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These meltdown/freakouts/temper-tantrums are nothing more than the generation raised in daycare and public school using the tools they learned to "successfully" cope and/or get their way extrapolated into adulthood. Screaming gets you a cookie. Hurting yourself gets you the toy. Lying about someone gets them punished, not you.

And now, they're discovering that with adults in charge, they can't scream and crybully a disinterested minimum-wage employee who just wants them to shut up, or get mommy and daddy to intimidate people into giveing them what they want. It's going to be a very rough 4 years with a potential of 16 more to follow as Gen Z veers hard right to join the increasing influence of Gen X, and away from the totalitarian nanny state the boomers and milenneals desire the future to be.

The best thing would be to ground these people throwing coniption fits. Socially ostracize and shun them. Unsubscribe, tune out and walk away. If they're family, cut them out with the caveat of whether then can behave themselves like sane people and in some cases (not as rare as they should be) consider forcibly getting them the psychiatric help they need so they can return to rational, sane society again.

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