• AeronMelon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Millennials didn’t have any connection to 9/11 either, but living through the chaos is still bad enough.

    I knew Y2K wasn’t going to be the predicted apocalypse, but the stress of dealing with people who did (like my mother) was real.

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      2 months ago

      How do you figure we didn’t have any connection to 9/11? Many of us lost loved ones or friends that day and the world is still feeling the fallout from that event.

      Compare that to Y2K. No millennials, or very very few, were directly affected. It was a nothing burger because of the older folks who quietly handled it.

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      2 months ago

      No connection? Tell that to my friend who lost his aunt, my classmate who lost her cousin, or even all of us Millennials who suddenly had fighter jets flying overhead all day every day, jingoism, militarization, and on and on, as a brand new form of all-encompassing daily life.