Gen-Z is cooked - it was by design so you’ll demand socialism

[Andy1]

6 hours ago, Wolfgang said:

 

 

 

 

I know it’s hard work, but I’d much rather hear what you really think rather than all these stupid YouTube videos you post as responses to people, which I ignore. Exercise your brain and write your responses. 

[Wolfgang]

1 hour ago, Andy1 said:

I know it’s hard work, but I’d much rather hear what you really think rather than all these stupid YouTube videos you post as responses to people, which I ignore. Exercise your brain and write your responses. 

 

 

 

I think you should put your mask back on...

 

And go take another booster...

 

 

[Orlando Buffalo]

On 8/7/2025 at 12:07 PM, The Frankish Reich said:

After all, Trump is not a billionaire because his father gifted him $250,000 when he was 21. He's a billionaire because he's a stable genius. Stability/intelligence. What, are we gonna tax that away to level the playing field?

Do you think if you were given $250k you would become a billionaire multiple times over? His multiple is around 7000, only a few people can do that. You can bash him on a lot of things but the dude knows how to make money 

[Joe Ferguson forever]

1 hour ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

Do you think if you were given $250k you would become a billionaire multiple times over? His multiple is around 7000, only a few people can do that. You can bash him on a lot of things but the dude knows how to make money 

It's estimated that Fred Trump give donald $400 mil.  at 5% with minimal risk over 60 years, he'd have $7.5 billion.  Anyone could reproduce these results given the starting inheritance.

https://www.calculator.net/investment-calculator.html?ctype=endamount&ctargetamountv=1%2C000%2C000&cstartingprinciplev=400%2C000%2C000&cyearsv=60&cinterestratev=5&ccompound=annually&ccontributeamountv=0&cadditionat1=end&ciadditionat1=monthly&printit=0&x=Calculate#calresult

Edited August 9 by Joe Ferguson forever

[Tommy Callahan]

Lol

  Boomers trying so hard to tell everyone what the young kids thing and should think.   Keep going.  

[Wolfgang]

10 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

clever vs stupid.  This is platinum 

 

 

 

 

 

[Orlando Buffalo]

8 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

It's estimated that Fred Trump give donald $400 mil.  at 5% with minimal risk over 60 years, he'd have $7.5 billion.  Anyone could reproduce these results given the starting inheritance.

https://www.calculator.net/investment-calculator.html?ctype=endamount&ctargetamountv=1%2C000%2C000&cstartingprinciplev=400%2C000%2C000&cyearsv=60&cinterestratev=5&ccompound=annually&ccontributeamountv=0&cadditionat1=end&ciadditionat1=monthly&printit=0&x=Calculate#calresult

I have never seen this number quoted except by the NYT, which is known to lie about Trump. It also mentions under valued properties, one of which he was sued by NYC for overvaluing. Truly to believe anything that the NYT says about Trump would be like believing anything from Hannity about Clinton without any other support. Lastly 200 million of that was his inheritance which was long after he was already a billionaire. 

[The Frankish Reich]

On 7/30/2025 at 10:05 AM, Roundybout said:

Yeah seriously, why wouldn’t a dealer be thrilled to have guaranteed money instead of the risk of the person defaulting on the auto loan?

Because the dealer doesn't bear the risk of a default. The loan/paper is immediately sold to a larger bank, if not initiated by the larger bank to begin with.

[Big Blitz]

Gen Z, just know that we Gen Xers wanted you to have the lives we did growing up.  
 

The Boomers only care about themselves. 
 

Millennials do nothing but complain.  

Those 2 groups broke everything.  
 

Obviously exceptions - there are smart boomers and millennials - they will never vote democrat.  
 

 

 

i suspect that most of what irks gen X is that we had created a fun, freewheeling, post-racial, minimal-politics society, and a bunch of weakminded thieves of joy came along and politicized the world into unfun, identity-based struggle sessions that made everything they touched horrible and divisive.

kids today have no idea how much was taken from them because they have lived their whole lives under wokester warlord hall monitor rule and have never even tasted this joy and freedom.

 

and it's time they did.

[reddogblitz]

23 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

Gen Z, just know that we Gen Xers wanted you to have the lives we did growing up.  
 

The Boomers only care about themselves. 
 

Millennials do nothing but complain.  

Those 2 groups broke everything.  
 

Obviously exceptions - there are smart boomers and millennials - they will never vote democrat.  
 

