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Underdiscussed: Everyone thought future would be better until around 2008

Generation after generation of humans rooted in visions of m...
jet stage rigor
  10/13/25
i dont think this is underdiscussed, pretty much everyone sa...
fragrant stock car
  10/13/25
everyone gripes about boomers, yeah. but have we really c...
jet stage rigor
  10/13/25
it's not a 1000+ year old bedrock assumption, it's very much...
Canary bat-shit-crazy brunch
  10/13/25
cr this is like 200 year old stuff. ever heard of the black ...
fragrant stock car
  10/13/25
has any generation screwed over future generations as much a...
Pontificating violent cruise ship
  10/13/25
This also explains why boomers never considered the downside...
Passionate Space French Chef
  10/13/25
I'm convined that juice just reset the timeline periodically...
Glittery electric furnace trust fund
  10/13/25
A covenant was brok3n but not the one you afe imagining.
Odious gay wizard property
  10/13/25
Boomers broke the covenant in multivariate ways: 1. Tech ...
Floppy cordovan chapel
  10/13/25
Disagree It's essentially an article of faith within Chri...
Stirring Indecent Dilemma Juggernaut
  10/13/25
hmmm what happened in 2008...
metal senate
  10/13/25
yeah electing a literal nigger homosexual communist as "...
Talented turquoise depressive den
  10/13/25
Remember the “Tea Party” lmao Cons were like ...
harsh persian locale
  10/13/25
You dirty bitches should have voted for Ron Paul. Motherfuck...
heady macaca
  10/13/25
in retrospect the Tea Party was the only thing that would ha...
bistre heaven
  10/13/25
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Talented turquoise depressive den
  10/13/25
the tea party was actually completely based
Talented turquoise depressive den
  10/13/25
this is both discussed constantly and completely false
180 dysfunction
  10/13/25


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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:09 AM
Author: jet stage rigor

Generation after generation of humans rooted in visions of material and qualitative progress. The fucking Jetsons.

This entire worldview collapsed, within our adult lives. Seems like a major historical event.

Imagine the genpop now believing "oh yeah my kids will be much richer and better off than I am, or their grandparents were. Happier, prospering, beyond the frontier of new tech which will make everything wonderful."

This is the fundamental birth-rate issue. If pressed to move further, I think it's because Boomers broke a covenant that was many millennia old.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49345653)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:11 AM
Author: fragrant stock car

i dont think this is underdiscussed, pretty much everyone says this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49345657)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:35 AM
Author: jet stage rigor

everyone gripes about boomers, yeah.

but have we really come to terms with a 1000+ year old bedrock assumption about human society ("the future will be better") being discarded? And only in the last 25-30 years (at most)?

Feels as big as Constantine converting or something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49345671)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:38 AM
Author: Canary bat-shit-crazy brunch

it's not a 1000+ year old bedrock assumption, it's very much a modern phenomenon. for most of human history jack shit changed over the course of 100 years or whatever and civilizations went backwards all the time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49345674)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:40 AM
Author: fragrant stock car

cr this is like 200 year old stuff. ever heard of the black plague champ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49345676)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:11 AM
Author: Pontificating violent cruise ship

has any generation screwed over future generations as much as American boomers?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49345659)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:36 AM
Author: Passionate Space French Chef

This also explains why boomers never considered the downsides of open borders

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49345672)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Glittery electric furnace trust fund

I'm convined that juice just reset the timeline periodically and dump us out like yahtzee dice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49345679)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:54 AM
Author: Odious gay wizard property

A covenant was brok3n but not the one you afe imagining.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49345694)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 1:32 PM
Author: Floppy cordovan chapel

Boomers broke the covenant in multivariate ways:

1. Tech advancement stalled hard starting the second boomers graduated from college. Peter Thiel discusses this. They suck at Engineering and thus the idea of a jetsons-like future went by the wayside with Cars getting worse every year and America being too dumb to make electronics/consoles/Games

2. They are the first gen to ngaf about “god” and reproducing for His sake

3. Taking ALL of the damn money in every way possible + all the other shit we complain about

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49346155)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 1:58 PM
Author: Stirring Indecent Dilemma Juggernaut

Disagree

It's essentially an article of faith within Christianity that this world is hopelessly corrupted and constantly getting worse. Proof of this is basically everywhere. Try opening a history book sometime.

90's America was a completely insane aberration in the overall arc of human history.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49346217)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 1:59 PM
Author: metal senate

hmmm what happened in 2008...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49346221)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:00 PM
Author: Talented turquoise depressive den

yeah electing a literal nigger homosexual communist as "President" was definitely a pretty big "blackpill" for our civilization

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49346226)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:04 PM
Author: harsh persian locale

Remember the “Tea Party” lmao

Cons were like “Fuck. McCain’s going to lose. We have to start complaining about spending again.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49346233)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:12 PM
Author: heady macaca

You dirty bitches should have voted for Ron Paul. Motherfuckers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49346246)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:14 PM
Author: bistre heaven

in retrospect the Tea Party was the only thing that would have combat the boomer looting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49346254)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: Talented turquoise depressive den



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49346267)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: Talented turquoise depressive den

the tea party was actually completely based

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49346270)



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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:06 PM
Author: 180 dysfunction

this is both discussed constantly and completely false

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786001&forum_id=2E#49346238)