• DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      And racism too.

      (CW: discussion of racist caricatures)

      the Ima firin’ mah lazer meme was supposed to be Cell in blackface at first, and let’s not get started on all the “Muslim bad. ‘Murica f*** yeah!” nonsense

      • FedPosterman5000 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        Hey now - don’t forget ableism!!

        This message brought to you by Ableism - ‘You thought things were bad now? It’s actually the best it’s ever been!’ Ableism! Shut up and work!™️ -*disclaimer - sentence may be applied to most other types of bigotry (in the US)- but the message is the same, ‘get back to work you, ******* ********** *******

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            So much mixed emotions around not being diagnosed with any mental health conditions in the 90s - sure I didn’t get treatment and developed coping mechanisms that have taken a decade to undo, but at least I only got bullied for being fat (until I learned the value of punching your way out certain situations)

  • cerealkiller [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I miss the 2010s a bit too tbh. Feel like the internet and real life weren’t fully interconnected until post-2020.

    Then again you don’t really miss those times, you just miss being an ignorant kid. Though I do miss stuff actually being able to afford stuff.

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      I’m an elder millennial and I have fond memories of drinking from my cousin’s water hose in the summer when we went outside to play with toy swords.

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        Im a younger GenX, and i remember drinking from the hose regularly. I am a stereotypical genXer in some regards; i drank from the hose, i was a latchkey kid of sorts, i played outside til the streetlight came on. Mostly unregulated, left to my own devices. We also lived out in the middle of the boonies so it likely had something to do with me growing up mostly unsupervised. I got my first shotgun back when it was taller than i was.

        I grew up building forts out in the woods, and sleeping in them overnights. Id take a rifle or my .410 with me and disappear for a day or two during summers. I got to chase frogs, and dig holes, drink stump water, that sort of shit. Maybe my life was more of the typical poor trailer trash in the middle of nowhere than typical GenX, on second thought.