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why are millennials so mad about 1981
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:42 AM Author: Insanely creepy messiness lettuce 1981 is not gen x. both ohnoes and upset jew had catastrophic meltdowns when confronted with these facts. upset jew spammed fulano shit in response, literally lost his mind. what happened that year that this group of misfits wont claim it? was it aids or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836516) |
Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:53 AM Author: Coral submissive locus pisswyrm its bizarre, this place has always had a number of insane people who will go into 100 post subthread wastelands to die on the hill that millennials start at 1982 when there is no support for this and everywhere else you look the consensus has landed at 1981 or earlier as the start year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836540) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:54 AM Author: Free-loading Umber Death Wish 1981 = 19 in 2000 = not a millennial (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836545) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:58 AM Author: coiffed dead love of her life affirmative action Save it. It's their last, desperate hope to not be a gen x loser by default (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836563) |
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Date: April 24th, 2026 6:13 AM Author: razzle deranged pistol resort We don't have people that old here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49839137) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:07 PM Author: claret histrionic newt senate Born in fall 81= class of 2000 high school grad, ie definitionally millennial. Cutoff is Sept 81 unless you want to vary it according to your local school cutoff. Fits many of the best other tests and resolve the problem of boomers having 19 years v 16 for Gen X and that fueling boomers’ use of generation ranges to assert their cultural dominance and persistence. Similarly the correct and obvious best choice for end of millennials/start of Gen Z is were old enough to vote on Election Day 2016. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837516) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:47 PM Author: coiffed dead love of her life affirmative action I agree with this. If, based on normal enrollment age and not failing or skipping grades, you would graduate before 2000, you're a genxer. Sorry. Otherwise, you're a millennial up until the cutoff for genz (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837674) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 4:06 PM Author: cyan address Do you think that the year 2000 was in the 21st century? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837738) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 4:42 PM Author: claret histrionic newt senate Were you alive for Y2K and do you remember how people were treated in real time then if they were in any kind of public context where Y2K and the turn of the millennium were discussed and they piped up with a “WELL ACKKSHOOAAHLY the Gregorian calendar…” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837846) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 5:27 PM Author: cyan address Yes, and it’s not the Gregorian calendar - it’s any calendar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837996) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 4:51 PM Author: coiffed dead love of her life affirmative action I'm class of 2000, and I can tell you that my entire life people called us the "millennial" class. They made tshirts for it and everything when I was in first grade
Everything about millennialism, at least from credible sources, supports the class that graduated in 2000 as the start of the millennials. That's not meant to be a slight to anyone. Just the truth. But I can see how a genxer who misses the cutoff could feel hurt |
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Date: April 24th, 2026 11:30 AM Author: Insanely creepy messiness lettuce this post needs more sirens. millennials just dont listen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49839703) |
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Date: April 24th, 2026 11:33 AM Author: Coral submissive locus pisswyrm this is right. people were talking about "millennials" in the mid to late 90s and it was always about the teens "coming of age" with the turning millennium (which was always considered the year 2000 despite the pedantic acshuallllly 2001 was the technical start people). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49839714) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 4:07 PM Author: cyan address There used to be a massive drop off between class of 2000 and 2001 back you had to have an edu to register for Facebook - because the class of 2000 was out of college when Facebook went wide. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837741) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 4:44 PM Author: claret histrionic newt senate Weird flame. I registered with my .edu as a class of 2001 grad. This period was likely the peak of people staying on their .edus as long as possible, at least until Gmail dropped in summer 2003. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837849) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:54 AM Author: cyan address Strauss and Howe, who defined generational study, set it at 1982. Saying there’s no support for this reveals yourself as uneducated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836548) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:24 AM Author: rusted comical theater They call zoomers “homelanders” lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836612) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:34 AM Author: Coral submissive locus pisswyrm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836626) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:50 AM Author: cyan address It was a better name - reflected their post-9/11 anxiety stricken lives perfectly, imho.
