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Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with Gen Z
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I assume it had to do with the parents being supporters too.
Also the incel shits like that tate fucker being targeted towards young men.
That movement has done so much damage, there isn't a hole deep enough to throw manosphere influencers into
I would say the Mariana Trench, but I don't want to pollute the oceans.
Well the oceans already pretty bad. How bout we chopper them out to the plastic island and they can live on its surface, choking on old coke bottles for sustainance?
Combine them with fracking, use them as “tampons” to plug the wells, sop up the pollution
What's wrong with the classic volcano sacrifice?
Oh god we’re calling it the manosphere? 😒
That's been around a while, sadly.
I am however up for calling a midlife crisis The Manopause.
Sounds like a globe made of hands
Nah, right wingers have been actively targeting young people for decades, and still do now. They're literally playing Roblox with your children.
Want to know why there were so many conservative Gen Zs? Gamergate.
We can't pretend this is just passive, from the parent kind of stuff. The right has and continues to actively target children in their spaces in ways that us on the left just have too much integrity to. I'm not saying we should start counter-indoctrinating children, but we need to be realistic and honest with ourselves about the situation.
What the fuck is wrong with kids listening to their shitty parents?
/I know a lot of people get raised wrong in households that teach them wrong things and it takes a lot of effort to get better, but... it's pretty astounding to me to imagine someone listening to their parents tell them that Donald fucking Trump is a Cool Guy.
Kids have little in the way of influence outside of their parents up until they're in their teens, and they take stuff at face value without questioning it too much.
On the one hand, this is great because a kid can ask a question, get an honest answer, and accept it as fact. This is why every generation seems more socially progressive than the last. You tell a kid that men can love other men, women can love other women, and that sometimes people are born in the wrong body, and they go "Oh, okay. That makes sense." And now that's part of their understanding of how the world works.
On the other hand, if a kid is surrounded by their MAGA parents and their parents' MAGA ride or die friends, they'll grow up thinking that Trump is right and everybody else is bad. Conservative households especially foster a cult-like mentality it seems, where questioning the beliefs hoisted upon them by their parents is out of the question, and I feel that that has something to do with the conservative mentality. They always accuse progressives of brainwashing and indoctrinating the youth because that's their relationship with their own kids. My dad grew up in a very conservative household and it wasn't until he went to college and both got away from his parents as well as met people who grew up in different circumstances than he did that his beliefs completely 180'd.