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I came across probably one of the worst hit pieces on Millennials. Like worst than that Time article: Tips for managing those pampered, egalitarian millennials Choice quotes: quote:Many millennials were raised by “helicopter” parents — parents who hovered over them and made sure their offspring had every opportunity and recognition, warranted or not! As a result, Gen Y as a whole has an entitlement outlook. They want what they want, and they want it now. Entitled, egalitarian, short attention spans, all the buzzwords to put an entire generation down. But don't stereotype guys 
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Oct 23, 2013 16:55
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Why don't these insolent twentysomethings have any respect for our outdated decorum? 
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Oct 23, 2013 17:20
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seiferguy posted:"...had every opportunity and recognition, warranted or not!" Welp, that's it folks. Some of us just simply do not deserve opportunities in life or recognition as human beings. We'd best lie down in the street and die.
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Oct 23, 2013 17:26
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'Likely to treat everyone the same' is a slight against millenials.
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Oct 23, 2013 17:30
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quote:They are unimpressed by rank or position and view everyone — from the CEO to the mail clerk — as an equal. They are likely to treat everyone the same, using a casual, informal conversational style OH gently caress!
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Oct 23, 2013 17:33
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Tibeerius posted:I'm bracing myself for my company's "Benefits Overview Meeting" next week. HR has already announced that "due to rising claims costs", our premiums will be going up 25%. I'll be very curious to hear their rationale for this... healthcare premiums have only risen 4% each year for the past three years, so 25% is quite the deviation from the norm! Surprisingly, not terrible. In fact, it went pretty darn well! Apparently the jump in premiums is due to a legitimate surge in claims, as well as us having unusually low increases the past few years which is finally catching up with us. Well... some good old-fashioned mismanagement may also be to blame, but that was strictly from reading between the lines. However, not only was the ACA not blamed, but the presenter went out of her way - completely unsolicited - to counter the "Obamacare = more expensive" meme, and stressed that its impact on the increase was minimal. So yeah, hooray for my company not being completely crappy! 
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Oct 23, 2013 17:34
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I like how the supposed negative side effects of helicopter parenting are held against millennials and not the generation of their parents.
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Oct 23, 2013 17:34
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Nevvy Z posted:I like how the supposed negative side effects of helicopter parenting are held against millennials and not the generation of their parents. I also don't get where this stereotype comes from. Neither I nor none of my peers have helicopter parents. I don't know of anyone who had. I wouldn't even know about the term if media didn't keep asserting it as an infantilization tactic against my generation. Did you know that millenials also do the social media and work entry level jobs? EDIT: One time my dad offered to kick my manager's rear end for giving me a hard time but I think he just wanted to beat someone up.
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Oct 23, 2013 17:44
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Nevvy Z posted:I like how the supposed negative side effects of helicopter parenting are held against millennials and not the generation of their parents. It is their fault for being so helpless!
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Oct 23, 2013 17:47
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Nevvy Z posted:I like how the supposed negative side effects of helicopter parenting are held against millennials and not the generation of their parents. Uh, exactly what societal ills have the late-stage baby boomers, aka THE ACTUAL GREATEST GENERATION, caused exactly???
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Oct 23, 2013 18:02
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Some nutjob on my Facebook page posted an article about how the Gubmint is requiring that children have a doctor's note in order to bring lunch to school with them. 
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Oct 23, 2013 18:18
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Kro-Bar posted:Some nutjob on my Facebook page posted an article about how the Gubmint is requiring that children have a doctor's note in order to bring lunch to school with them.
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Oct 23, 2013 19:03
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Kro-Bar posted:Some nutjob on my Facebook page posted an article about how the Gubmint is requiring that children have a doctor's note in order to bring lunch to school with them. Interesting thing from the link is how food nutty the parents are. 10 to 1 it's a trolling attempt over how dumb these people are (seriously, GMO has serious problems, but health issues to people aren't one of them) Plus there's some chemtrails garbage in there too for some extra insanity.
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Oct 23, 2013 19:11
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I'm glad that they're forcing everyone to eat the same lunches. Instead of only worrying about your own child's health you now have to make sure that everyone is taken care of. I think that the teachers and administrators should have to eat those same lunches too.