Reflexively labeling everything X, Y, Z, Alpha is dumb. |
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Date: April 24th, 2026 8:27 AM Author: rusted comical theater Zoomers’ “homelands” are disproportionately in central and South America (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49839273) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:08 PM Author: claret histrionic newt senate These boomers committed various other intergenerational crimes but I do enjoy your devotion to them in these threads. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837524) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:55 AM Author: Insanely creepy messiness lettuce here they come. utterly bizarre what motivates these people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836551) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:55 AM Author: cyan address No support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836552) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:57 AM Author: Coral submissive locus pisswyrm see this is bizarre, pointing to some egghead bullshit and relying on the "well acshually, 2001 was the TECHNICAL start of the millennium". in the broad culture, everyone uses 1981, it is settled science. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836560) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:00 AM Author: cyan address They literally invented the modern study of generations. They coined the term millennials. If weren’t for these eggheads no one would talk about generations as a category that means anything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836566) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:01 AM Author: Coral submissive locus pisswyrm irrelevant, generations are defined culturally, not by boomer academics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836570) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:03 AM Author: cyan address Lmao, you have no idea how the world works. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836575) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:07 AM Author: cyan address https://imgur.com/a/G7zuCKv (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836582) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:09 AM Author: Coral submissive locus pisswyrm very millennial of you to worship at the altar of dead boomers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836586) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:11 AM Author: cyan address Well, yes, it is a defining trait. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836592) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:57 AM Author: cyan address If you don’t remember Challenger exploding you are a millennial. If you do, X-er. Kennedy assasination is the same test for Boomers and 9/11 for Gen Z. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836559) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:59 AM Author: Coral submissive locus pisswyrm people born in 1981 were 4 when the challenger exploded, no one would remember that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836564) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:01 AM Author: cyan address What year do you think Challenger happened? It’s almost certainly their first memory of watching TV. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836568) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:01 AM Author: Coral submissive locus pisswyrm january 1986, do the math (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836572) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:02 AM Author: cyan address Strauss and how admit that there is a goopy crossover period, for cuspers, but 1982 is a hard line. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836574) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:04 AM Author: Coral submissive locus pisswyrm "strauss" has been dead for 20 years and howe is an irrelevant alzheimer boomer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836576) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:10 AM Author: cyan address Newtons been dead for 300, do you deny the laws of physics? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836589) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:27 PM Author: claret histrionic newt senate The bulk of the 1980 Gen X cutoff influence/sentiment originates with Pew, which had an obvious incentive to push the “big boomer gen dominates tiny Gen X” narrative. The other main source is this dumb “challenger explosion” test, which is self-obsessed boomers tying the definition to themselves/their perception and their infantilization of Gen X (ie construing all of Gen X as confused and scared kindergarteners, while a 1965er was a sophomore in college). The much better tests around 9/11 (did you go to sleep in your parents house that night ie did you see the people in the towers as peers of your parents or as if they could have been people your age like college interns, and did you process the event with peers away from parents v with your parents), and the early 90s cultural touchstones when Gen X first claimed the cultural center from the boomers. All of those put 81 in Gen X. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837597) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:54 AM Author: cyan address 1981 is Gen X. Sorry. Millennials graduated high school in the new millennium, 2001. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836544) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:55 AM Author: trip shimmering abode so a dumb guy who was born in 1977 but got held back several times could be a millennial?
