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Zohran Mamdani is reshaping the Democratic Party faster than anyone expected
(www.the-independent.com)
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Are you familiar with the Joshua Generation at all? Literally a training ground for christo-fascists that trained former and current senators.
There's absolutely young fascists currently in charge. Heck "DOGE" was nothing but a bunch of 20 somethings allowed to enact part of their fascist wet dream.
Putting the blame on age and not class is why you're getting so ratiod
Ratioed? Kharma's not a thing here so who cares. And maybe I've just met more old people than you have.
Also your Joshua generation thing doesnt show a prevalance for idiocy in youth, just that some exists. Idiocy in the elderly is a fact of life. Brains dont get better as they age, and the context they grew up in doesnt keep up with the times they live into. I dont care if people like it, people dont get smarter or more relevant to the times as they age.
There's not karma but it's still a good sign of how many people disagree with your argument and experience.
Your original comment was to someone saying "there's plenty of young fascists". Didn't say anything about prevalence, just that there's enough to be a problem. That' prevalence argument is bullshit you added. You've said they aren't in charge of anything. You were given direct evidence of examples of young fascists existing and being in charge of things.
You trying to make it an age based thing is just asking for trouble because it's setting up complacency instead of fighting the fascists no matter who they are.
"I've met more old people than you" is such a dumb and weak argument I legitimately don't even know where to begin there.
No. Using inductive thinking is the bullshit you started with. You cant use a small sample size to make generalizations across a group of people. You have to deal with any discussion of a group of people by talking about them in terms of proportionality. You cant say "mushroommonk on Lemmy doesnt underdstand the most basic logic, so clearly no one on Lemmy understands basic logic." Thatd be bullshit. The same bullshit your comment started out with. Get it?
Except the group being discussed is the group of young fascists. That's it. The entire group is the ones that exist. Your false equivalence trying to extrapolate from there is adding another group.
Please just go learn some basic reading comprehension. I'm not the only one to point this out.
I'm out