Societal Collapse
Societal Collapse
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Gen X: Not pictured
Haha, sounds about right. We're the forgotten generation. But that's okay.
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Xennial here. I'm glad to stay out of this manufactured generational conflict drama.
I've been called boomer and merrily laugh in the face of the kids that think they are just as clever that I thought I was in their age.
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Gen X probably just hopes they're old or dead before it gets really bad
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This one does.
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GenX turned out at the highest rates for Trump in the last election. They out-MAGA'd Boomers.
My Boomer parents and FiL definitely seem to hope/ plan for being dead when shit hits the fan. But most GenXers will still be around in 5 years, so they'll get to reap what they sewed.
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I mean, it is really bad… Gen X has the opportunity to do something really funny all at once…
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Who?
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Also Lost Generation.
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I think Gen Z is more right-wing than millennials; at least the younger men.
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Gen Z is also more receptive of Socialism
Its how Mamdani won
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It's almost like an entire generation isn't just one person. Maybe "generations" is just another made up thing used to divide people?
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This. They're more widely pissed off at the status quo because they never had the future that millenials were tricked into believing but received scraps for. Now the scraps are all gone and gen z knows it.
Socialists like Mamdani give an actual hopeful future with a real tangible promise.
The ones who voted for trump didn't have that at the time and were faced with forever status quo of insufficiently paid debt servitude, or try something. Even if it just breaks everything there's at least a chance for a better future in the aftermath.
I'm not saying there's a shortage of fascist gen z, but there is absolutely a shortage of better options in politics. I hope we see more unapologetic socialists like Mamdani. I'm happy to bet the vote would swing amongst gen Z significantly even in deep right territory.
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in NYC, but in general they may go for trump.
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Gen Z is more reactionary than millennials, and that's because we're more fucked. Fascism provides an outlet and gives direction and purpose to the general discontent and resentment harbored by young people today, same as it ever was. Gen Z appears more right wing because more Gen Z can see the status quo isn't working for them, and in the absence / suppression of the populist left people turn to the populist right.
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All the eroding of education worked on them, and most Gen z men are fucking idiots
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Fucking idiots.
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Some of them are getting woken up now that the far-right president is tanking, and they're regretting to voting Trump to own the libs. I hope they also realize that "fandom gatekeeping" is not about keeping bad people out to preserve the quality of works, but is both a stupid tribalistic behavior, a bigoted recruitment tool, and to keep things "exotic and obscure, for street cred reasons". I especially met the latter one within metal (and through people I knew: indie rock) circles, I knew a guy who was really angry at me for ruining Meshuggah for him, by no longer making him a special little snowflake for having several Meshuggah CDs, and thus he couldn't show them off at meetups. (sorry for my off-topic tangent)
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i saw they went for trump alot more.
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The youth are truthful if nothing else
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As a millennial I might live in my parents basement and eat avocado toast but I'm still ready to throw some molotovs
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I might be able to supply you with empty bottles.
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Keeping your empty liquor bottles after drinking it all is free.
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mr moneybags can afford kerosene and a lighter
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I love that Gen X is forgotten. Yet again.
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The panel for GenX is exactly what I expected.
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nah but actually why do i NEVER hear Anyone discuss anything about gen x. i know Nothing about this generation
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I prefer it that way.
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half of us are like boomers half of us care and the other half are baked and aren't any good with numbers
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We're the ones quietly keeping the place running and not being hyperbolic and infected with social-media spawned WWE theater and brainrot.
No, really, we are young enough to have a firm grasp on current events, but old enough to have lived in a time before ALL of this media/information deluge started changing people's brain structure, and we have boomer's work-ethic beat into us so we're just getting our shit done and surviving as the world spirals into weird nonsense all around us.
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It has been said that for the outlying regions of the Roman Empire, the collapse only meant that when the unused bridge fell down, no one came to fix it. (Undoubtedly I have garbled it.)
It has also been said "We are a long way from Beijing", which means the central government is a long way away and don't know what we are doing and impact our lives little.
Some things will really suck. They will suck far more than I can imagine. We will still have local police and hospitals. Medical care will get worse. There may be less food in the non-agriculture states, but that will be fixed with trade or war.
Lots of people will die. Likely you and I will die.
Some states will link up to make their own countries. Canada may invite some states to join. Same with Mexico (New Mexico maybe...)
Very much a "things I do not control".
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I hope it will be a situation of medical care being allowed to get somewhat worse, instead of the same standards and institutions being maintained despite not enough funding to keep hospitals open at that standard and so medicine is generally prohibited for the poor.
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I've read somewhere that sugar burns like a removed and stay stuck everywhere.
...Just a random fact.
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In this one video game I play, they said that you don't want to stuff the cloth into the mouth of the bottle, but rather seal the bottle and tie the cloth around the neck so the fuel doesn't ignite midair.
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Wow who would have thought that your husband that's TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLDER THAN YOU might turn out to be a nonse.
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They force you to pay for not being surveilled
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Well they're already a monarchy
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This Gen Xer supports Gen Z.
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Highlights the idiocy of dividing people up by generation, they just totally skipped Gen X, because there was no neat little stereotype they could come up with.
