Reading that thread knowing it was all bullshit having been in HS around that time just made me wonder how much of the "HS in the 50s was oppressive" rhetoric I grew up with was similarly bullshit.
Next you'll find out that white people didn't abandon cities in droves in the 60s and 70s because they're fragile racists, but because they needed to be beyond walking distance away from certain other people.
The town's name was anonymized for Scott Cummings' Left Behind in Rosedale book. I don't know if the actual name of that particular town was ever released.
It's immoral and cruel to mix the races by force to cause chaos, it's evil and the rulers knew it would end this way, it was to collapse America, not all join hands and sing kumbaya.
I've had a few nice black associates in life, but I also had the many who tortured me as a child with autism, being targeted because I was disabled by them. They are violent in general by nature (high testosterone, low impulse control) and it was wrong for me to have to be around them like that. I have seen many others like me having to go through the same.
I want all people to be saved an know Jesus, including those who harmed me, but what has happened is wrong.
This is the middleground, speaking the truth in love, exposing evil and hard truths but still wishing all would repent. Race realism is a vital part of seeking peace in this world, each group needs it's own space, it's own country; otherwise it's endless tribalism, envy, and war.
You have that backwards. Whites were forced to not associate with other races by governmental force. That was unconstitutional on its face. This was retarded when the last guy made the argument and it's still retarded now. If you want to self segregate that's fine but do so without using the force of the government. Before you start yodeling about forced interactions and lack of freedom of association because of the civil rights act of 1964 I agree that it's bad and unconstitutional to enforce it against private entities. It's the same logic behind government enforced segregation.
The 2000s were kind of trash, though, in terms of entertainment culture. That's when feminism started to seep into everything and the end result was an abomination of corporate compromises.
Yeah, but... Have you like, looked at most pop culture pre, say, 2010..?
While it is certainly not perfect, it's like a whole other world, compared to today...
Like, sure, some shit was still shitty, but at least it didn't feel the need to shove "muh current correct opinion" in your face...
Like, even in music videos and shit, everyone just looks so normal (ignoring emo shit, for this), by comparison to now. And white self-hatred wasn't yet quite so in vogue, so "black ghetto sheeeit" wasn't yet predominant.
Sure, nostalgia plays a part here, but oh man, it's so much worse now...
Agreed. Like pull up music videos from the time like by 3oh3 or any of the pop stuff by Kesha, Lady Gaga or even Katy Perry.
It's normal. Zany maybe a lot of the time but it's not current correct opinion or ashamed of itself. Starstrukk especially could not be made today. Like 30 sec of the video is Katy Perry dancing almost naked in the rain because that's some guy's fantasy and the video is about finding an attractive straight partner by throwing a coin in a fountain. No one's partner fantasy in that video is a fat troon and that tells you a lot about the time.
Good Girls Go Bad by Cobra Starship is always my go to for this era of “pop”, simply because Leighton Meester is supremely underrated as a singer, despite being an “It girl” at the time… And she is, and always will be I guess, the “hot one” from, well, you know the show…
But hell, even Neon Trees, where the lead singer is gay…
There’s no fucking way anyone would no that from their music at the time, or the vids, and perhaps that is the point…
So, different music, but I agree completely.
I really don’t like any of those three women as people (Kesha has been through some shit, I guess), but even I can admit they had some decent songs, once…
But yeah, the world was a better place, before every single popular artist on the planet had to have the same “suitably woke” opinions on everything, lol…
That started in the nineties. Hip hop became the dominant music genre in the late nineties/early two thousands. It's when the DNC figured out that they needed to keep blacks "on the plantation" (as black conservatives say) and they started using the entertainment industry (amongst other things) to wedge these wildly disparate demographics together to form a coalition of DNC voters.
As with many things that have been on the decline for generations, the generation before mine looked at the 2000's from the standpoint of how they degraded compared to the 1980s, just as my generation looks at the 2020's from the standpoint of how they degraded compared to the 2000's.
Both things can be true:
The 2000's were kinda trash (true)
The 2000's were a better time in many ways compared to now (also probably true)
You are so right. I took a job at the high school I gradutated from circa 2010 and the place is unrecognizable now. It is essentially a prison. Virtually no learning occurs at any point in any class.
I always thought it was 2012 when I noticed shit was going weird. A big thing for blind me at the time seeing rock music just die to some new crappy pop music
That's about when I started to notice things were "off" too. I was just coming of age at that time though. I imagine it was going on before that. It's a bunch of Gen Xers that came up with 1997 so that's probably around the time they were coming of age too.
