Lol until they find the next bandwagon to hop on that happens to hurt and kill other people.
Not too long ago I read that young men are becoming right wing and are becoming more religious. But then I see articles like the above or articles saying that fewer and fewer people are religious. So I wonder what the reality actually is.
You should be careful with how you interpret the religiosity data. Often people interpret people responding "None" to the question of "What is your religion?" as these people being atheists, but overwhelmingly that is not the case. I believe it's like over 70% of "religious nones" (the term used for people who respond this way on surveys in academic contexts) believe pretty strongly in the supernatural, and many believe in the existence of God and/or spirits that govern the world. When people say they don't belong to any religion on surveys, they apparently most often mean they don't belong to a particular organized religion rather than being atheist.
They’re going to pretend so women will talk to them and keep voting for facist turds
It's amazing to me to see how gen z acted after the neo-liberal boomers destroyed the economy and shit all over millenials. Millenials were blamed for everything. I'd have thought gen z would have gone hard left after seeing how their siblings and even in some cases parents were treated, but instead they were easily manipulated by russia and 4/8chan into stupidity. Instead we got gen z who was already fucked over by trump once to vote for him.
Every generation learns too late that old white men are not their friends and don't have their best interests at heart. Only with gen z it mattered more than ever in history and they blew it.
easily manipulated by russia and 4/8chan
Are you sure that's by Russia and not some further manipulation?
The atomization of our perspectives is what allowed the cancer to metastasize.
Most people don't browse forums, most people don't read news stories, most people don't fact-check or watch debates or listen to pundits talk for more than 3 minutes.
This should normally lead to rapidly shifting political landscapes, but we're all being a carefully cultivated feed of validating and self-affirming information that makes people feel a lack of involvement and urgency. You see it right here on Lemmy, people are reposting all the pandering news site bullshit every day "Trump and MAGA is collapsing!" "Trump HUMILIATED by latest release!" "GOP is crashing and people are fleeing the sinking ship!"
For every headline like that you read, people who lean right are seeing the exact opposite. And since we've all isolated ourselves from social connection, we don't see how atomized our worlds are, we just assume everyone is seeing the same headlines and it makes us complacent.
Not for any altruistic reasons, probably because no woman will touch them once they find out they're a mysogynistic rapist-supporting bigot...
Realizing you got played like a fiddle makes you take a step back. I won't hold my breath that we'll see real change here, but the sheep are at least becoming concious of the wolves.
AAAnd becoming groypers
Uhm, no thanks. MAGA are too stupid to become liberals. They don't deserve forgiveness for what they've done to the country.
You are doing even more damage
Not sure I can ever trust them. Seems like their brains are made of Swiss cheese.
So far, the Gen Zs that have entered Congress, like Max Frost, have been spectacularly successful. We need a lot more of them in government. They know they have the rare opportunity to steer America in an entirely new direction, and they are ready to go to WAR over it.
I'll take ANY Gen Z over that cowardly bitch Schmuck Schumer, any day.
I still say 'Fuck you' to them because they got us into this mess. Voting has its consequences and we're suffering for it, because of their indecisive, easily manipulative and delusional minds.
There's just no excuse to 'not being politically aware' when you always will have ample time to research about the candidates. You can't just fucking go into the voting booths and just fill in the boxes of the candidates based on your party alignment then come out after voting being all like "I wasn't politically aware" when they see the damage being done. But that's what they did, that's what majority of those 70+ million idiots did.
This isn't like voting for some prom queen or prom king shit, welcome to the real world, morons. You fucked us over.
Ah yes, the Hillary Clinton strategy...
You're aware these people will be voting for another ~50 years right?
They're idiot kids who were taken advantage of, and you want to drive them to the right, by acting like someone on the right?
If you want to help, maybe you should become a Republican and chase people away from that party?
If you don't want the R by your name to help the left, I don't understand why you're literally and significantly helping the right in that very comment
Do you just not under the ramifications of advocating for chasing teenagers away from the Dem party for life because of one vote?
I mean, we just got Hillary, Biden, and Kamala shoved down our throats. Lots of people who didn't vote for any of those three can still be dependable lifelong Dem voters moving forward
We just have to stop shoving uncharismatic conservatives down their throats because "it's the only other option".
Not only did they not research anyone before going into the voting booth, they weren’t involved in any step of the process. If they’re so mad about stuff why aren’t they doing the groundwork or even participating in primaries?
The last real Democratic Party primary was in 2020.
Most of the people we are talking about were literally too young to participate in a meaningful primary.
They had no opportunity to be involved in the process, and now they are being blamed for not participating. That's the modern Democratic Party in a nutshell.
Tell someone "fuck you", declare them delusional morons and blame everything wrong with the world on them
they don't vote for you
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