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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:06:55 PM EDT
GI Generation
BORN 1901-1924 They were teenagers during the Great Depression and fought in World War II. Sometimes called the greatest generation (following a book by journalist Tom Brokaw) or the swing generation because of their jazz music. 
Silent Generation BORN 1925-1942 They were too young to see action in World War II and too old to participate in the fun of the Summer of Love. This label describes their conformist tendencies and belief that following the rules was a sure ticket to success. 
Baby Boomers BORN 1943-1964 The boomers were born during an economic and baby boom following World War II. These hippie kids protested against the Vietnam War and participated in the civil rights movement, all with rock 'n' roll music blaring in the background. 
Generation X BORN 1965-1979 They were originally called the baby busters because fertility rates fell after the boomers. As teenagers, they experienced the AIDs epidemic and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Sometimes called the MTV Generation, the "X" in their name refers to this generation's desire not to be defined. 
Millennials BORN 1980-2000 Being said to be entitled and narcissistic, millennials love selfies and talking about themselves. 
Generation Z BORN 2001-2013 Generation Z, or sometimes referred to as iGeneration, are born in the digital age and grew up with the Internet. They are probably the most technology-dependent generation. 
Source: http://projects.scpr.org/timelines/american-generations-timeline/ |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:14:10 PM EDT
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Millennials are winning
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:16:09 PM EDT
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FPNI. sadly millenials are the worst generation.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:17:10 PM EDT
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Silent Generation.....They put in the work and were grateful for what they earned in life because most did not have much growing up as kids during the Great Depression.
Dad was OK because of the farm he grew-up on. They had no money but they had food. Mom had a much tougher go of it and suffered from real malnutrition as a kid. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:17:50 PM EDT
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Is it generational hate day already?
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:18:22 PM EDT
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Why are the descriptions always so negative as we move forward in time? Our generation has a shit ton of veterans. And why is the fact that our generation has provided the fighters for the longest war in us history not worthy of being a defining characteristic? What about our advances in technology, software, computing, energy, etc.. Why depict the generation as being addicted to it? Why is the free software movement never associated with x or millennials?
The technology addiction stuff really drives me crazy. We control the tech, we shape it, we deal it. The users and addicts are the 20 older folks I see at a restaurant sitting on their phone playing facebook or candy crush. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:18:57 PM EDT
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FPNI. sadly millenials are the worst generation. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:19:09 PM EDT
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The Millennials are the greatest generation, After all, look how many trophies they've won!
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:21:05 PM EDT
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LOL @ the millenials voting for themselves. So.....unexpected.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:21:39 PM EDT
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Whichever one returns America to its founding principles.
So it's either the younger generations or they haven't been born yet. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:21:43 PM EDT
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I'm a Boomer who always hated my peers. So I have always self-identified as GI.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:22:11 PM EDT
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Where's Generation Y?
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:22:39 PM EDT
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Where's Generation Y? |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:22:44 PM EDT
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I don't want to be one of those people that whines about their generation, but I hate my generation. (Millennial)
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:22:46 PM EDT
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Millenial here, voted GI Generation!
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:23:06 PM EDT
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Silent Generation.....They put in the work and were grateful for what they earned in life because most did not have much growing up as kids during the Great Depression. We grew up in an upper middle class area with lots of spoiled brats. Dad was frugal to the end. I wish I was more like him. On the upside, while I was a bit of a brat in my teens and 20s, my three kids are not spoiled brats, even though I've given them every reason to be. I guess the good genes skip a generation (me). I think that's the main reason for our country's slide - the good generations (greatest, silent) unwittingly raised a bunch of spoiled brats (gen x), and gen x raised a bunch of narcissistic, self-centered, spoiled brats. I can only imagine what the next generation will be like. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:23:25 PM EDT
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Cant we just all agree to hate liberals of every generation?
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:23:27 PM EDT
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The "greatest" generation is basically responsible for setting us down the path to progressive socialism. So fuck those guys. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:23:53 PM EDT
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I have been meeting (or noticing) more and more Vietnam vets these days at shooting events and things. They are in their 60s but may of them are still quite hard; strong, fit, straight, and industrious. I will not give their generation blanket praise because, after all, the other half of their generation are dirty hippies BUT some of the Boomers rival anything I heard about the Greatest Generation.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:24:33 PM EDT
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The "greatest" generation is basically responsible for setting us down the path to progressive socialism. So fuck those guys. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:25:00 PM EDT
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I voted the GI Generation but you know what, the only reason they're the greatest generation is because they actually had to get involved. I mean, literally, it was life or death. Since WW2, we are so fucking powerful, the subsequent generations have been able to get slack and lazy. But the fact of the matter is, when the shit hits the fan, we Americans step up to the plate. There are always boys and girls who put away their toys and pick up a rifle when the call goes out, and the kids nowadays are smarter and more sophisticated now than they were even back in my day (70s on up).
