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Arguments about driverless cars aside, the youth in this country are seriously lost. It only takes one generation of poor parenting and poor civic policies to r
by mise_en_place 3y ago
Arguments about driverless cars aside, the youth in this country are seriously lost. It only takes one generation of poor parenting and poor civic policies to ruin a culture.
- throwaway5959 3y agoThose people aren’t youths. They’re in their 20s and 30s. What are you talking about? Is that considered youth at this point?
- stonogo 3y agowhat would you describe the period before middle-aged? why might it be called middle-aged?
- throwaway5959 3y agoI call them adults.
- stonogo 3y agoExtremely old people are adults too. The term most frequently used to describe the 20s-30s range is "young adult."
- maximinus_thrax 3y agoYou do realize people were considering the 'youth' to be lost since antiquity, right? The youth are just fine, worry about yourself.
- shermantanktop 3y ago> the youth in this country are seriously lost When you were a kid, don’t you think your parents and grandparents said the same thing?
- thepasswordis 3y agoSounds like they were right. The youth at that point was lost, and are now raising people who will literally burn down a waymo for fun, or because of some horrifically ignorant idea about fairness.
- hot_gril 3y agoMy parents, who are X or boomer (honestly idk), don't complain about gen Z, which I'm in. They criticize millennials, which I agree with. And kids today most likely have millennial parents. I don't think it's that big of a deal in the long run, though.
- hot_gril 3y agoMy parents and grandparents actually never said that.
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- mise_en_place 3y agoThey may have. That being said I don’t recall ever defacing private property at that age, even while under the influence of several substances.
- subtra3t 3y agoPerhaps not you, but maybe some other members of your generation. And maybe your (grand)parents might have interpreted the very act of your being "under the influence of several substances" as a symptom of their culture being ruined.
- mise_en_place 3y agoI am unsure of the point you are trying to make. You seem to be excusing the defacement of private property. Have you ever been in a fight, out of curiosity?
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- fuzzywompo 3y ago> the youth in this country are seriously lost. It only takes one generation of poor parenting and poor civic policies to ruin a culture. As opposed to previous generations that would murder with lynch mobs or would trash cities in riots after winning or losing a big sports championship? This is one event, we have no information about age or motives of the perpetrators let alone enough information to slander hundreds of millions just for being young. And scapegoating like this really shouldn't be allowed here.
- xnx 3y agoAgree. The last lynching was in 1981. Things are definitely better with the youth vandalizing property instead of murdering.
- rsynnott 3y agoAre you… under the impression that setting fire to things is a new invention, only indulged in by, er, millennials or gen z or someone?
- hot_gril 3y agoTeenagers and college students now have the opposite problem, from what I've seen. They're so shy and quiet, almost depressed. I was pretty shy as a kid, but compared to them, I'd be considered extroverted.
- rsynnott 3y agoThe Youth Of Today(TM) just can’t get a break with these stereotypes. Going around, shyly setting fire to cars.
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- FireBeyond 3y agoThat was the thing in the BLM days. Antifa were simultaneously cowardly, weak, tofu and granola eating "pansies" and a paramilitary organization causing fear and terror in God-fearing Americans who believed they'd be shot or beat to death for wearing a MAGA hat.
- hot_gril 3y agoI visited where I went to college recently, and the students seem way more law-abiding now. They hardly even jaywalk anymore.
- smsm42 3y agoSetting cars on fire in SF seems to be new. Though in some other cities it happens more often, of course.