• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    PLEASE stop this.

    It’s not left or right

    It’s not this generation or that generation

    It’s not black or white

    It’s not men or women

    These are distractions amplified through for profit media and captured education to keep us undermining one another, can you not see that?

    As ever, it Owners vs Laborers. I don’t mean your 3.111110 shares of apple in your 401k BTW.

    The owners leverage all of the above to keep us at each other’s throats instead of looking up.

    Don’t hate the class traitors like McDonald’s lady, pity her. She was made into a self hating beaten dog by guess who?

    We. Have. A. Common. Blight. The ones killing us and our planet for short term profit.

    The one’s perpetually encouraging the poors tear eachother apart over every petty difference to maintain their class occupation and subjugation of us.

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      After trying and failing to reach them for comment, we finally heard from them. They just told us “whatever, man.”

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      Gen X had it’s Part in Memes and grew up. Like tech savvy boomers, Generation X seems predominantly stuck in the middle tier of the career ladder, overshadowed by their Boomer parents. However, they maintain a benevolent and generous attitude toward younger generations. They are fully aware that they will likely never own property, and having children is a significant risk. This painful realization hit them some time ago, hence their sense of empathy. The later you’re born, the more pain you inherit.

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        We will age and die in our office chairs, and our Zalpha children will burn our bodies to fuel their air conditioners. We will finally find our purpose. Don’t worry about us: we are content enough.

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      We’ve been around for like sixty years now. If we were milk we would have developed culture. But we’re not so we didn’t.

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    I get so confused with people portraying Gen Z as these radical socialists when time after time voting shows they are anything but. Especially Gen Z men as a group are extremely conservative. At least in the US.

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      Gen Z is just more extreme in their views, regardless of what their actual politics are.

      The rightists want a Reich, the leftists want a global communist revolution, and there’s no center.

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      • Ages 18-24: 44% for Trump, 54% for Harris
      • Ages 25-29: 52% for Trump, 48% for Harris
      • Ages 30-44: 52% for Trump
      • Ages 45-64: 56% for Trump
      • Ages 65 and older: 61% for Trump

      https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election

      More conservative than in the past, but so is the whole country (by votes- most Americans don’t vote). Compared to other age groups though, gen z voted less conservative (unless you consider that Harris is basically a conservative)

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        I didn’t mean to imply that Gen Z is less conservative than older generations. A pretty low bar to pass under lol

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          how does the word “conservative” mean the same thing from generation to generation if the issues important to conservatives change every generation? I’m asking about the term, not the politics

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        Keep in mind that those numbers are always going to be off from reality. Also it will vary heavily by state.

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      They are the least liberal generation since they grew up surrounded by the failings of liberalism. They are either hardline conservatives or leftists. Very few fall between those camps

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      People tend to be among their age group online. Social media and online forums are conducive to echo chambers.

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      Might be the “horseshoe effect” where they (ultimately) converge on a few things. Change the tshirt, and that would fit trumpy gen z too.

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        Horseshoe theory is an incorrect oversimplification of extreme politics. If it were true then anarchists would be no different than fascists, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

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        I don’t believe authoritarians of different feathers flock together, but that doesn’t mean I’m right.

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      i suspect that my retirement will happen befor any change; so i’m with genz on this. lol

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    Fr if social security goes away for young people in the U.S., it may as well be lol

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    At first I was like a cocktail and a vibrator. Then looked at the previous panels and it’s actually microphone… Maybe…