• Kernal64@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    The stuff they said about Millennials was the same stuff they said about Gen X, minus the specifics of liking avocados. It’s the age old cycle of old people being mad that young people exist and might have different preferences. Tale as old as time, sadly.

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      5 hours ago

      My guess is it isn’t old people themselves being mad, but the media trying to make them hate young people so they vote conservative. They’re more likely to vote conservative if they have am enemy who’s taking over that they hate.

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        5 hours ago

        Yeah, I can see that being the case. Always gotta have an out group to hate if you’re conservative. It reminds me of the whole “People don’t want to work!” nonsense. I saw a post once that collected pictures of newspaper articles going back to the 1800s that all complained about “the kids these days” being lazy and not wanting to work. Any one of them could have been written today. I guess the tactic of focusing people’s ire has been working for quite a long time.