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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (79 children)

Translation: you'll become more conservative when you have children and own a home

Millennials: πŸ˜†
Zoomers: πŸ˜‚
Alpha: 🀣
Whateverthefuckcomesnext: πŸ’€

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago

own a home

Too bad boomers ruined my best chance at that.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a child and own a home, and am a member of the lost generation. Fuck the Republican Party and any conservative who believes their selfish bullshit should outweigh the greater good of others.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Republicans are fascists, not conservatives.

Democrats are the conservative party.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I agree about Republicans. I don't agree about Democrats. Some, of course, are conservative, as they historically always have been. But a good portion are quite liberal.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

There are two kinds of Democrats: conservatives and hostages

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

As a whole, the Dems are pretty center of the aisle, because America as a whole is fairly conservative compared to Europe (despite 60% of the population being more liberal than the government at most times). Europeans generally consider the Dems in the US a conservative party, and corporate Dems are definitely closer to the right than to the left. The other issue besides the general conservative leaning in the country though is that there's about 50 other groups of various left leaning shades that would be their own separate parties in Europe but are bunched in with the corporate Dems and therefore have little say in the party platform.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree with everything you said except, im confused about the use of the term lost generation. That’s a generation born in the 1880-1900s.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been fortunate enough to have seen my material conditions improve as I've entered my mid-thirties which has let me start a family and buy a home. I've also watched my incredibly talented and hard working friends/acquaintances/neighbours be ground into dust under the cruel rule of capitalism. I got lucky, they didn't, this has radicalized me far more than any naive idealism ever could.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. I'm fortunate enough that the skills I'm good at have a lot of demand at the moment, but people I know that are more hard working than I am and very talented, struggle to get by just because their job for some reason is considered less worthy to pay for.

Wanting to maintain this rotten system is the purest form of greed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Having to mow the lawn is the first step in the pipeline of fascism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Everyone knows it's a gateway chore

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Influencers on the whole are trying their best to make little nazis out of the next generations. Give them time. homer-bye

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait is Alpha the next generation's name after Zoomers?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, for now. That might change. Millennial was originally Gen Y.

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