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:56 AM Author: cyan address Are you that dumb guy? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836554) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:57 AM Author: trip shimmering abode nah i quit highschool early to work in the mines
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:55 AM Author: sickened toilet seat water buffalo So cowshit is Gen X after all. Christ, how many Gens has this guy lost??? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836550) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:56 AM Author: cyan address All of them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836555) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:47 AM Author: rusted comical theater Im not mad. I would own being a Gen X Loser if I had to. I just find stuff like school shootings, Gaming, and music to be salient af, moreso than the Year 2000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836736) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:12 PM Author: claret histrionic newt senate I’ve always understood this to be the subtext of his entire gens schtick. Those of us who are prone to tism tissies on this topic are too attractive as baiting targets. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837533) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:02 AM Author: Carmine Property Mother (guy who felt this was important enough to make an entire thread about it and recalled specific opinions about millennial cutoff)
Look bro it's called "millennial" because the Gen turned 18 in 2000. That's the Entire Point. Some Frauds tried to later back-revise it to 1981 because they wanted Gen Z to start in 1996 for Aesthetics, and you're not allowed to have a Gen less than 15 years. You and ggtp are btfo itt imo |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:04 AM Author: cyan address Graduated HS in 2001, but basically. 2000 was the last year of the old millennium. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836577) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:06 AM Author: Insanely creepy messiness lettuce please get your inhaler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836580) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:07 AM Author: Carmine Property Mother I'm not the one making callout threads and then getting btfo, Champ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836581) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:08 AM Author: Insanely creepy messiness lettuce looks like cpap too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836585) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:23 AM Author: coiffed dead love of her life affirmative action Speaking truth to power itt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836610) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:13 PM Author: claret histrionic newt senate 1996 is so utterly moronic. The cleanest and best gen dividing line of all is Election Day 2016. This was obvious at the time but became unavoidably true after Election Day 2024. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837541) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:21 PM Author: nighttime pontificating factory reset button hominid You and ggtp are btfo itt imo bbq tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837569) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 9:23 AM Author: rusted comical theater Klebold is 1981 as am I. Discuss. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836611) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:48 AM Author: cyan address Cuspers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49836739) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 1:06 PM Author: Insanely creepy messiness lettuce thatguys chin was so massive it was like he was wearing a scream mask, and yes, millenial (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837076) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 2:51 PM Author: cyan address Shooting up your school was invented by Gen X (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837463) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 2:53 PM Author: Coral submissive locus pisswyrm school shootings are extremely millennial coded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837467) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:22 PM Author: nighttime pontificating factory reset button hominid so all trannies are millenial. makes sense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837572) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:29 PM Author: claret histrionic newt senate (guy who really badly misunderstood the song and especially the video for Jeremy by Pearl Jam) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837603) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:47 PM Author: cyan address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837677) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 8:54 PM Author: rusted comical theater Extremely. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49838620) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 2:55 PM Author: irradiated spruce volcanic crater Olds (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837472) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:12 PM Author: irradiated spruce volcanic crater Here's my generation classification take. I know there are Rules that this doesn't necessarily fit into, but I think there should be a generation defined by COVID interfering with formative years of education/childhood development. Something like 2003-2021, or maybe a later start date if we count fewer years as formative. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837532) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:17 PM Author: claret histrionic newt senate The cut off for Gen Z will be 2015 ie “were you old enough to have attended kindergarten via zoom.” It’s a massive dividing line because that cohort was taught to see screens as 10+ hour a day devices and had basically free access to YouTube that was unblockable by parents until the recent spate of activism in the past 6 months (and these battles with school districts are still raging) so these kids will have had KG-puberty with a YouTube Wild West burden on their education and cognitive development and this bizarre distortion of their cultural and media taste preferences. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837557) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:21 PM Author: irradiated spruce volcanic crater Well put. That's exactly what I was getting at with COVID interfering with formative years. I don't think it makes sense for alpha to go all the way to 2024 (as is the current consensus) since kids born after COVID didn't have that experience. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837568) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:30 PM Author: claret histrionic newt senate Alpha will go to 2032 and the dividing line will be born before or after POTUS for Life AOC’s total chaos communism regime. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837607) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 4:07 PM Author: irradiated spruce volcanic crater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837740) |
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Date: May 8th, 2026 10:19 AM Author: Insanely creepy messiness lettuce great post. totally sensible that a 4 and a 5 year old would have dramatically different upbringings because of this. ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49874694) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:38 PM Author: Fluffy brunch Oh noes, I'm part of group A instead of group B. Let me debate it for 3 hours every 3 weeks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49837643) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 4:52 PM Author: coiffed dead love of her life affirmative action I'm glad I'm not a genxer. I would be devastated to be part of the generation that was supposed to take over from the boomers but couldn't
Now we've been thrust into that role, and we're probably going to be even fucking worse. All because genxers couldn't get their shit together |
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Date: April 24th, 2026 6:16 AM Author: Boyish mewling spot weed whacker Reagan's 1981 budget bill was the last time we tried to be truly fiscally responsible. By 1982, facing disastrous polling, Reagan pivoted to "borrow and spend". This abandonment by the GOP of fiscal conservatism, still with us today, made them the deepstate allies of big-gov libs. That cabal has created the debt albatross that will destroy American millennials for decades to come.
HTH |
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Date: April 24th, 2026 6:32 AM Author: cyan address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49839145) |
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Date: April 24th, 2026 8:37 AM Author: rusted comical theater The republican caucus is a Scourge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859697&forum_id=2#49839285) |