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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I really want this to be it. I want a big enough mass of freak conservative boomers to die off of old age and for the republicans to finally push everyone else hard enough that this country finally fucking snaps and swings left so hard that Reagan's grave belches black smoke for a month. I hope we swing left so hard that all the Fox News assholes run bawling off to Russia, all the neoliberal dickheads move to their neoliberal paradise of [some offshore oil rig], and we end up fixing all kinds of shit that's been broken for basically my entire life.

I know it won't; we'll just get a bunch of working class republicans standing around the wreckage and mumbling "can you imagine how much worse it would have been under Biden?" to each other.

[–] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently young people aren’t going to save us. Young men are farther right than the previous generation. Boomers aren’t listening to Joe Rogan.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Idk, it's easy to get depressed about it, but I think that there's another interpretation. It shows that Gen Z recognizes how fucked everything is, and recognize the urgent need for drastic change, which is what Donald promises, even if he's a colossal piece of shit and the changes he promises are pure grift. Yeah, they've been taken in by the right, but only because the right has seized on the populist moment while the institutional left is still fretting about decorum, rank, seniority, process, and literally anything else before results. If the left gets out there and starts swinging for the fences, I think we can turn things around. So, of course, the democrats are preparing to rise to the occasion by offering Gavin Newsom and his plan to build the biggest bulldozers on earth for bulldozing the homeless.

I think this is part of why Bernie was yelling at people to run for office. We need more options, more people who are willing to turn their back on the establishment, on the left.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I want a big enough mass of freak conservative boomers to die off of old age and for the republicans to finally push everyone else hard enough that this country finally fucking snaps and swings left so hard that Reagan’s grave belches black smoke for a month.

Look at Mike Johnson's face--he's not dying for a long long time. Get over the idea that evil people are all old and you just need to wait for them to die, it's not going to happen. New evil ones are born every day, they exist in every generation, they've been with us forever and will be with us forever.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

J.D. Vance is only 40.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Gen X voted for Trump in greater numbers than the Boomers, who on average voted for Trump less than Gen Z males.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago

Brb, putting anime speed lines around Ben Affleck smoking

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Theres an evil motherfucker born every minute