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Oct 23, 2013 19:18
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Kro-Bar posted:Some nutjob on my Facebook page posted an article about how the Gubmint is requiring that children have a doctor's note in order to bring lunch to school with them. What the gently caress is "Federal Programs Preschool"? Is that like the actual name of a preschool? Because I can't find any reference to it other than this letter when googling. fake edit: oh just found it it's a school called Federal Programs Preschool and their decisions are not the same as a US Federal Government mandate, what the hell people
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Oct 23, 2013 19:24
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You gotta admit, that square pizza was the poo poo.
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Oct 23, 2013 19:25
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De Nomolos posted:You gotta admit, that square pizza was the poo poo. Especially the Mexican one.
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Oct 23, 2013 19:58
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I'm glad that they're forcing everyone to eat the same lunches. Instead of only worrying about your own child's health you now have to make sure that everyone is taken care of. Agree with the sentiment, but I think that most adults couldn't stand the kid sized portions, and might want to eat something sour or bitter, which apparently are kryptonite for kids.
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Oct 23, 2013 20:04
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Grem posted:Coming soon to a Facebook near you... false flag fainting! I'm currently going back and forth on FB with 4 of my coworkers on this (whom all believe it). I've asked if they have watched her other videos because they are all agreeing with a legitimately mentally ill person.
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Oct 23, 2013 20:28
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De Nomolos posted:You gotta admit, that square pizza was the poo poo. Especially when it was merely lukewarm, which is how I got it every time I ordered it.
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Oct 23, 2013 20:44
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Why would it even MATTER if the fainting was fake? 
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Oct 23, 2013 21:00
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I got one! I got one! My cousin posted this. Our moms' family is of German descent and my cousins are weirdly proud of it for some reason (it's not bad or good, but just really has no effect on their lives or my life, so w/e). Now, I think she's being a little clueless here and since we're Canadian maybe she doesn't realize the co0nnection with Obama's campaign. I don't think I'll correct her to avoid embarassing her, but I definitely did a double take going through FB. 
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Oct 23, 2013 21:06
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ratbert90 posted:Why would it even MATTER if the fainting was fake? Because it exposes Obama as a liar who uses theatrics to push his agenda. If it was real it might be a good indication of a more problematic larger picture. But theyre just chasing windmills.
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Oct 23, 2013 21:07
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RagnarokAngel posted:But theyre just chasing windmills.
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Oct 23, 2013 21:08
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ratbert90 posted:Why would it even MATTER if the fainting was fake? Because Obama is literally the personification of everything bad that has or ever will happen, and thus it is impossible for him to do a good thing without having to stage it. Real answer: They think it was to make Obamacare look better somehow.
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Oct 23, 2013 21:09
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HipGnosis posted:I got one! I got one! I can't even remember the last time I've seen the Obama campaign logo being used outside of conservative image macros.
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Oct 23, 2013 21:20
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I don't think you get it. Obama's policies are just like gassing millions of people, but instead of noxious gas they get affordable healthcare.
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Oct 23, 2013 21:28
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HipGnosis posted:I got one! I got one! Consider the actual message of this image macro outside of "Obama is totally a Nazi". It suggests that we must avoid hope and change at all costs, lest we turn into mass-murderers. Any attempt to make the world a better place automatically makes you into a Nazi.
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Oct 23, 2013 21:34
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Respond with this. 
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Oct 23, 2013 22:53
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Wojtek posted:I don't think you get it. Obama's policies are just like gassing millions of people, but instead of noxious gas they get affordable healthcare. I've tried this in a real life political conversation. I laid the sarcasm on really thick, including statements like "We're having a reasonable discussion here, that's in good taste, that compares the systematic murder of over ten million people, to a healthcare policy" It worked really well. Use at your own risk if everyone in the conversation is nuts.
