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On December 15 2017 01:51 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source I agree that stories like these- of hardworking young people who are stuck with dead end jobs or dead end degrees or mountains of well-intentioned debt and barely being able to skate by month after month without being able to seriously save money for a better tomorrow- are all too common with the Millennial generation. Now, how do we- as a society- fix this? I would assume that a good number of people disagree with the very premise of my question- that the community is under no obligation to help out those who are in need (i.e., let them pick themselves up by their bootstraps), but many of us wish to help. What are some steps we can take if we're actually interested in addressing this problem and trying to help our fellow American citizens?
A more thorough "income based repayment" calculation system. I pay $900/month in student loans. My rent is $1600/month. It's a bummer.
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On December 15 2017 01:51 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source I agree that stories like these- of hardworking young people who are stuck with dead end jobs or dead end degrees or mountains of well-intentioned debt and barely being able to skate by month after month without being able to seriously save money for a better tomorrow- are all too common with the Millennial generation. Now, how do we- as a society- fix this? I would assume that a good number of people disagree with the very premise of my question- that the community is under no obligation to help out those who are in need (i.e., let them pick themselves up by their bootstraps), but many of us wish to help. What are some steps we can take if we're actually interested in addressing this problem and trying to help our fellow American citizens?
I'd say the best way to start would be to allow the path to success for youth not to require going deep into debt. Government-provided healthcare and education at all levels would contribute strongly towards that. Too many people stay in shitty circumstances because they have debts to pay off, and if that weren't a factor then the other issues of poor living conditions and mediocre job opportunities would be far more serviceable. A house debt, at the very least, can be discharged via foreclosure.
The jobs problem is undeniably so a problem, but even grunt job salaries are fairly serviceable if paired with basic services being provided for. No illusion that that would be easy but that's the basic solution.
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Universal education is less likely than Universal Healthcare IMO. Because if Universal Education comes to pass guess who the biggest loser is? The Military.
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On December 15 2017 01:51 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source I agree that stories like these- of hardworking young people who are stuck with dead end jobs or dead end degrees or mountains of well-intentioned debt and barely being able to skate by month after month without being able to seriously save money for a better tomorrow- are all too common with the Millennial generation. Now, how do we- as a society- fix this? I would assume that a good number of people disagree with the very premise of my question- that the community is under no obligation to help out those who are in need (i.e., let them pick themselves up by their bootstraps), but many of us wish to help. What are some steps we can take if we're actually interested in addressing this problem and trying to help our fellow American citizens?
The answer is clearly eliminating the estate tax and slashing corporate tax rates.
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On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. Show nested quote +I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source
Good Lord. I'm not sure he can pander more to his audience if he was assigned to (which he probably was).
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On December 15 2017 02:06 mozoku wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source Good Lord. I'm not sure he can pander more to his audience if he was assigned to (which he probably was).
He summed up life for millions of people pretty much perfectly, but sure I guess you could say he was pandering
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On December 15 2017 01:19 Shiragaku wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 00:52 Danglars wrote:On December 15 2017 00:44 Shiragaku wrote:On December 15 2017 00:32 Danglars wrote:On December 15 2017 00:22 Shiragaku wrote:On December 15 2017 00:20 Danglars wrote:On December 15 2017 00:09 Shiragaku wrote:On December 15 2017 00:05 Danglars wrote:On December 14 2017 23:27 Artesimo wrote:
I occasionally read this thread out of curiosity and sometimes for amusement. The last few pages haven’t been amusing at all though, the posts that clearly scream racist are seriously worrying while managing to antagonise the poster to me. I am not the one to scream racist that soon but either some need to seriously rephrase what they are saying and give it more nuance, or they are so mind-bogglingly ignorant and dishonest that it mildly upsets me just reading their shit.
I seriously admire the people in here that keep on engaging in discussion with them, especially when it comes to reoccurring posters. I can make out some of them by just reading their post, even when I run in through google translator the constant dishonesty, rephrasing and avoiding of arguments is still present. The worst of it is, when those people are so hostile towards a group they have nothing really to fear from. I could understand such narrow minded defence reactions coming from someone that’s actually under a direct threat but otherwise? This is especially true when it comes to islamophobia. No, there isn’t any scary bearded guy that’s coming to get to and whenever I hear an American railing on how they want to oppress women while protesting against abortion and failing to see the irony makes my eyes bleed. Also only Islam is a breeding pool for conservatism and fuck the gays because god said so and that’s what we always did. Not to forget how they always seem to brush aside how Muslims literally (yes, literally, not figuratively) are doing fine and are just normal dudes (that are still practicing Muslims) whenever they are placed somewhere that isn’t a giant shithole. Geez, it’s almost like fucked up situations create fucked up people, someone should really look into that. Maybe they should come up with some obscure theory like nature vs nurture. Better put a white Christian on the job though, just to make sure someone who is qualified is doing it.
