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You have less and less to lose and, probably, see your sacrifice worthy to end wrong things happening around you.
Exactly this. I'm middle aged, haven't accomplished anything worthwhile with my life and wouldn't mind taking one for the team, if it would but have enough of an impact.
When the logic of suicide bombers starts sounding reasonable........ definitely a sign of a super healthy democracy
Maybe that's what the "terrorists" have been trying to tell us?
Timothy McVeigh went nuts but certainly wasn’t stupid and made some salient points. Killing civilians was the wrong way to deliver the message, the message wasn’t all nonsense.
I'd take out a fascist billionaire if I didn't have a family and was tired of life.
Yeah give me a good opportunity and I’ll do it. As long as it’s not in vain though.
I never though of it as extreme but I never felt so close to the ones who said it in all sincerity until recently.
You're fucking right, it's not worth to live in a shitty society.
If you don't die for your ideas and will, nobody will do it
That's a recent societal phenomenon. There is a certain tendency for people to generally become more conservative the older they get (which makes sense, as you "settle down" and collect all the things associated with "aging"). Apparently this might be the first generation that goes the other way (which doesn't mean that every millennial is suddenly a socialist AntiFa terrorist but voting patterns indicate more leftist views than expected).
The conservatism correlates with age, but causation is actually having assets and wealth to conserve (which historically correlates with age also). Millennials by and large don't have shit, therefore conservatism has little to offer them.
That's what one might conclude from the observation, yes.
Oh, one does.
My dad once said "I know they said drugs would rot your brain but I didn't realize that'd turn so many hippies into Republicans."
People generally become more risk averse when they get older. Risk averse doesn't line up with modern "conservatism" when they're off starting another war every day. Saying "People get more conservative" lines up more with the Pinchot school of thought than the 2026 definition but works great as propaganda to say "You're getting older, shouldn't you be giving up those things like caring about your fellow man?"
Hard to settle down and collect all the things associated with aging when nothing is affordable.
Millennials' midlife crisis is realizing that they owe more on their student loans than they intitally took out despite paying on them and scraping by for the last 20 years.
We aren't getting more conservative as we age. "Conservatism" moves toward the idealism of our youth.
The median age of the House is 57 (Mid GenX); Senate is 64 (Early GenX); President is fucking 80 (Elder Boomer). "Conservative" is currently what the Boomers and GenX'ers considered idealism when they came of age in the 1950s - 1970s.
The oldest Millenials are only 46. They aren't changing the pattern. They aren't yet in charge.
I really just think all these old people were hateful little fucks when they were young but want to make it sound like someone else made them be this way
If you have family you need to provide for,it does sound extreme again.
'In this economy?!?'
Works fine until they use murderbots to give you death.
I'm ready when ya'll are. Pitchfork's at the ready.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2026
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