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    Blueberry JonesAnna Merlan
    11/14/14 6:39pm

    I was born in 1985, so I guess I'm a millennial. Owning a home is really not in the cards for me or something I want to do. It's a lot of work, it's expensive, and I move a lot for my job so it's kind of impractical. Not everyone should own a home. It's not right for everyone.

    I host Thanksgiving at my house every year though. I can't have kids, so, that's not my fault. But I'm totally down for the furious, meaningless, nihilistic, non-procreative sex. Sign me up.

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      Tastycakes2Blueberry Jones
      11/14/14 6:50pm

      oh shit, are we millennials????

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      Blueberry JonesTastycakes2
      11/14/14 6:51pm

      Several sources say that it's 1981 to 1994 or 1996 :(

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    Jan74Anna Merlan
    11/14/14 6:36pm

    You forgot Pumpkin Spice.

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      GELLA - LLAPJan74
      11/14/14 6:39pm

      and UGGS ugh

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      Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the SnarkJan74
      11/14/14 6:42pm

      To be fair, I fucking hate "pumpkin season."

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    collierLAAnna Merlan
    11/14/14 7:05pm

    If my choices for post-meal Thanksgiving activities (which my child-free Gen X self is hosting yet again, tyvm) come down to "shopping" and "oh for fuck's sake more football are you kidding me goddamn it," then I am all for "shopping." But I'll do it online like a CIVILIZED PERSON.

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      elisethestrangecollierLA
      11/14/14 7:36pm

      I always liked "movie."

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      collierLAelisethestrange
      11/14/14 7:44pm

      Oh, actually ours is going to be the Monday or Tuesday to accommodate out-of-towners, so my actual t-day will likely be spent watching Guardians again (available on iTunes in four days!) and playing KOL. And drinking, because fuck it, it's a holiday.

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    oldscrumbyAnna Merlan
    11/14/14 7:41pm

    This is missing a pearl-clutching screed about how overly political correct, socially sensitive, and racially/ethnically cowed youths now perceive Thanksgiving as a fairytale grafted over the real story of genocide and imperialistic ambition that characterizes the US's interactions with Native Americans, rendering the modern celebration darkly ironic at best.

    If you're confused by what seems like a tonal shift in the above passage, it's because said passage is the result of compressing one truly epic facebook argument that occurred as a result of this:

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      SocalGixxeroldscrumby
      11/15/14 4:25am

      Screw them.. if they were smart enough to make invent guns they would have kept their land.. world is going down hill cause we keep the dumb ass alive and cater the lowest common denominator.

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      Dame Ricochetoldscrumby
      11/15/14 8:00am

      I'm Canadian, so I already went through this rigamarole of a holiday. For me, the negative aspect has a thin aura of positivity. It's one year that the racists are forced to think about the genocide the Americas were built upon and the social ramifications still being enacted and felt.

      For example, a story out of Winnipeg this week and the discussion that's arisen from it:

      1) 16 year old Aboriginal girl was sexually assaulted and thrown in the Assiniboine. (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…)

      2) The racial divide that occurs in the city. (http://www.cbc.ca/news/rinelle-h…)

      My long-term companion (boyfriend doesn't really encapsulate) is from Winnipeg and some of his friends say fucked up things about Aboriginals, choosing not to think about the recent and long-ago historical depravity forced upon them. I think of Thanksgiving as an opportunity to tell these ignorant people about the history so that they can understand not just what happened, but what's happening.

      But yeah, Thanksgiving the double-edged sword of holidays: thankfulness and empathy-grief-rage (I couldn't thing of a term that puts all that together).

      Just realized I gave you the screed you wanted, but it's the eh-dition of it.

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    toastcoastAnna Merlan
    11/14/14 6:43pm

    we can also probably blame millennials for the decline of TIME magazine.

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      ledariatoastcoast
      11/14/14 7:42pm

      You might as well expand that to "all printed media"

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      toastcoastledaria
      11/14/14 10:12pm

      true, but I was also thinking about how TIME blaming millennials for things isn't doing TIME any favors in gaining new subscribers

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    Negasonic Adultish WarheadAnna Merlan
    11/14/14 6:47pm

    As a millennial who spends Thanksgiving stuffing her face and getting drunk with her family, sleeps in on Black Friday, and barely participates on Cyber Monday, I'd just like to say #notallmillenials

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      Terminator vs RoombaNegasonic Adultish Warhead
      11/14/14 8:39pm

      Seriously, you could not pay me enough to go to a store or busy shopping center on Black Friday. Hell no. I'm firmly generation Get Off My Lawn.

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      adjectivebearNegasonic Adultish Warhead
      11/15/14 9:01am

      Cosigned hard. Even if I weren't the sort of person who rolls her eyes hard at anyone who wants to go shopping of all things between the hours of midnight and 7 am, my years of having to work those ungodly hours in retail would have obliterated any inclination to participate in Black Friday nonsense from the other end. Hell to the no.

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    lizaAnna Merlan
    11/14/14 6:43pm

    Also that no one our age can afford to buy stuff when it's NOT sale because economic legacy of the boomer generation mmmmmm thanks, guys.

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      thewicked.liza
      11/15/14 6:18am

      Yeah, this is the height of stupidity. Sure, blame us, you old fuckers, it's not like you fucked everything up in the first place, and now we have to pick up the pieces.

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    MadMadameAnna Merlan
    11/14/14 6:33pm

    Like I tell my mom, the boomers destroyed everything. Thanks Reagan.

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      FreddieSteadyMadMadame
      11/15/14 12:34am

      Only about 12% of eligible millennials voted in the last election. A couple of weeks ago. Fuckin' vote.

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      MadMadameFreddieSteady
      11/15/14 2:35am

      Christ, that is depressing.

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    Emma GolddiggerAnna Merlan
    11/14/14 8:02pm

    I love all these pieces conplaining about Millennials because they're really complaining about Boomers. We're spoiled because our Boomer parents spoiled us. We're materialistic because older generations marketed shit to us relentlessly.

    Actually, I don't know why I'm defending Millennials because I'm one in age only. I'm a Gen X-er at heart. Sure, I'm coddled and self-obsessed and I start shaking whenever the internet goes down. But, above all, I'm a lazy, apathetic slob. The moral is that all generations are awful because people are the worst.

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      T-FaceAnna Merlan
      11/14/14 6:47pm

      Strange. If my Facebook feed says anything it's that millennials abhor thanksgiving shopping and don't understand why people don't just get Black Friday deals online and not deal with crowds. Millennials seem to also prefer local business/ artisanal blah blah blah over wal mart, at least in urban environments.

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