It’s hilarious to me that Republicans have now decided that whole generations of Americans are the enemy. They love to shit on millennials especially but any young generation is a weak, woke, twisted mob come to ruin the world. Hating all young people (aside from Kyle Rittenhouse) is not a well-thought-strategy.
Definitely: they got this “millennials” idea stuck in their heads 10 years ago and they still use it as shorthand for “these kids today.” You try to talk to them about GenZ and Alpha and they roll their eyes and say “the who now?”
they got this “millennials” idea stuck in their heads 10 years ago and they still use it
They started on about it in the mid 90s and just like all their shitty ideas, they’ve never changed any opinion with new evidence ever. Look at this focus group (@23:10) of republicans and after half of them say they’d vote for trump even if he’s in jail, one guy says there’s no line for the supporters, and that they’d vote for him even if he died. The response from the trumpet is to complain about biden.
My daughter proudly told me she’s “generation Alpha” the other day, first I’d ever heard the term. We then argued over what sounds cooler, gen alpha, or gen x.
I always get a kick out of this, I tell people that I am one of the younger millennials and I’m 32. Older people just have millennial=young person in their head.
Yeah, I’m a millenial and I don’t understand Gen Z sometimes and sometimes I feel old as I’m rolling my eyes and going “kids these days” but damn they were dealt an even shittier hand than we were and while we’re a bunch of cynical bastards Gen Z is out there rolling with the punches.
Maybe this doesn’t apply to you, but a lot of older millennials are doing the same thing gen x and boomers used to do when you were growing up. It’s the ol’ cycle of “damn kids these days”
Fucking “woke” man… it’s kinda nice in a way, because now I know whenever I see that word brought up I can safely ignore what comes after it as the person has proven that they’re brainwashed by Reich wing media…
It’s absolutely fucking ridiculous seeing the “discussions” section on Steam about a goddamn video game be filled with “Is this game woke?” “BOYCOTT WOKE GAME” “Remove the option to have pronouns or we’ll cancel you!”
Absolutely fucking brainwashed… Literally a bunch of Pavlov’s dogs running around getting triggered by options in a video game because they were conditioned to.
I actually remember before the term “woke” got stolen by Fox News and was frequently used across Black Twitter as a shorthand for taking the red pill on seeing racism and intersectional grief in our society. Once your eyes are open to these truths, you can’t stop seeing them.
Ah OH BOY some people have a PROBLEM with the truth being plainly seen and spoken about. Can’t have that!
Has it ever occurred to you that you don’t know the troof? It always annoys me when I see people claim to know the troof and others are too dumb to see it. It’s just so arrogant.
It’s actually kind of a tragedy that the word has taken on that perception. There are some things that can and should be discussed that fall under the “woke” definition. But there’s no good alternative word. DEI is commonly used, but it’s not applicable in some instances when woke still would be. So we’re left kind of floundering around looking for words to describe a concept that is easily summed up as woke, just to avoid the perception of being a close-minded bigot. This isn’t the first, and certainly won’t be the last thing that the right has taken, bastardized, and used until it’s tired and worn out.
It’s okay, we had to deal with being called SJWs for a long time as well. This kind of idiotic cock blocking isn’t going to stop people from slowly evolving out of the unjust systems of thought we’ve inherited.
That’s how language naturally evolves. People either give new definitions to words to describe a new phenomena or they come up with new words entirely. In either case, it’s dumb to avoid using words to achieve some sort of political purity. Different words have different meanings in different contexts. If somebody can’t pick up on that, that’s their problem, not yours.
That’s honestly a really shitty take. “Hey, I’m going to take this word that means one thing and how people are fighting for true equality and I’m going to shit all over that word and make it meaningless. It’s just how language evolves.”
Such brain dead logic. Your political views aren’t superior to anyone else’s and language doesn’t bend to your personal biases. If a word is used or invented organically by a large amount of people to describe something, then that word has a new definition, and is thus expanding the vocabulary in the dictionary. That is literally how language evolves. It’s like how the word bug used to mean insect or a small annoyance but then expanded to include concealed devices used for spying and then expanded again to include computer errors. Validity in the world isn’t limited to your myopic views.
While I agree that Republicans have absolutely marked younger generations as the enemy, Democrats are doing the exact same thing with older generations.
