“Because the Millennial generation has already been given a reason to live. They have been given a pre-scripted and predetermined reason and purpose in life. They did not get to choose it. They had no say in it. And it actually serves others instead of the Millennials. But they DO at least have a point and purpose to live nonetheless, and that point and purpose is…
Marxist class determinism repackaged for the gullible with no sense of or curiosity of the bloody, depraved legacy of socialism.
“…with no sense of or curiosity of the bloody, depraved legacy of socialism.”
No sense of curiosity about anything, period.
No desire to see what’s on the next page, turn over a rock, explore alternatives, question what they’re being taught, etc.
Dumb, stupid sheep – fixated on 3-inch screens. Life-support systems for parasitic technology….bleating for their own slaughter.
Zero KNOWLEDGE of history. They’ve not bothered … because everything is all about them … now … nothing that happened in the past has any relevance to them. Thus proving their willful ignorance.
I keep hoping for a saving grace. One encouragement for me is my daughter, who voted for Trudeau in 2015, despite my warnings about him and what his father did to this country. She told me she wanted to experience that for herself rather than accepting my wisdom and experience on the matter, even though she consider me a mentor on most other things.
Now she’s seen it all for herself, and she no longer thinks it’s a pretty picture. She now sees an incompetent and dishonest establishment politician who did not tell the truth. That was before the SNC Lavalin debacle.
Trudeau has lost some strength with millennials, but the true damage has been done with boomers instructed to hate Harper and vote for sunny ways and nice hair. All they got was storm clouds and bad hair days.
Will the voters who elected then turfed Harper for Dustbin swing back to the CPC? Will the NDP poach enough of their leftist vote to hurt the Grits? Can the CPC erode their right flank? If they can, the 905 belt, which voted for Ford, is theirs.
Let us hope that there are still enough Millennials like your daughter to keep our society from sliding into anarchy and chaos or a socialist nightmare.
Enough of your thought process must have rubbed off on her.
From your lips to God’s ears …
Their ultimate purpose will be to serve either Chicom or Moslem masters and neither will listen to their whining.
Boomers want their Social Security? That’s our value and purpose in life? Captain Gen-X is showing his bitter bias. We Boomers are reviled as soft … “takers”. That we are the perpetual beneficiaries who have created nothing. What utter rubbish. What have we done for the US Economy? Have a look, we’ve catapulted it to extraordinary value and wealth. Why do you think the US Dollar remains the world currency!? Because we Boomers have given it VALUE. The Euro is a joke (and about to go in the crapper), and the Yuan is a useless manipulated currency.
Beyond creating wealth, we Boomers did something else … the Baby Boom echo. We actually reproduced, and raised our Gen-X and Millennial offspring (mostly poorly, I am sad to report). But now the subsequent generations are NOT reproducing, so they NEED to import un-Americans to do the work we did.
I know Captain Gen-X is atheist … but the ONLY ‘value’ that will ever sustain a generation is belief in God. All else is folly. All else is doomed to failure, weeping, and gnashing of teeth. So keep searching, all you “Modern” “scientific” thinkers. Consider yourselves your own gods … and your politics your “commandments” … but any such ‘values’ are doomed to failure. Doomed to rapid replacement by another fleeting mirage.
“What have we done for the US Economy? Have a look, we’ve catapulted it to extraordinary value and wealth. ”
Maybe….but NO ONE – Liberal, Conservative, Republican, Democrat – is talking about the debt. On either side of the border. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s boomers, gen Xers, or Millennials, the majority don’t have a clue about what it is….let alone whether it’s a problem or not.
Bah Humbug. Boomers were handed everything and are leaving a wasteland. It must have been nice buying a brand new dodge RT on a Safeway grocery baggers wage then getting a cushy union government job and paying off your first house by 25. Boomers barely reproduced, instead choosing to find new ways of bucking their stodgy old parents and going overseas with some hokey evangelical ngo or other to build houses for the very people set to take their genx/millenials children’s jobs and land. Way to go boomers. Even Syphilis made a return under your sexually degenerate watch. Nice world you left, people literally pooing in the streets and shooting drugs in preparation for their next round of sodomy. Thanks boomers
I hope you’re being sarcastic by your comments.
I’m a boomer. My parents paid for my undergrad education but that was their choice and the possibility that they could do that was one reason we came to this country. After I got my B. Sc., I pretty much paid my own way because I not only wanted to do it, it was expected of me.