So, yeah, the GI Generation was the Greatest Generation but EVERY American generation has the potential to be the greatest generation. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:25:06 PM EDT
[#21]
Thanks for putting the effort into a nice post, with pictures and everything, OP.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:26:07 PM EDT
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I voted the GI Generation but you know what, the only reason they're the greatest generation is because they actually had to get involved. I mean, literally, it was life or death. Since WW2, we are so fucking powerful, the subsequent generations have been able to get slack and lazy. But the fact of the matter is, when the shit hits the fan, we Americans step up to the plate. There are always boys and girls who put away their toys and pick up a rifle when the call goes out, and the kids nowadays are smarter and more sophisticated now than they were even back in my day (70s on up). So, yeah, the GI Generation was the Greatest Generation but EVERY American generation has the potential to be the greatest generation. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:26:46 PM EDT
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Cant we just all agree to hate liberals of every generation? 
It's too easy to lump everyone of a specific generation into a group, point fingers, and autistically screech "IT'S THEIR FAULT!". |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:27:04 PM EDT
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Hopefully you're joking. Otherwise that's the dumbest post of the week (so far). |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:29:04 PM EDT
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To be fair it was the people who were voting age when the social security act was signed in 1935, this was the lynchpin. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The "greatest" generation is basically responsible for setting us down the path to progressive socialism. So fuck those guys. Each generation listed has thus far built of the dumb fuckery of their predecessors, instead of rolling it back. I blame centralized media control and government "education". Now with the Internet we have a chance to break the cycle, maybe. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:29:10 PM EDT
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Poll fail.
No 1730 to 1760, or so. ETA: or so. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:30:59 PM EDT
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Y = Millenials. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Where's Generation Y? Some stupid retard decided to lump Generation Y with the Millennials.... There is a huge difference between the two, Gen Ys HATE Millennials with a passion. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:31:07 PM EDT
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The GI generation voted for the social security act which started this whole mess. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I voted the GI Generation but you know what, the only reason they're the greatest generation is because they actually had to get involved. I mean, literally, it was life or death. Since WW2, we are so fucking powerful, the subsequent generations have been able to get slack and lazy. But the fact of the matter is, when the shit hits the fan, we Americans step up to the plate. There are always boys and girls who put away their toys and pick up a rifle when the call goes out, and the kids nowadays are smarter and more sophisticated now than they were even back in my day (70s on up). So, yeah, the GI Generation was the Greatest Generation but EVERY American generation has the potential to be the greatest generation. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:31:23 PM EDT
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FPNI. sadly millenials are the worst generation. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:31:36 PM EDT
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Before that it was the income tax, we've been in an accelerating slide to the left for a century+. Each generation has thus far built of the dumb fuckery of their predecessors, instead of rolling it back. I blame centralized media control and government "education". Now with the Internet we have a chance to break the cycle, maybe. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:32:33 PM EDT
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Yeah, no..... Some stupid retard decided to lump Generation Y with the Millennials.... There is a huge difference between the two, Gen Ys HATES Millennials with a passion. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Where's Generation Y? Some stupid retard decided to lump Generation Y with the Millennials.... There is a huge difference between the two, Gen Ys HATES Millennials with a passion. They aren't Gen X or Gen Z, but in between them. Which oddly enough is also the spot Millenials occupy They're two names for the same thing. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:33:07 PM EDT
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Hopefully you're joking. Otherwise that's the dumbest post of the week (so far). Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The "greatest" generation is basically responsible for setting us down the path to progressive socialism. So fuck those guys. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:33:13 PM EDT
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Yeah, no..... Some stupid retard decided to lump Generation Y with the Millennials.... There is a huge difference between the two, Gen Ys HATES Millennials with a passion. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:34:08 PM EDT
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This. Mom and Dad both grew up in very modest homes in NYC. Dad busted his ass, worked full time while going to school at night for SIX YEARS, got his accounting degree, then got his CPA. We grew up in an upper middle class area with lots of spoiled brats. Dad was frugal to the end. I wish I was more like him. On the upside, while I was a bit of a brat in my teens and 20s, my three kids are not spoiled brats, even though I've given them every reason to be. I guess the good genes skip a generation (me). I think that's the main reason for our country's slide - the good generations (greatest, silent) unwittingly raised a bunch of spoiled brats (gen x), and gen x raised a bunch of narcissistic, self-centered, spoiled brats. I can only imagine what the next generation will be like. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Silent Generation.....They put in the work and were grateful for what they earned in life because most did not have much growing up as kids during the Great Depression. We grew up in an upper middle class area with lots of spoiled brats. Dad was frugal to the end. I wish I was more like him. On the upside, while I was a bit of a brat in my teens and 20s, my three kids are not spoiled brats, even though I've given them every reason to be. I guess the good genes skip a generation (me). I think that's the main reason for our country's slide - the good generations (greatest, silent) unwittingly raised a bunch of spoiled brats (gen x), and gen x raised a bunch of narcissistic, self-centered, spoiled brats. I can only imagine what the next generation will be like. BTW.....The kids of those born during the Great Depression are Boomers for the most part....My parents were born in '32, I was born in '55. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:34:09 PM EDT