As a Gen Xer, I'd say that 1997 was right around the time that I'd say that a lot more "new" stuff was just stuff from my youth that had been repackaged but with extra cynicism and tokenism.
There was still a lot of good stuff, but the ideological and nihilistic crap was definitely starting to seep in.
Like, having a black Vulcan on Voyager was obvious pandering to me, even back then. The main difference was that it used to be encouraged to point out cynical marketing pandering. Like when my university (98.5% white, 1% Asian, 0.5% other) took promo pictures and managed to find the 2 black guys who weren't on the basketball team to proudly feature and was resoundingly mocked for it.
The amount of very obvious paid shills replying to that tweet is puzzling. It has relatively few likes and very few comments, yet the video has over ten million views and it's all Twitter NPCs are talking about.
It's one of the most blatant astroturf campaigns I've ever seen, but why? If this video was a massive viral success I could definitely see the establishment making sure that nobody knows that people were happier before Current Year, but it's only being watched by a small handful of actual people. Why such a tremendous overreaction to a video that, without them spinning up the hate machine, would have been immediately forgotten? Is this a test of a new botnet?
I suspect the bots have been unleashed and operating independently now that GPT-4 has similar capabilities. They might be operating under heuristics left from previous campaigns.
That'd be my guess. They zeroed in on a video about young white people being happy in the past and immediately started with the copy paste "everyone in this video is racist/homophobic" responses. Half of the comments are virtually identical, and that's not including the generic Beyonce Rolling Her Eyes gifs you see whenever the DNC sics bots on a post.
I went to school around the 2000s and I never heard any slur or insult relating to sexuality.
Maybe it's cause I'm not American so most groups avoided each other until they met for peaceful and cordial co-operation (mainly when a teacher forced the issue) but insults ( that weren't between friends) rarely happened.
You learned to be nice or get beat the fuck up then go to the principals for a talking to for fighting with extra side of talking if you lost the fight. Though most fights ended in draws cause teacher intervention
Yeah, it's because you weren't American. Faggot was way more prevalent in American teen culture at that time than anywhere else in the world that I saw.
Yeah people were calling everyone fag circa 2005. I was really sheltered and didn't even know it had anything to do with sexuality. I just thought it was a generic insult.
Plenty of slurs at mine in the mid-late 00s. Poor whites who were local and poor blacks bussed in from the city so you had a nice equal representation of resentment and desperation.
Blacks had closer schools to attend than ours, but if they didn't bus them in on "minority-to-majority" (M-M) busses our poor white school out in the country would've been completely white which is apparently bad. And yes, civil rights era practices were still going on into the end of the 2000s.
There was general racial tension and usually it was the blacks causing all the trouble, they'd fight amongst themselves and every so often they'd feel this or that white slighted them in some fashion and they'd get a group together to jump the unfortunate white kid in the halls. Bomb threats or lockdowns at least once or twice a year, mesh or clear backpacks, drugs. The government's integration policies just brought the level of everything down. I'm amazed we didn't need metal detectors.
Yeah, this isn't how it was for me (though my ex, also Australian, used to claim her schooling was more like what you describe. Whether that is true or not, I do not know)...
Maybe my schooling was more "Americanised", but I heard faggot, and so much worse, all the time...
Generally words were ok, though. Rumours? They get real nasty. Or the guy who would randomly attack you or steal your shit. I had that. That wasn't much fun...
But it wasn't because I was a "faggot", either, so...
The thing was that most of the traditional groups you see in America media didn't have the physical difference that was often depicted.
The jocks weren't better than the nerds at fighting for example, this made it so throwing insults could very well get you into a brawl.
Rumors I'm not sure about, apart from the romance style rumors I never heard much else.
That said I do expect my school experience to be on the more atypical side of the scale since I went to a fancy private school which was mostly rich kids (it was great for making money from the other children)
I genuinely think that has, in the long run, led me down a seriously dark path…
Because almost everyone that graduated from there “made it”, but I never did. I never could. I tried, really hard, but I’m almost totally done.
I just, for whatever reason, can’t make it. And I fundamentally cannot live with that.
Other than that, yeah, kind of similar…
I guess I was already an outcast by then, though (say, from around eighth/ninth grade), so… ALL those groups hated me. All of them mocked me. None of them really seemed to want me around…
Thus, I guess my experience was just a bit different.
