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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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[โ€“] vordalack@lemm.ee 8 points 1 hour ago

Gen Z males are mostly incels, brain damaged from heavy vape use, grew up in an era where being a retarded right wing troll was counter culture, and view women as their arch enemy, for some reason.

They're much easier to manipulate than millennials but are much more dense and useless. This is going to get a lot worse as millennials and men xers retire from the labor market. Imagine having a braindead broccoli top as your executive?

I hope Trump does increase the number of H1-Bs and immigration. We need like 60 million new people to make up for Gen Z.

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[โ€“] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] iwndwyt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

"Harris has a significant lead among young registered voters in the NBC News Stay Tuned Gen Z Poll powered by SurveyMonkey. But a yawning gender gap is dividing Gen Z."

That being said, we all know how inaccurate polls can be sometimes.

[โ€“] x0x7@lemmy.world -2 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

Maybe because they've been demonized since they were children?

[โ€“] altec@midwest.social 2 points 17 minutes ago

"demonized" - GOP propaganda lmao

[โ€“] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 56 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

As a zoomer that's old enough to be working class now. Man, my childhood was fucked. At school, being a right wing troll was the norm, at least for boys. I was too.

The worst part is no-one cared, fucking "they'll grow out of it" and now everyone is suddenly in shock. When I talk about it to my friend today he's even in fucking denial about it, "Oh they didn't actually mean that, it was all jokes".

And our education system doesn't do anything to combat this shit either. Quite the opposite, the dogmatic authoritarian approach schools take coupled with zero-tolerance policies pretty much ensures people shouting this hateful shit get away with it.

After all saying "Hitler did nothing wrong" only gets annoyed looks, gets completely brushed off as "edgy" or something. But then when someone points out that person's shit, suddenly that's an attack???

[โ€“] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I have seen teachers say that hitler was right, that walls were invented by aliens and that giants existed and were romanian

[โ€“] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

giants existed and were romanian

Wait, what? I didn't see any giants in my high school. Are they invisible giants or something?

Also, where were those giants during the 2nd Dacian war? Romans must have been superheroes or something to take on giants and win.

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[โ€“] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 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.

[โ€“] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 19 points 4 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.

[โ€“] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

A buzzword being one with three syllables or more, I presume?

(Syllables are probably woke nowadays)

[โ€“] emmie@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

map of climate change outcomes. 2.7 warming. Violet - unhabitable

[โ€“] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

*looks at Russia*

Well, I knew we are fucked.

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Russia is going to be a bit busy with a massive influx of climate migrants. America will also have this issue, so they will both have that much bigger problem to deal with.

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