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adambozarth:

Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy

HAHA NO MONAY!!!!!

Maybe our generation aren’t buying houses and cars because EVERYTHING IS SO FUCKED

You want us to actually talk to bank people and get home loans and auto loans? They are still fucking us! Any time I go into a bank, I feel disgusted. You want me to do MORE business with the who want to charge me 5 dollars for every single swipe of my debit card? Get fucked!

You think I’m gonna buy a car? A car? Where am I gonna get the money for a car and the insurance and the insurance against the insurance company if God forbid they decide to do the same things they did to the poor Fisher family and countless others? And fucking GAS? Are you crazy? The planet is dying, and you want me to buy gas at $FUCK.YOU/gallon?

In the past 5 years since the economy fell apart, we’ve been adapting. We’ve been listening to countless horror stories of those who made the risk. Those who saved and did it right, and still ended up with an inferior product with inferior service that RUINS YOUR LIFE. It’s not like ordering a pizza, and instead of sausage, you get cheese. It’s like ordering a pizza and then your credit is ruined and you are flat broke. The pains of acquisition aren’t worth it if it can all be taken away like a bureaucratic fart in the bathtub. It would be smarter to save our money for tickets to god-damn Mars than to invest in these hideous, broken systems.

We aren’t cheap. We fucking hate doing business with you people. 

All these pieces on Millennials are so mired in confusion since we don’t even trust journalists any more. The news, our entire lives, has been scary. Think about being 8 and processing the deaths of abortion doctors or homegrown terrorism. Now try to process the news when every asshole on camera just lies. The news hasn’t had an ounce of truth in it for 10 years. Can you not understand how much we don’t trust anyone who is older than us? How can you trust anybody when the president and vice-president of the United States lied to the Secretary of State so they could START THE WRONG WAR!

Fucking seriously.

Also, that graphic? Is that what you think we all look like? Are you fucking kidding me, Atlantic?

I hope they never find out how to market to us. I hope we splinter so much that companies like Ford will have to make a decent product instead of asking the Vomit Spouts that created Jersey Shore how to create MORE fantasies about how great THINGS will make your life. We don’t attach to things because things break. We saw everything break.

But, that’s just me.

naskewrimo:

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halphillips:

Mostly I’m just sad the word got dirtied up. You know how sometimes someone will say something negative about improv, but they mean shortform? Every time someone says something negative about libertarians and they mean conservatives, I get that same feeling.

The real problem are the radicals that keep co-opting mainstream labels to give themselves credibility. Case in point: how do you think Dwight Eisenhower’s Ghost feels about your use of the word “conservatives”?

As for me: my Facebook page lists my political views as “give peace a chance”.

My political views: Matthew 22:15-22

Although that is mostly to go along nicely with my religious views: Matthew 5:43-48

halphillips:

I am a left-leaning hippie-utopian anti-authoritarian borderline-anarchist, and I think every politician is too conservative. And there’s a word for that— but I can’t use it anymore.

For what it’s worth, Hal, my respect for your opinions on politics comes from your consistency, in spite of a shifting vocabulary. And I don’t think the word libertarian has ever been sufficient to describe you.

I think you can either (a) give up on finding a label, and for people who insist, give them the long explanation or (b) take Humpty Dumpty’s approach:

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

halphillips:

This article is as fair as can be toward Progressive, goes into more detail than most articles I’ve seen, avoids angry emotional arguments, lays out how the process works and why things worked out the way they did, and still comes to the conclusion that “Progressive sure seems to have done absolutely everything wrong here”.

benjaminapple:

Hey! This is a link to a question I just posted on Reddit because I am curious about this idea I had, which I’m sure other people have had too, and probably I should have just Googled it, but we’ll see.

I created a reddit account just so I could attempt to answer this. I’m not sure I succeeded.

mullaney:

Does an alternate name already exist for the ‘anything can happen opening’? When you hear ‘organic opening’ you think ‘sound and movement’?

This is a much better name for it. “Organic” always sounded like some West Coast hippie bullshit.