I should have left in 12th grade, and gone somewhere else. I knew shit was going wrong. I did try, but unsurprisingly my parents wouldn’t have any of that…
And now… I seem to be just about the only “failure” I know of from that finishing year (and indeed beyond).
I really can’t live with that anymore.
Sorry to bring things down so much…
I’m just… I’m honestly very done.
And school is… A huge part of how that came to be. Unfortunately…
Not sure I'd say it worked out that well, but I can't blame school, parent or anything like that. But on my shit health (nothing serious but highly inconvenient).
It's always worth remembering that most people have their own problems and they tend to hide them publicly.
I can just present myself as a CFO of a business I made and funded, a business that is improving and becoming a success.
But I also have my problems that I hide from most, if not all people.
When looking at others it's worth remembering that everyone has their own problems but will still project the illusion of a good life.
Mostly right time right place to be honest. Brother and a "friend" wanted to start a company but had no capital. Me, my father and a big name accountant each placed money to start it up (with my father lending money to them to form their share). I handled most a lot of the decision making of the back end of the thing (type of business, filing papers and deciding on how to split shares so that they had a fair share of decisions, etc) so I ended up as CFO.
The "friend" bailed, the accountant died, our 1st few big projects got bad timing killed by google but now things are looking up (my brother is even getting minimum wage now) that said it has been a costly 8 years but hopefully it will fully pay off. As long as I get to have a comfortable life I'm fine with not having the traditional happy family thing.
Sometimes life is about taking the shit it throws at you and making fertilizer to grow some lemons. I learned to enjoy the shit life handed me as challenge to be overcome in the game of life and thus managing to get a sense of peace and contentment with it even if I probably won't get the traditional happy life.
Not for being a faggot, but for almost literally everything else...
I survived, somehow.
Adult life is, for the most part, so much worse than High School is generally ever going to be (with exceptions, regularly posted here).
These pathetic wastes of their parents' gametes wouldn't know the first thing about hardship, let alone how bad bullying can get...
If you're alive, in your I presume 20s or 30s, and you're on Twitter to whine about "waaah, they called me a faggot in High School", I don't think you had it anywhere near as hard as you think you did.
Something I've noticed that this highlights really well is that zoomers have absolutely no sense for the flow of time. The 2000s was twenty years ago. Even as a child in the '00s, I understood that people in the 80s were essentially the same as me. Fashion was different and the emerging technologies were different, but we both had fashion and emerging technology.
Children today are fully communist-ized. The only time is now.
Reading that thread knowing it was all bullshit having been in HS around that time just made me wonder how much of the "HS in the 50s was oppressive" rhetoric I grew up with was similarly bullshit.
Hint: probably all of it.
Next you'll find out that white people didn't abandon cities in droves in the 60s and 70s because they're fragile racists, but because they needed to be beyond walking distance away from certain other people.
Yeah reading about Rosedale was a pretty major redpill
I didn't think I could hate niggers and nigger handlers any more. Thanks, I guess.
Misread that as Rhodesia at first.
Where is that ? All I can find is rosedale in Austin tx.
The town's name was anonymized for Scott Cummings' Left Behind in Rosedale book. I don't know if the actual name of that particular town was ever released.
Ah gotcha. Never heard this story
Thanks for the info
Just like the "Days of Rage", it's not something that gets publicized.
Whites were oppressed when forced to mix with blacks.
It's immoral and cruel to mix the races by force to cause chaos, it's evil and the rulers knew it would end this way, it was to collapse America, not all join hands and sing kumbaya.
I've had a few nice black associates in life, but I also had the many who tortured me as a child with autism, being targeted because I was disabled by them. They are violent in general by nature (high testosterone, low impulse control) and it was wrong for me to have to be around them like that. I have seen many others like me having to go through the same.
I want all people to be saved an know Jesus, including those who harmed me, but what has happened is wrong.
This is the middleground, speaking the truth in love, exposing evil and hard truths but still wishing all would repent. Race realism is a vital part of seeking peace in this world, each group needs it's own space, it's own country; otherwise it's endless tribalism, envy, and war.
You have that backwards. Whites were forced to not associate with other races by governmental force. That was unconstitutional on its face. This was retarded when the last guy made the argument and it's still retarded now. If you want to self segregate that's fine but do so without using the force of the government. Before you start yodeling about forced interactions and lack of freedom of association because of the civil rights act of 1964 I agree that it's bad and unconstitutional to enforce it against private entities. It's the same logic behind government enforced segregation.