 

 

i suspect that most of what irks gen X is that we had created a fun, freewheeling, post-racial, minimal-politics society, and a bunch of weakminded thieves of joy came along and politicized the world into unfun, identity-based struggle sessions that made everything they touched horrible and divisive.

kids today have no idea how much was taken from them because they have lived their whole lives under wokester warlord hall monitor rule and have never even tasted this joy and freedom.

 

and it's time they did.

 

This whole generation vs generation thing is tiresome. Can't we all get along?

[Big Blitz]

 

[The Frankish Reich]

Sorry, Thrilla, you blew the punch line.

It's supposed to be "and now they have to go out and buy reissued vinyl again for $36.99 a pop."

[reddogblitz]

1 hour ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

First off no one is "forced" to take out an $80,000 loan.Second off, what kind of job did their dad get with an apprenticeship that now requires an $80,000 degree. Please be specific.

 

I understand I'm guessing your generation has unique challenges in a rapidly changing world.  But each generation feels their parents generation left them a tub of crap and most of them are right. People born in 1915's parents left them the great depression and WW II and later Korea.  The hated Baby Boomers parents left them the draft and Viet Nam.  People born in 1840s parents left them the civil war.

 

I kind of feel there is a bit of grass is greener thing going on here assuming that previous generations had it easy and now you are the first generation to have it hard.

Edited August 17 by reddogblitz

[Big Blitz]

14 minutes ago, reddogblitz said:

 

First off no one is "forced" to take out an $80,000 loan.Second off, what kind of job did their dad get with an apprenticeship that now requires an $80,000 degree. Please be specific.

 

Enjoy:

 

https://www.goodwin.edu/glossary/degree-inflation#:~:text=Degree inflation refers to the,for these positions through experience.
 

 

https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/how-state-governments-can-fight-degree-inflation/

[reddogblitz]

10 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

 

Enjoy:

 

https://www.goodwin.edu/glossary/degree-inflation#:~:text=Degree inflation refers to the,for these positions through experience.
 

 

https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/how-state-governments-can-fight-degree-inflation/

 

Good information. Thanks.

 

It is a tough nut to crack and I don't envy you.  I don't know, there are other options besides working in an office which with even more technology and AI etc could be a dead end..  Maybe one could learn a trade that computers can't do.  There are aprrecticeships available for such jobs that pay a living wage.  Work your way up.  https://www.carpenterstraininginstitute.org/apprenticeship-programs/

 

The same rule applies to this generation that did for past generations. Lean how to do something people want to pay you money to do.  One has to figure out what that is and attain it.  Easier said than done I know but I think you can do it.

[T master]

On 7/29/2025 at 2:51 PM, Big Blitz said:

All sped up by COVID and the BIDEN ADMINISTRATION 

 

 

 

 

This is the biggest crisis in America.  
 

Trump can’t fix this overnight ignore the lib bs that he should have fixed this by now.  
 

 

NEVER FORGET the Branch Covidians did this.  

Everything is Trumps fault for every POTUS that came before him, he's the only guy with balls enough to go in and take on the crooked politics of DC and all the politicians hate him for it and spread BS lies about it and those that voted opposite him for yeas and have sat with their hands out screwing the system hate him for taking away their gravy train .

 

The bad thing is it's mostly American citizens that have figured out how to  sit on their ass and screw the system that are B**ching the loudest because they all feel that just because they are American that they are entitled to all that America has to give and shouldn't have to work for it . 

 

Pretty pathetic if you ask me ! Then you have those here that are components of this BS the problem is their daddy didn't kick their asses enough when they were kids ..

[ComradeKayAdams]

On 7/31/2025 at 3:47 PM, Joe Ferguson forever said:

I'm not saying things are great for young people.  Economic prospects are clearly worse than 20 or even 10 years ago.  The climate could be almost unlivable for many in a couple decades.  There is a sense of despair and hopelessness which you've personally conveyed.  Yet some are doing well.

 

Go to a dance studio, take some lessons and dance with confident, athletic, musical young women or beginners like you..  there are are mixers/parties where there are almost always more women than men and they rarely say no when asked to dance, especially if you have a little skill.  I would suggest salsa or swing.  Then you're ready for bars with bands, even cruise ships and more formal events.  I've posted this before but it warrants repeating.  You'll thank me later.

 

Good advice! I highly recommend salsa for beginning dancers. It’s a solid workout for sure, with a pretty gentle learning curve (relative to ballet and many forms of modern dance, at least). The vast majority of women will appreciate a guy’s sincere efforts and won’t care about his dancing skills. In general, I recommend meeting people in the real world and not online if one is seeking meaningful relationships and not hookups.

