• @[email protected]
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    1912 hours ago

    And Gen Alpha has it worse than that. US Gen Betas will have never experienced a non-fascist America.

  • @[email protected]
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    2014 hours ago

    I have never in my life seen in person anyone doing one of these dances.

    They’re mentioned so often that I just assume I should see phones on tripods on every inch of flat ground with people or trios doing choreography.

    Are these really that common?

    • @[email protected]
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      Do you know any kids? I haven’t seen anyone filming a dance to upload, but I’ve seen kids mimicking fortnite dances just for the hell of it. They were gen alpha though.

    • @[email protected]
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      1214 hours ago

      I mean they were like years ago when it was new and it’s just a thing that we’re going to drag that generation for just like we’re still getting flogged for avocado toast.

      • @[email protected]
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        113 hours ago

        Just don’t do whatever the new hotness is. Gotcha.

        I don’t think I’ve seen anything I do dragged yet. Or at least not commonly.

        Don’t care for avocados or dancing. So far I’m in the clear for most generational banter.

        • @ZeffSyde
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          Typical millennial, painfully aware of the meta-narrative and avoiding cliches without even trying. So cringe! /S

    • @big_slap
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      512 hours ago

      yes, they are. so many kids of family and friends just bust out dancing randomly, its absolutely hilarious tbh

    • djsoren19
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      212 hours ago

      Maybe you just don’t live anywhere cool enough, I’ve definitely seen people filming TikTok dances in my city. One time they were even in the parking lot of my apartment complex.

  • @whotookkarl
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    People from every generation feel they live in the end times, it is part of what explains the prevalence for apocalyptic religions like Christianity

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      I know this is a common counter argument, but some times really are more truly closer to the end of the world than others

      During WW2 this was more true than in the past, after nuclear weapons became invented it was more true than in the past, after the US and USSR stockpiled enough nukes to destroy civilization a dozen times over, while being at each other’s throats, it was more true than in the past, once climate change became a real crisis that’s not being solved it was more true than in the past

      And finally, we now have a confluence of all of these factors, with fascism coming back into the world where we might see another World War-like scenario. Even when the dust settles on what the US and far-right are doing, what’s going to be done about climate change? The issue will be put even more on the back-burner than it already has, and it’s going to wreck our crops and fuel further instability in the world

      Before the stockpiling of nuclear weapons, there never was a plausible way to end civilization globally. But they very much enable the possibility of doing so now. If all stockpiled nukes were fired, it would be more than enough to affect the global climate to the point of global crop failures, and the human population would possibly be reduced to less than a million. Not to mention all other life on earth and the havoc it would cause on ecological stability. Certainly enough to cause yet another mass extinction on top of the already in progress holocene mass extinction

      • ivanafterall ☑️
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        43 hours ago

        Just made/posted this recently. Kinda relevant to what you’re saying.

  • shoulderoforion
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    and they both didn’t bother to vote for the continuation of american democracy thereby ushering in fascist disassembly, chaos, and death by acclimation. so funny. so cute.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      3116 hours ago

      Generations aren’t monolithic.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        2616 hours ago

        Speak for yourself, I’m a monolith

        • @NOT_RICK
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          716 hours ago

          Hopefully you’re Monolith Soft and not Monolith Productions. My condolences if you’re the latter; I really loved F.E.A.R.

    • Fern
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      2015 hours ago

      Why? Just why do people comment like this?

      • @gAlienLifeform
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        1415 hours ago

        I don’t know, but if I was a fascist troll who wanted to keep opposition to the Republican party unpopular and divided that’s what I would post

      • don
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        They have Lewy body dementia. Sad.

        • @gAlienLifeform
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          615 hours ago

          I’m pretty sure that’s wrong*, both cohorts had decreased voter turnout. They’re not becoming conservatives, they’re pissed that Dems campaigned with Liz Cheney.

          *I have to say pretty sure because our modern pay to play media landscape and search engine fuckery has made it more of a pain in the ass to find reliable statistics than I have time for