Mm no, we’re not going to “both sides” this. First of all, OK Boomer was not invented by the democrats nor is it a democratic harping point. The democrats have some of the oldest politicians of all time in The White House and running Congress.
Secondly, the Democrats don’t actively legislate against the interests of old people, as Republicans do with their war on reproductive rights, resistance to college debt forgiveness, and terrible environmental record.
So no: it is not in any way or degree “the exact same thing.”
Democrats on Reddit were literally cheering for more boomers to die in the pandemic so Republican voters would die out. Denying that it happens doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen.
I haven’t seen any Republican call any generation the enemy. The only time I’ve ever seen anybody blame any generation was a couple of years ago on Reddit when a bunch of mentally deficient teenagers on Reddit who were rooting for more boomers to die so the political landscape can become more Democrat, but other than that nobody demonizes generations. It’s not something that’s political. Older generations always think their upbringing was harder, that their youth was better, and that the younger generations are ungrateful, lazy, and entitled. It’s a tale as old as time.
Lemmy was literally created by a couple of tankies. I’m not expecting any intelligent discussions on this platform. Most of the users are probably just high school students going through their edgy phase. I honestly don’t care if they all downvote me, I’m just here to shitpost for a couple of hours a week lol
The debate surrounding millennials is a challenging and nuanced topic, increasingly rising at an accelerating rate of percentage growth expansion velocity, per year per capita. For instance, many would agree that Albert Einstein was a great millennial, but Adolf Hitler not so much.
It’s hilarious to me that Republicans have now decided that whole generations of Americans are the enemy. They love to shit on millennials especially but any young generation is a weak, woke, twisted mob come to ruin the world. Hating all young people (aside from Kyle Rittenhouse) is not a well-thought-strategy.
Millennials are not young anyway. I’m a millennial and I’m 40.
Definitely: they got this “millennials” idea stuck in their heads 10 years ago and they still use it as shorthand for “these kids today.” You try to talk to them about GenZ and Alpha and they roll their eyes and say “the who now?”
They started on about it in the mid 90s and just like all their shitty ideas, they’ve never changed any opinion with new evidence ever. Look at this focus group (@23:10) of republicans and after half of them say they’d vote for trump even if he’s in jail, one guy says there’s no line for the supporters, and that they’d vote for him even if he died. The response from the trumpet is to complain about biden.
You see, it’s because they’re stupid.
Daily Show had it right 20 years ago: Republicans are either stupid and/or evil.
My daughter proudly told me she’s “generation Alpha” the other day, first I’d ever heard the term. We then argued over what sounds cooler, gen alpha, or gen x.
I always get a kick out of this, I tell people that I am one of the younger millennials and I’m 32. Older people just have millennial=young person in their head.
I mean we are kinda young still… no? Aren’t we? Guys??
And younger people just have boomer=old person in their head, which as a Gen-Xer drives me nuts every time I’m labeled as a Boomer.
It’s funny because a lot of Millennials are starting to shit on the generations younger than them. It’s something that happens to every generation.
I’ve mostly seen the opposite, Gen Z is pretty great
Yeah, I’m a millenial and I don’t understand Gen Z sometimes and sometimes I feel old as I’m rolling my eyes and going “kids these days” but damn they were dealt an even shittier hand than we were and while we’re a bunch of cynical bastards Gen Z is out there rolling with the punches.
Maybe this doesn’t apply to you, but a lot of older millennials are doing the same thing gen x and boomers used to do when you were growing up. It’s the ol’ cycle of “damn kids these days”
I guess I just haven’t seen it.
Fucking “woke” man… it’s kinda nice in a way, because now I know whenever I see that word brought up I can safely ignore what comes after it as the person has proven that they’re brainwashed by Reich wing media…
It’s absolutely fucking ridiculous seeing the “discussions” section on Steam about a goddamn video game be filled with “Is this game woke?” “BOYCOTT WOKE GAME” “Remove the option to have pronouns or we’ll cancel you!”
Absolutely fucking brainwashed… Literally a bunch of Pavlov’s dogs running around getting triggered by options in a video game because they were conditioned to.
I actually remember before the term “woke” got stolen by Fox News and was frequently used across Black Twitter as a shorthand for taking the red pill on seeing racism and intersectional grief in our society. Once your eyes are open to these truths, you can’t stop seeing them.
Ah OH BOY some people have a PROBLEM with the truth being plainly seen and spoken about. Can’t have that!