 

Getting back to the topic…inter-generational analyses tend to become reductive and tedious. In this particular instance, I think such an argument is flat out wrong. The squabbles here align more with populist versus establishment political divisions. And just to be clear: the topic is housing costs, the broader problem of high costs of living, and the related problem of declining marriage rates.

 

Those who identify more with centrist Democrats or non-MAGA Republicans will tend to reject victim-oppressor dynamics in favor of the classical “pick-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps” mantra.

 

Progressive populists will CORRECTLY attribute the aforementioned problems to five decades of neoliberalism, which happen to disproportionately affect working-class men (see: all my posts in the Zohran Mamdani thread).

 

MAGA populists have apparently articulated their own list of causes (Democratic Party, COVID policies, illegal immigrants, slutty yuppy women, discrimination against white males, LGBT rights, etc.) with simple solutions (support Trump, embrace Christian nationalism, blah blah blah). Curiously enough, MAGA populists can cede some of the debate to the bootstrap lifters but still won’t embrace personal responsibility when it comes to males performing terribly in academic settings…or to all the f*ck boys and incels failing at relationships, for that matter… In the spirit of this apparent Wolfgang troll, here’s a YouTube link:

 

 

[T master]

On 8/13/2025 at 11:00 PM, Big Blitz said:

Gen Z, just know that we Gen Xers wanted you to have the lives we did growing up.  
 

The Boomers only care about themselves. 
 

Millennials do nothing but complain.  

Those 2 groups broke everything.  
 

Obviously exceptions - there are smart boomers and millennials - they will never vote democrat.  
 

 

 

i suspect that most of what irks gen X is that we had created a fun, freewheeling, post-racial, minimal-politics society, and a bunch of weakminded thieves of joy came along and politicized the world into unfun, identity-based struggle sessions that made everything they touched horrible and divisive.

kids today have no idea how much was taken from them because they have lived their whole lives under wokester warlord hall monitor rule and have never even tasted this joy and freedom.

 

and it's time they did.

Boomers only care about themselves ?? Look at that age group .

Edited August 18 by T master

[Wolfgang]

35 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

Good advice! I highly recommend salsa for beginning dancers. It’s a solid workout for sure, with a pretty gentle learning curve (relative to ballet and many forms of modern dance, at least). The vast majority of women will appreciate a guy’s sincere efforts and won’t care about his dancing skills. In general, I recommend meeting people in the real world and not online if one is seeking meaningful relationships and not hookups.

 

Getting back to the topic…inter-generational analyses tend to become reductive and tedious. In this particular instance, I think such an argument is flat out wrong. The squabbles here align more with populist versus establishment political divisions. And just to be clear: the topic is housing costs, the broader problem of high costs of living, and the related problem of declining marriage rates.

 

Those who identify more with centrist Democrats or non-MAGA Republicans will tend to reject victim-oppressor dynamics in favor of the classical “pick-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps” mantra.

 

Progressive populists will CORRECTLY attribute the aforementioned problems to five decades of neoliberalism, which happen to disproportionately affect working-class men (see: all my posts in the Zohran Mamdani thread).

 

MAGA populists have apparently articulated their own list of causes (Democratic Party, COVID policies, illegal immigrants, slutty yuppy women, discrimination against white males, LGBT rights, etc.) with simple solutions (support Trump, embrace Christian nationalism, blah blah blah). Curiously enough, MAGA populists can cede some of the debate to the bootstrap lifters but still won’t embrace personal responsibility when it comes to males performing terribly in academic settings…or to all the f*ck boys and incels failing at relationships, for that matter… In the spirit of this apparent Wolfgang troll, here’s a YouTube link:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The Frankish Reich]

3 hours ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

Curiously enough, MAGA populists can cede some of the debate to the bootstrap lifters but still won’t embrace personal responsibility when it comes to males performing terribly in academic settings…or to all the f*ck boys and incels failing at relationships, for that matter…

Bingo!

 

MAGA: DEI is an abomination. If minority kids can't compete in the fields the 21st century economy values, well, too bad. I guess they just have to change or adapt to the times. But if white boys are failing or lacking interest in those same fields (say, health care-related "women's jobs"), well, that's a crisis. We need to create manufacturing jobs for them so they'll feel valued; who cares whether that would be economically inefficient. They have to feel valued! Don't make them change or adapt to the times. It's their feelings, dammit!

 

Republicans used to call this "the soft bigotry of low expectations." Those were different times.

Edited August 18 by The Frankish Reich