Did y’all forget about the Zika, Ebola, Bird flu and Swine flus?
Thanks, but I’m totally wasted on typhoid over here, i couldn’t possibly do any more!
Hey! Hey now! I might hit 40 before world war 3. Let’s stay optimistic about this.
See, I turn 39 this year so if Trump’s attempt to further shit all over what my grandfather fought for could just wait till the actual end of his term I’ll have made it to 40 before the world turns to complete shit.
So dramatic
Gen X here - we had Mutually Assured Destruction as well.
Whenever millenials post stuff like this I’m like ‘huh, welcome to the human race I guess? You’re slowly catching up to all the generations even the new generation after you has seen some shit ‘ I mean I’m not sure where you’re intending to take this complaint about being human. If you find the manager or a help desk let the rest of us know. Some of us been looking for it since the 70s.
Then how about get the fuck out in the streets and join us so we put a stop to this shit.
No? You’d rather doomscroll and meme? Ok you’re part of the problem
But I am le tired
fascism has arrived in the most powerful government in the world and you are sitting here meming.
Well then take a nap…
3 or more possible WW3’s
It is not unfair to clock the first bit. But you can’t count hypothetical WW3s. That’s like Boomers saying they lived through Hypothetical Nuclear Winter.
Also, if we’re counting recessions as millennials, you can’t neglect the '87 crash and the '01 dot-com bubble. If we’re counting plagues, you can’t leave out AIDS.
Not hypothetical as much as possible, near misses
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Up to end of Soviet Union '91
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US-North Korea-China
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NATO-Ukraine-Russia
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US-China-Taiwan (upcoming)
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US-Israel-Iran (upcoming)
Not hypothetical as much as very real possibilities
Definitely can’t leave out AIDS or drug epidemics, mass shootings, living under threat of terrorism
Remember the AIDS PSAs we watched as kids?
“Billy has aids. You cannot get AIDS from being in the room with Billy. The only way to get AIDS from Billy is to come into contact with his blood or other bodily fluids. If you see someone bleeding on the playground, don’t approach them. Get a teacher as quickly as possible. Safety equipment like gloves will prevent an HIV infection.”
I’m GenX and I still remember when they called it GRID and the American Government was like “Shrug. It’s just killing the gays. No worries.”
Reagan thought it was a blessing from his god.
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Don’t forget the savings and loans crisis in the early 90s.
2008 housing crash…
Older Gen Z have lived through all of those as well, but before the age of 30 😭
Gen X went through a wall street crash and recession. We went through a recession when reagan screwed up the economy in the early 80’s the frequency is just increasing.
And we saw both Hulk Hogan’s and John Cena’s heel turns.
I am not religious, but I like the substance of this quote by C.S. Lewis: “If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things —praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (any microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
There are always wars, rumours of wars, plagues, natural disasters, but the work remains the same as it has been for much of human history.
well said, thank you for this
Well, summer is within spitting distance, so prepare for a new record. :)
I mean, people who were born in early 1900’s would have spanish flu + 2 WW’s just in one life time(if they reach the second one)
/+ in Germany there was the biggest hyper Inflation imagenable.
Hey, at least you didn’t get drafted for Vietnam
Give it time, I’m sure we’ll have Vietnam 2 before long.
gets drafted for the resource wars one year away from being too old to draft
I’ll volunteer, on the Vietnamese side
I doubt they’d take the average American. Wont fit in the tunnels.
What’s the maximum age for the draft? There may well be a war against China very soon.
I don’t see that happening as that would be bad for everyone involved
In general war is devastating for all involved.
And yet, we keep having them.
Funny how that works
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Don’t forget the return of measles, as well as even more e-coli and salmonella outbreaks as food safety is curtailed.
“Anthrax - snort! - alright!”
To a nearby cockroach: “I smoked your uncle, you know that?”
“Fuckin’ crazy!”
