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    Lukewarm to Marvel movies. Don’t love them or hate them. It’s probably your complete lack of self awareness mixed with pretentious contrarianism.
    how does disliking Marvel movies translate to a "complete lack of self-awareness?" Now you're really seething for some inexplicable reason. He has different tastes, he must be a self-absorbed contrarian . I like plenty of popcorn movies, Marvel movies aren't any of them (ok, first Antman was clever, with some neat sight gags and a decent heist plot).

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    “Ooooh look at me! I’m a Millennial aged person who hates those damn Millennials and their avocado toast and love of current pop culture (which obviously isn’t as good as the pop culture I grew up with!) and wish they’d stop being lazy and get off the Instagrams and go vote or pour concrete like a real adult! If they want to change the world they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get off the Tweeters and go take down billion dollar corporations! They could all navigate global diplomacy to pass climate change legiation if they wanted to, but they’re just too damn lazy sitting around on Snapchatter all day!”
    Yep. But keep excusing them because they didn't have a candidate they c-c-c-c-could relate to

    which obviously isn’t as good as the pop culture I grew up with!

    Millennial pop culture is the pop culture I grew up with. Millennial pop culture is more than Marvel Movies and Pokémon Go.

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    “Ooooh look at me! I’m a Millennial aged person who hates those damn Millennials and their avocado toast and love of current pop culture (which obviously isn’t as good as the pop culture I grew up with!) and wish they’d stop being lazy and get off the Instagrams and go vote or pour concrete like a real adult! If they want to change the world they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get off the Tweeters and go take down billion dollar corporations! They could all navigate global diplomacy to pass climate change legislation if they wanted to, but they’re just too damn lazy sitting around on Snapchatter all day!”
    if only those damn millennials would vote to give Chuck Schumer Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden more power

    those 3 would totally make a real difference

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    “If Millennials really want change, they’ll participate more in the ty flawed system that got them into this mess!”

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    why are people mad about targeted advertising? i for one would rather see ads for sports or new video games rather than car insurance or feminine hygiene products

    but i dont want amazon to know what my interests are

    who the cares? how does it impact your life?
    Spurstalk hits me with plenty of targeted ads, and I'm not mad about it. The less Amazon in my life the better because I think they are a heel company. Personal opinion, of course.

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    Current gen angry they can't just cancel Coronavirus

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    Current gen angry they can't just cancel Coronavirus
    I hope someone coughs in your face tomorrow.

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    why are people mad about targeted advertising? i for one would rather see ads for sports or new video games rather than car insurance or feminine hygiene products

    but i dont want amazon to know what my interests are

    who the cares? how does it impact your life?
    Or law firms, amirite?

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    I hope someone coughs in your face tomorrow.
    A black transexual.

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    Spurstalk hits me with plenty of targeted ads, and I'm not mad about it. The less Amazon in my life the better because I think they are a heel company. Personal opinion, of course.
    then you should be glad they're wasting money having somebody comb through when you're not going to reward them for it

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    Or law firms, amirite?
    derp level humor

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    if only those damn millennials would vote to give Chuck Schumer Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden more power

    those 3 would totally make a real difference
    You're going to have to deal with that fact that you might never get your "ideal" presidential candidate as long as you live. As I've explained, the best you can do is vote for the lesser of two evils. The candidates that are likely to connect with you are local politicians at the city and state levels. I think the disagreement we have here is that you don't see much of difference between Trump and Hillary, while I think Trump is about 5 notches up on the "evil scale" vs. Hillary.

    Maybe millennials sat around and said, " it. Trump vs. Clinton, two assholes not worth my time," while I saw it as keeping that moron out of office by any means. I'm not claiming I was right. We'll never know. Maybe Clinton would've even been worse. But that's why the millennial non-turnout was likely more important to me than to you.

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    then you should be glad they're wasting money having somebody comb through when you're not going to reward them for it
    Not really. I'm perfectly capable of researching products on my own. I don't mind the targeted ads on here if it helps out the site.

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    “If Millennials really want change, they’ll participate more in the ty flawed system that got them into this mess!”
    IIRC, you're 1982, right. The system has always been flawed. You vote in '00? Remember that show and the fallout? I think this is a different world if Gore won instead of that head Bush. I don't know the solution other than to keep voting for the "less flawed" parts of the system so we can at least minimize the damage. And here's the rub, you have 50 percent of the "other side," in all age groups, thinking that voting in people like Trump minimizes the damage relative to their worldview. So what's the solution?

    I honestly think the US needs to return to some kind of hard states rights framework. For example, California and Nebraska just have two different cultures and mentalities that require different political systems (i.e. Bernie won California). This country is too vast and too culturally different for the E Plurbis Unum ideal to really flourish, sad to say.

