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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd rather have the adults back in our politics instead of continuing to degrade into that, thank you very much. Feels like I grew up from being a teenager over the last two decades while everyone else regressed back into it.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The oldest Gen Zs are 27 now.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I realize that. I was speaking about all the childishness. Shit like hurling insults across social media like we're at fucking recess again. The fucking boomers are doing it too.

[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Sure, that’s a great aspiration, but we’re just dopamine seeking animals, and the oligarchs who control nearly all of the media (social and otherwise) know that, too. They make great money off reducing the tone of politics to “us vs them” and petty scorekeeping. They’ve more or less trained everyone in the U.S. since the 1980’s to approach politics this way. At this point I’m not even sure it’s ideals vs dopamine seeking behavior, so much as constant exposure to a desired behavior pattern.

Plus, If we’re both the spectators and the gladiators in the coliseum, then we won’t have time to realize that we’re in a dying democracy.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Why? The ‘adults’ clearly aren’t doing shit.

And gen z has the most to lose if shit continues heading downhill..

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