Thanks, suckers

[boomerang]

Pretty scathing article. Elections have consequences kids. This will be a tough read for many.

Maybe Pain Will Teach You Millenials Not To Vote For Your Own Serfdom

You Millenials voted for Obama by a margin of 28 percent, which will make it a lot easier for me to accept the benefits you will be paying for. We warned you that liberalism was a scam designed to take the fruits of your labor and transfer it to us, the older, established generation. Oh, and also to the couch-dwelling, Democrat-voting losers who live off of food stamps and order junk from QVC with their Obamaphones.

You didn’t listen to us. Maybe you’ll listen to pain.

I have been told that being hard on you Millennials will turn you against conservatism, that I should offer you a positive, hopeful message that avoids the touchy problem of your manifest stupidity.

No. There’s no sugar-coating it – your votes for Democrats have ensured that you are the first generation in American history that will fail to exceed what their parents attained. Embracing liberalism was a stupid thing to do, done for the stupidest of reasons, and I will now let you subsidize my affluent lifestyle without a shred of guilt.

So feel free to keep voting for the liberals who keep you in chains. I’ll take my cheaper insurance, my future Social Security checks, and the other benefits that come from being established without guilt. The guys who you squander your votes upon certainly won’t change that equation. You’ll tread water in life, but hey, at least those conservatives won’t be in charge!

Thanks again, suckers. Now get off my lawn.

 

[CrackRabbit]

For the TLDR; "I got mine, fuck you. Herpty-Derp."

 

[berzerker60]

Congrats on your country leaving you behind and everyone being happy without your obsolete ass, article writer. The Baby Boomers truly are the most self-involved, self-congratulatory, destructive generation.

 

[dank69]

He mad

 

[Blackjack200]

What the fuck is he talking about? What benefits?

Edit: Oh I see now. He enumerates two: "I’ll take my cheaper insurance, my future Social Security checks, and the other benefits that come from being established without guilt."

The cheaper insurance doesn't exist because Obamacare is a scam that makes everyone pay more for insurance and receive no care. I know this because Republicans told me.

Social Security has been in place for 70 years and no major candidate for political office has ever campaigned on substantial changes to it.

So clearly this guy is insane.

 

[TreVader]

Congrats on your country leaving you behind and everyone being happy without your obsolete ass, article writer. The Baby Boomers truly are the most self-involved, self-congratulatory, destructive generation.

+1


I wonder what it's like to have zero social relevance to society at large?


Guess what, none of us (millennials) gives a crap what you think about our generation. Unlike you, we don't scramble for our pitchforks whenever somebody approaches whatever products of society we deem "ours". The amazing selfishness of the older generations is on display for all to see, you should be so lucky to have people like us to support you in your irrelevant indignity. You'd starve and die without us.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I don't understand why he has so much vitriol. We're giving him benefits out of the kindness of our hearts, and he's calling us names? Maybe you shouldn't have placed so much emphasis on the value of sharing when you were raising us you senile old bandicoot. Shame on us for wanting to ensure that older folks who may not have been as successful as he's been get opportunities for care. We're disgusting in our empathy and compassion.

What a sad old man.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

+1


I wonder what it's like to have zero social relevance to society at large?


Guess what, none of us (millennials) gives a crap what you think about our generation. Unlike you, we don't scramble for our pitchforks whenever somebody approaches whatever products of society we deem "ours". The amazing selfishness of the older generations is on display for all to see, you should be so lucky to have people like us to support you in your irrelevant indignity. You'd starve and die without us.

I'll likely be retiring within the next 10 years and want to make sure I say 'thank you' to you and all the millennials who will be working the rest of their lives to help take care of me.

 

[ivwshane]

"Pretty scathing article", is it? It sounds like the ramblings of an old bitter man...



...GET OFF MY LAWN!!

 

[thraashman]

I'll likely be retiring within the next 10 years and want to make sure I say 'thank you' to you and all the millennials who will be working the rest of their lives to help take care of me.

