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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

lol, yes Millennials and Gen Z are trying so much harder to fix the situation by voting for change… ohhh wait

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/yes-trump-improved-young-men-drew-young-women-rcna179019

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah I’m afraid that the lesson is that Gen Z is not actually the future, they are going to repeat the past. What makes me sad is that they should have been the future but social media made sure that didn’t happen.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did social media make sure that didn't happen, or did the fact that virtually every generation ultimately repeats the mistakes of the one before it ensure that didn't happen?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That they could have been so much better without Zuckerberg, Savage, Peterson, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Exactly. They're turning young men into the generation that will force American women into burqas. Or at least support / help with the move.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but the system is rigged or my vote doesn't count or genocide joe or some stupid shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean genocide joe is calling any democrat who wants to stop sending weapons to israel a hamas supporter. I can understand why they didn't believe the dems would fix the situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Credibility that a politician will do what the people they're asking to vote for them want isn't stupid shit, that's the absolute most basic aspect of representative democracy.

Do you think the republicans would have voted for Trump if his messaging was mostly about how the democrats are correct and he's going to do what the democratic voters want more competently, and called his constituents antisemitic terrorist supporters?

Then surely you understand why the dems trotting out Liz Cheney to represent them and talking about the importance of building the wall, being tough on crime, tax-cuts for businesses, increasing military spending, etc all lowers democratic turnout?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Shitty reasons to let the ultra-fascists win

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's just how representative democracy works. You can go "Damn I wish people tended to vote for a party they don't believe will do what they want because the other side is worse", but that's just not how it works in reality.

The democrats failed the people, the people did not fail the democrats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The democrats should have been able to run a goddamn cardboard cutout and people should have turned out in droves to vote against that shitstain. This isn't 2000. This wasn't the kind of election where any of the things you mentioned should have been a factor. It's insane.

Yes, I absolutely can blame the people for being too lazy or stupid to do the minimum possible to protect themselves and their neighbors. These excuses are just goddamn braindead, and it will never not astound me that when comparing a functioning adult to a giant corrupt sack of shit, that anyone anywhere had to have a conversation about why they should bother to show uo to vote for the functioning adult.

You're/they're/we're now going to pay for having a complete lack of perspective. Buckle up, it is not going to be fun for anyone. Except the oligarchs I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

people should have just

You're not looking at this from a systemic perspective. It's childish to say "everyone is bad and dumb so they deserve what they get".

It's constructive to say "democrats will lose if they fail to promote popular left policy in 2026 and 2028, and if they do win, they absolutely have to immediately materially improve people's conditions if they don't want to get blown out again in 2030 as happened in 2022."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Look at this guy thinking that we can vote our way out of this when we only have two, corporate sponsored, candidates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So says the headline, but the entire article focuses on males and how much they love that he did shit like Rogan. I'm not saying young women can't also be idiots or angry at the present state of things, but they didn't completely forget that the right sees them as procreation slaves.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4986243-trump-gen-z-voters-shift/amp/#amp_ct=1732198304481&amp_tf=From+%251%24s&aoh=17321982963326&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well yeah, young men bought into all the incelfluencer crap they were being fed. Probably a good thing since young women by and large are flocking the opposite way and absolutely don't want to fuck conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If you read the linked article in my post Trump made inroads with young women too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, they did vote for change... just not the change we were hoping for, I guess. Things will most likely change for the worse now.

That said, real good change wasn't really on the ballot either.