And, no, millennials aren’t paying for my pension like many of them claim they do. I started paying for my retirement shortly after I finished my first degree more than 40 years ago, well before any of those twerps were born, and I now have sufficient financial resources of my own, through saving and carefully investing my money, that I don’t need a government pension. In fact, I likely paid enough in taxes over the years that I helped fund their retirements.
agreed B A
I too am a ‘boomer’.
a ‘boomer’ who vehemently detests violence. but is realistic about how the world works.
I could write 5 sceen fulls of examples, but let me put it this way:
when a street punk comes at me, it is NOT just the attack that pisses me off, it is the fact the shytstain crackhead has now forced me to resort to the thing I so detest, violence.
and by gawd they will get it in full.
“I’m a pacifist,
emphasis on the ‘fist’ part
for those who misjudge my
true capabilities and intentions.”
the problem nowadays, if I care to actually defend myself, the cops have made it clear they will blame it all on me [note:] AGAIN. the strategy I use now is to laugh at their threats; it puzzles them, kinda like ‘gee, whay ain’ dat grey haired dude quakin in ‘is shoes?’
most times I bring my mastiff along for the errand, he derails ANY maliciousness the MElennial may harbour.
“Nice world you left, people literally pooing in the streets and shooting drugs in preparation for their next round of sodomy. Thanks boomers”
You should try to get out of Trawna every now and then.
Hey dude, you are welcome.
Boomers paid for everything you have. You are welcome.
Boomers invented much of what you have. For example Steve Jobs was a boomer. Do you like your iPhones? You are welcome.
I could go on and on but instead I recommend a book titled The Rational Optimist by Mattt Ridley. Every millennial should read it before they spout off about anything.
Every millennial should read
Therein lies the problem. Most don’t.
I was reminded of that by a group of students I taught a service course to. They were required to do a project and I mentioned a number of references that they could consult for more information
Some of the kiddies approached me and said they didn’t know what to do once they found the titles I mentioned. I suggested that they should look through the index of each book and their response was blank looks. They had no idea what an index was, or so they claimed. I then suggested that they speak with the librarians if they needed assistance. (“Hey dummies, they’re there to help you!”)
To top it off, one wiseacre, when he heard a title I referred to, blurted out the question as to whether that book was interactive. (“Yeah, kid, it is. Go to shelf. Find book. Take down book. Open book. Turn pages. Find information. That’s what’s known as interactive.”)
That, by the way, happened nearly 20 years ago. I shudder to think of what students are like now.
With boomers it always comes back to the money. They left a disgusting pile of crap behind but at least it’s paid for! Oh wait, that’s not even the case. Never mind.
It looks like our favourite SDA troll has adopted a different name…..
Hey Dude,
Please live like they did in 1850 before we had all these problems.
Or even live like they did in 1950.
Life was so much better in either of these times. Wrong.
iPhones are for braindead boomer spawn. The redirection of space age technology into personal convenience and entertainment hasn’t actually done any good for our civilization. Unless you consider porn on demand and endless consumption of minerals plus landfills full of the trash that the consumption produces good things.
“but the ONLY ‘value’ that will ever sustain a generation is belief in God. All else is folly. All else is doomed to failure, weeping, and gnashing of teeth. So keep searching, all you “Modern” “scientific” thinkers. Consider yourselves your own gods … and your politics your “commandments” … but any such ‘values’ are doomed to failure. Doomed to rapid replacement by another fleeting mirage.”
We will bury you. We are burying you. All over the world birth rates and religiosity rates are collapsing because belief in fairy tales and having children both make zero sense and there are superior alternatives.
You sniffing glue again?
Yay. A round of Tide pods for everyone! Idjits.
What was that Venn Diagram of politicians,Press and the general public?
Where the Press and Pollies are fully intertwined and their intersection with the General Public is razor slim.
If the upcoming adults are obsessed with politics,then a revolution is under way.
If they are programmed sheeple then business as usual.
Once these poor and poorly indoctrinated persons realize how badly they have been used…good luck with “appeals to authority”.
The school of hard knocks still awaits all university and college graduates.
Tbh you can’t really blame millenials. Their boomer parents used the TV and the computer as a babysitter while importing cheap labour so they could save 10 cents on the dollar and watch their property value increase; all at the expense of their parent’s nation and their children’s future.
Main thing is those mutual funds tell me I ain’t right
No. Don’t blame my generation if yours chose to spend it’s time in front of TVs instead of somewhere else.
