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WTF is happening to today’s youth?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Reeko, Apr 14, 2025.

  1. gifford1967

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    Those are positive trends. However, I believe the teenage suicide rate has gone up significantly over the last couple of decades.

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  2. Rocket River

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    The kids today are IMO a bit more tame than say 10~15 yrs ago
    but it comes off as Lazy and detached
    They appear to be overly non-chalant and entitled
    Things will "just work out for them"
    and if it don't . . . meh someone will help me mentality

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  3. Tomstro

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    Wow. 1968 huh?
     
  4. The Captain

    The Captain ...and I'm all out of bubblegum

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    The predictable outcome of the summer of love and the experimental 60's was the 70's going as hard as you possibly could. There's a reason that heroin-skinny was the craze. Then smoking peaked in 1982. People were just batshit crazy at that time.

    Something else that nobody talks about is the concentration of lead children's blood. Know when lead poisoning in the USA peaked? 1960s and 70s. Prime childhood and formative years for Boomers. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119

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    Know what lead poisoning leads to? Antisocial and risk-taking behavior.
     
  5. Ottomaton

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    Every generation thinks the next generation is a catastrophe for humanity.

     
  6. B-Bob

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    Lot of huge, gas-guzzling cars owned by the nouveau riche in Queens, back in the day. Just sayin.
     
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    There's no way this is close to true.

    Great post, though.
     
  8. The Captain

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    Yeah but this time it's REAL
     
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  9. The Captain

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    I used to get chronic migraines, up until I was 13 or so, which was right around the time the lead content nosedived to it's lowest point. We could never figure it out but this may be why.
     
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  11. FranchiseBlade

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    Yes. And the sentiment was already outdated then.
     
  12. Tomstro

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    I didn’t even watch. I couldn’t care less about 1968 right now.
     
  13. FranchiseBlade

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    Okay. You don't have to watch but it is reminiscent of many of your posts on the boards. Since you're living it, you don't have to watch at all.
     
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  14. Tomstro

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    I doubt it bro. You are anti white. I don’t give a **** what a racist thinks.
     
  15. FranchiseBlade

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    You proved my point. Ha!
     
  16. Tomstro

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    That you’re a racist?
     
  17. FranchiseBlade

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    Enjoy living the video.
     
  18. Tomstro

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    Enjoy hating white people
     
  19. FranchiseBlade

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    Let me know when I say anything hateful towards whites.
     
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    I mean that post 2012-14 uptick lines up perfectly with declining test scores, as well as the rough timeline of the 50% threshold being surpassed for teens getting smartphones + access to social media. It also lines up the peak and decline US life expectancy.


    The 2000's and early 2010's just might have been the greatest version of American society that will have ever existed.

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    You see that there boys? Thats americas peak. And now it's over.

    MAYBE
     

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