• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    This tracks as generation’s are getting increasingly closer together now. I’m supposedly the same “generation” as people who graduated from school before I was born. Last few years there’s a new generation every few months - zoomers, generation alpha, beta cucks, etc.

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      Seems to math to me? 2002 to 2008 is 6 years, 2008 to 2020 is 12 years, 2020 to 2025 is 5 years

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    See, I exchanged my 100% S&P500 401k to SPAXX in December, waiting for the crash. I’ve made 10%~ doing nothing! It took me a while to realize, but I’m finally going to buy the dip.

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          Unlike wealth, losses usually trickle down. When companies go to bankrupt their employees loose their jobs. Millionaires actually love recessions, Jack Welch said:

          Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.

          The 2002 recession was not as global and universal as later ones. The dot com bubble mostly affected tech companies, and the internet was not as common as nowadays. I asked my parents once how they felt that recession, when I first read about it, I was in school in 2002. They said they didnt even know there was a recession that time, in eastern europe it wasnt noticably worse than the chaos of the 90s

          There is a simpsons episode about the bubble, s13e18, aired in 2002:

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Furious_(Yellow)

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        Didn’t that pay off so well. How many American soldiers were killed, injured, or traumatized? How many innocent Afghani and Iraqi civilians were murdered? And for what? ISIS and the Taliban now have complete control over that entire region.

        And to the people saying how much better Bush was than Trump as well as the dumb as fuck democrats embracing that fucking war criminal Cheney, I say you all need to get your god damned head examined. Trump’s election denialism was born out of the Brooks Bros riot in Florida during the 2000 election and Trump is absolutely hoping for some terrorists to kill Americans so he can declare martial law and suspend elections in order to remain president indefinitely. Bush and Cheney lead to this. This was every republican’s goal.

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          Worth remembering that Trump didn’t recreate the Republican Party, he just embraced the manipulative aspects of republicans and made that his entire thing. Would I rather have Bush or Trump? It’s honestly a tough one. I could see Trump killing our democracy. Maybe that’s worse than the Iraq and Afghanistan war war.

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      I know there have been people predicting they live in the “end times” for all of humanity. But I can’t help but feel like our generation isn’t crying wolf like the others.

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      I was going to say I live in a “50 year flood plain” and I’ve seen 3 floods in the last 16 years.

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        Good thing we dumped the california agriculture water reserves to solve their winter fires.

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    Don’t worry tho, because although everyone’s broke as shit, the houses you bought in the 90s when you were a young child are worth like 10 times as much now!

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        You didn’t know to sell one of your beanie babies to pay for a house? That’s like wu tangs #1 rule: diversify. Going all in on beanie babies is all fun and games until your divorce has you fighting over the most precious things in your life.

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          Pffft, I used money from delivering the morning papers to buy my first house. When I was 11, ELEVEN!!
          However it was the delivering of milk that really helped me afford my first yacht! Every morning for months I got at 4am to deliver it. That was a hard 3 and a half months I can tell you!

          You guys should just pull yourselves up by the avocados, and stop eating so many bootstraps!!

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    Ill give a small example here how I know we are fucked. I leased a vehicle for 1900 a month back in 2022, the lease is up in October. I just bought a new 100,000 dollar truck today, I’m over 200,000 in debt already with barely enough to cover my monthly payments. They should not have given me this truck. But I’m a business, they give me anything. Sure I’ll make 2 mill this year but they never once asked anything once I said a company was buying it. I’m personally saving money on this transaction but the fact that the financial system allowed this to happen worrying to say the least.

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      Don’t worry. People like my parents will blame poor people for accepting loans that they can’t pay.

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        I work in environmental reclamation, I haul things a lot. And travel down rough roads a lot. I’m actually downsizing to this truck because the other ones are too damn expensive.

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        Could need a pickup with the tool boxes and shit built in, or maybe a hydraulic lift. My family owned a construction company for decades, and we always had one of those in the driveway, and while I don’t know how much they were, they were definitely more expensive.

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        He works with software so it’s probably because it occasionally snows where he lives and his micropenis.

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          After skimming @[email protected] post history I didn’t notice anything about working in tech nor having it snow where they live, but I did notice a lot of posts about killing their neighbors, which was concerning to say the least

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            I did a quick check and they’re definitely Canadian and recently went to CES. So I think “snows” is a given and “works in tech” is extremely likely.

            I really hate looking at people’s post history though, so please don’t harass person.

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    2002: We lost the house 2008: got evicted from apartment 2020: dad died from covid 2025: let’s see how it goes this time

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      That’s fucking rough dude, I hope the world throws you a bone this time and just leaves you alone for once.

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        He partially has lungs and a vocal chord ?

        Though it reminds me of a conversation you can over hear in one of the Baldurs Gate games between to skeletons, who talk themselves into how they shouldn’t function, and then promptly fall to the floor in a pile.