• ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    Boomers account for 41% of home owners, Millennials are only at 21%

    Boomers voted for Trump by 56%.

    Trying to absolve American Boomers for their reactionary tendency is akin to Libs claiming that the only problem with Israel is Netanyahu, ignoring that the Israeli people enthusiastically vote for him and support his genocidal policies. Groupings of people can just be reactionary as fuck do to their economic position.

    • TheoryofChange [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Groupings of people can just be reactionary as fuck do to their economic position.

      maybe explicitly name the class dynamic at play instead of using generational politics as a bad proxy. Homeowners are generally reactionary due to their class interests. Honeowners tend to be older. There is no magical brain change which makes one reactionary upon reaching a certain age.

      Similarly israelis are generally reactionary due to their material conditions as active settlers within the political economy of Zionism. Not due to any magic quality of theirs as the antisemites would imply