No. Do you, in your general ignorance, have any idea when PCs came into the home? Past the time boomers were raising kids, that’s when.
You’re a idiot. You have zero knowledge of history.
When I was growing up, home computers didn’t exist and we could receive only one TV channel.
What did I do to occupy my free time? I went to the local library a lot, back when it was a repository of books and knowledge, long before it became a free daycare centre. My parents gave me Lego for my birthday and Christmas and it allowed my imagination to run wild. I build model airplanes–plastic ones at first and, later, I built them out of balsa wood and tissue and, yes, they flew.
Later, in high school, I began listening to shortwave broadcasts using the radio that was part of the console stereo in our living room. My father, eventually, bought me a Heathkit SW receiver for Christmas. Imagine listening to countries on the other side of the world.
Part of that was because we were working class and there wasn’t a lot of free cash to spend on. Rather than inflicting entertainment upon me, I was encouraged and required to make use of my own imagination with what was on hand. It must have done some good as I went on to earn several degrees in engineering and I’ve been a radio amateur for almost 15 years.
Same. All of those things for me, too. And no, being a checkout clerk of any kind was not a living wage. Checkout was a job you did while transitioning to a real job or higher education. I didn’t have a car.
I worked in a factory for $7.50/hr. Then I worked in an iron foundry for $8.00/hr. Rent,food, clothing bus pass used up all
my monthly income.
And beer was a nickel and a brand new pickup was 2000 bucks. Spare me
Duuude … You never struck me as a glass half empty kind of guy. Yeah, my Gen. is responsible for lots of ills. But blaming the people born prior to you with all the world’s ills is just counterproductive. Yep, the debt is a shocking time bomb that may explode some day. And because of that debt, you get the benefit of ZERO interest rates … held there … to keep the debt payments from eliminating EVERY SINGLE Gov. program. My first mortgage was 12.5% … and THAT was an ARM … 30 year mortgages were 16.5% !!! Yeah … all I could afford was a 762sq.ft. 2 bed, 1 bath, 1948 crackerbox for my first home. Thank you Jimmy Carter … the WORST POTUS in American history
And then the INSANE Demoncrap’s in Congress came up with the idea of making mortgages available to anyone who could prove they were a real, breathing human being … irregardless of their ability to repay the loans. And the national debt exploded by more than $10T in an instant. Blame HALF the Boomers … and a handful of GOPes.
I worked at Tom Terry’s EXXON station and was paid $1.75/hr. In 1972. Tough to buy that $2,000.00 truck with that wage. Get real.
Yeah I have to agree on the blame game because blaming boomers is about as productive as blaming millenials. If there is such a thing as generational divides, it can only be chalked up to the circumstances at hand. How you respond to those circumstances is a reflection of your character. Having said that, boomers hardly had to struggle, having been born into the most plentiful and economically opportune time in human history.
” And because of that debt, you get the benefit of ZERO interest rates”
That’s not how money works.
Nope … that’s how POLITICS work. And if you don’t believe the Fed is political … then you’re far more ignorant than I thought.
That’s still now how money works.
Why would I care what Captain Sodomite has to say? Does this guy even have a family? Of course not, he is too busy chasing tail because he is a slave to his dick. Before talking trash about millennials, maybe he should consider who raised us. We are products of the “education” system after all. High school was full of propaganda about how the only path to success was college, and how non college educated folks were basically sub human bigots. So many people I know are in massive debt because they were propagandized and sold a lie.
The trend to blaming other generations for one’s own misfortunes is simply another way to create division. We all know that this is a leftist tactic, so do not fall for it. In Canada, most of the socialist programs and laws we hate were not enacted by baby boomer conservatives, with the exception of the Brian Mulroney government . He was not a baby boomer either, but his colleagues and advisors were. Actually, Harper was the only baby boomer Prime Minister, and he was a “late boomer”, and they were a bit bitter that they did not have the post-war advantages that we early boomers had. The silent generation was actually not very silent, having experienced depression and war in their youth. Pierre Elliot Trudeau was the most destructive Prime Minister ever, but Pearson started us down the icy road to socialism, our first globalist PM.
oops … Kim Campbell was an early boomer, b. mar., 1947, but she did not have much of an impact, save for the totally inappropriate nearly nude photo.
By the way, what happened to that Manitoba judge whose husband posted nude photos of her? Her vilification would put any “me too” efforts to shame.