Some people need to grow a spine that doesn’t rely on distinction for self-value.
With all this race war rhetoric that gets thrown around in the USA, I would urge every American to take a close look at the history of my country before the Second World War. And I am not talking about how the holocaust was executed, I am talking about how it was even possible to get there. How a nation unsettled by inner conflicts and economic threats radicalised itself to some extent. How a threat was created, that helped to unite the people by dissociating from those elements. How the narrative of a clearly superior group of people was created to lull people in first, then slowly radicalise them, pitch them against an enemy. Feed them with half-truth, straight up lies and use inner tensions to ultimately have them take part or to some agree tolerate the prosecution of people that they were made to think of as enemies.
I wouldn’t go so far to say that the situation of the USA is the same, it’s not even close. However I am convinced that there are people that use similar / the same methods to spread their ideology with at least some success. I am not sure if the translation I found is accurate, what I am getting at is “Flüsterpropaganda” – ‘whispering-campaign’. No one tells you straight up that blacks are inferior, that all Muslims hate women and want to oppress them, that the problems in muslim countries stem from the religion alone. Instead they tell you about black crime rates, they tell you about the ominous sharia while knowing or unknowingly ignoring that this can mean a whole lot of different things. They tell you about THE islam, despite islam having tons of different groups, just like Christianity has. They tell you to make up your own mind while only feeding you strong arguments for their side while trying to capitalise from ignorance / general struggle or prejudice. This is extremely effective and unless you seriously question your own positions you are very prone to fall victim to it.
And for the last meme, of course jinro comes to the defence for muslims he is from sweden. He can’t say anything bad about them because his country is overrun with immigrants as we all know and he fears for the safety of his family because all muslims are savages that either revoke their faith or are already training their right arm for the next stoning
You had me going until you likened Muslim treatment of women to the protesting of abortion. Ditto right back ya for narrow minded defensive reactions. I wonder why you even affect to understand problems with conservative Muslims when you show so plainly you excuse them because you hate and fear Christians as well. Get back to me when the subway bomber is just as likely to be a Methodist as a Muslim practitioner. Let me know when killing gays and raping women is treated similarly in Christian communities as Muslim communities. You’re probably right in your projection ... you make clear there’s no having a discussion with you. To be fair, killing gays and mass rapes are more common in developing Muslim countries where that behavior seems to happen in most undeveloped nations regardless of religious identity. Muslim communities in the West are above that for the most part. Most Muslim countries make it criminal, and countries like Iran are hardly developing. It sticks a little more in Yemen or Iran or Saudi Arabia and begs the question if the “developing” status is encouraged by Muslim society in general. Criminalizing=/=Tribal village killing Sorry, open flogging, fining, lifetime imprisonment, death, and torture. I know you're hedging with narrowing out the killing, but one step removed and these developed Muslim societies really see parallels in religious hegemony and treatment of gays and women. They "only" criminalize the behavior, backed up by state violence. Clearly something you support from Muslim communities? I try not to assume what you believe, there's a lot of cultural relativists here. It varies country to country. Homosexuality in places like Lebanon, Malaysia, and Turkey is very different from Iran and to places like Saudi Arabia and Yemen. I would not go so far to say that Islam is naturally homophobic given that I have met and talked to enough Muslims around the world to know that attitudes towards homosexuality is very complicated, but in places like Iran and Egypt, being gay is miserable, but you can still live your life for the most part if you practice caution. In Pakistan and Yemen on the other hand, its tribal insanity. But yeah, I do not mean to split hairs, but even in Iran where homosexuality is punishable by death or Malaysia where homosexuality is a criminal act, at least gays can somewhat integrate compared to other nations. I am not defending Islam in this regard or homophobia, just stating. I'm with you as far as you say you do not defend Islam by pointing out the forms oppression takes towards gays across society. It's fair to say they're mistreated. I cannot join with you in excusing Islam knowing what the Koran says about homosexuality and how their fundamentalist leaders use that to justify the treatment. You have a minority of Muslim-dominant countries that are moderate on the issue. These are the most Westernized, generally speaking. The rest give you cause to hide, because the law and society are against them. I think that is a useful distinction of that religion, compared to others that will permit a secular society and legal protections to minority religious views. I also think that you're too forgiving of people that draw bad parallels to Christian societies (BUT THEY PROTEST ABORTION OMG) to defend countries in the Middle East. If you can recognize that this is on another level, and relatively advanced Muslim countries still legally criminalize gays and deny many legal protections to women, then I'll applaud it. Most Muslim countries are undeveloped or have developed VERY recently. But in regards to the Koran being against homosexuality, you are absolutely correct. However, all religious texts have been used to justify or condemn literally everything, including homosexuality so I cancel the Koran out for the most part. I'd actually say that a bigger reason for homophobia is the US and Israel being pro-gay rights which gives a shit ton of fuel to anti-Western conservatives. But yes, those countries I listed are more "Westernized" (I prefer globalized) and from my personal experience, the rationale for supporting social liberty is not so much out of "We should be more like the West if we want to advance" but rather young people growing up in the age of the Internet, growing up in a liberal democracy, and many young people exploring the world. Plus, television is a big factor too. In regards to the comparisons to Christian extremism, I agree. The Westboro Baptist Church is very harmless for the most part whereas Islamic fundamentalists have literally killed thousands of people. The only thing that is similar is the thought process. In regards to right-wing terror in the US, I would attribute the motivation much more to nationalism more so than Christianity. Lots of people on the far-right go so far to reject Christianity. Their rhetoric is certainly not religiously motivated.
Very good. We may agree broadly on levels of extremism between Christians in America and Muslims in the Middle East and impact, even if you’re reluctant to lay the blame on how one religious book is conservatively interpreted into a political theology.
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Ahem. American Taliban.
Roy Moore refused to concede the Alabama senate election in a fiery video statement released Wednesday night in which he warned “the heart and soul of our country is at stake”.
“Today, we no longer recognize the universal truth that God is the author of our life and liberty,” the former Republican candidate said. “Abortion, sodomy and materialism have taken the place of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
He added: “Immorality sweeps over our land.”
Moore lost to Democrat Doug Jones on Tuesday after facing multiple allegations of sexual assault during the campaign. In a statement released by the Moore campaign on Wednesday night, Moore said he was still waiting for the final vote count, which stands at present at 49.9% to 48.4%.
Alabama voting officials have said it is unlikely Jones will not be declared the winner. The Moore campaign can call for a recount, but would have to pay for it unless the margin is within half a percentage point.
Moore spoke from behind a shiny wooden desk, with a large statue of someone riding a horse and a decorative lamp in the background. In the statement, he quoted from Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation in March 1863 for a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer.
He then transitioned smoothly from Lincoln’s call for more humility to Moore’s own proclamation of the ills of the US.
“We have stopped prayer in our schools,” Moore said. “We have killed over 60 million of our unborn children. We have redefined marriage and destroyed the basis of family, which is the building block of our country.”
He continued to rail against a litany of other issues, including transgender rights (“We have even begun to recognize the right of a man to claim to be a woman, and vice versa”), the economy and campaign finance.
Moore has long complained about these issues and was one of the most prominent opponents to same-sex marriage in the lead-up to its legalization. Prior to that, he attracted nationwide attention in a battle to keep a statue of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of Alabama’s supreme court when he was its chief justice.
His defeat on Tuesday followed accusations by two women who said he assaulted them when they were teenagers. Their claims were followed by other women who said Moore had romantically pursued them when they were underage. He has denied all the allegations.
Democrats were energized by Moore’s loss, which shrunk the Republicans’ majority in the Senate to one. “Alabama’s not an outlier – it’s a trend,” Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said on Wednesday.
The defeat was a blow to Donald Trump, who defied other senior members of his party by backing Moore despite the allegations against him. On Wednesday, Trump claimed that he had known all along that Moore was unelectable, which, he said, was why he initially endorsed his opponent, Luther Strange, during Alabama’s summer Republican primary.
“The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strange (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the general election,” Trump wrote. “I was right! Roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him!”
In the video, Moore also alluded to the allegations of sexual misconduct that have been made against him. “Even our political process has been affected with baseless and false allegations, which have become more relevant than the issues which affect our country,” Moore said.
The four minute and 46 second video ends with a white screen wishing viewers a “Merry Christmas” and reminding them that the video was paid for by Moore’s campaign for Senate.
