President Joe Biden personally directed his senior campaign aides in recent days to focus more aggressively on former President Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments, according to two sources familiar with the president’s edict.
He needs to get some Gen Z folks to write the comments. Fuck political correctness, we need some spice and T. Imagine the white house account going “Sis look at what this troll of a former president tweeted today 💀💀💀 Let’s unpack how problematic this whole vibe is.”
I’d rather have the adults back in our politics instead of continuing to degrade into that, thank you very much. Feels like I grew up from being a teenager over the last two decades while everyone else regressed back into it.
I realize that. I was speaking about all the childishness. Shit like hurling insults across social media like we’re at fucking recess again. The fucking boomers are doing it too.
Sure, that’s a great aspiration, but we’re just dopamine seeking animals, and the oligarchs who control nearly all of the media (social and otherwise) know that, too. They make great money off reducing the tone of politics to “us vs them” and petty scorekeeping. They’ve more or less trained everyone in the U.S. since the 1980’s to approach politics this way. At this point I’m not even sure it’s ideals vs dopamine seeking behavior, so much as constant exposure to a desired behavior pattern.
Plus, If we’re both the spectators and the gladiators in the coliseum, then we won’t have time to realize that we’re in a dying democracy.
He has. Megan Coyne (gen Z) runs the official Whitehouse twitter, and was noted to be extremely sassy at calling out the hypocrisy of politicians who were against student loan forgiveness but personally benefitted from having their PPP loans forgiven.
I was okay with a boring government when I was a kid. If the government tried to be all “hello, fellow kids” on me back in the day, I would have laughed at it, and not in the good way.
He needs to get some Gen Z folks to write the comments. Fuck political correctness, we need some spice and T. Imagine the white house account going “Sis look at what this troll of a former president tweeted today 💀💀💀 Let’s unpack how problematic this whole vibe is.”
I’d rather have the adults back in our politics instead of continuing to degrade into that, thank you very much. Feels like I grew up from being a teenager over the last two decades while everyone else regressed back into it.
The oldest Gen Zs are 27 now.
I realize that. I was speaking about all the childishness. Shit like hurling insults across social media like we’re at fucking recess again. The fucking boomers are doing it too.
Sure, that’s a great aspiration, but we’re just dopamine seeking animals, and the oligarchs who control nearly all of the media (social and otherwise) know that, too. They make great money off reducing the tone of politics to “us vs them” and petty scorekeeping. They’ve more or less trained everyone in the U.S. since the 1980’s to approach politics this way. At this point I’m not even sure it’s ideals vs dopamine seeking behavior, so much as constant exposure to a desired behavior pattern.
Plus, If we’re both the spectators and the gladiators in the coliseum, then we won’t have time to realize that we’re in a dying democracy.
Why? The ‘adults’ clearly aren’t doing shit.
And gen z has the most to lose if shit continues heading downhill…
He has. Megan Coyne (gen Z) runs the official Whitehouse twitter, and was noted to be extremely sassy at calling out the hypocrisy of politicians who were against student loan forgiveness but personally benefitted from having their PPP loans forgiven.
White House Twitter thread on student debt forgiveness has NJ flair - https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2022/08/26/white-house-nj-twitter-thread-megan-coyne-student-loan-debt-forgiveness/65458123007/
I was okay with a boring government when I was a kid. If the government tried to be all “hello, fellow kids” on me back in the day, I would have laughed at it, and not in the good way.
But I understand what you mean.
The irony is “the kids”, many of them, are in their 20’s.
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