Good times.
I was lead to believe it was filled with greasers and cheerleaders constantly dancing and singing. No?
Hrhr
Well gay means happy so being racist and anti-gay is gay.
Muh oppression. These faggots can’t breathe without it being problematic and somehow your fault.
"Woke suicide of the author" and other pandering by the sounds of it.
Sounds like a personal problem for Adam there.
Sounds like Adam didn't get enough bullying in high school.
The 2000s were kind of trash, though, in terms of entertainment culture. That's when feminism started to seep into everything and the end result was an abomination of corporate compromises.
Feminism had been seeping into everything for forty years. The 00's were when cracks began to form and it began seeping out of everything.
This is when the Left flipped the switch from infiltration to evangelism.
It ruined science fiction a lot earlier than other genres.
Yeah, but... Have you like, looked at most pop culture pre, say, 2010..?
While it is certainly not perfect, it's like a whole other world, compared to today...
Like, sure, some shit was still shitty, but at least it didn't feel the need to shove "muh current correct opinion" in your face...
Like, even in music videos and shit, everyone just looks so normal (ignoring emo shit, for this), by comparison to now. And white self-hatred wasn't yet quite so in vogue, so "black ghetto sheeeit" wasn't yet predominant.
Sure, nostalgia plays a part here, but oh man, it's so much worse now...
Agreed. Like pull up music videos from the time like by 3oh3 or any of the pop stuff by Kesha, Lady Gaga or even Katy Perry.
It's normal. Zany maybe a lot of the time but it's not current correct opinion or ashamed of itself. Starstrukk especially could not be made today. Like 30 sec of the video is Katy Perry dancing almost naked in the rain because that's some guy's fantasy and the video is about finding an attractive straight partner by throwing a coin in a fountain. No one's partner fantasy in that video is a fat troon and that tells you a lot about the time.
Good Girls Go Bad by Cobra Starship is always my go to for this era of “pop”, simply because Leighton Meester is supremely underrated as a singer, despite being an “It girl” at the time… And she is, and always will be I guess, the “hot one” from, well, you know the show…
But hell, even Neon Trees, where the lead singer is gay…
There’s no fucking way anyone would no that from their music at the time, or the vids, and perhaps that is the point…
So, different music, but I agree completely.
I really don’t like any of those three women as people (Kesha has been through some shit, I guess), but even I can admit they had some decent songs, once…
But yeah, the world was a better place, before every single popular artist on the planet had to have the same “suitably woke” opinions on everything, lol…
That started in the nineties. Hip hop became the dominant music genre in the late nineties/early two thousands. It's when the DNC figured out that they needed to keep blacks "on the plantation" (as black conservatives say) and they started using the entertainment industry (amongst other things) to wedge these wildly disparate demographics together to form a coalition of DNC voters.
As with many things that have been on the decline for generations, the generation before mine looked at the 2000's from the standpoint of how they degraded compared to the 1980s, just as my generation looks at the 2020's from the standpoint of how they degraded compared to the 2000's.
Both things can be true:
Laughs in University student…
The decline in quality of everything about that experience is the most precipitous thing I have almost ever seen…
Like, even compared to say, government services, pre and post Covid (also massively worse, just less so).
It’s incredible.
Like, comparing 2018 to now is crazy, but comparing 2014 (when I first started, at a different Uni) to now is mindblowing…
It’s almost like… I’d go beyond “generation gap” and go with barely recognizable as the same level of education anymore…
I seriously fear for the young ones who don’t know better.
They have no idea what a dick-over they are getting by these so called “respected institutions”, and the staff within them…
No wonder Gen Z is so fucked.
You are so right. I took a job at the high school I gradutated from circa 2010 and the place is unrecognizable now. It is essentially a prison. Virtually no learning occurs at any point in any class.
The popularity of the Xbox360 despite the red ring of death should have punctuated just how naive people were back then.
"Get your Xbox360 now and we'll ship a replacement over to you when it craps out within three months of purchase! Premium shipping guaranteed!"
There's a theory out there that the year 1997 was "cultural ground zero"
That was the last year mainstream culture came up with anything new and good. Ever since then it's been all nostalgia and pandering.