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Oct 23, 2013 23:42
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FuzzySkinner posted:I just saw tagged under "TCOT" a photoshopped picture that featured a member of the Marine Corp with a gun pointed at the President's head. Wow, just when I thought I couldn't be shocked by any political meme The rest of his twitter is basically conservative macros too. It's got the "presidents in uniform" one, lots of "lol healthcare" and the like. I reported it
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Oct 24, 2013 00:34
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Not that I think anyone should be photoshopping an assassination of a world leader, but is "secret service shuts down offending sites" a pretty US-specific thing for industrialized nations, or do other countries do the same thing?
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Oct 24, 2013 00:43
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Countblanc posted:Not that I think anyone should be photoshopping an assassination of a world leader, but is "secret service shuts down offending sites" a pretty US-specific thing for industrialized nations, or do other countries do the same thing? They aren't going to shut anything down. Most likely scenario is that they are going to show up to his door and have a nice long conversation about why posting threats against the president is a really bad idea. God knows Something Awful has had enough secret service attention and its still running.
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Oct 24, 2013 00:53
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Countblanc posted:Not that I think anyone should be photoshopping an assassination of a world leader, but is "secret service shuts down offending sites" a pretty US-specific thing for industrialized nations, or do other countries do the same thing? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/us/felony-counts-and-jail-in-140-characters.html It's not so much it getting shut down, but it could be considered a threat. It's a very, very, very dumb thing to post what he posted. It doesn't exactly help that his page is filled with Confederate flags and other racist images.
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Oct 24, 2013 00:53
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I am curious about his point though, is this an exclusively US thing? Or in the UK would they come knocking on your door if you photoshopped a picture assassinating the Queen?
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Oct 24, 2013 01:09
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Oh my god, thank you for reminding me I've been meaning to read this! Edit: also, European countries tend to have much STRICTER hate speech and so on laws, so I'd expect legal crushing although maybe not immediate shutdown.
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Oct 24, 2013 01:32
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:They aren't going to shut anything down. Most likely scenario is that they are going to show up to his door and have a nice long conversation about why posting threats against the president is a really bad idea. God knows Something Awful has had enough secret service attention and its still running. The Secret Service would much rather have a lunatic keep on broadcasting his thoughts to the world. A free and easy way to see what they're up to, instead of wasting resources trying to track these guys around. And the Secret Service is pretty relentless about investigating even the slightest threats, but that's largely because all the would-be and successful assassins don't really fit any profile. You've got total loons like Hinckley, nationalists/ideological militants like the ones that targeted Clinton and Bush, lone wolves like Oswald, etc. Emanuel Collective fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Oct 24, 2013 |
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Emanuel Collective posted:The Secret Service would much rather have a lunatic keep on broadcasting his thoughts to the world. A free and easy way to see what they're up to, instead of wasting resources trying to track these guys around. I don't know about that. I remember years ago on SA there was a thread where some 13 year old kid that threatened to blow up Bush with a nuclear bomb, obviously an impossible threat. Some goon called the Secret Service and they actually went out and talked to him. No actual charges or anything if I remember correctly, but they take those kinds of things very seriously.
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Oct 24, 2013 02:02
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RagnarokAngel posted:I am curious about his point though, is this an exclusively US thing? Or in the UK would they come knocking on your door if you photoshopped a picture assassinating the Queen? In the UK they come knock on your door if you post in the megathread here about protesting the olympics. This actually happened. Our police kill a few less people than Americas, maybe, but they have about the same general respect for the public and sense of humour.
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gradenko_2000 posted:You should throw back a map that's scales the areas by population density.A whole lot of "Red America" is just empty rural space. Yes. Cartograms are great for showing just what the score is with all of the gerrymandering poo poo. There's so much empty space in America the cartogram going by legislative district gets really confusing to look at, but you can see how it matches up; This is the previously linked 2010 map of the House election;  This is a cartogram showing the same map, but each district is scaled by population. Everything goes nightmare mirror.  So, with heavy gerrymandering, this is still the result; just a narrow win for the GOP overall. More useful maps; Here is the House 2008 cartogram;  And here is a map showing the districts that changed hands from 2008 to 2010 to give the GOP a majority in the House;  You can see how many of the districts that changed hands are tiny slivers that the GOP was able to gerrymander into their favor.
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