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Graduating right after the Great Recession started. Woooh

No need to imagine. I am that guy.

I'm Gen Z, was born in China after the CCP failed to terminate me under the One Child Policy, which resulted in my birth. Parent had to pay a massive fine for my existence. Even politics aside, economy was shit at the time, hard for my parents to find stable jobs. My mom told me that work was just brutal, I remember my maternal grandmother had to take care of us often times because both parents were either at work or looking for work from morning to late at night.

Government is so corrupt, they didn't even enforce food safety regulations (not even sure if such regulations even existed). I remember my mom constantly warning us about food safety. Also you need to boil the water cuz its toxic. Steets were dirty, well at least the neighborhood I used to live in. Other areas might have it better.

Hukou system meant that since my parents were from rural areas, they didn't have all the rights of someone living in the city. Even though me and my older brother were born in the city. So the city didn't even allow us into their public schools.

And if we had stayed in the country, it'd be a struggle to get outside information. Like not just for political information and stuff (which honestly, probably doesn't even matter when you're struggling and you can't change the system), but most importantly the entertainment would be limited, anything considered anti-government would be much harder to find, if not impossible, in mainland China. Unless you get lucky and somehow, as a local, manage to find a VPN if you never stepped foot outside the country. (Not sure if I'd even find out what a VPN is if I remained in the country)

Like imagine you're under a "rat race" for money then you go home and can't find anything interesting to watch, because its "too political" and blocked.

So yay, jumping from one boiling pot to another. Life is amazing! The universe do love its trolling.

(Tbf life did get better in the US, for us, at least from around 2014 to now. But I'm now more of fearing for the future, such as a Chinese Exclusion Act v2: Electric Boogaloo)

the immigrant gen-z

the immigrant gen-z that fled to the usa

Countries should make Americans eligible for refugee visas

This must be a mistype, here I fixed the meme

Lol, yeah. There's almost always something. I (and I think most millenials) had the housing crisis/economic crash as we entered the age of employment.

Wow, I feel incredibly seen by this meme. Hot damn, the system works

99 dotcom bust, 911, 2008 great recession, covid, idiot tarriffs and this ai bullshit, all while in the worforce.

Yeah, the older millenials be eatin lean cause they always been eating lean.

One of the things that bolsters my resolve is seeing how much more politically engaged the youth of today are (though given that I'm one of the youngest Millennials and I'm 29, I'm not sure that Gen Z count as "the youth" any more). Some of it is a bit concerning, in that some of them are becoming politically engaged with right wing reactionary though, but the vast majority of what I've seen has been much more positive.

I was talking to a teen the other month who tried using they/them pronouns for a little while, to see how it felt, because there were a few non binary people in his year, which made him feel curious. That blew my mind and made me feel hopeful.

I'm disabled, so I'm not really able to attend protests easily, but there have been a few times where I have given people lifts to protests. I like being people's protest mom. It makes me feel nice to be able to act as a steward for the younger generation. In my experience, they're unable to comprehend that what we're living under isn't normal, because for them, it is. However, this seems to just strengthen their enthusiasm for radical change. All they know is that what they're currently experiencing is intolerable for them, and so they have no choice but to resist. It's sad, but admirable to see. In resisting, they also find that building solidarity and community also helps bolster their individual resilience, as well as their movement's

I really try to not waste my energy worrying about assholes anymore. "but maybe they're a good/nice person in other ways" - I don't give a fuck. that's not good enough.

if you are an asshole to other people, in any way, I will be an asshole to you, for at the very least I will simply not spend any effort to not be an asshole to you

DUDE DONT JINKS IT 😭

Nobody realised at first but gen Alpha isnt named as suchbecause they looped the back around after 'Z', but its actually the first gen in NewGame+ mode.

Get in or you're antisemitic