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Millenials are great at whining, but have yet to accomplish or produce anything.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:34:53 PM EDT
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Yea true, I guess social security was undoable without federal income tax. Good point. We need more than the internet though, I'm banking on a VR/Matrix style world we can put the leftists in. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Before that it was the income tax, we've been in an accelerating slide to the left for a century+. Each generation has thus far built of the dumb fuckery of their predecessors, instead of rolling it back. I blame centralized media control and government "education". Now with the Internet we have a chance to break the cycle, maybe. It's no longer so easy to brainwash kids in the schools and then continue the indoctrination with the controlled media. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:35:06 PM EDT
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Millenials are great at whining, but have yet to accomplish or produce anything. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:35:43 PM EDT
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Millenials are great at whining, but have yet to accomplish or produce anything. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:37:01 PM EDT
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Yeah, no..... Some stupid retard decided to lump Generation Y with the Millennials.... There is a huge difference between the two, Gen Ys HATE Millennials with a passion. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:37:38 PM EDT
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So what years encapsulate Gen Y in your mind? They aren't Gen X or Gen Z, but in between them. Which oddly enough is also the spot Millenials occupy They're two names for the same thing. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Where's Generation Y? Some stupid retard decided to lump Generation Y with the Millennials.... There is a huge difference between the two, Gen Ys HATES Millennials with a passion. They aren't Gen X or Gen Z, but in between them. Which oddly enough is also the spot Millenials occupy They're two names for the same thing. In todays world we still had to actually work to get somewhere in this world and are not expecting a hand out. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:39:19 PM EDT
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Millenials are great at whining, but have yet to accomplish or produce anything. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:40:00 PM EDT
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I look at it as born in the 80s, last children to be spanked, still know what a floppy disk is, etc.. In todays world we still had to actually work to get somewhere in this world and are not expecting a hand out. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Where's Generation Y? Some stupid retard decided to lump Generation Y with the Millennials.... There is a huge difference between the two, Gen Ys HATES Millennials with a passion. They aren't Gen X or Gen Z, but in between them. Which oddly enough is also the spot Millenials occupy They're two names for the same thing. In todays world we still had to actually work to get somewhere in this world and are not expecting a hand out. Consider that the Millenial generation currently includes people from ages of early thirties to early teens. One grew up in a different time than the others because our country has turned hard left in the last decade. Also the early Millenials experienced the economic recession while the later ones are blissfully oblivious because they weren't in the workforce. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:41:28 PM EDT
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You're wrong but I do agree 20 year generation gaps failed us millennials. There's a pretty distinct difference between 80s babies and 90s babies. If you grew up while the internet was still taking shape you probably identify more with Xers, if not and it already existed you probably identify more with the stereotypical millennial (basically people who were on myspace). Funny you bring up the internet, good ol Prodigy internet and MS Dos was the way to go. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:41:37 PM EDT
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The "greatest" generation is basically responsible for setting us down the path to progressive socialism. So fuck those guys. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:44:02 PM EDT
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Millennial here
I voted for GI, how is millennial second with 18% of the vote? |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:44:30 PM EDT
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I guess you're one of those people who doesn't realize our cyber dominance is what will ensure we run things well into the future. But fuck us, right? Millennials? ---- SnapChat. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:45:14 PM EDT
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Millennial here I voted for GI, how is millennial second with 18% of the vote? |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:46:49 PM EDT
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Yeah, no..... Some stupid retard decided to lump Generation Y with the Millennials.... There is a huge difference between the two, Gen Ys HATE Millennials with a passion. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Where's Generation Y? Some stupid retard decided to lump Generation Y with the Millennials.... There is a huge difference between the two, Gen Ys HATE Millennials with a passion. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:47:57 PM EDT
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were Baby Boomers. The internet was created by Baby Boomers. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:49:01 PM EDT
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were Baby Boomers. The internet was created by Baby Boomers. Millennials? ---- SnapChat. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I guess you're one of those people who doesn't realize our cyber dominance is what will ensure we run things well into the future. But fuck us, right? Millennials? ---- SnapChat. 
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