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I think it's frustration with younger men falling for the right-wing BS and throwing their support behind those causes. My generation went apathetic and nihilistic, not right wing.

When I was young we had to walk both ways up hill in bare feet and we liked it...

What was the question again, I have a poor memory these days

Could you link to those posts?

Can you repeat the question? I can't hear a thing with that damn rock-n'-roll racket...

People always think the group they're a part of can do no wrong. Like some middle class who think the upper class is bad for x and y thing but when they do the same to the lower class they think they're justified, and of course they try to find ways to call themselves the most oppressed class because poor people get assistance while they only get taxed (despite the fact that after taxes they still achieve a far higher living standard than the lower class).

Honestly, I see people being quite optimistic about gen Z and Alpha. Most the whining comes from the right, with their "young people are destroying the [nonsense here] industry" and for brazenly treating other humans and people despite not all of them straight white christian cis men.

Personally, the worst things I see about the new generations is that young people are young. Someone who is 17 can't adult quite as well because they are literally not an adult. I've been an adult for longer than they've been alive, of course I'm better at it than them and dealing with things I've dealt with before are easier than new things. That's not a shortcoming, that's how time works.

Is it annoying to see a girl make all the mistakes I made when I was a girl? Yes damnit. Will telling them stop them? Didn't work for me, hence I made the mistakes too.

propaganda by boommers and older Xers to deflect blame on to younger generations, it was milleneals for like 2 decades, then gen z in the 2020s. the source of the problems conservative boomers and silent generations.

It's never about millennials vs zoomers or males vs females

I’d argue elders have shifted to fedi as it’s basicness and open structure feels like the old internet. No gimics, no monotisation etc.

And generally is a pretty easy going place.

However the more you use it the more you see factions and intolerance.

Are we mean to the young? I notice intolerance but tbh that’s really down to extreme chat.

Some people are just bitter. No generation is a monolith and it just further divides when people feed that idea and it’s easy for them to blame the youth rather than do something so they go with the easy route.

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell. He has a lot of good writing, I would recommend.

Listen to criticism, if the criticism seems valid react, if it doesn't move on with your life.

You're probably experiencing in-group bias, which can manifest in heightened sensitivity to criticism directed at one’s group, leading to perceptions that such critiques are exaggerated.
And your thinking is also affected by outgroup homogeneity bias, which is the tendency to view members of groups to which one does not belong as more similar to each other than they actually are.

The boommillenial reich don't understand these kinds of questions or how first world asset hoarding could possibly be related to the problems they see at home and abroad

I've disliked young people since I was a young person myself. The 2000's were terrible and now times are worse. Now I'm old, it's my God given right to be crochety.