I love that Gen X is forgotten. Yet again.
I prefer it that way.
I’m okay for a new retirement system where I volunteer at a soup kitchen or food pantry.
THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Z_protests
I think Gen Z is more right-wing than millennials; at least the younger men.
Gen Z is also more receptive of Socialism
Its how Mamdani won
It’s almost like an entire generation isn’t just one person. Maybe “generations” is just another made up thing used to divide people?
It’s not a crazy idea to group people born around a certain year range together. There’s a lot of shared experiences and often similar outlooks. The boundaries between these groups are a little stupid though.
It’s also a useful tool to understand how global events affect people in different parts of life. Often quoted is a gen z divide that is missing in other generations. I think this was caused because of when covid hit during their lives. A difference of a couple years made a big difference where the younger half leaned hard right and the older half leaned left.
Gen Z is more reactionary than millennials, and that’s because we’re more fucked. Fascism provides an outlet and gives direction and purpose to the general discontent and resentment harbored by young people today, same as it ever was. Gen Z appears more right wing because more Gen Z can see the status quo isn’t working for them, and in the absence / suppression of the populist left people turn to the populist right.
the status quo didn’t exactly work out for millenials either.
All the eroding of education worked on them, and most Gen z men are fucking idiots
Some of them are getting woken up now that the far-right president is tanking, and they’re regretting to voting Trump to own the libs. I hope they also realize that “fandom gatekeeping” is not about keeping bad people out to preserve the quality of works, but is both a stupid tribalistic behavior, a bigoted recruitment tool, and to keep things “exotic and obscure, for street cred reasons”. I especially met the latter one within metal (and through people I knew: indie rock) circles, I knew a guy who was really angry at me for ruining Meshuggah for him, by no longer making him a special little snowflake for having several Meshuggah CDs, and thus he couldn’t show them off at meetups. (sorry for my off-topic tangent)
Fucking idiots.
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The youth are truthful if nothing else
Stop. It’s a class war, not a generation war.
Seriously. Fuck all this generational bullshit. Artificial divides cooked up by ad agencies. Such a waste of time and energy.
Once we all figure out that we outnumber them millions to one they will have a very bad day, but I do feel like if that ever happened a good number of us will stand on the side of tyranny.
yep - any day now
All they have to do is offer a certain small percentage of the population a job in “enforcement” with barely any benefits or pay.
That new law enforcement will then protect the system that lets them look down on “the poors/immigrants/[insert boogie man]” and admire their ultra wealthy generous “saviors.”
Fan in some hate, add some racism, a bit of bigotry. Baby, you got a stew going.
How much do ICE thugs make again?
Nope, we must pit ourselves against each other while Musk and company point and laugh.
Well they’re already a monarchy
This Gen Xer supports Gen Z.
Highlights the idiocy of dividing people up by generation, they just totally skipped Gen X, because there was no neat little stereotype they could come up with.
The stereotype is that everyone forgets about GenX
Gen X: Not pictured
Haha, sounds about right. We’re the forgotten generation. But that’s okay.
Who?
Xennial here. I’m glad to stay out of this manufactured generational conflict drama.
I’ve been called boomer and merrily laugh in the face of the kids that think they are just as clever that I thought I was in their age.
Gen X probably just hopes they’re old or dead before it gets really bad
This one does.
I mean, it is really bad… Gen X has the opportunity to do something really funny all at once…
We dont care.
Whatever
You cared enough to comment, apparently
oh yeah holmes I really care … NOT
Ok boomer
Gen x is not a boomer you dippydumb dipshit.
Ok boomer
Also Lost Generation.
Because a lot are MAGA pretending everything is just fine.
I hate how true this seems.
I’m being downvoted, but a big chunk of MAGA are gen X.
Gen X is definitely a mixed bag
It has been said that for the outlying regions of the Roman Empire, the collapse only meant that when the unused bridge fell down, no one came to fix it. (Undoubtedly I have garbled it.)
It has also been said “We are a long way from Beijing”, which means the central government is a long way away and don’t know what we are doing and impact our lives little.
Some things will really suck. They will suck far more than I can imagine. We will still have local police and hospitals. Medical care will get worse. There may be less food in the non-agriculture states, but that will be fixed with trade or war.
Lots of people will die. Likely you and I will die.
Some states will link up to make their own countries. Canada may invite some states to join. Same with Mexico (New Mexico maybe…)
Very much a “things I do not control”.
I hope it will be a situation of medical care being allowed to get somewhat worse, instead of the same standards and institutions being maintained despite not enough funding to keep hospitals open at that standard and so medicine is generally prohibited for the poor.
As a millennial I might live in my parents basement and eat avocado toast but I’m still ready to throw some molotovs
I might be able to supply you with empty bottles.
Keeping your empty liquor bottles after drinking it all is free.
Billionaires paying a proper amount of taxes cannot appease me anymore. I want their heads separated from their bodies.
I’ve read somewhere that sugar burns like a bitch and stay stuck everywhere.
…Just a random fact.
In this one video game I play, they said that you don’t want to stuff the cloth into the mouth of the bottle, but rather seal the bottle and tie the cloth around the neck so the fuel doesn’t ignite midair.
I heard that if you mix styrofoam into gasoline it becomes very viscous and sticky. It adheres to everything.
Lol is the anarchist cook book still kicking around?
Anna’s archive has it
That’s basically napalm.
Let’s stop here. Shall we 🤣
What dude, I just like video games
Oh, they do too.
Sorry, Gen-Z will in all likelihood be as passive and innert to revolt or political actions as previous generations have been.
Plus there’s so much more tech they’re going to be subject to.
I’m Gen Z, but if we are as radicalized as we are, just imagine what gen alpha will be.
They said the same thing about millennials. But look how many gen Z men went to the right.
I’m not saying you don’t have more radical views, but please do something with them.
I did not say left, I said radicalized. That includes fascists as well.
Completely agree with the sentiment, but fascists aren’t radicals. They’re extremists. Radicals want to alter something at it’s root. Extremists want to pick a thing about society and take it to it’s extreme. Radicals want a revolution, to change society into something new. Fascists want to take capitalism and and authority, two aspects of our current society, and make them the only thing going.
By and large, they’re winning that race
I’m sorry, but you are wrong. Everything about fascists is radical.
They do tend to, and in this case are, extremist.
Radical politics seek extreme societal change, from the root, if you like. Fascism does this through authoritarian control, to name one example.
Good job on neatly describing extremism and radical politics though.
Radically centrist because they will be fucking fed up with all this fake meme bullshit.
You’ll also have to take into account that parents are waking up to the dangers of social media et al, so one possible future is that kids will be less poisoned by it. It’s already happening in some places, children are being forbidden to use phones at school, some countries are outright banning social media from children, etc. etc.
This doesn’t seem like much of a solution to me, they’re still being raised by people using social media, and will be thrown into it at some point. The obligatory age checks are going to make the surveillance state way worse.
Hmm, radicalization doesn’t come through social media. Sure, it makes the process faster, but when you get fucked over, you don’t really care about your phone telling you you’re getting fucked over. Kids also have an incredible word of mouth. At least where I live the radicalized divide has been pretty strong with 35% voting for the most left/right wing party available to them.
So get outta here with your radicalized centrist crap.
