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Under half of all eligible gen z voters voted like 47 percent. Worthless dog turd humans. Enjoy the shit show morons.
Which will make thier votes for him this November all the more inexplicable.
It’s a shame idiots didn’t listen to those of us who said exactly what would happen. You fucked around. Now you found out. And in the meantime the rest of us got screwed. Gee, thanks.
As a non-American, I repeatedly got told to shut up and mind my own business when I complained about Trump. Well, he got elected and fucked the US, and fucked the rest of the world, and he's threatening to invade my country so it turns out it was my business after all. Cheers for that.
It a shame they didn’t listen to Trump.
He said EXACTLY what he was going to do.
"I'm gonna run this country like one of my companies."
Like a fascist dictator, right into the ground...
I’ll never understand how they could ignore literal millions of loved ones and trust a rich spoiled known scammer to change things for the better for them and not himself, on top of all of us explicitly saying he and republicans will purposely crash the economy and hurt innocent people for fun in the name of religion and conservatism.
People will belive anything if they want it,or fear it to be true.
Did I just find Wizard’s First Rule in the wild?
Yes
Nice! Having read the first book over 20 years ago and having never watched the TV series, that’s a pretty awesome find for me.
If you were duped in by the anti-war message after his first term even, I mean, come on. You are pretty slow.
And really, that can't be helped. They can vote and drive and buy guns and make families and everything. We know for a fact that there's a third or so of our population that are absolutely intellectually impaired.
Then, another large portion are ignorant, they act impulsively and have wishful thinking, even if they're pretty smart. They just think that they "know" things, while not having the faintest idea... these are usually of the religious variety.
Another quite significant portion have mental illness that influences their reality, like narcissistic and sociopathic and depressive features.
Then, another large portion are alcoholics and drug addicts. This is often paired with another feature
They're all just walking around and driving cars and on the bus and the train and planes, they are everywhere and any one of them can do anything at any time. Who knows why they voted for who? They don't even know. it's amazing that we can make it through the day, really
ITT: People act smug about Gen-Z when in fact 54% of them voted Harris... And OLDER WHITE MEN were Trump's biggest voting block once again.
...and that's a repeating pattern for Republicans. Stop letting old white men off the hook just because it's more "expected" for them to be shit.
What's more blaming young people is just a way to get MILLENNIALS to BECOME rightwing/old in their opinions.
Gen-Z are fine they're just out there with no idea, trying shit. Like every generation has to in order to find themselves.
The fact that only 54% voted for Harris is the reason why Gen-Z gets so much hate.
Everybody expects old white men to vote Conservative. Meanwhile Gen-Z was born into the era of ubiquitous internet access. They've had access to the entire world's knowledge from the very moment they learned to read. So what's their excuse? They didn't have to just blindly follow whatever they told you to believe on the TV and in the newspaper, they've had access to cold, hard facts from the very beginning.
Therefore it is mind-blowing to me that a whopping forty six percent of them could manage to be this ignorant and dumb, when all they gotta do is pull out their always-online pocket computer and read to easily figure out that MAGA is completely and utterly full of shit.
Bottom line is that old white men at least had an excuse for ignorance at one point. Gen-Z never did. And that's why they deserve the most criticism out of any voting-age generation IMO.
they’ve had access to cold, hard facts from the very beginning.
That's not how algorithmic social media, which is where they source all their "facts" from, works. Gen Z is not a generation that goes out and researches things; they are spoon-fed information (true or false) in bite-sized pieces which they use to piece together a basic world view that aligns with that of their tribe. They are more concerned with being seen to be good or smart by their peers, another product of being raised by algorithmic social media, than they are with being educated on a topic or developing an independent opinion or thought. This is a generation that is notorious for its inability to focus or concentrate or anything, and that severely impairs its ability to think critically and deeply about issues.
Yeah, what most people have in their pockets is providing them access to a well-oiled propaganda machine. Maybe the people on Lemmy are on average less trusting of such things, but that's not normal. The right picks and champions influencers nearly constantly. The Dems don't have much success here.
I like to say: we carry a re-education camp in our pockets. And we choose do do so.
I remember when, to find myself, I needed to look at and then step into a bear trap.
Old White men are stupid and at fault, so is some large proportion of Gen Z, and probably others. If they have regret, fuck all of them. Next time do your homework, this was all knowable in advance. Welcome to the "school of hard knocks" (hurr durr), better known in 2026 as the school of FAFO.
Trump promised he was going to do a whole bunch of incredibly controversial stuff, most of which isn't done due to extensive proof that it's a bad idea.
... then they're somehow surprised it went poorly?
It's the anti-intellectual plague that continues to drag us down, e.g. "The experts are pretentious; I trust my Facebook friends more."
Don't cry, Zoomers. At least you don't have to live under the socialist tyranny of health care, time off from work, and fully funded public services.
socialist tyranny of health care
Lot of Gen Z is under 26, which means they can be under their parents healthcare. Have a coworker that's in that and until my job he didn't realize healthcare costs for insurance that comes out of paychecks. Like I told him, save up while he can be under his parents insurance.
But anyone older than, at this moment, being born after 10/18/2000 is now falling into the insurance pile.
Sucks... but this is the choice the country made.
A: "Don't touch that - fire has a long history of hot."
B: "Ow, fire hot!"
A: "You fuckin moron, I just told you it's hot!"
...
A: "Hey, remember fire? Its back, still hot. Don't touch it this time."
B: "HELP! IT BURNS!!!"
A: develops drinking problem
That is so spot on. And thank you for the laughs today :)
Gen Z should regret their vote just based warfare. Let me explain exactly how this affects them specifically.
Trump promised no more wars then proceeds to abduct the president of Venezuela, attack Iran without giving a reason and then constantly talk about taking over countries. You think the acts of war stop with Iran?
The newly renamed Department of War has a finite amount of service people available for wars. Gen Z you are first in line to be drafted when more people are needed.
Your personal legacy will be struggling financially in a s@&t economy until you are required to put your life on the line for a government who sees you as a disposable resource for a war that could have been entirely avoided. That's just my personal fear though. Maybe they aren't worried about that.
Plus selective service registration will be automatic starting Dec 18th
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/09/politics/us-military-draft-registration-2026
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