I guess we could always vote Republican so that people your age who might struggle a bit end up dead in the streets. Or aim for the Republican health coverage plan which is best described as "fuck it, let em die". Pack animals survive better as part of a pack, when the pack looks after each other. Humans are pack animals. Lone wolves tend to die young.

 

[dank69]

I'll likely be retiring within the next 10 years and want to make sure I say 'thank you' to you and all the millennials who will be working the rest of their lives to help take care of me.

You're welcome, enjoy your golf.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

I guess we could always vote Republican so that people your age who might struggle a bit end up dead in the streets. Or aim for the Republican health coverage plan which is best described as "fuck it, let em die". Pack animals survive better as part of a pack, when the pack looks after each other. Humans are pack animals. Lone wolves tend to die young.

I can only hope you aren't nearly as fucking stupid as you appear to be.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

Yeah, every knows there is no Republican healthcare plan. What a doofus!

 

[fskimospy]

lol.

This is just coming from a near total ignorance of what people voting for Democrats want. We WANT a national health plan. Of course that means that younger and healthier people put in more money than the old and sick. How else could it be? The idea that voting for Democrats has made incomes stagnate in the US is a joke. I bet I could guess what his preferred policies would have been, and they would have made things HUGELY worse for his good friends the Millenials.

What's funny is that a guy with that much of a rage boner and who understands that little about US income trends and his fellow citizens has the balls to call other people stupid. Rage on, little guy.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I can only hope you aren't nearly as fucking stupid as you appear to be.

He has a point. Republican contention against Obamacare is that it forces the young and healthy to subsidize insurance costs for older people who typically need more health care than young people (that's clearly the tone of this article). But what's the alternative? Require old people to pay vastly more for health coverage? Makes sense, it's fair, they're the ones who are using it; but what about the people who can't afford it? What is the Republican plan for dealing with a recently retired bus driver who has cancer and can't afford coverage? Do we let him die?

For all the Republican shouting about how Obamacare is broken (and it is), their only proposed solution seems to be "FREE MARKET!" But how does the free market handle people who are drains on the system, who can't make a profit for the insurance companies? A free market lets those people die. Is that actually the Republican plan for health insurance? If not, what's the alternative? You either subsidize people who can't afford care or you don't, and there's no incentive to do so in the free market solution.

So, please, enlighten me, because I'm truly at a loss; what is the Republican solution that is obviously superior and we liberals are idiots for not realizing it?

 

[thraashman]

I can only hope you aren't nearly as fucking stupid as you appear to be.

Well I'm sorry to inform you that statistically it's a near guarantee I'm smarter than you. In fact, based on the number of posters in AT, I'm smarter than all but about 15 of them. It's not my fault Republicans offer up no solutions other than to let more people die. Did you know that prior to the ACA it was estimated that approximately 45000 people died each year due to lack of health insurance? Did you also know that the plan put forth by Romney and Ryan was estimated to increase that number to at least 70000? Now tell me how is the Republican plan anything other than "let's allow more people to die"?

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

You're welcome, enjoy your golf.

Thanks but I'm not much of a golfer....but will probably get more politically involved in finding more effective ways to "euthanize" the sick deadbeats among us.

 

[2timer]

It's sad the OP can't see the garbage strewn about in this article:

You chose petty fascism with a smile.

You get to pay more out of your monthly barista take – liberalism ensured that the tanked job market foreclosed a real career – so that I get to pay less out of my lawyer checks. Thanks, suckers.

Don’t even get me started on your crappy music.

Hmm, sounds like a bitter old sellout to me.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Well I'm sorry to inform you that statistically it's a near guarantee I'm smarter than you. In fact, based on the number of posters in AT, I'm smarter than all but about 15 of them. It's not my fault Republicans offer up no solutions other than to let more people die. Did you know that prior to the ACA it was estimated that approximately 45000 people died each year due to lack of health insurance? Did you also know that the plan put forth by Romney and Ryan was estimated to increase that number to at least 70000? Now tell me how is the Republican plan anything other than "let's allow more people to die"?