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    Did the letter come with that stick you have up your ass?

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    You're going to have to deal with that fact that you might never get your "ideal" presidential candidate as long as you live. As I've explained, the best you can do is vote for the lesser of two evils. The candidates that are likely to connect with you are local politicians at the city and state levels. I think the disagreement we have here is that you don't see much of difference between Trump and Hillary, while I think Trump is about 5 notches up on the "evil scale" vs. Hillary.

    Maybe millennials sat around and said, " it. Trump vs. Clinton, two assholes not worth my time," while I saw it as keeping that moron out of office by any means. I'm not claiming I was right. We'll never know. Maybe Clinton would've even been worse. But that's why the millennial non-turnout was likely more important to me than to you.
    You’re generalizing. I voted for Clinton but think she would have only been better than Trump on SCOTUS picks. On everything else I think she would have been just as bad or even worse. She’d probably have us in a full blown, boots on the ground war with Iran right now.

    My overall point is that older generations are more naive about how grotesquely ed up our system is when the only two choices for president and Trump and Hillary Clinton.

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    IIRC, you're 1982, right. The system has always been flawed. You vote in '00? Remember that show and the fallout? I think this is a different world if Gore won instead of that head Bush. I don't know the solution other than to keep voting for the "less flawed" parts of the system so we can at least minimize the damage. And here's the rub, you have 50 percent of the "other side," in all age groups, thinking that voting in people like Trump minimizes the damage relative to their worldview. So what's the solution?

    I honestly think the US needs to return to some kind of hard states rights framework. For example, California and Nebraska just have two different cultures and mentalities that require different political systems (i.e. Bernie won California). This country is too vast and too culturally different for the E Plurbis Unum ideal to really flourish, sad to say.
    I think the long term solution is the Sanders and AOCs of the world breaking off and forming their own political party, which is why I think there’s an argument to be made that not supporting Biden helps - it makes the Democratic Parry as it currently is look weaker.

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    The War in Iraq might be the single biggest up in American politics over the last 20 years, but the party that’s supposed to be the anti-war party can’t even give us a candidate who was against it. Clinton and Biden were both fervent supporters of the war.

    if only those god damn lazy millennials would only show up and vote for these pro-war neoconservative Democrats

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    You’re generalizing. I voted for Clinton but think she would have only been better than Trump on SCOTUS picks. On everything else I think she would have been just as bad or even worse. She’d probably have us in a full blown, boots on the ground war with Iran right now.

    My overall point is that older generations are more naive about how grotesquely ed up our system is when the only two choices for president and Trump and Hillary Clinton.
    That system resides in the house and senate, as they would not work with a 3rd party or a real progressive.

    Of course the parties have their own inner cliques that are basically impenetrable.

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    The War in Iraq might be the single biggest up in American politics over the last 20 years, but the party that’s supposed to be the anti-war party can’t even give us a candidate who was against it. Clinton and Biden were both fervent supporters of the war.

    if only those god damn lazy millennials would only show up and vote for these pro-war neoconservative Democrats
    Certainly, but Trump was doing a lot of sabre rattling himself towards Iran, and things got real testy there for a minute. I saw him as basically a different breed of neocon who courted nationalists. I didn't believe anything he said about being a non-interventionist. I think they're would've boots on the ground somewhere if the stock market stagnated under him (prior to Corona).

    if only those god damn lazy millennials would only show up and vote for these pro-war neoconservative Democrats
    But you made a judgment call and went out and voted for Clinton, so you're obviously aware of the lesser evils strategy, which is unfortunately all we can do most of the time. That's why I figured Trump had no in' chance, because I saw in him a guy whose rhetoric and at ude (and policy) would revolt the youth to the point that they would pretty much vote for anyone over him, and would flood the polls to keep it from happening. And I guess they did in some fashion, just not in the right states (another in' flaw in the system).

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    You’re generalizing. I voted for Clinton but think she would have only been better than Trump on SCOTUS picks. On everything else I think she would have been just as bad or even worse. She’d probably have us in a full blown, boots on the ground war with Iran right now.

    My overall point is that older generations are more naive about how grotesquely ed up our system is when the only two choices for president and Trump and Hillary Clinton.
    On this point, I think they're complacent. I remember this book called "The Greening of America" written in 69 or 70 that exalted the young generation of the day (Boomers/Hippies) as the generation who would bring about real change and remake America from a dog-eat-dog capitalist society into one large socialist commune. Check out the blurb:



    And theeeen, boomers became yuppies and that was all she wrote. Can we expect the same progression/regression from millennials (or even Xers)? Human nature isn't predictable and money does change people.

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