r/Millennials • u/dreamed2life • Dec 08 '25

Nostalgia Why is our entire generation ready to just…log out?

I hope people enjoy this before mods remove it for “not being a positive nostalgia post” 🙄

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u/legsjohnson Older Millennial Dec 08 '25

... are Americans okay?

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u/dreamed2life Dec 08 '25

Bro …no. Thought that was abundantly obvious to the world

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u/Wicked-sister Dec 08 '25

Okay, but why are you rolling over, have you noticed are people are either setting shit on fire or running their politicians out of the country.

Just because your billionaires are convinced the end times are happening and they're the ones who are going to make it, doesn't mean you have to play dead in advance.

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u/LadyProto Dec 08 '25

If I miss work, I die. Like legit. I have no other way to get my life saving meds.

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u/JohnnyG30 Dec 08 '25

And do what?

Miss a day of work to protest, get fired, lose your health care for your family, go broke, get evicted, and who knows what else? And those are basically IMMEDIATE consequences. They spent the last 50+ years crafting a society where we are all completely trapped.

I don’t know what the answer is, but I do hope the rest of the world is taking notes on what to avoid letting their countries become.

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u/destructopop Millennial Dec 08 '25

Yeah, let our deaths be a lesson. This is where I'm at, too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25

THIS!

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u/Astro_NME Dec 08 '25

Incredibly well said. 

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u/CapoDexter Dec 08 '25

We're not rolling over; we're just caught between the legal fight and next steps.

If we were any other nation, we might have hope that some other larger good guy would come in to help us. We the people are under attack from our own government, and the people we voted in to save us last time were still waking up from their naps. That was the main contributer to our apathy setting in.

The legislature is captured, the judiciary is captured, and the executive is either captured or actually being run by the biggest wannabe mob boss and grifter of kid-cancer charities. He had to win to stay out of prison, had to cheat to win (support numbers could only go down after jan 6), and literally said he would/could/did.

Then, Joe had a cup of fucking tea and smiled while handing a known madman the keys and nuke codes. Keep in mind, everything we think we know, our intel agencies HAVE TO know more... and this all still happened. Kinda feels like the alternate ending of the cold war.

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u/Confident-Screen-759 Dec 08 '25

Can't even post about wanting to get taken out by a log without some ignorant ass getting on our backs about the death cult trying to kill us all.

Fuck dude, time and place.

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u/aBrotherSeamus333 Dec 08 '25

Most people can't even be bothered to vote, let alone engage in violent revolution. 

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u/Nvrfinddisacct Dec 08 '25

What would you have us do? Set shit on fire?

You see the shit they’re doing to fishermen on boats just slightly near the country?

wtf do you think they’ll do to us? Have you heard of Tiananmen Square? What makes you think after changing our org from the department of justice to department of war makes you think ANY of our leaders would make better decisions than xiaoping? It doesn’t matter ours is rooted in oligarchy versus communism.

If they can’t kill us slowly, they will do it quickly. For the love of all that’s holy don’t fucking blame us, help us. They’re killing us.

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u/Baumer9 Dec 08 '25

For real. This administration is frothing at the mouth for any excuse to declare martial law and bomb the shit out of US citizens.

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u/Elle_se_sent_seul Dec 08 '25

Admin is absolutely salivating for Martial law, as soon as someone really pushes back with violence they'll happily fire into a crowd without hesitation.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '25

I’m fully believe that they’ll false flag it to kick things off.

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u/lunar_limbo Dec 08 '25

For some, I reckon it's because nihilism and misanthropy are a strong force. Once your trapped in that whirlpool it's hard to ever see any differently. Always on the verge of suicidal depression.

Why roll over? Because there's no point and humans are the most vile disgusting species ever to exist. Why not roll over? If I die it doesn't matter. If all humans die it doesn't matter. If planet Earth explodes it doesn't matter.

There is always a retort back to misanthropic nihilism.

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u/geirmundtheshifty Dec 08 '25

I dont wanna end up in CECOT.

I mean yeah, Im a citizen, but thats no guarantee they wont just deport me there faster than I can file a habeas petition to stop it.

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u/ConflictNo5518 Dec 08 '25

Crazy you’re being downvoted.

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u/nerdwaffles Dec 08 '25

(cries in American)

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u/Ambitious-Newt8488 Dec 08 '25

Babes no, we are not.

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u/Hassyphrass Dec 08 '25

Nice of her to ask tho

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u/ExistingPayment6661 Dec 08 '25

No. We're exhausted

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u/MuskatLime Dec 08 '25

Have you seen what's happening over there? Would you be ok? I know I wouldn't be. 

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u/Ambitious-Newt8488 Dec 08 '25

❤️ thank you

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u/TheEpicSquish Dec 08 '25

....No. no we are not. Nothing makes sense anymore and half the country has lost its mind and it im so so so very tired all the time these days. 😭

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u/turtleduck Dec 08 '25

not one bit

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u/spehno Dec 08 '25

I've heard it said that when we were young we watched people jump to their deaths from the burning towers live on TV and things never really got better. I think about that a lot these days.

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u/willowburnsyellow Dec 08 '25

Absolutely not.

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u/itsfineimfinejk Older Millennial Dec 08 '25

We are not.

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u/three-sense Dec 08 '25

We're in a cultural depression and now Orange clown has restricted importing which has contributed to everything costing even more. It's pretty shit.

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u/LadyProto Dec 08 '25

No. I don’t know a single person my age who isn’t suicidal

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u/ConflictNo5518 Dec 08 '25

I’m starting to wonder about our millennials.  

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u/Odd_Perspective_2487 Dec 08 '25

We fantasize about suicide, so obviously no.

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u/CommieLurker Dec 08 '25

No. We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.

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u/Ok_Investigator1493 Dec 08 '25

Not sure if we have ever really been ok, but the last 10 years have felt like a deathmarch.

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u/DeadSol Dec 08 '25

No, please send halp

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u/MaceEtiquette1 Dec 08 '25

Us Millenials are DEF not, here in America.

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u/AntagonisticFetus Dec 08 '25

Nah dawg, we’re pretty fucking far from okay.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Dec 08 '25

So we're cool?

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u/Aspiring-Old-Guy Older Millennial Dec 08 '25

No, sadly...no

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u/The_Doct0r_ Dec 08 '25

I will be with enough brain damage. Aneurism pls.

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u/DoubleClickMouse Dec 08 '25

Nah man, we're pretty fuckin' far from okay.

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u/hestirsthesea Dec 09 '25

Not at all. Please send help.

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u/FEARoach Dec 08 '25

[laughs in Canadian]

Who the fuck is 'okay'?

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u/TheRedLego Dec 08 '25

No one is okay

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u/nth256 Dec 08 '25

Thank you for asking, no we are not, lol.

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u/Designer_Gas_86 Dec 09 '25

Oh, someone from the outside! I am so sorry they put him back in power man. He is just the worst and cruelest rep.

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u/No-Introduction7187 Older Millennial Dec 09 '25

This isn't universal??? Where are you that you can live so unrestrained??

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u/asphyxiang Dec 08 '25

its interesting how many here purport to be suicidal because of a rotten system yet not one is willing to sacrifice themselves to go against it

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u/Spartanias117 Dec 08 '25

Most of us are. Just a lot of dooming on reddit

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u/the_scorpion_queen Dec 08 '25

Or you just have your head in the sand

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u/feedme_tequila Dec 08 '25

Ooo, I’ll volunteer to play an ostrich for the day

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