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On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. Show nested quote +I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source
Props for creativity but I really hate that web page.
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On December 15 2017 01:56 Stratos_speAr wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 01:25 LegalLord wrote:On December 15 2017 01:22 Rebs wrote:On December 15 2017 01:18 LegalLord wrote:On December 15 2017 00:54 Rebs wrote:On December 15 2017 00:51 LegalLord wrote:On December 14 2017 23:05 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
I lived with a muslim for a number of years. He didn't eat non-halal meat and didn't drink. Other than that, absolutely 0 difference from living with a similarly relaxed christian.....
So I don't see why that couldn't become the norm? It's gonna be a rougher transition when it's someone who just came to the west from a literal WAR ZONE.
I would rather focus energies on how to make the integration better than try to kick out the people who are already here (as far as I know, doors are already relatively closed for the moment)... or I would, if I wasn't halfway across the world living as an immigrant ~_~ Have you ever tried asking him about his political beliefs? In my personal experience they come off as generally personable people, but if you really try to get to the bottom of where they stand on the issues of terrorism and social issues, you might walk away with some set of responses that makes you say, holy shit. I get that vibe from a broad range of Muslims I've been friends with, although none more so than Palestinians. Beyond that... yeah, they're mostly nice people. Only other thing I've noticed is the way they tend to treat women would generally be frowned upon in Western cultures, but it's not quite what I'd call abuse. It is important to remember that "moderates" pave the way for extremists though... Lots of peoples have reactionary beliefs that they hold due to an idea that ends/means are either justified by the level of persecution (the what choice do they have argument" or thats what they have been taught to believe. its not right, but this should give you an idea of where its coming from. Things ingrained are hard to accept as otherwise. Man, that's some really special form of apologism going on right here. Kind of reminds me of the time you were defending why Pakistan supported Osama bin Laden for years while the US was looking for him. A blanket justification of shitty behavior if I've ever seen one. On December 15 2017 00:54 Rebs wrote:
As do many other people here and they arent Muslims. What the hell does that have to do with anything? On December 15 2017 00:54 Rebs wrote:
I normally prefer to just observe but sometimes the ignorance is palpably impossible to stand, Well the irony is not lost on me. its not apologism (is that even a word?) thats an explanation of why. You can draw your own conclusions on those people. I dont know any of them and I dont associate with them myself. So I am not sure how you can conflate that with my defending of the Bin Laden thing. I dont recall the Bin Laden Conversation although I think my position on the subject would be relatively consistent. I doubt you do. You simply just regurgitated an idea you kept in your head. Typical. Its difficult to pretend there is any irony involved Comrade. Yeah, looks like this is deflection and grudge-weaving rather than any serious discussion. You're very blatantly being an apologist for shitty behavior and trying to justify it with an aggressive attitude towards anyone who sees it otherwise. I see no point in continuing. You use the exact same apologist rhetoric when talking about why Trump got elected and why Democrats are incompetent at elections. You've been doing it for over a year.
So to be clear, is your problem that I don't call Trump terrible often enough? I don't feel the need to state the obvious when everyone else already does it. It hardly needs to be said over and over again as if jerking off over how bad Trump is gets to the bottom of every problem that needs addressing.
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On December 15 2017 02:07 IyMoon wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 02:06 mozoku wrote:On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source Good Lord. I'm not sure he can pander more to his audience if he was assigned to (which he probably was). He summed up life for millions of people pretty much perfectly, but sure I guess you could say he was pandering
Articulating the feelings others have in a convincing manner is now pandering. We used to call it good writing or even poetry, depending on form. But those days are gone. Now if someone evokes the worries and fears of a group, they are pandering to that group and affirming them. Writing is no longer a lens for us to understand perspectives of others.
Edit: I like that Moore cites school prayer and how it should return to schools. Because nothing makes Non-Christians easier to spot than a good round of prayer 180+ days a year. Then the kids can adopt the classic maneuver of attacking the religious minority.
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On December 15 2017 02:12 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 02:07 IyMoon wrote:On December 15 2017 02:06 mozoku wrote:On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source Good Lord. I'm not sure he can pander more to his audience if he was assigned to (which he probably was). He summed up life for millions of people pretty much perfectly, but sure I guess you could say he was pandering Articulating the feelings others have in a convincing manner is now pandering. We used to call it good writing or even poetry, depending on form. But those days are gone. Now if someone evokes the worries and fears of a group, they are pandering to that group and affirming them. Writing is no longer a lens for us to understand perspectives of others. Edit: I like that Moore cites school prayer and how it should return to schools. Because nothing makes Non-Christians easier to spot than a good round of prayer 180+ days a year. Then the kids can adopt the classic maneuver of attacking the religious minority.
