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[โ€“] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They invented participation ribbons and trophies, I'm almost convinced, just so they could give them to us millenials and you Xers on field day and immediately shit on us for involuntarily receiving them in fucking kindergarten as though we didn't hate how transparently bullshit they were. I destroyed mine in creative, almost ceremonial ways.

[โ€“] exocrinous@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Let's normalise calling boomers the participation trophy generation