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7 Harsh Realities Of Life Millennials Need To Understand
Zero Hedge ^ | 03/10/2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 03/13/2016 8:54:51 AM PDT by walford

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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I always went one deeper... you cannot legislate human behavior. Economics fall under that basic rule.


41 posted on 03/13/2016 11:24:33 AM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Millenials are a lost generation.

Not *all* of 'em.

Thought for a while one of the grandkids was swerving off into the ditch after he'd been fed a semester's worth of socialist BS until I asked him where he thought that money to pay for all of those freebees was going to come from, pointed at his hip pocket/wallet and smiled.

Lights all came on before I could pick up my coffee cup.

...kid might even be thinking about voting for Trump now.

42 posted on 03/13/2016 11:25:37 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Smile. It'll drive people nuts trying to figure out what you know or have done.)
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

Ship them all to Cuba where they can have the lifestyle they so desire.


43 posted on 03/13/2016 11:36:48 AM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: walford

Excellent article!

Hey, where are the “White Male Studies Classes?”
And I’m not talking about a propaganda class against our founding white fathers...

Rather, “White Male Studies Classes” should be about how the racist/sexist/fascist Left Wingers VICTIMIZE & OPPRESS White Males.


44 posted on 03/13/2016 11:48:23 AM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: samtheman
Governments do NOT have the power to repeal the basic laws of economics.

More important, perhaps, is that neither the government in the 18th Century nor today's, can repeal the weaker instincts of human nature.

The selfish gene the "I'm the center of the universe" raging drive dwelling in every human being.

It certainly never needs help from incompetent governments, either through "social engineering" or self-interest rent seeking.

45 posted on 03/13/2016 11:51:29 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: CodeToad
Millennials have this belief that they can act out and if anyone tells them to shut up they believe they have been assaulted and should get physical about it.

That is the primordial quality among all subhumans which haven't quite reached the civilized state, and their current descendants.

Why earn respect from others through the rules of society when you can beat it out of them?

46 posted on 03/13/2016 11:55:28 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: kearnyirish2
I’m glad my children were born after America’s heyday; this would all seem so much more disappointing to them if they knew what life was like in 1985.

I disagree very strongly. By 1985 the rot had set in, seemingly irreversibly.

If you did not experience the 1948-1958 decade you were cheated by both history and fate.

No rule by perverts.
No rule by the entitled who are determined not to earn respect, but to beat it out of people who actually work and produce useful products people want, or a useful service; By definition that would exclude all government and activism driven by ignorance, stupidity or mindless "PC".

Understandably, the room temperature IQ crowd, the perverts and the indolent will fight any reversal of the current rot to the death.

I tend to choose to stop them by any and all means possible. Their choice.

47 posted on 03/13/2016 12:07:03 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: P.O.E.
The “Me” generation gave birth to the “Gimmee” generation, Which gave birth to the "or I will rape burn, destroy and kill you and just take it" generation.

There.
Fixed it.

48 posted on 03/13/2016 12:11:40 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: walford
BTTT
49 posted on 03/13/2016 12:13:05 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: caddie
We should be trying to get the Millenials on our side, not bash them for being worthless.
Every generation has its spoiled people... I know a lot of Millenials who are solid.

I can't abide that "PC" mentality and logic. That's just as asinine and meaningless as saying...

All muslims are not bloodthirsty savage animals, or

All blacks are not dull-witted immoral and criminally bent thugs.

Those are all different entrances to the "PC Fairy Neverland."

50 posted on 03/13/2016 12:18:34 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: caddie

“We should be trying to get the Millenials on our side, not bash them for being worthless.

Every generation has its spoiled people... I know a lot of Millenials [sic] who are solid...”


I have known a few who were open-minded and if they heard something different from what they’ve been spoon-fed, they were willing to listen and consider. Also, youngsters are naturally going to rebel against the previous generation’s mind-set — which in this case is Leftist moral/cultural relativism.

We can get a toe-hold in that respect, because ultimately logic, reason and evidence are on our side.

The way our perspective can be persuasive is to explain that what they’ve been told is not only a series of lies, it is a form of dogmatic oppression.

We also need to make the case that freedom is still the most radical idea — and most certainly should reject the notion that freedom is “conservative” or traditional while tyranny is “progressive” and enlightened.

Leftist Utopia is a medieval society in which the majority is deliberately kept ignorant, impoverished, disenfranchised — and lorded over by a cruel, arrogant elite.

That is the actual truth and we must continue to hammer away at this fact to all who are open to listen. The fact is, we are the good guys, not the Hard Left. We are the ones who want people to be empowered, free, prosperous — and happy.

The Left thrives on misery, making them oppressive maggots who feed on sores.


51 posted on 03/13/2016 12:46:23 PM PDT by walford ("In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: publius911

“Why earn respect from others through the rules of society when you can beat it out of them? “

They can try but it doesn’t really work. These little snowflakes have no idea what they are missing. That, and what if the other person beats back harder??


52 posted on 03/13/2016 2:33:17 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: walford

53 posted on 03/13/2016 2:34:11 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: caddie
Not to mention it has been going on since Socrates's time.

So is Bernie gonna get his drink spiked or what?

54 posted on 03/13/2016 2:35:45 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

The saving grace is my nephew who has not voted in 15 years emailed me last night from FL and he is totally on the Trump train. The rest are Bernie fans.


55 posted on 03/13/2016 2:41:32 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: walford
Seriously, nobody who has already graduated college cares about your feelings.

Tell that to the guy sitting in sensitivity training at work because he told a women her scarf looked nice and she was in a pissy mood so now he's just lucky he didn't get fired on the spot.

56 posted on 03/13/2016 3:39:10 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Politics: from the greek "poly" [many] and the english "ticks" [blood sucking parasites])
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To: caddie

No flames from me. I believe the enhancement needed is to call out and keep calling out *behaviors*, not entire classes of people. I certainly agree with you there, and I would not characterize an entire generation of youth based upon the loudest members, who, behaviorally, are 6 year olds.


57 posted on 03/13/2016 6:43:58 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: walford

BTTT


58 posted on 03/13/2016 6:55:45 PM PDT by Let's Roll (So much left-wing thought is playing with fire by those who don't even know fire is hot - Orwell)
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To: publius911

I have no frame of reference prior to the early 1970s; I remember the 1980s as simply a happier time. The freakshows and permanent victims were out of the picture.


59 posted on 03/13/2016 7:46:41 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: CodeToad
That, and what if the other person beats back harder??

You haven't heard?

The corrupt DOJ has their back; with the full force and power of the United States and all the Agencies of the Executive Department.

60 posted on 03/13/2016 10:45:39 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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