for intelligent, honest, respectable leaders who have vision. With very few exceptions, those leaders are on the left, and that's who millennials will follow.

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That's naive and projection. The leaders on the left are the opposite of honest and respectable. Nancy Pelosi? C'mon!

You are correct that the so-called leaders of the right are anything but courageous and honest, but in response the leaders of the left say "Hold my beer".

This is what happens when there are no consequences for actions. They took the paddle out of schools and this is the result

38 year old Millennial here.

My thoughts on politics in a few phrases

Socialism and communism have always failed. This is historical fact.

Taxation is theft.

TEXIT.

DeSantis 2024.

TEXIT is a bad idea

It's the sentiment that counts.

Read Cynical Theories.

This millennial generation is the first group to really get indoctrinated with post modernism as fact instead of theory with little if any critical thinking.

Post modernism's only goal is to dismantle society. They don't want to solve anything. They cannot be reasoned with so they don't deserve a seat at the table. Ignore them. They don't produce and have not significance to society. They only want to dismantle things. It does no good to engage them.

Back to Millennials, they have grown accustom to receiving positive reinforce by for even minimal effort. Always winning regardless of effort or results. Creating an entitlement mentality.

Now, they go ape **** when something doesn't work out and rolling up their sleeves to get back up and go earn it is not an option for some. Not all. There are a lot of old school throwbacks (probably mostly home/private school) folks who are dominating these pansies. Only fueling the failures to more intense tantrums.

Buck stops somewhere and hopefully those in control ***** slap this before it gets way worse.

Consequences for making bad decisions. That's all it takes. And be matter of fact about it. No sugar coating and teach persistence.

Supreme Court needs to strike down student loans.

Democrats run on empty promises and feels. When you have a party that car3s. Ore about abortion than putting food on the dinner table you live in a broken society.

To receive welfare benefits both the biological mom and dad should have to sign a check and submit a drug test every week.

A few things.

First off the original premise is wrong. Millennials are actually trending more GOP than in the past. They were insanely Dem in their 20's and now are slightly Dem. Millennial men are actually majority GOP, it's the Millennial women being heavily Dem that throw the numbers still. Gen X is by far the most conservative generation and it's not close, running about +14 GOP now with Gen X Men being overwhelmingly GOP. Gen Z is overwhelmingly Dem but not actually as Dem as Millennials were at their age. Boomers are about evenly split but they were hardcore Dems who have slowly shifted.

You also have the issue that Gen X and Gen Z are so much smaller than Boomers and Millennials. Gen X is trapped in that we could never outvote the Boomers and the Millennials will also overwhelm us. Our window is small. Gen X has it's own failings though. Most of us ignored the culture wars and didn't want to work in government or go into education, we wanted to get jobs and have families. Thus the Boomers and Millennials dominated those fields and the few Gen Xers that did go that route tended to be the few Democrats among us.

The biggest problem with Millennials and Gen Z is they are waiting on marriage and having families. You don't grow up, not really, until you have those responsibilities and realize that there are things more important than yourself. That's why so many are basically adult children who sit around and whine about how hard their life is when they have more opportunity and luxury than any generation in human history.

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You had me largely agreeing with you until:

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They need to be removed to make way for intelligent, honest, respectable leaders who have vision. With very few exceptions, those leaders are on the left, and that's who millennials will follow.

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That's naive and projection. The leaders on the left are the opposite of honest and respectable. Nancy Pelosi? C'mon!

You are correct that the so-called leaders of the right are anything but courageous and honest, but in response the leaders of the left say "Hold my beer".

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Granted, this was poorly worded. Honest and respectable, perhaps not. But intelligent and visionary, yes. Liberals didn't gain control of every institution in the country without intelligence and vision. The liberal vision of the future feels inevitable because there is no conservative vision. It's completely reactionary, and if anything only setting a speed limit on the de facto liberal vision.

That is why I'm saying conservatives need to be ignored and discarded, so that a path can be cleared for a bold, right-wing vision for the future. Family, yes. Pro-natalism, yes. But it needs to go far beyond this, and play to the strengths of the right. This would likely have martial elements, and frontier elements. But that's a whole new topic.

