Anonymous
Post 05/02/2023 14:11     Subject: GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Anonymous wrote:Gen X’er here. As someone who grew with with Greatest Generation grandparents I find it hard to beleive that any generation since has had it harder. My grandparents all had to quit school around the 5th grade (yes, thats 10 years old) and get jobs working in fields or factories - whatever they could get to help feed their families. My grandad’s parents died when he was 9 so the nextdoor neighbor tried to take care of him before the depression hit. She couldn’t afford to feed him and her family during the depression and he started illegally hopping trains (at 10 years old) to go to other towns to find work and send money home. He got the hell beat out of him regularly by the bulls (cops) on the train. Then the war hit and he got drafted and was in 5 major campaigns in WW2 starting with D-Day. At the D-Day invasion he was the only guy who made it to shore from his boat. Everyone else drowned or was shot. He was blown through a window in Belgium and cut up by broken glass. He was badly winburned and frost bitten during the Battle of the Bulge and ultimately was part of the occupying force in Germany.

He came home and self medicated for two years and then wuit drinking, got married and became a wonderful family man. I never once heard him complain about his “trauma”.


If you only understand that words leave lasting scars that nothing can heal. /s
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2023 14:08     Subject: GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Anonymous wrote:Gen X’er here. As someone who grew with with Greatest Generation grandparents I find it hard to beleive that any generation since has had it harder. My grandparents all had to quit school around the 5th grade (yes, thats 10 years old) and get jobs working in fields or factories - whatever they could get to help feed their families. My grandad’s parents died when he was 9 so the nextdoor neighbor tried to take care of him before the depression hit. She couldn’t afford to feed him and her family during the depression and he started illegally hopping trains (at 10 years old) to go to other towns to find work and send money home. He got the hell beat out of him regularly by the bulls (cops) on the train. Then the war hit and he got drafted and was in 5 major campaigns in WW2 starting with D-Day. At the D-Day invasion he was the only guy who made it to shore from his boat. Everyone else drowned or was shot. He was blown through a window in Belgium and cut up by broken glass. He was badly winburned and frost bitten during the Battle of the Bulge and ultimately was part of the occupying force in Germany.

He came home and self medicated for two years and then wuit drinking, got married and became a wonderful family man. I never once heard him complain about his “trauma”.


Thanks to your grandfather. Not sure how many people today would survive his ordeal.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2023 12:40     Subject: GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also gen z had to overcome terrible transphobia from generation X, the most racist generation


Poor snowflake. So tell me why in montgomery county public schools there is one racist incident a day? Hmm maybe your generation is the most racist?


There have always been incidents. The difference is social media and they can’t hide it.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2023 12:38     Subject: GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Yes, it should be clear to anyone that Gen Z has had it harder than any other generation. Even the generation that lived through the Great Depression as kids, then had to go off to war just as they hit adulthood.

Gen Z are such heroes, and their greatest quality is their modesty, self-awareness, and lack of complaining.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2023 10:55     Subject: GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Anonymous wrote:Gen X’er here. As someone who grew with with Greatest Generation grandparents I find it hard to beleive that any generation since has had it harder. My grandparents all had to quit school around the 5th grade (yes, thats 10 years old) and get jobs working in fields or factories - whatever they could get to help feed their families. My grandad’s parents died when he was 9 so the nextdoor neighbor tried to take care of him before the depression hit. She couldn’t afford to feed him and her family during the depression and he started illegally hopping trains (at 10 years old) to go to other towns to find work and send money home. He got the hell beat out of him regularly by the bulls (cops) on the train. Then the war hit and he got drafted and was in 5 major campaigns in WW2 starting with D-Day. At the D-Day invasion he was the only guy who made it to shore from his boat. Everyone else drowned or was shot. He was blown through a window in Belgium and cut up by broken glass. He was badly winburned and frost bitten during the Battle of the Bulge and ultimately was part of the occupying force in Germany.

He came home and self medicated for two years and then wuit drinking, got married and became a wonderful family man. I never once heard him complain about his “trauma”.


A lot of people from that generation self-medicated with alcohol and then never quit drinking, beat their kids and wives, etc. Including all of my grandparents (4/4 alcoholics, abused their kids). That's the thing about a generation -- there will be quite a bit of variety across it.

And anyway, the generations before our grandparents had it "worse" in the way you are talking about. My great-great-grandmothers never even went to school. All my great-great generation were immigrants fleeing poverty/famine. And what about people who were enslaved? Survived genocidal regimes (whether 100 years ago or 10 years ago, depending on where you are from). People deal with horrible trauma in every generation.

There is no "greatest" generation. There is just life. Try to make the most of it. Try to learn from your forebears, but stay open minded to the people who come after you. We will all make mistakes.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2023 10:51     Subject: GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Anonymous wrote:GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation.

No other Generation had to deal with school shootings, COVID or other issues like GEN Z did at such a young age.
WE had to complete school from home for one year. NO OTHER Generation ever were ever told to stay home and complete all the school work at home.

Other other Generation had to deal with so many school shootings

No other Generation had to deal with so much drama.

No other Generation had so many mental health issues.

GEN Z THE REAL "the greatest generation."



