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Societal Collapse (lemmy.world)
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[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 99 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 44 points 6 days ago

Louder for the people in the back:

THERE IS NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I mean there are others but the others shouldn't be fought really but it's insanely hard to cure dumb with these drug laws.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago

It's not left or right

[proceeds to make a solid leftist argument]

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've never heard a solid conservative argument.

no, because I'm racist isn't a sound reason to do things lmao

[-] Lennny@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

CEOs need to start dropping around the holiday season, instead of prices.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

is that not what the 3rd frame is saying?

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Especially with the Caesar-ish garb, it conflates boomers with owners

Most owners are boomers, but few boomers are owners.

The owners are our enemy.

It's important to maintain focus on who the enemy is. This is subtle but derails entire movements.

The owner's bread and butter is sowing division between the peasants. They are very efficient at it. Kind of their signature move.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

I see. Thanks!

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

"It's my retirement plan"

Uff that hit too close to home

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 236 points 1 week ago

I do enjoy how GenX doesn't appear at all. Very appropriate.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 6 days ago

votes for Trump at a greater rate than any other generation

Wonders why no one wants to acknowledge them

[-] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's not the point they made. They pointed out that Gen X isn't in it, which is appropriate ~~being the silent generation~~. They were punk rock as kids, but reformed the moment they had to and didn't try to make any sort of change as a whole.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The Silent Generation is an actual generation and it was the one before Boomers and after the Greatest. Biden is a Silent Gen. Too young to kill Nazis, not part of the Boom, no one cares about Korea, they were just old enough to get the Cold War brainwashing and fuck up everything with Reaganism.

[-] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

That's my mistake. Gen X is still known for doing nothing and staying silent

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 6 days ago

we are "the maps without new zealand" generation

[-] i_dont_want_to 123 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Nanook@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago

Whatever… just whatever.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Gen X: you pussies should have been around in the 70's and 80's

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

We have a stronger survivorship bias than the following gens, but we also sucked on leaded gas fumes for a while when our brains were still developing.

So anyway, whatever.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Don't forget those delicious paint chips

[-] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

I didn't have the chance

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 32 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] naught101@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

You realise Gen Xers are all in the 40-65 age bracket now, right? Nearly all way beyond the deciding-on-children age. And heaps of them own property (at least where I live).

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 5 points 6 days ago

Or just get some more decades to marinate in hatred.

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

I am a middle child in the generational equivalent of a middle child.

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[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 114 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

https://www.prri.org/research/generation-zs-views-on-generational-change-and-the-challenges-and-opportunities-ahead-a-political-and-cultural-glimpse-into-americas-future/#page-section-8

This poll suggests otherwise.

Gen Z adults (21%) are less likely than all generational groups except millennials (21%) to identify as Republican. Meanwhile, 36% of Gen Z adults identify as Democrats, and this rate is similar to other generations, with the exception of Gen Xers, who are less Democratic (31%).

With the exception of millennials (24%), Gen Z adults (28%) are notably less likely than other generational cohorts to identify as conservative. And Gen Z adults (43%) identify as liberal at a higher rate than other generations. A plurality of Gen Z teens (44%) identify as moderate.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You read the Adjuster's manifesto? It's neither "liberal" nor "conservative", but rather, has elements of both the left and right i.e. moderate according to your data. That's just the US. People are incoherent in their ideas.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

and i just want to be alone on my computer.

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Gen Z men think being rude and unrespectful will get the girlfriends. They are in the not fucking around phase of not fucking around and not finding out.

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

That's sadly nothing new

[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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

[-] TherapyGary 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • 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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[-] sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk 33 points 1 week ago

I see GenX didn't answer. Typical slackers

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