Not surprising that millennials recognize that big government social programs and liberal group think are increasingly necessary for their economic well being and social comfort. Capitalism and the individual freedom to succeed through initiative and hard work combine to limit/purge unproductive leeches from the group of people achieving prosperity, and they rebel against it out of their self-interest.

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Their tired old ideology is a failure and the millennials aren't buying it as they age.

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And what, pray tell, is the ideology that has failed? The left has generally had control of our culture, institutions, and politics for several decades now. WTF are you talking about? Literally all government has done for decades is get bigger every passing year. This post is pure delusion.

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Their tired old ideology is a failure and the millennials aren't buying it as they age.

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And what, pray tell, is the ideology that has failed? The left has generally had control of our culture, institutions, and politics for several decades now. WTF are you talking about?

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The one that we haven't ever been able to try because someone's feelings would get hurt.

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When confronted with the reality that your children don't know how to use money, because apparently you didn't teach them, you're considering giving it to charity out of spite? This is wicked!

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Very interesting that your spin is to place it back on Boomers...that it's all our fault. OK, got it.

We don't give to charity out of spite, but out of love and need. Watch a St. Jude video...or better yet, read the personal stories of parents who went to St. Jude when they had no other option. Wicked is the last thought in my mind.

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I'm guessing you probably might not even have your will written yet.

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Actually, we're in the process of updating our will so that everything goes into a Trust. Why put all the details in a will so everyone and his brother has access to what is personal to us.

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Who else would teach your children to build and preserve generational wealth, other than you? Why do you care about the dying children of strangers more than your own? Don't you love your own biological being, your living children, and your ancestral lineage?

Glad to hear you are forming a Trust. I hope you can figure out something that will directly benefit your own kin.

That's fine. I'm happy for Millennials to keep serving me in restaurants and cleaning my house as long as they keep wearing masks so it limits the air I have to breath from them. Carry on slow-witted bastions of the liberal cause.

Those aren't millennials those are illegal immigrants

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Usually people get more conservative as they grow older, but this pattern isn't holding true for millennials. The GOP is going to have to move towards the left if they want to remain relevant at all. The demographics are completely against them as the boomers start to die off. Their tired old ideology is a failure and the millennials aren't buying it as they age.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/30/millennials-conservative-age-analysis/

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A recent study revealed that millennial voters, both in the U.S. and the U.K., are not following the typical rule that as people get older they become more conservative, but instead becoming more liberal over time.

The millennial generation was born between 1981 and 1996, is known for loving their pets more than their children and was the last generation to grow up without the internet, according to The Washington Post. Traditionally, voters follow a regular pattern of leaning more liberal until they are 35 and then move toward more conservative beliefs as they age, but millennials are breaking the mold, according to an analysis by the Financial Times.

Millennials in the U.S. appeared to be on track to move toward conservatism until about 30 but dropped sharply away from conservatism by the time they were 40, according to the Times.

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So they'll remain stupid their whole life.

Congratulations?

Very good discussion. However, aren't you in fact doing the same thing that you criticize conservatives of doing? You say that they should have a vision but have failed to articulate that vision.

What, precisely, do you think that vision would look like? Please provide 3-5 bullet points of specifics, such as specific legislation.

And not all change is good. If I have worked to get my house exactly like I want it, changing it simply for the sake of change is not "visionary".

Conservatives have articulated visions, but the left has blocked or tried to block them each step of the way. For example, conservatives have said that welfare in principle is fine, but the way it is applied needs reform. Liberals have fought any change whatsoever to welfare, even running ads showing Ryan, of all people, pushing a grandmother in a wheelchair off a cliff.

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You are either exaggerating or simply dead wrong. Liberals don't control every institution in the country. They don't control the Supreme Court, will not control the House after Jan. 5, only regained control of the White House 2 years ago, and control the Senate only by the thinnest of majorities.

