it is somewhere in-between 
gen z had like 14% turnout, this election doesn’t really tell us anything about their political views.
It just tells us that the only gen z motivated to vote were the fascist ones 🤷 Wonder if the genocide has anything to do with that .
Drove past a guy today parked near an intersection sitting in his Honda Civic with 2 Trump flags attached to the bumper and a flashing light on top of his car. Just sitting in his car.
These people are energized.
I didnt think even about the turnout. We are basically back to young people just not voting at all i guess.
Damn I wonder why young people didn’t vote
-me fuckin 1776
old people scapegoating the younger generation by projecting their fears and dreams onto them, more news at 11
I love when there’s a panic about some demographic doing something bad, and then you find out that the demographic does the bad thing marginally less than everyone else
From TAing during grad school, gen Z is fantastic especially the younger ones (that are about 20-21 rn). Totally anecdotal but they were really resilient and supportive of their peers/community. Those that participated and supported the pro-palestine encampments prove this IMO. Im not particularly worried about gen Z as a whole, just half of their white men who vote based on 2 minute JRE clips
As someone in a similar environment, you got to take these people you meet with a grain of salt. Theyre already self selected through college, colleges are something of a bubble.
True but i still sense some good vibes at least, frankly though i also know a lot of dipshit white men in that age group so maybe im just coping
Solidarity amongst the working class, no matter their age. Do not let ourselves be divided against each other.
bespoke: gen-z isn’t a generation
It does appear to be a uniquely Rizzy generation though. I think. I don’t know what these young people words mean.
Rizz is short for charisma
Rizzmatic.
if anything gen z is lacking in rizz due to increasing social alienation. a lot of the emphasis on rizz stems from feelings of insecurity over not having social skills
omg centrism on my hexbear?
Any gen on how the previous generation looked upon them: Wow the previous gen was so silly for completely overreacting to our slang and culture, seeing as how it was in no significant way different from the culture of the previous generations’ youth, despite technological advances
Any gen about the next gen: While I am aware that my generation was mocked by the previous generation for our frivolities, which was silly because the previous generation had the same generation, this next generation is deeply unserious and needs to be mocked for its’ frivoloties. The reason this is different is because of technology and also their slang is weird and their internal references make no sense and their humor is slightly abstract and very cringy unlike the things I liked as a youth.
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Very concise summary of this phenomenon.
And anyone who can read the news has a dim awareness that the younger you are, the shittier things are going to be in general for the rest of your life. Material conditions matter
As I commented elsewhere in this thread; they also followed us onto the corpo platforms, all of which had algorithmically curated nazification pipelines.
Incorrect, houses can move during extreme weather conditions
Yeah. I bet most cars are a higher % of surface area window than most houses. Theory could still hold.
We live in a generation
Generations are fake
That’s true and simultaneously not true
Boomers definitely are a real phenomenon, the mass global lead poisoning of hundreds of millions of people is no joke
I think boomers were real, that was something that happened with a clear cause and a huge bubble worked its way through the age distribution like a big rat through a snake. Every other “generation” is just arbitrary intervals.
Even boomers is mostly referring to well-off white people (and some people of other backgrounds) who have reaped the rewards of the emergence of the American Empire as the global superpower. It’s really a label about wealth, not just being born somewhat soon after WWII.
The bubble of population growth ie the “boom” in “boomer” is part of what contributed to their wealth. The surplus labor of boomers in their youth did not need to support as significant a population of older generations who were less numerous to start off with and additionally lost a great many as casualties of war. As boomers age the reverse becomes true and the new generations must support an enormous elderly population of boomers. This intersects with the many other factors that we are all familiar with on this forum.
My parents are technically boomers, even though they were born in 1962 and 1963, a bit far after the war to be part of a post-war baby boom.
That too – even the upper endpoint of that interval is arbitrary.
I was born on the cusp of the Millennials and Zoomer Gen and was called both. It’s dumb and pointless
As a millennial, I’ve met a lot of men my age that are far-right. It’s not just a gen z thing. Generational warfare is stupid.
Ben Shapiro is a millennial, Mr. Beast is a Zoomer. There are shitheads in every generation.
What do ben shapiro, mr beast, and joe rogan have in common?
spoiler
White men
Really ramping up in the early 2010s there was a deliberate program of Nazi propaganda pushed through the algorithmic curation systems of every single corpo platform our generation gave their social lives over to in the early 00s, the kids just followed us. If you told your friends to get on Facebook, and aren’t a Nazi, youre just a Judas goat.
Luckily, I was and am too insufferable to have friends, and am thus blameless.
I’ll never forget the time in about 2014 or 2015 when I searched for “proto indo european” on youtube because I like learning about language shifts. I watched one video about phonology, then YouTube recommended one about early migration patterns, then they recommended a video called “who were the proto indo europeans” and I was like oh neat, I never really thought about their culture or technology or whatever, let’s watch that.
I’m kinda spacing out doing something else, and I hear the video say “so basically, the proto indo europeans were ethnically German” I was like ohhhhhh what the fuck?? That sounds not correct at all… wait didn’t… didn’t the Germans have some weird concept of “Aryans” to the east or something? What the fuck am I listening to?
I look down and the channel name is “SurviveTheJive”… uhhh… the WHAT? Survive the WHAT?
It was a Nazi. It took literally two YouTube recommendations to bring me to a channel run by a swastika-wearing Nazi.
And every big platform is like this. On purpose. We handed our social lives and so much of our culture over to them, and they used that monopoly to push Nazism. Every corpo in silicon valley may as well have a sonnenrad on its face.
I’ll never forgive the Dungeons and Diversity YouTube channel for the shitty bait and switch channel name when trying to introduce new people to the hobby. They can fuck right off forever.
This election didn’t really prove they’re either as well. A record number of them went out to vote against trump in 2020 and this year most stayed home due to apathy. It’s not like Trump gained a wide number of new converts with him underperforming.
It should be noted that many of the first Gen Z members graduated college during the Biden administration and experienced those first few years without debt.
