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This is not my personal opinion, I know Gen Z men who voted for Harris. But the voter demographics really speak for themselves, and maybe now people will look at the radicalization of young men as a serious (but solvable) issue.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (8 children)

The main source of this recent trending fascism, anti-scientific thinking and so on is social media or the web in general. To resist or refute the mass of false information and find out what's likely true and what's not, requires education, literacy, media competency, things like that. I guess current generations are lacking this so they fall easy prey to "funny" fascist memes, fakes and rhetoric, then vote for rightwing extremists, destabilizing their own country as a result, not realizing that this leads to big disadvantages for everyone including themselves. We failed to protect these younger generations from misinformation, and now they are turning the world into what they are misled to believe is true.

We used to have relatively high living standards in the Western democracies. This will soon all crumble and we (most people who aren't rich) will suffer from it, regardless of who you voted for. And on top of that, climate change will finish us all off, because battling that isn't even on the radar for those fascists because they don't even believe in it. So instead of doing too little, we'll do literally zero and even accelerate the problem, meaning it'll affect us all much sooner already and with higher intensity.

So enjoy your still existing relatively privileged life while it still lasts. It's ging to get much, MUCH worse before it's going to be better again. Buckle up and prepare yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

With the levels of anti-intellectualism, it's also quite hard.

You write more that 3 lines? You used a "buzzword"? Congratulations, your refutation won't be read, but will met with ridicule!

My mother's boyfriend often "reads" articles from more liberal-leaning news sources, and he just laughs at the buzzwords. Cannot tell what the articles were about.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I guess the lonelyness epedemic plays a part in it which hits younger people harder then older ones and mans stronger then woman.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

PragerU was started to indoctrinate Gen Z when the realized the Millenials were Far Left and the Boomers were dying out

Mission Accomplished...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Can't the same be said of turning point usa?

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

It seems counter intuitive but I don’t think Gen Z is as good with technology as most people assume they are.

I think they just believe everything they see on YouTube and TikTok. Those algorithms just feed people what they want to see and don’t challenge anyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

My son is in his early 30s and hardly a day goes by that I don't have to help him with a software issue.

I don't know if he'll even be able to keep the media server running when I die. Probably won't be for about 20 years so we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 21 hours ago (22 children)

Who thinks they're good with technology? They've never had technology that requires any more knowledge than how to swipe. They're shit with technology.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

My mind skipped over the word 'the' in the tweet. And yet it makes sense either way.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I'm a Gen Z male, from what I can tell it seems like older generations tend to rely more on cable or traditional news outlets while younger generations tend to get their news from social media platforms like Instagram. Cable news tends to be more corporate and "normal"/consistent, while Instagram tends to feed news from a larger variety of sources that tend to be more anti-corporate and radical, but those sources also tend to optimize for very short bursts to get the point across quickly so the user can quickly move on to the next piece of news, and there's also quite a bit of low effort content and reposts and misinformation and that sort of stuff. So I think it's social media that's the main driving factor in causing Gen Z to be more radical - which in some ways is a good thing since they have more awareness of the events in Palestine (and radical leftism is based), but the platform can also put them into far-right fear-mongering bubbles and cause serious problems.

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