Political Memes

Jokes on you, meme. I'd dropped out of high school and was working full time at Spencer's by then. I got to see the second plane hit on a bank of TV's at RadioShack on my way back from getting a pack of cigarettes from the news stand by the Sbarro.

Also the middle-eastern millenials getting bombed, occupied, and bombed again during each of these.

I don't really understand the age focus on this one. People older than millenials have also experienced all that plus some extra shit which millenials haven't. We are all in this together (except for the billionaires and their dictator friends), regardless of age.

Millenials in America while dropping bombs wiping out all generations in other countries:

“I had to see that on the tele. Poor me”.

We didn’t start the fire. It was always burning since the world’s been turning. No we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it.

Some millennials are over 40. Doesn't change the point but let's be factual here

Fuck I'm old :((((((

Probably not better if you were born in 1900. You were born in an European Monarchy. Life is not exactly free, but stable and prosperous.

Some psycho stabs a queen, and all of a sudden all of Europe and a lot of the rest of the world is at war. Most of Europe is razed to the ground and millions of soldiers return with heavy PTSD.

The monarchy is done, you got a completely new system in Europe and a communist revolution in Eastern Europe/Russia.

Times such, but stability returns for a few years until the Great Depression hits and boom, we got Nazis, holocaust, and yet another world war, which is ended by a literal science fiction weapon that can raze whole cities to the ground at the press of a button.

And now your country is occuped by a foreign army, while everything has to be rebuilt.

Seriously, the phase from 1955-2000 was an anomaly. That was pretty much the most peaceful time in world history. Before that, constant wars, pagues, starvation and general horrors were the norm, not the exception.

WW3 ain't coming, and if it was there's nothing you could do about it anyway.

Dead people don't buy oil, financial services, adverts, housing, or plastic tat from China.

Unhappy people buy lots of it, or at least go into debt trying.

The goal of the world is to keep you miserable and spending.

Jokes on you. I watched 9/11 in elementary school.

Don't forget Columbine. People always leave that out, but as far as historical milestones that shaped how awful American society has become, it was a big one.

I just joined the Bundeswehr (the german army) a couple of weeks before 9/11. I still remember that I thought "You idiot really have managed to join the military right at the beginning of WWIII..."

I'm so fucking over this shit yall. Don't forget the corporate takeover and surveillance dystopia created by quite possibly the biggest dork losers that are alive. What the actual fuck? Need a genocide. Check. Civil rights collapse? Check. Financial meltdown? Check. Pandemic that kills millions? Check. Collapse of the dollar for shitcoin scams? Check pending. Terrorist attacks that convince your country for 20 years of wars? Check. No more war excuses, and need more? No worries, we'll just recycle the same one from 25 years ago because y'all couldn't do shit about it then either. They have nukes so we have to attack.

Now, go be a good citizen and participate in some blind nationalism and virtue signaling with your pledge of allegiance to an inanimate object while simultaneously and intentionally starving brown kids by the thousands.

Can't a giant EMP come and save us? I'm so tired.

I’m 42 and this is deep.

We watched the second plane hit live on a shitty CRT in my Geography class. Shit was insane. I'm so damn tired...

This is why I don’t believe people who say things can get better.

I love how it only recognizes the "recessions" as those that impact rich people. The metrics are fucked. We've been in a recession since 2008.

Am I numb or am I exhausted? Maybe I'll find out after another nap.

Ah, but we have the benefit of never being able to buy a house, and having the same minimum wage for 16 years.

I have a much lesser ww3 vibe than when the Ukraine thing started. It hasn't even crossed my mind but it keeps popping up everywhere. Perhaps I'm missing something crucial here.

Things are gonna get worse before they get better, so buckle up.

And holding the camera is generation x, smiling and nodding like an exhausted parent as though millennials have discovered something new.

Everyone's always quick to declare the beginning of World War 3, to pass every event through that lens. Inadvertently, it provides cover for the fact that Cold War 2 already started.

Three recessions. People always forget the dotcom bubble that was made worse by the market going down after 9/11.

You forgot Y2K. That was wild.