Has it ever occurred to you that you don’t know the troof? It always annoys me when I see people claim to know the troof and others are too dumb to see it. It’s just so arrogant.
It pleases me that I am able to block you and your off-gassing about invented offenses.
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“Ain’t nobody goan screw mah sister but me! I done put the work in!”
This is a weird way to expose your incest fetish.
It’s actually kind of a tragedy that the word has taken on that perception. There are some things that can and should be discussed that fall under the “woke” definition. But there’s no good alternative word. DEI is commonly used, but it’s not applicable in some instances when woke still would be. So we’re left kind of floundering around looking for words to describe a concept that is easily summed up as woke, just to avoid the perception of being a close-minded bigot. This isn’t the first, and certainly won’t be the last thing that the right has taken, bastardized, and used until it’s tired and worn out.
It’s okay, we had to deal with being called SJWs for a long time as well. This kind of idiotic cock blocking isn’t going to stop people from slowly evolving out of the unjust systems of thought we’ve inherited.
Same with social justice. To me it’s one of the most important topics. I hate the SJW memes.
What are you talking about? SJW memes carried the internet from 2014 to 2018. They provided us with cultural changing cringe and jokes
That’s how language naturally evolves. People either give new definitions to words to describe a new phenomena or they come up with new words entirely. In either case, it’s dumb to avoid using words to achieve some sort of political purity. Different words have different meanings in different contexts. If somebody can’t pick up on that, that’s their problem, not yours.
That’s honestly a really shitty take. “Hey, I’m going to take this word that means one thing and how people are fighting for true equality and I’m going to shit all over that word and make it meaningless. It’s just how language evolves.”
Such brain dead logic. Your political views aren’t superior to anyone else’s and language doesn’t bend to your personal biases. If a word is used or invented organically by a large amount of people to describe something, then that word has a new definition, and is thus expanding the vocabulary in the dictionary. That is literally how language evolves. It’s like how the word bug used to mean insect or a small annoyance but then expanded to include concealed devices used for spying and then expanded again to include computer errors. Validity in the world isn’t limited to your myopic views.
Idk what’s more dumb the fact that you think the same thing doesn’t apply you or the fact that you got so triggered over nothing.
OK Boomer.
While I agree that Republicans have absolutely marked younger generations as the enemy, Democrats are doing the exact same thing with older generations.
Mm no, we’re not going to “both sides” this. First of all, OK Boomer was not invented by the democrats nor is it a democratic harping point. The democrats have some of the oldest politicians of all time in The White House and running Congress.
Secondly, the Democrats don’t actively legislate against the interests of old people, as Republicans do with their war on reproductive rights, resistance to college debt forgiveness, and terrible environmental record.
So no: it is not in any way or degree “the exact same thing.”
Oh no… You killed him :(
Also they really don’t tolerate college students voting.
Democrats on Reddit were literally cheering for more boomers to die in the pandemic so Republican voters would die out. Denying that it happens doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen.
I didn’t realize everyone on Reddit wore their voter registration on their profile.
I have a hard time believing that Republicans would be cheering for old people to die so their states can become more blue.
Qhahahhahaha wow you need to wake the fuck up or get out of the boomers basement. Lmfao
I haven’t seen any Republican call any generation the enemy. The only time I’ve ever seen anybody blame any generation was a couple of years ago on Reddit when a bunch of mentally deficient teenagers on Reddit who were rooting for more boomers to die so the political landscape can become more Democrat, but other than that nobody demonizes generations. It’s not something that’s political. Older generations always think their upbringing was harder, that their youth was better, and that the younger generations are ungrateful, lazy, and entitled. It’s a tale as old as time.
You may have not seen it, but it’s very common.
Your in the wrong place to be spewing forth moderation and unbiased opinions.
You should know Reddit and now lemme are left wing echo chambers.
Any comment resembling moderate views or pointing out the fact this is an echo chamber will get downvoted.
Lemmy was literally created by a couple of tankies. I’m not expecting any intelligent discussions on this platform. Most of the users are probably just high school students going through their edgy phase. I honestly don’t care if they all downvote me, I’m just here to shitpost for a couple of hours a week lol
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The debate surrounding millennials is a challenging and nuanced topic, increasingly rising at an accelerating rate of percentage growth expansion velocity, per year per capita. For instance, many would agree that Albert Einstein was a great millennial, but Adolf Hitler not so much.