I also enjoyed Moore talking about immorality when he liked to fondle children. But hey, hypocrisy is nothing new.
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On December 15 2017 02:07 IyMoon wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 02:06 mozoku wrote:On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source Good Lord. I'm not sure he can pander more to his audience if he was assigned to (which he probably was). He summed up life for millions of people pretty much perfectly, but sure I guess you could say he was pandering
It's hard to take the guy seriously when he lists the cost of healthcare as a major problem holding back young people. Of all groups, youngest people are the least affected by healthcare costs. And if you're actually broke and can't afford your ER bill, hospitals often forgive it anyway.
Or when he talks about the "eroding" social safety net, even though it was expanded under Obama and has been untouched under Trump.
Housing costs have only risen significant faster than its historical average in certain urban areas. If you have a low-paying job because you graduated with a $90k art history degree and insist on living in San Fransisco or Seattle, I have little sympathy for you.
Unemployment is 4.1% and the economy is the strongest it's been since the 90s. If you are college-educated and can't find more than a minimum wage job in this economy, the issue likely has more to do with you that it does with society.
It's a HuffPost editorial article ffs. What do you expect? The honest truth?
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On December 15 2017 01:58 Mohdoo wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 01:51 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source I agree that stories like these- of hardworking young people who are stuck with dead end jobs or dead end degrees or mountains of well-intentioned debt and barely being able to skate by month after month without being able to seriously save money for a better tomorrow- are all too common with the Millennial generation. Now, how do we- as a society- fix this? I would assume that a good number of people disagree with the very premise of my question- that the community is under no obligation to help out those who are in need (i.e., let them pick themselves up by their bootstraps), but many of us wish to help. What are some steps we can take if we're actually interested in addressing this problem and trying to help our fellow American citizens? A more thorough "income based repayment" calculation system. I pay $900/month in student loans. My rent is $1600/month. It's a bummer.
I paid my loans off like 3 years ago. Our quality of life improved greatly. But we are screwed if our leaders another generation of kids can survive in an economy that requires +40K in student loans just to get basic jobs skills. The boomer's economy was powered by cheap job training.
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On December 15 2017 02:28 mozoku wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2017 02:07 IyMoon wrote:On December 15 2017 02:06 mozoku wrote:On December 15 2017 01:37 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Bravo. I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
We’ve all heard the statistics. More millennials live with their parents than with roommates. We are delaying partner-marrying and house-buying and kid-having for longer than any previous generation. And, according to The Olds, our problems are all our fault: We got the wrong degree. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereal and department stores and golf and napkins and lunch. Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us.
But generalizations about millennials, like those about any other arbitrarily defined group of 75 million people, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help. Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than most people realize.
What is different about us as individuals compared to previous generations is minor. What is different about the world around us is profound. Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere. From job security to the social safety net, all the structures that insulate us from ruin are eroding. And the opportunities leading to a middle-class life—the ones that boomers lucked into—are being lifted out of our reach. Add it all up and it’s no surprise that we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents.
This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. “Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest,” says Jimmi Matsinger. “I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans. Earlier this year she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. I heard the same walls-closing-in anxiety from millennials around the country and across the income scale, from cashiers in Detroit to nurses in Seattle.
It’s tempting to look at the recession as the cause of all this, the Great Fuckening from which we are still waiting to recover. But what we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making. Decision by decision, the economy has turned into a young people-screwing machine. And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s. Source Good Lord. I'm not sure he can pander more to his audience if he was assigned to (which he probably was). He summed up life for millions of people pretty much perfectly, but sure I guess you could say he was pandering It's hard to take the guy seriously when he lists the cost of healthcare as a major problem holding back young people. Of all groups, youngest people are the least affected by healthcare costs. And if you're actually broke and can't afford your ER bill, hospitals often forgive it anyway.
You have to be able to afford bankruptcy and that sets you back 7 years. And broke means dead broke. You best not have a car or any assets worth talking about.
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Under the ACA, you don't have to necessarily file bankruptcy to have medical bills forgiven if you're low-income.
By the way, we're talking like .2% of millennials here. This is hardly what's holding them back.
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I like that the president is calling the owners of news stations to make sure they still own them. Very dear leader of him.
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