Thread by @HNIJohnMiller

1) Alright fuckheads. Yeah, you. Yeah, all of you. I did my threads on millennials. I did those because I was trying to create understanding, trying to show where they were coming from so maybe, just maybe, y’all might be able to find some common ground.

2) Then, some study comes out showing millennials have far less sex, and suddenly the right is awash with ‘lol nu men’ ‘millennial men are a bunch of pussies’ etc etc. i’ve blocked kurt schlichter because it was all he was fucking talking about.

Let me put shit in perspective.

3) Millennials have lower credit scores than previous generations. Between that and private credit just fucking ending for us after the 2008 recession, that leads to several OTHER issues:

4) Lowest rate of entrepreneurship. Lowest rate of home ownership. Its not that we lack the drive, its that we were knocked back by a full fucking decade in our economic development as a generation.

5) Lowest rate of marriage. Reasons commonly cited? We can’t fucking afford to shell out for the events. We’ve also got the lowest rate of savings. Another reason? Our generation saw our parents with one of the highest divorce rates ever, we watched marriage crumble before us.

6) Millennials are lazy my ass. We were indoctrinated with that shit all throughout our early years. The result? Millennials are now working longer hours and taking less vacations because we have to prove to our bosses that we AREN’T a lazy millennial.

7) One more piece of the pie? Millennials have one of the highest the highest teenage suicide rates. The suicide rate was on the DECLINE until millennials hit, then it fucking SPIKED.

8) Ask around. There is not a single millennial in the United States that does not know somebody who committed or attempted suicide.

“But Fudge, I don’t-“

Yes you do you. You know me.

9) There was a pair of South Park episodes. Assburgers and You’re Just Getting Older. It was a two parter. Stan wakes up one day to find everything around him starting to sound, taste, and look like shit. Music he liked? Shit. Food he loved? Shit. Movies? He saw piles of shit.

10) He’s told, oh, its just because you’re getting older, your tastes have changed, its normal. Then it turns into “You’ve become a cynical asshole.”

11) While all this shit is going on, he’s become completely isolated from his friends, his parents are in the process of getting a divorce, and he just stops smiling.

What seemed to fly over EVERYONES HEADS when the episode came out is Stan had depression.

12) I don’t know what it is, I don’t understand what aspect of human nature causes people to isolate those with depression so easily and chalk it up to them being an asshole or entitled or lazy or what have you, but that’s now playing out across our entire society.

13) What you assholes aren’t getting about Millennials is that THE ENTIRE FUCKING GENERATION IS DEPRESSED. And its no goddamn wonder!

14) The earliest wave of us got our nuts blown off by ieds in Iraq and Afghanistan in occupations that have dragged on far longer than they should. Then the rest of us got kicked in the nuts economically by the Great Recession. And what did we get? A fucking participation trophy.

15) Millennials did not choose those wars. Millennials did not make the economic policies that caused the Great Recession. Millennials did not choose to create the participation trophy competition structure.

16) Yet somehow, SOMEHOW, you all are just SHOCKED that the generation is a bunch of sexless, neurotic workaholics. So you call millennials entitled and lazy, because that’s what everyone around you is calling them so that must be correct!

17) Trump was the brick middle America threw through DC’s window. AOC is the brick Millennials threw. She’s an awful brick, oh yeah, her ideas are dumb and her proposals are comedic. But do you know what?

18) When someone is depressed, their emotions are literally shoved away, bottles up beneath a cloud of sadness until they come bursting out in moments of raw insensate rage.

AOC was a moment of rage. Here’s the fucking problem: THERE’S MORE WHERE SHE CAME FROM.

19) So the rest of you have two fucking options. You can keep haranguing Millennials. Call them weak nu-men. Give them shit about not knowing adversity when their entire adult lives have been a gauntlet of fucking throat punches. And then get a House full of AOCs.

20) Or, you can pull your collective heads out of your collective asses, and figure out how to actually engage with them and pull them up out of their generational depression. You all want to MAGA? Well here’s the next goal: talk to Millennials before their rage kills us all. /e