By Tyler Durden, 3-10-16 at Zero Hedge (bold is theirs):
Considering how the millennials have been freaking out since Trump was elected, this piece from March is all the more fitting and perhaps we could even add to the list. For them, harsh words and hurt feelings are justification for safe spaces, and when elections don’t go their way, they’re entitled to skip college exams until they can get a grip on their disappointment.
If they can’t get a grip on some simple realities, this country could end up with some gutless leaders that would allow our enemies to destroy us while they’re pouting in the corner.
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1. Your Feelings Are Largely Irrelevant
Seriously, nobody who has already graduated college cares about your feelings. That means that when you complain to your boss because your co-worker mis-gendered you, he’s probably not going to bend over backwards to bandage your wounds. Given feelings are entirely subjective in nature, it’s completely unreasonable to demand everyone tip-toe around you to prevent yours from being hurt. The reality is that people will offend you and hurt your feelings, and they won’t stop to mop up your tears because they shouldn’t have to. Learning to accept criticism, alternative viewpoints, and even outright insults will make you happier in the long run than routinely playing the victim card.
2. You Cannot Be Whatever You Want To Be
This is a comforting lie parents have started telling their children to boost their morale in school. Unfortunately, millennials are now convinced it’s true, especially as society has now decided to push this narrative as well. The reality is if you’re 17 years old and still can’t figure out basic division, you’re not going to be a rocket scientist. If you’re overweight and unattractive, you’re not going to be the quarterback’s prom date. If you lack fine motor skills, you’re not going to be a heart surgeon. It’s okay to accept that you cannot be whatever you want to be. In fact, once you accept this, you’ll be able to focus on the things you can be — the things you really are talented at.
3. Gender Studies Is A Waste Of Money
You heard me. While some millennials taking useless degrees will claim they’re beneficial for teaching or research positions, the reality is that they just put themselves several thousands dollars in debt to learn how to be a professional victim. While you’re struggling to make ends meet after graduation because nobody who pays more than minimum wage is interested in your qualifications and you’re drowning in student loan debt, be sure to check out the next harsh reality before you start complaining.
4. If You Live In America, You’re Already In The 1%
That’s right. Even though you work at McDonald’s for minimum wage because you got a useless, outrageously expensive college degree, you’re still far better off than the vast majority of the planet. Don’t believe me? Fly to Uganda and check out the living conditions there. Fly to China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran, Russia, and even European countries like Ukraine and Greece, and you’ll quickly discover just how well-off you really are. While it may be cool these days to dump on capitalism, it’s the only reason you aren’t already worse off.
5. You Don’t Have A Right To It Just Because You Exist
That includes healthcare, guaranteed income, and somewhere to live. Just because you’re here and breathing doesn’t mean society owes you anything. Like the billions of people who lived before you, working hard is a better guarantor of wealth and the ability to comfortably take care of yourself than begging society or the government to do it for you. Demanding healthcare be a right, for example, is equivalent to demanding government force the taxpayer to pay for it. While that may seem like a good idea in theory, it only leads to rationing of care when costs become unsustainable, which negatively impacts not just your health, but everyone else’s, too.
6. You DO Have The Right To Live As You Please — But Not To Demand People Accept It
By contrast, you do have the right to live however you please, so long as it’s within the confines of the law. If you want to cross-dress, smoke marijuana, drink lots of alcohol, have lots of sex, and, yes, even go to school for gender studies, then by all means, go for it. Government should not be allowed to legislate people’s behavior as long as it doesn’t infringe upon someone else’s rights, but that doesn’t mean society isn’t allowed to have an opinion. You don’t have the right to demand people keep their opinions about your lifestyle to themselves, especially if you’re open and public about it. I have as much of a right to comment on the way you live your life as you do to actually live it. Your feelings are not a protected right, but my speech is.
7. The Only Safe Space Is Your Home
No matter where you go in life, someone will be there to offend you. Maybe it’s a joke you overheard on vacation, a spat at the office, or a difference of opinion with someone in line at the grocery store. Inevitably, someone will offend you and your values. If you cannot handle that without losing control of your emotions and reverting back to your “safe space” away from the harmful words of others, then you’re best to just stay put at home. Remember, though: if people in the outside world scare you, people on the internet will downright terrify you. It’s probably best to just accept these harsh realities of life and go out into the world prepared to confront them wherever they may be waiting.
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Perhaps we should add number 8 – When Elections Don’t Go Your Way, You Don’t Get to Destroy Other People’s Property
When your lying corrupt liberal doesn’t get elected, in spite of voter fraud, you are not entitled to destroy buildings, set fires and block traffic. If you really want to be an adult, you accept defeat, exercise your 1A rights by complaining about it, but you cannot terrorize towns with your temper tantrums. Grow up, suck it up and behave like an adult.
~Kathy
Categories: Political
Pesky Truth 
“Crybullies” really is the perfect word to describe many of today’s millennials. Like spoiled children they are testing the rest of us to see how far we’ll let them go. Unfortunately we aren’t pushing back hard enough, but I think the election of Trump over Hillary was a signal that people have had enough, and the brats seem to be reading the writing on the wall.
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A great piece, Kathy! I loved the first image of our little snowflakes crawling around bawling ’cause that wrinkly, old, skank didn’t win. They are just plain spoiled rotten, used to things going their way. Real life is gonna be a real challenge for them. The writer made some good, solid observations and all were right to the point. Great post!
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The media and Hillary’s use of them to spread her propaganda are mostly to blame for this, but many of the millennials were already headed toward spoiled bratdom.
If the MSM had been even halfway truthful about the race, the outcome wouldn’t have been such a shock to their poor little brains, and now they’re blaming everything everyone except the real cause of the problem.
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