I always thought it was 2012 when I noticed shit was going weird. A big thing for blind me at the time seeing rock music just die to some new crappy pop music
That's about when I started to notice things were "off" too. I was just coming of age at that time though. I imagine it was going on before that. It's a bunch of Gen Xers that came up with 1997 so that's probably around the time they were coming of age too.
As a Gen Xer, I'd say that 1997 was right around the time that I'd say that a lot more "new" stuff was just stuff from my youth that had been repackaged but with extra cynicism and tokenism.
There was still a lot of good stuff, but the ideological and nihilistic crap was definitely starting to seep in.
Like, having a black Vulcan on Voyager was obvious pandering to me, even back then. The main difference was that it used to be encouraged to point out cynical marketing pandering. Like when my university (98.5% white, 1% Asian, 0.5% other) took promo pictures and managed to find the 2 black guys who weren't on the basketball team to proudly feature and was resoundingly mocked for it.
I agree with this analysis. Completely.
Not sure how old you are, but this is the same time I noticed...
Born in 92.
Totally agree with you, 2012 is when it felt like we crossed into another reality.
Even his own mother, while attempting to breast feed him at birth and saw him cringing away probably called him a faggot.
The amount of very obvious paid shills replying to that tweet is puzzling. It has relatively few likes and very few comments, yet the video has over ten million views and it's all Twitter NPCs are talking about.
It's one of the most blatant astroturf campaigns I've ever seen, but why? If this video was a massive viral success I could definitely see the establishment making sure that nobody knows that people were happier before Current Year, but it's only being watched by a small handful of actual people. Why such a tremendous overreaction to a video that, without them spinning up the hate machine, would have been immediately forgotten? Is this a test of a new botnet?
I suspect the bots have been unleashed and operating independently now that GPT-4 has similar capabilities. They might be operating under heuristics left from previous campaigns.
That'd be my guess. They zeroed in on a video about young white people being happy in the past and immediately started with the copy paste "everyone in this video is racist/homophobic" responses. Half of the comments are virtually identical, and that's not including the generic Beyonce Rolling Her Eyes gifs you see whenever the DNC sics bots on a post.
deservedly
I went to school around the 2000s and I never heard any slur or insult relating to sexuality.
Maybe it's cause I'm not American so most groups avoided each other until they met for peaceful and cordial co-operation (mainly when a teacher forced the issue) but insults ( that weren't between friends) rarely happened.
You learned to be nice or get beat the fuck up then go to the principals for a talking to for fighting with extra side of talking if you lost the fight. Though most fights ended in draws cause teacher intervention
Yeah, it's because you weren't American. Faggot was way more prevalent in American teen culture at that time than anywhere else in the world that I saw.
So was fucking your mom
I heard yours was a truly global sensation actually. Really earned her travel name, Phalius Hog.
Yeah people were calling everyone fag circa 2005. I was really sheltered and didn't even know it had anything to do with sexuality. I just thought it was a generic insult.
It was used as a generic insult by 99% of the people who used it.
We need to go back.
That is soooooooooo gay...
I went to school in the late '80s and early '90s in 100% white rural America. Nobody was throwing around slurs at all.
Plenty of slurs at mine in the mid-late 00s. Poor whites who were local and poor blacks bussed in from the city so you had a nice equal representation of resentment and desperation.
Blacks had closer schools to attend than ours, but if they didn't bus them in on "minority-to-majority" (M-M) busses our poor white school out in the country would've been completely white which is apparently bad. And yes, civil rights era practices were still going on into the end of the 2000s.
There was general racial tension and usually it was the blacks causing all the trouble, they'd fight amongst themselves and every so often they'd feel this or that white slighted them in some fashion and they'd get a group together to jump the unfortunate white kid in the halls. Bomb threats or lockdowns at least once or twice a year, mesh or clear backpacks, drugs. The government's integration policies just brought the level of everything down. I'm amazed we didn't need metal detectors.
Yeah, this isn't how it was for me (though my ex, also Australian, used to claim her schooling was more like what you describe. Whether that is true or not, I do not know)...
Maybe my schooling was more "Americanised", but I heard faggot, and so much worse, all the time...
Generally words were ok, though. Rumours? They get real nasty. Or the guy who would randomly attack you or steal your shit. I had that. That wasn't much fun...
But it wasn't because I was a "faggot", either, so...
The thing was that most of the traditional groups you see in America media didn't have the physical difference that was often depicted.
The jocks weren't better than the nerds at fighting for example, this made it so throwing insults could very well get you into a brawl.
