Millenials are Lame

[Katy Lied]

Is there any group more protected and dorky and unself-aware as millenials? Post your thoughts.

Marriott Rewards is running a youtube marketing campaign featuring DNCE singing Cake by the Ocean. If I were there, I'd be dancing my head off. Here's a still from the 360 degree vid (which is amazing, btw): 500 kids standing there videoing the performance with their phones. Like the experience doesn't exist until they can upload it to the internet. Anything to impress their besties whom they've never met.


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[Moliere]

Reminds me of that scene with the snow leopard at the end of Water Mitty.

I also agree that millennial are lame. Super lame.


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[jay santos]

I have a 20 yo, 21 yo, and 22 yo. I can attest that they are lame. But sometimes they're pretty amazing.

[old_gregg]

I have a 20 yo, 21 yo, and 22 yo. I can attest that they are lame. But sometimes they're pretty amazing.

no need to get all faggy about this bro

[Omaha 680]

No surprise: Millenials don't like capitalism.

Young Americans have soured on capitalism. In a Harvard University poll conducted last year, 51 percent of 18-to-29 year-olds in the U.S. said they opposed capitalism; only 42 percent expressed support. Among Americans of all ages, by contrast, a Gallup survey last year found that 60 percent held positive views of capitalism.

A poll released last month found American millennials closely split on the question of what type of society they would prefer to live in: 44 percent picked a socialist country, 42 percent a capitalist one. The poll, conducted by YouGov and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, found that 59 percent of Americans across all age groups preferred to live under capitalism.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-talk-about-it

The article got quotes from people attending a socialism vs. capitalism debate at Cooper Union over the weekend. This guy gave me a chuckle:

“I’ve seen the failings of modern-day capitalism,” said Grayson SussmanSquires, an 18-year-old student at Wesleyan University who had turned up for the capitalism debate. To him and many of his peers, he said, the notion of well-functioning capitalist order is something recounted only by older people. He was 10 when the financial crisis hit, old to enough to watch his older siblings struggle to get jobs out of college. In high school, SussmanSquires said, he volunteered for the presidential campaign of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist. “It spoke to me in a way nothing had before,” he said.

[wuapinmon]

Yall laugh, but this is how revolutions start 20, 30, 40 years down the line.

[Omaha 680]

Yall laugh, but this is how revolutions start 20, 30, 40 years down the line.

I agree and that worries me. But I can still laugh at that wise 18 year old student who has seen the failings of modern-day capitalism.

[Green Monstah]

Yall laugh, but this is how revolutions start 20, 30, 40 years down the line.

I'm not so sure this is really all that different than what prior generations have experienced--particularly since the 1960s. Some of you have more contact with college kids and campuses, so I'll have to defer to your anecdotes, but a lot of gen x and y people probably thought socialism or some other form of economic egalitarianism seemed like a great idea. Shoot, Joseph Smith was even a fan.

[old_gregg]

baby boomers' fault

[Topper]

I'm not so sure this is really all that different than what prior generations have experienced--particularly since the 1960s. Some of you have more contact with college kids and campuses, so I'll have to defer to your anecdotes, but a lot of gen x and y people probably thought socialism or some other form of economic egalitarianism seemed like a great idea. Shoot, Joseph Smith was even a fan.

Obviously, I am not old like Pac who can remember those days with great clarity, but there is some similarity and expressions of unity with Che and Castro on campuses such as Berkeley. I only remember whispers and some shouting.

[Moliere]

No surprise: Millenials don't like capitalism.



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-talk-about-it

The article got quotes from people attending a socialism vs. capitalism debate at Cooper Union over the weekend. This guy gave me a chuckle:

Maybe they’d like socialist Venezuela better. They can go from trying to decide which iPhone model to buy for the experience of not having enough food to eat


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[wuapinmon]

Maybe they’d like socialist Venezuela better. They can go from trying to decide which iPhone model to buy for the experience of not having enough food to eat

Don't be a fool and compare Venezuela to the US. You're smarter than facile comparisons like that.

[cowboy]

Don't be a fool and compare Venezuela to the US. You're smarter than facile comparisons like that.

And you're smart enough to know his hyperbole was intended to make a point. Do you think millennials are correct? Not challenging, just asking based on your response.

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[Moliere]

And you're smart enough to know his hyperbole was intended to make a point. Do you think millennials are correct? Not challenging, just asking based on your response.

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I'm glad someone got my point.

[wuapinmon]

And you're smart enough to know his hyperbole was intended to make a point. Do you think millennials are correct? Not challenging, just asking based on your response.

Hell no! The other day my students couldn't even tell me what 12 x 8 was without using their ******* telephones. I'm not shitting you. People use that Venezuela line around me all the time, and I get sick of it.