The liberal "vision" that you seem to love is more correctly described as a pack of lies. And if they're not lies, they are simply promises to an uninformed electorate of free stuff, i.e., the "bread and circuses" that the elites promised the masses in Rome 2000 years ago.

True conservatives, by definition, are incapable of participating in a campaign of lies to gain political power.

Tbh I blame boomers & genX for not pushing back against the leftward/progressive shift away from the principles our Country was founded on. They dealt with all manner of hardship, recessions/economic uncertainty, wars etc. though which can't be discounted.

I blame my generation (millenials) for embracing the poison pushed out from academia & leftist professors (some of which are lurking on this thread). That poison has corrupted multiple generations, and infected our society. Affluence has been a petri dish that had cultured it all.


United we stand, divided we fall...and divided is exactly what the enemy within wants for us; just look at some of the posting history of the well known trolls on this thread.

The solution is for society to come together & regroup around the principles upon which this nation was founded, which seems impossible in an age of technological divisiveness. The trolls on here offer no intellectual legwork, and are simply celebrating (with glee) an inevitable phenomenon due to the abandonment of our principles.

The well known trolls? How would you know about them if your account has existed for 3 days?

We won't regroup. Too many people have started making up "rights"'. They think everyone has all these rights that don't exist. We need to go bankrupt and then start over.

How disgusting.

They must be dumber and more insane than I thought because if you can't start pushing off liberalism as you grow up and realize how the real world works that's pretty damn sad.

Good God imagine how bad it's going to get with these crazy people.

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Usually people get more conservative as they grow older, but this pattern isn't holding true for millennials. The GOP is going to have to move towards the left if they want to remain relevant at all. The demographics are completely against them as the boomers start to die off. Their tired old ideology is a failure and the millennials aren't buying it as they age.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/30/millennials-conservative-age-analysis/

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A recent study revealed that millennial voters, both in the U.S. and the U.K., are not following the typical rule that as people get older they become more conservative, but instead becoming more liberal over time.

The millennial generation was born between 1981 and 1996, is known for loving their pets more than their children and was the last generation to grow up without the internet, according to The Washington Post. Traditionally, voters follow a regular pattern of leaning more liberal until they are 35 and then move toward more conservative beliefs as they age, but millennials are breaking the mold, according to an analysis by the Financial Times.

Millennials in the U.S. appeared to be on track to move toward conservatism until about 30 but dropped sharply away from conservatism by the time they were 40, according to the Times.

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You keep aborting your babies.... we are increasing the numbers of kids per household in spite of your evil infanticidal plans. We are not giving up on banning abortion and we will undo all of the LGBTQ pervert agenda. Guarantee!

The conservative agenda should be decentralisation.

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The well known trolls? How would you know about them if your account has existed for 3 days?

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Because I skim TA all the time. I grew tired of the obvious trolling a year or two ago, and asked TA to lock an old account. My dad convinced me it isnt a bad idea to engage the board from time to time, and both He, my
Wife, and I are former students so why the heck not I guess....apparently nobody escapes TA.

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Boomer greed has failed to create generational wealth and prosperity.

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Boomer here. We were very fortunate that my parents and my wife's parents passed on a nice portion of their wealth to their sons/daughters. We've done well with our finances, and it has been a goal of ours to do the same for our Millennial daughters that our parents did for us. As we shared our thoughts with them, we've been met with comments from, "please spend it, we don't. need it," to "if you're really serious then give me my inheritance now." The responses surprised us...so much so we're now considering giving a much greater percentage to the charities we support.

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A friend of mine recently passed. He wasn't very old -- mid to late 60s, maybe. His wife retired from the school district about 3-4 years ago to care for him because he had developed early age dimentia. Anyway, they have 2 daughters, one I taught in Sunday School around 2000 (she was in 7th grade then, so born late '80s, possibly 1990). The other one is younger, but only a few years. From what my wife told me the lady told her, she received a life insurance payout on her husband and the daughters felt like they should get some of it. The lady was like, ahh, no, she had plans for that money (I have no idea how much it was). She was a bit upset that her daughters felt entitled to it.