Rumors I'm not sure about, apart from the romance style rumors I never heard much else.
That said I do expect my school experience to be on the more atypical side of the scale since I went to a fancy private school which was mostly rich kids (it was great for making money from the other children)
Also fancy private school. Also mostly rich kids…
I genuinely think that has, in the long run, led me down a seriously dark path…
Because almost everyone that graduated from there “made it”, but I never did. I never could. I tried, really hard, but I’m almost totally done.
I just, for whatever reason, can’t make it. And I fundamentally cannot live with that.
Other than that, yeah, kind of similar…
I guess I was already an outcast by then, though (say, from around eighth/ninth grade), so… ALL those groups hated me. All of them mocked me. None of them really seemed to want me around…
Thus, I guess my experience was just a bit different.
I should have left in 12th grade, and gone somewhere else. I knew shit was going wrong. I did try, but unsurprisingly my parents wouldn’t have any of that…
And now… I seem to be just about the only “failure” I know of from that finishing year (and indeed beyond).
I really can’t live with that anymore.
Sorry to bring things down so much…
I’m just… I’m honestly very done.
And school is… A huge part of how that came to be. Unfortunately…
In the end, not everyone makes it.
I’m happy to accept that.
I can’t live with it. But I can “admit and accept” it.
In the end we are what we make ourselves, and me (or the idiots in the OP) blaming high school isn’t going to help that.
I failed, and that just… Is. It’s no one’s “fault”, it just is.
Some of us have to fail, and fall, so that others can make it, I guess.
I’m glad you sound like your experience worked out ok, though.
Not sure I'd say it worked out that well, but I can't blame school, parent or anything like that. But on my shit health (nothing serious but highly inconvenient).
It's always worth remembering that most people have their own problems and they tend to hide them publicly.
I can just present myself as a CFO of a business I made and funded, a business that is improving and becoming a success.
But I also have my problems that I hide from most, if not all people.
When looking at others it's worth remembering that everyone has their own problems but will still project the illusion of a good life.
This is true.
I guess I just got tired of pretending to be “fine”, though, tbh…
Because yeah, I’m really not. 😑
Absolutely everything has gone wrong. Not denying my own responsibility for that, at all, but yeah, truly, it’s all gone to shit…
And I have, like, very little left to give…
Congrats on the CFO thing though - that’s awesome! 😄
That’s definitely a significant achievement in my book.
Mostly right time right place to be honest. Brother and a "friend" wanted to start a company but had no capital. Me, my father and a big name accountant each placed money to start it up (with my father lending money to them to form their share). I handled most a lot of the decision making of the back end of the thing (type of business, filing papers and deciding on how to split shares so that they had a fair share of decisions, etc) so I ended up as CFO.
The "friend" bailed, the accountant died, our 1st few big projects got bad timing killed by google but now things are looking up (my brother is even getting minimum wage now) that said it has been a costly 8 years but hopefully it will fully pay off. As long as I get to have a comfortable life I'm fine with not having the traditional happy family thing.
Sometimes life is about taking the shit it throws at you and making fertilizer to grow some lemons. I learned to enjoy the shit life handed me as challenge to be overcome in the game of life and thus managing to get a sense of peace and contentment with it even if I probably won't get the traditional happy life.
And then along comes a based Pepe account to really hammer home how good shit used to be
How did american media manufacture so many people who hate America?
We called people faggots and retards all the time. I graduated in 2012.
It was normal and it was ok, because nobody really meant it like "this guy is homosexual/brain damaged and therefore subhuman"
It was just something you say, like Bill Burr said in a segment. Everyone was a fag.
I too got bullied mercilessly in High School.
Not for being a faggot, but for almost literally everything else...
I survived, somehow.
Adult life is, for the most part, so much worse than High School is generally ever going to be (with exceptions, regularly posted here).
These pathetic wastes of their parents' gametes wouldn't know the first thing about hardship, let alone how bad bullying can get...
If you're alive, in your I presume 20s or 30s, and you're on Twitter to whine about "waaah, they called me a faggot in High School", I don't think you had it anywhere near as hard as you think you did.
/endrant
Something I've noticed that this highlights really well is that zoomers have absolutely no sense for the flow of time. The 2000s was twenty years ago. Even as a child in the '00s, I understood that people in the 80s were essentially the same as me. Fashion was different and the emerging technologies were different, but we both had fashion and emerging technology.
Children today are fully communist-ized. The only time is now.