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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 166 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Translation: you'll become more conservative when you have children and own a home

Millennials: πŸ˜†
Zoomers: πŸ˜‚
Alpha: 🀣
Whateverthefuckcomesnext: πŸ’€

[-] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 year ago

own a home

Too bad boomers ruined my best chance at that.

[-] ulkesh@beehaw.org 51 points 1 year ago

I have a child and own a home, and am a member of the lost generation. Fuck the Republican Party and any conservative who believes their selfish bullshit should outweigh the greater good of others.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago

Republicans are fascists, not conservatives.

Democrats are the conservative party.

[-] ulkesh@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

I agree about Republicans. I don't agree about Democrats. Some, of course, are conservative, as they historically always have been. But a good portion are quite liberal.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

There are two kinds of Democrats: conservatives and hostages

[-] Khotetsu@lib.lgbt 12 points 1 year ago

As a whole, the Dems are pretty center of the aisle, because America as a whole is fairly conservative compared to Europe (despite 60% of the population being more liberal than the government at most times). Europeans generally consider the Dems in the US a conservative party, and corporate Dems are definitely closer to the right than to the left. The other issue besides the general conservative leaning in the country though is that there's about 50 other groups of various left leaning shades that would be their own separate parties in Europe but are bunched in with the corporate Dems and therefore have little say in the party platform.

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[-] RadicalCandour@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

I agree with everything you said except, im confused about the use of the term lost generation. That’s a generation born in the 1880-1900s.

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[-] danisth@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

I've been fortunate enough to have seen my material conditions improve as I've entered my mid-thirties which has let me start a family and buy a home. I've also watched my incredibly talented and hard working friends/acquaintances/neighbours be ground into dust under the cruel rule of capitalism. I got lucky, they didn't, this has radicalized me far more than any naive idealism ever could.

[-] iByteABit@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. I'm fortunate enough that the skills I'm good at have a lot of demand at the moment, but people I know that are more hard working than I am and very talented, struggle to get by just because their job for some reason is considered less worthy to pay for.

Wanting to maintain this rotten system is the purest form of greed.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago

Having to mow the lawn is the first step in the pipeline of fascism

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Everyone knows it's a gateway chore

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You joke, but if you ever talked to a homeowner about their lawn and heard them complain about their neighbor's lawn...

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Mowing the lawn is the only hour of uninterrupted creativity I get in the week. Also my neighbour's lawn is 50% dandelions.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your lawn is green concrete; a lifeless painting with nothing for pollinators.

Your neighbor's lawn has wildlife in the deadlands of the suburbs.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Except for the magnolia tree and vegetable garden cleary visible in the photo...

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A tiny little strip of life, carefully manicured to minimize nature as much as possible.

Might as well pave over the rest of it and just have potted plants for all the good that does.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

my neighbour's lawn is 50% dandelions.

its too late, you're hitler himself

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[-] Domille@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait is Alpha the next generation's name after Zoomers?

[-] jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, for now. That might change. Millennial was originally Gen Y.

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