re: If you come at Captain Kirk with an “OK Boomer” you better be prepared to be boomed

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I’ll identify as myself. I’ll be damned if someone calls me a millennial.

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shutup millennial.

Nobody cares what Shatner thinks. Even Star Trek fans hate him

And if it wasn't for Archer's sorry arse then Kirk would be the worst captain on any of the series too

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Every generation has problems that are unique to their generation

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That’s not really true.

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Captain Kirk

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Is really a serial killer.

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I don’t identify with that group much at all. I feel like I’m more Gen X, or even that Oregon Trail Generation.

The whining of millennials as a whole makes me cringe

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Speaking as a real GenX'er, I find myself identifying with millenials much more often than boomers. Boomers, as a collective, are far and away the most damaging thing to ever happen to this country. They're a generation of greed, excess, debt, selfishness, gullibility, waste, and just simply not giving one single frick about their kids (see divorce rates for proof).

They're the scourge of the Earth, imo. There are some good boomers, of course, some with an actual conscience. The rest of them need to go ahead and fricking die off and let this country begin to heal itself under the leadership of GenX and Millenials.

It's absolutely beyond me how any GenXer could look at their parent's generation and think, "man, those guys really set us up for success!".

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Teenagers and Twenty-somethings today do have problems today that the Baby Boomers did not have back when the Boomers were teenagers and twenty somethings. I'm not going to begin to list specifics, but, I know the truth.

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How about just name one?

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Speaking as a real GenX'er, I find myself identifying with millenials much more often than boomers. Boomers, as a collective, are far and away the most damaging thing to ever happen to this country. They're a generation of greed, excess, debt, selfishness, gullibility, waste, and just simply not giving one single frick about their kids (see divorce rates for proof).

They're the scourge of the Earth, imo. There are some good boomers, of course, some with an actual conscience. The rest of them need to go ahead and fricking die off and let this country begin to heal itself under the leadership of GenX and Millenials.

It's absolutely beyond me how any GenXer could look at their parent's generation and think, "man, those guys really set us up for success!".

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This guy gets it.

I think the biggest problem is that Boomers, in general, champion themselves as some awesome generation that left the world better than they found it. But they did nothing. The Greatest Generation did everything, left them with a gift, and they squandered it. Gen X and Millenials are the ones tasked with fixing it.

Boomers should just admit that and all of this would go away. But they won't. And they are going to drive Social Security into the ground, raise student debt, delay professional advancement of younger generations because they saved poorly, and take every advantage available kicking and screaming. So, either they are going to start the selfish trend or those that follow will have to sacrifice, in which they already are. See purchasing power metrics.

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How about just name one?

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Starting adulthood with mountains of college debt. Whether for a "real" degree or not. MD's weren't 300k in the hole entering the work force during their generation. That's one very simple and easy one.

That’s solid.

Back in the 80s, you could work a crap summer job and save enough to pay for tuition. That was when min wage was around 3.50.

Tuition now is 10k. You can’t work a summer job and pay for a years tuition.