Every generation had mental health issues. Some are genetic.

Virtual school during a pandemic made sense.

Other generations had to deal with far worse things.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2023 10:48     Subject: GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Anonymous wrote:The trolling has been pathetic this weekend. It’s like the site changes invited D- trolls to start posting.


Been reading the news; needed that laugh.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2023 09:59     Subject: GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Gen X’er here. As someone who grew with with Greatest Generation grandparents I find it hard to beleive that any generation since has had it harder. My grandparents all had to quit school around the 5th grade (yes, thats 10 years old) and get jobs working in fields or factories - whatever they could get to help feed their families. My grandad’s parents died when he was 9 so the nextdoor neighbor tried to take care of him before the depression hit. She couldn’t afford to feed him and her family during the depression and he started illegally hopping trains (at 10 years old) to go to other towns to find work and send money home. He got the hell beat out of him regularly by the bulls (cops) on the train. Then the war hit and he got drafted and was in 5 major campaigns in WW2 starting with D-Day. At the D-Day invasion he was the only guy who made it to shore from his boat. Everyone else drowned or was shot. He was blown through a window in Belgium and cut up by broken glass. He was badly winburned and frost bitten during the Battle of the Bulge and ultimately was part of the occupying force in Germany.

He came home and self medicated for two years and then wuit drinking, got married and became a wonderful family man. I never once heard him complain about his “trauma”.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2023 08:42     Subject: GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Having mental health issues because you idiots won't get off of FB, insta, and tiktok doesn't make you great, it makes you stupid for self inflicting wounds you simply wouldn't have if you just got your damn heads outta your phones and off screens everyday and lived in the real world.

No one feels sorry for you because you've brainwashed yourself with years of use of Tiktok.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2023 08:35     Subject: Re:GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Anonymous wrote:
No other Generation had to deal with so much drama.

No other Generation had so many mental health issues.


I mean, it's normal for young people to be very self-involved and also ignorant of history.

But imagine thinking that you have more mental health issues than the generation that lived through both the Great Depression and World War II, or the one raised by alcoholic veterans of WWI and the Great Depression, or the one raised by people raised by people who lived through the Great Depression and WWII, all of whom mostly had to do this without any mental healthcare available AT ALL, or even basic understanding of stuff like depression, alcoholism, childhood trauma, etc.

Gen Z is highly aware of mental health issues, which is good. But the idea that they HAVE more of them doesn't track. My parents used to hit us, with a belt, and if anyone suggested this was abusive or bad, the majority of society would say no, it was just good parenting. And you think you have MORE mental health issues than me? Child, please.


Having mental illness isn't a sign of greatness... it's a sign of mental illness.

I think the earlier generations had a lot more resilience to traumatic events because they had solid families, religion, time spent outdoors, better diets, etc. I don't blame Gen Z for their problems, but I certainly don't applaud them either.
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2023 13:31     Subject: Re:GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Lol, so young and already the greatest. We all know how that goes.
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2023 12:36     Subject: GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Y'all are barely out of puberty. Give it a minute. Also not a one of you had to walk uphill in the snow to school, both ways.
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2023 11:59     Subject: Re:GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
Anonymous wrote:
No other Generation had to deal with so much drama.

No other Generation had so many mental health issues.


I mean, it's normal for young people to be very self-involved and also ignorant of history.

But imagine thinking that you have more mental health issues than the generation that lived through both the Great Depression and World War II, or the one raised by alcoholic veterans of WWI and the Great Depression, or the one raised by people raised by people who lived through the Great Depression and WWII, all of whom mostly had to do this without any mental healthcare available AT ALL, or even basic understanding of stuff like depression, alcoholism, childhood trauma, etc.

Gen Z is highly aware of mental health issues, which is good. But the idea that they HAVE more of them doesn't track. My parents used to hit us, with a belt, and if anyone suggested this was abusive or bad, the majority of society would say no, it was just good parenting. And you think you have MORE mental health issues than me? Child, please.


How is having a host of mental health issues even a measure of greatness when it seems to be to indicate the opposite?
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2023 11:53     Subject: Re:GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
No other Generation had to deal with so much drama.

No other Generation had so many mental health issues.


I mean, it's normal for young people to be very self-involved and also ignorant of history.

But imagine thinking that you have more mental health issues than the generation that lived through both the Great Depression and World War II, or the one raised by alcoholic veterans of WWI and the Great Depression, or the one raised by people raised by people who lived through the Great Depression and WWII, all of whom mostly had to do this without any mental healthcare available AT ALL, or even basic understanding of stuff like depression, alcoholism, childhood trauma, etc.

Gen Z is highly aware of mental health issues, which is good. But the idea that they HAVE more of them doesn't track. My parents used to hit us, with a belt, and if anyone suggested this was abusive or bad, the majority of society would say no, it was just good parenting. And you think you have MORE mental health issues than me? Child, please.
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2023 11:49     Subject: Re:GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation
The misspelling in the thread title, plus in the first line of the obviously copy-pasted OP, is just... *chef's kiss*, I love it.

Gen Z, you are the greatest generation, just not in the way OP means. You're definitely the funniest generation, let's start there.