Comments by "Im Caj" (@KratostheThird) on "ReasonTV" channel.

  1.  @YoungSantasGroupie  NYC/LA/SF are all hellscapes. Also, a lot of people in these cities are hyper sensitive, unable to cope with slight criticism. Most likely due to progressive politics. I live 20 minutes away from Portland, Oregon and it is a real hell scape. Endless tents of homeless people with no hope or will. Extremist leftist groups like Antifa who are driving away a lot of business. I look at San Francisco and find that “Oh, there’s a lot of the same bleak outlook going on there”. Things are not boding well for the West.
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  2.  @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle  Exactly.
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  3.  @JC-sj2pd  What happened back in the 1930s and what is happening in the modern world are entirely different things. Millennials were brought up a certain way and that world they were being prepped for no longer exists. Many still cannot afford homes. I’m 36 years old and I know this all too well. Having to move back in with family and friends is not a sign that our society is moving forward in a good way.
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  4. Boomers were already causing damage back then, hence the 1960s to 1980s transition “I went to Woodstock but then became a yuppie parasite”.
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  5.  @osman1345  Because it’s not sustainable. I blame things like Human Resources because they are part of the reason why applying for work is such a circus. You already jumped thru hoops just to earn your Bachelors Degree and obtain those years of work experience. Now they’re forcing you to jump through more hoops. Baby Boomers were lucky simply for being at the right place at the right time. As a Millennial, I was told to work to the bone and earn a Bachelors Degree, which I did a decade ago. Then the people looking at applicants had the audacity to still reject several people who were qualified. America will collapse from within. It’s only a matter of when.
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  6.  @chrischoy9  I blame the corporate elites and the government.
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  7. Such gated communities normally hold expensive houses or very fancy apartments. There’s probably a list of guidelines to even enter these gated communities. But it’s a classic example of old people living in their ivory towers, angry at those under them. The irony is they themselves created a lot of problems, dating back to the 80’s and 90’s.
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  8.  @Davivd2  Makes sense now why Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur felt the way they did. The same people who were/are negative about Millennials said the same garbage about 2Pac and his Gen X peers. Ronald Reagan also in a way brought up the subcultures of gangster rap and grunge rock as a response to what fundamental christians and neo conservatives were doing.
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  9.  @penny4thought168  I’m glad to hear I’m far from the only one who gets it.
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  10. I'm 40 and I'm renting a home. Think about that. The housing market is bust.
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  11.  @johnevans5782  Is that anything new? Being able to afford living in New York City has not been a possibility for the average person in decades.
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  12. Millennials did this too. Your generation isn’t unique. We had just as many slackers as your generation does.
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  13. You're the minority here Liam. You're utterly delusional. Put yourself in the shoes of others from time to time before you start talking crap about how younger people are brats and they are angry with the way things are.
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  14. It's those who were put into power that put us into this mess after all.
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  15.  @Brandon-n1w7w  At this point I’m far more sympathetic towards Gen X than I am for Boomers. Say what you will on Millennials and Zoomers, but they are victims of this hyper inflation going on. Boomers are sucking Social Security dry and are making younger generations work more for less. It’s why my generation has gotten far more into crypto currency.
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  16.  @dannygreen7473  Couldn’t of said this better myself.
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  17. Two people who looked good on the surface, but did their share of damage to the USA and the UK respectively.
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  18.  @WisdomPrevails369  You live in Detroit, Michigan or Chicago, Illinois, this is your every day reality.
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  19. If you had any inkling of old time black and white shows like Ozzie & Harriet and Leave it To Beaver, it was those Greatest Generation parents pampering their kids with fun and splendor. Who were those kids? Boomers. Boomers went from privileged children in the 1950s to turning around in the late 1960s and becoming the 'don't trust anyone over 30' generation. That did not form in a vacuum, that was the result of cultural changes that they helped cultivate. We now have Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z who all have their share of mental health problems. It's far too late to fix things. It's best to let society collapse and have the survivors rebuild.
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  20. We’re still paying from the Great Recession. It affected the Boomers, Gen X and elder Millennials. Our national debt is crippling our economy, gas is too high, housing is unaffordable, our products are made in other countries to save labor costs. We have made progress in eliminating most cigarette consumption, passed bills to have more clean air and cars, but it’s like you said, we have a long way to go.
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  21.  @johnevans5782  You never heard of the band Nirvana? Kurt Cobain was their head guy before he committed suicide in 1994.
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  22.  @johnevans5782  Elvis was and is regarded by many to be the King. It’s sad that our society can no longer produce legendary talents like Elvis and Michael Jackson.
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  23. A Gen Xer gave me some words of wisdom at work not too long ago. He remembers back in the 80's when Boomers started taking control of national TV talk shows. He hold me they were about 'tough love' and 'punishment'. I look at Howard Stern as the poster boy of Baby Boomer talk show hosts. Rude, condescending, not sympathetic, treating fellow staff like dirt, the list goes on. Perhaps this was how your generation ended up with guys like Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain, both of whom seemed sadistic and unwilling. A portion of you guys probably sniffed glue and did crack and cocaine in the 80's and 90's. But you guys had a justifiable reason for hating Boomers.
