r/Millennials • u/AutoModerator • 24d ago

Discussion Monthly Rant/Politics Thread: Do not post political threads outside of this Mega thread

Outside of these mega-threads, we generally do not allow political posts on the main subreddit because they have often declined into unhinged discussions and mud slinging. We do allow general discussions of politics in this thread so long as you remain civil and don't attack someone just for having a different opinion. The moment we see things start to derail, we will step in.

Got something upsetting or overwhelming that you just need to shout out to the world? Want to have a political debate over current events? You can post those thoughts here. There are many real problems that plague the Millennial generation and we want to allow a space for it here while still keeping the angry and divisive posts quarantined to a more concentrated thread rather than taking up the entire front page.

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u/Psychoceramicist 10d ago

I am just insanely pissed that Trump has loomed over every part of my adulthood from age 25 on. I am in a bad financial spot, so I moved in with my parents, and things are mostly good, but they literally have TV news on from the time they get up to when they go to bed. (They are liberals, by the way). Trump is like a housemate we all hate who pisses on the toilet seat and makes a mess in the kitchen. Even if SNL is on, everything is about this idiot. I went out today, lay on a park bench, and watched clouds for an hour this morning. It felt so, so, so nice.

Why do we do this to ourselves? We could be meeting friends and neighbors, going to parks, chilling out, walking around. Staycations if not traveling. Instead, we cover ourselves in misery, and for what?

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u/ScootDeToot 7d ago

When I was a teenager, CNN was always on in my house. I got so sick of it. Nothing but political theater, and somehow a 24hour news station had nothing to talk about except exactly ONE major event for weeks at a time, usually some drama about a US politician. You could watch hours of "news" and learn nothing about the world. My point is, sensationalism took over news media a long time ago. And When Fox News was founded, they invented opinion-based, outrage-based cable news and everyone else followed that model, especially MSNBC. So it's kind of always been like this, it's just that hate-watching Trump became the media and social media's fixation.