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[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

I don't think judging a generation by those who survived is fair. The cool people tend to die earlier

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

You might have a point, but what killed the cool Xers, then?

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Material conditions or alternatively, were they ever that cool?

I have a theory that for many people, the youth-leftist thing isn't based in solidarity or whatever, it's based in self-interest - across generations. Makes sense to be a socialist, when you're poor, and all. As the survivors gain their riches, they get more conservative - they have property to "defend" now. They were always self-serving people, it's just they were occasionally in a position where that meant to be vaguely left.

[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Makes sense to be a socialist, when you're poor, and all. As the survivors gain their riches, they get more conservative - they have property to "defend" now. They were always self-serving people

Yeah wouldn't necessarily blame all this on people being ontologically "self-serving" from the beginning, thats liberal moralistic thinking. A shift towards cuckservativism its just an inevitable consequence of gaining wealth and property within a capitalist society. They weren't born selfish, they became selfish after years of indoctrination and falling into a position that strongly incentivises it.

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