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  24.  @penny4thought168  His solution is “pull yourself by the bootstraps” which is a line I’ve heard from over 100 Silent/Boomer age college professors and teachers. I have no sympathy for people who misinterpret what has gone on for over a decade, screwing over two generations of young people who could benefit from actual guidance moving forward. I sure as hell didn’t spend tens of thousands of dollars at a university only to want to be told my degree is useless. I have a second degree which has been more useful, but we can’t change the past, therefore we have to accept that we were too naive and young to see that a portion of college degrees are nothing more than fancy pieces of paper. Universities are no longer creating Tim Berners Lee and other smart pioneers in computer tech. They are generating a generation of kids who are woefully ignorant, have woke ideologies, and seek to shut down anybody who is different than them.
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  25. I disagree. Boomers rebelled against their WW2 parents for being too square and orderly.
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  26. Gen X Independence.
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  27.  @joshuadavid1804  That’s not exactly a rare occurrence. We just had one in Madison.
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  28.  @Animorphster Not surprisingly to see who leads the percentage of wealth.
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  29.  @JamesWilson-sb9iq At least you have videos on your channel, unlike most who come in here whining who have no content at all.
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  30.  @TinnCup  Those can’t be compared with the participation trophies Millennials got back in the 90’s/2000’s. I saw it happen from experience because I was there.
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  31.  @f1champ551  Since Generation X, people in general here in the United States haven’t been given a purpose.
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  32.  @f1champ551  I’ve read books written by World War II veterans who saw what was happening back then. And I can’t help but admire and respect them. The ‘Greatest Generation’ in my view had the best qualities (born circa 1902 to 1926). Tough as nails, determined, passionate and compelled with a purpose. My father had a Korean War veteran as a teacher during his freshman year in highschool (1960s). Didn’t take crap from nobody. Very disciplined and stoic according to what my dad told me. Our schools are now filled with narcissistic Millennial teachers who don’t have a real purpose. They’re handing participation awards to the kids, which is no different than what their Boomer parents did to them. I hate this Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok generation of adult children. 30 year olds today act like the 16 - 18 year olds from decades ago.
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  33. The ones who actually did were the WW2 generation. They’re dead from old age.
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  34. As a Gen Xer your generation was the first to get fucked over.
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  35.  @jesusisdead The Draft was demolished in 1972 - 1974ish. Elder Boomers were sent overseas to fight in Asia during the late 1960’s. However, a portion of the US military was Silent Generation soldiers. Many of whom are now dead. Boomers were the low ranking ones due to their young ages. Middle to late Boomers for the most part have never served in the military. So their opinions on actually serving and picking yourself by the bootstraps are garbage.
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  36.  @eneyi2153  Gen Xers were mistreated by Boomers back in the 80's. Many Boomers, particularly Christian Conservatives, were condescending, and talked down to you, not with you.
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  37. Any Boomer who watches MSNBC 24/7 shouldn't be taken seriously. My advice is limit your interactions with your mother, or simply cut your relations with her.
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  38. And the economy was this way since the 1980’s. Gen X saw this coming 30 years ago.
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  39.  @MajinMist603  Everything that has a beginning has an end. For America, we’re currently experiencing the beginning of the end.
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  40.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  I’m sort of envious that you only had that to pay. When I finished my degree I had to pay a lot more in debt. It’s all thanks to tuition rising and the wages not being able to afford the costs. Why Zoomers are working two jobs to make ends meet.
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  41. Boomers suck. Gen X at least can admit the wrongs in the world.
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  42. Same here. I’m sick of the Boomers telling me crap when they can’t even to understand the situations us Millennials will be facing in the near future.
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  43.  @Attmay  In a sense. Both the Greatest Generation and SIlent Generations struggled to an extent. The Great Depression and WW2 defined the Greatest Generation, whereas 1950s/1960s Segregation and issues like nuclear threats (Cuban Missile Crisis) and the Vietnam War were moreso the Silent Generation. Older Boomers were the Hippies of the 60's. Younger Boomers were the Yuppies of the 80's. Both of them, to a degree, have done a lot to damage America. Most Boomers I know voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 respectively, who did away with mental homes and raised taxes several times. They also approved of NAFTA and a good number of mega corporations are controller by Boomers. They are cold, narcissistic and selfish. This wasn't so much the case with their parents, who had to learn to preserve and value during the Great Depression and WW2. Even the Silent Generation who were too young to experience those events seem much more down to earth and fair.
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  44.  @penny4thought168  Well said.
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  45.  @bdog1323  Seeing that Atari logo was almost a giveaway you are a Gen Xer.
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  46.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  The nice crap is nostalgia. What the Boomers had were career ladders. We don’t have those. Unless you have high credentials then you’re basically stuck in the job you applied for. That’s why we switch jobs so often now. If someone treats us badly, you just get another job somewhere else.
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  47. If the 71 represents the year you were born (1971), then your dislike was justified. My Gen X friends tell me they were treated as latchkey keys. This meant they had to discover things on their own and mature faster, which likely explains why your peers seemed older despite only being 20 - 25 years old. Millennials in contrast were sheltered, grew up on anime and sappy 90’s cartoons, and are more immature in comparison.
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  48.  @jamkat7785  Gen X created Grunge and Gangsta Rap. Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur were the faces of those music genres, as they were Gen Xers themselves.
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  49. It’s the same with mine. You look like a reasonable man. Best of luck moving forward.
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  50. It's good that your dad in his 80s is still trying to contact you. But he likely won't be around to see things get worse in the coming years and decades. I'm concerned for Millennials under 40 and the Zoomers more than anything. Right now things are looking pretty bleak for them.
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