Really? I had no idea you were that smart! Just what is your IQ if you don't mind me asking?

 

[ElFenix]

He has a point. Republican contention against Obamacare is that it forces the young and healthy to subsidize insurance costs for older people who typically need more health care than young people (that's clearly the tone of this article). But what's the alternative? Require old people to pay vastly more for health coverage? Makes sense, it's fair, they're the ones who are using it; but what about the people who can't afford it? What is the Republican plan for dealing with a recently retired bus driver who has cancer and can't afford coverage? Do we let him die?

For all the Republican shouting about how Obamacare is broken (and it is), their only proposed solution seems to be "FREE MARKET!" But how does the free market handle people who are drains on the system, who can't make a profit for the insurance companies? A free market lets those people die. Is that actually the Republican plan for health insurance? If not, what's the alternative? You either subsidize people who can't afford care or you don't, and there's no incentive to do so in the free market solution.

So, please, enlighten me, because I'm truly at a loss; what is the Republican solution that is obviously superior and we liberals are idiots for not realizing it?

obviously people should be responsible for themselves*

 

[hal2kilo]

I fnally broke down and read the "article" thinking that there would be some facts to wrap my mind around since what portions were quoted had none.

All i can say is nice conservative talking points rant.

Here is some tissues for your issues.

 

[boomerang]

Well I'm sorry to inform you that statistically it's a near guarantee I'm smarter than you. In fact, based on the number of posters in AT, I'm smarter than all but about 15 of them. It's not my fault Republicans offer up no solutions other than to let more people die. Did you know that prior to the ACA it was estimated that approximately 45000 people died each year due to lack of health insurance? Did you also know that the plan put forth by Romney and Ryan was estimated to increase that number to at least 70000? Now tell me how is the Republican plan anything other than "let's allow more people to die"?

Oh yeah, you're a genius. A legend in your own mind too.

 

[fskimospy]

It's sad the OP can't see the garbage strewn about in this article:

Hmm, sounds like a bitter old sellout to me.

If nothing else this is a good insight into the pure rage that conservatives feel about losing the past few elections. It's not just a case of them thinking that liberals are naive, misguided, or undertaking destructive policies, it's a desire to see liberals PUNISHED for having what he perceives to be the wrong political ideology. He wants them to suffer so that they can all acknowledge how right he was.

The sheer hatred and anger that comes foaming out of that article really is informative, too bad it's also scary, creepy, and sad.

 

[irishScott]

Somehow, you came to embrace the bizarre notion that conservatives are psychotic Jesus freaks who want to Footloosisze America into a land of mandatory Sunday school and no dancing.

Apparently he hasn't been paying attention to Conservative Rhetoric for the last few years. We have:

1. No abortion... because God.
2. No gay marriage... because God.
3. Creationsim "Intelligent Design" in classrooms... because God an intelligent being who created us because it couldn't have happened any other way because we say so and it's a scientific theory... God.
4. No Global Warming... because oil (also God).

We're voting Democrat (and I speak as someone born in 1987) on the whole because the "indoctrination chambers" have indoctrinated us with this wonderful thing called "separation of church and state", and your social policies remind us of racist, fire-and-brimstone bullshit from our crazy grandparents that we laugh about behind their backs at family reunions.

If you Conservatives could manage to drag your flabby, wrinkly white Christian asses into the 21st century you might realize how stupid you look; and compared to Democrats that's saying something. I know plenty of people my age who are disgusted that they voted for Obama. They feel betrayed, lied to. And what do you offer them? That same betrayal and lies with social recidivism and a healthy heaping of God on top.

And you wonder why we don't vote for you.

The irony is Conservative positions on a lot of issues actually have broad support, but the Conservatives are too stupid and too stubborn to make those the core platform, instead focusing on bullshit social issues that do nothing but alienate anyone who wasn't brought up in the bible belt.

 

[dank69]

Oh yeah, you're a genius. A legend in your own mind too.

Don't be bitter that the piece that made you so happy is going over like a lead balloon here in P&N. We might begin to think you and the author are one and the same.