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The stereotype is that everyone forgets about GenX
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i feel sorry for gen Alpha when they start working. alot of young people seemed to think being an influencer is thier future, its not as easy as it sounds you need something unique and original, only a small percentage ever make it, and often the most succesful comes from wealthy families. ppl like BEAST, KSI, HASAN come from wealth(despite him pretending to be a lefty tankie, hes part of the bourgeoisie)
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despite him pretending to be a lefty tankie, hes part of the bourgeoisie
I don’t understand this argument. Engels (& by extension Marx), Lenin, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong of the ones I know of, all were part of the bourgeoisie. They could have just chosen to rest on their unearned laurels but instead chose to leave all that behind to try to uplift the working class, to varying degrees of success. Surely that deserves some merit?
All known philosophers past present and future came from or lived in bubbles of privilege. Working class people don’t have the time or mental energy to philosophize and present our thoughts to hordes of people, we are too busy working.
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This isn't really new, when I was young a lot of kids wanted to be a pro footballer or singer.
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Yes, but that actually requires working on a skill, which is a valuable lesson for kids.
Being a douche live on a phone doesn't.
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My 35-year old sister thinks being an influencer is a job I should pursue with my Film & TV degree...
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When you hate certain people online but want to wrap that hate in some kind of societal prescription as if we haven't had wealthy celebrities talking about social issues and infecting kids with brainrot since media began. Gen Alpha is going to be like every previous generation with their own sets of challenges and abilities.
If you want the influencers to go away, you have to stop baiting people to argue about them, just let them be.
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Sorry, Gen-Z will in all likelihood be as passive and innert to revolt or political actions as previous generations have been.
Plus there's so much more tech they're going to be subject to.
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Billionaires paying a proper amount of taxes cannot appease me anymore. I want their heads separated from their bodies.
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I’m okay for a new retirement system where I volunteer at a soup kitchen or food pantry.
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THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Z_protests
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No, but we still have to spread and support
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This meme was obviously made by a member of Gen Z.
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This is a comic. Not a meme. People need to stop calling everything a meme.
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This guy is making a meme about not everything not being a meme LOL
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And genx?
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They don't care and we don't care about them
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Are those the ones who made skbidi or whatever that thing was popular? then they can fuck right off. There's no hope left for them.
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Skibidi Toilet was created by someone born in 1997, which is Gen Z.
Gen Xers are the older end of the workforce. Some might be lucky enough to be able to retire, but they're not as well off as the Boomers.
Useful graphic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#/media/File:Generation_timeline.svg
Edit: for some reason, fedia.io isn't turning that into a link, so it might not show up properly elsewhere. Copy+paste works.
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I had to look that up which is probably the entire reason you posted. Far worse than a Rick roll. I’ll never get that image out of my head.
Per the wiki, it’s Gen Alpha that loves it.
No, GenX is the reason scifi is such a thing now. Raised on the original Star Wars and Star Trek, starved for more, now producing more.
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Ok boomer
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America right now is going to create so many gangs and "terrorists". And what's fucked up is that America will profit off it... Any way you look at it.
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The billionaires would be in some faraway island while the 48 states collapse.
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And no Americans will admit they paid for that far away island. It was all worth it to watch netflix.
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I'm Gen Z, but if we are as radicalized as we are, just imagine what gen alpha will be.
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Radically centrist because they will be fucking fed up with all this fake meme bullshit.
You'll also have to take into account that parents are waking up to the dangers of social media et al, so one possible future is that kids will be less poisoned by it. It's already happening in some places, children are being forbidden to use phones at school, some countries are outright banning social media from children, etc. etc.
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Hmm, radicalization doesn't come through social media. Sure, it makes the process faster, but when you get fucked over, you don't really care about your phone telling you you're getting fucked over. Kids also have an incredible word of mouth. At least where I live the radicalized divide has been pretty strong with 35% voting for the most left/right wing party available to them.
So get outta here with your radicalized centrist crap.
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This doesn't seem like much of a solution to me, they're still being raised by people using social media, and will be thrown into it at some point. The obligatory age checks are going to make the surveillance state way worse.
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Gen Z resembles Steven Universe.
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And gen-alpha will be surfing the tidal waves
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I mean I wish and hope so. I’m tired of everyone complaining online instead of making the streets run red.
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Gen Z online activism. In reality all they do is just stand around for a few hours holding a placard on a Saturday afternoon every few weeks.
Stop. It's a class war, not a generation war.
Seriously. Fuck all this generational bullshit. Artificial divides cooked up by ad agencies. Such a waste of time and energy.
similarly fuck all this class bullshit. weaponizing emergent differences in society cooked up by extremist pseudo-scientists to replace one authoritarian system with another
rather than finding progressive solutions for different roles in society
Once we all figure out that we outnumber them millions to one they will have a very bad day, but I do feel like if that ever happened a good number of us will stand on the side of tyranny.
All they have to do is offer a certain small percentage of the population a job in “enforcement” with barely any benefits or pay.
That new law enforcement will then protect the system that lets them look down on “the poors/immigrants/[insert boogie man]” and admire their ultra wealthy generous “saviors.”
Fan in some hate, add some racism, a bit of bigotry. Baby, you got a stew going.
How much do ICE thugs make again?
yep - any day now
Nope, we must pit ourselves against each other while Musk and company point and laugh.
Once can acknowledge the class war while also acknowledging the cancer that has been the Boomer generation. Both can be and are true.