#generational politics

[thoughtportal]

#twitter #tweet #tweets #boomers #economics #economy #homeless #class politics #generational politics #class #inequality #wealth inequality

[inter-volve]

#millenials #genz thangs #gen z #boomers #economy #generational politics

[probablyasocialecologist]

While younger people in the UK, US and elsewhere are more likely to hold progressive views, and support progressive politicians and causes, the opposite is true in Brazil, Israel and elsewhere. Indeed in a world of low to no growth, geopolitical fragmentation and climate crisis, Israel offers a glimpse of how a secular state can start to resemble a theocracy. The 21st century may see the reinvigoration of socialist politics. Indeed in many countries that has already begun. But we will also witness the growing influence of religious fundamentalists in public life. Should the left to ignore that, while adopting a fatalistic view of progressive values and the young, it would be all the weaker for it. There is no reason reactionary politics can’t flourish this century given the multitude of challenges humanity faces.

#generational politics #israel #brazil

[pyroclastic727]

i think it is cool actually to like video games and digital art and television and computer things and spend a lot of time on hobbies that are entirely contained within a screen. like we have these cool magical devices that didn’t even exist 200 years ago!!! they didn’t have electricity back then. they didn’t have entire worlds contained within a world. they didn’t have buttons and physics simulators and synchronized lights contained in flat screens

#technology #video games #gen z #generational politics #rant #.pyro

[alanshemper]

Age/generational politics is an anti-politics meant to obscure actual ideology. That's why rich pricks like Elon love to focus on it.

#gerontocracy #elon musk #reactionary politics #peter theil does this too #generational politics

[innerteenager]

I really hate how many posts on this site are Millennials and Gen X folks complaining about Gen Z. It’s boring and immature. Gen Z have been through hell, and will inherit an even worse existence than I, a Millennial, will.

Don’t Gen X and Millennials remember how annoying it was for older generations to write think pieces about us and our apathy, coddling and naïveté? Let Gen Z have their own interests, analysis and LGBTQ culture. The youth are fine.

#generational politics #lgbtqia

[scarlethyena]

I dislike the association with generations and politics. Because the assumption is often that boomers and gen x'ers are all conservative while younger generations are liberal or full on communists generally but that's literally just not true. I'm in my early 20s, and I see people my own age and younger buying into all sorts of reactionary bs. Granted I live in a conservative area, but the presence is still very much there, including online. Not to mention that the older generation saw the civil rights and black power movements, second wave feminism, and activism towards queer liberation (this is just within American history too, looking at other countries demonstrates this even more). Then you have people in my generation who can't even boycott a homophobic fast food place. The thing to keep in mind here is that many of the older revolutionaries were fucking killed, which skews our perception of previous generations.

And just generally speaking too, generational divides can get pretty arbitrary because where you draw the line is always foggy. I was born in 2000 so I know this all too well; I was born late enough to understand gen z shit but also early enough to understand those "only 90s kids will get this" memes (turns out an entire culture doesn't instantly change with each decade who would've guessed). Then you have all this talk of generational politics that just pins things on the wrong people. Like yeah, your conservative parents are racist assholes, but they're not the reason we're dealing with climate change. That was the ruling class, the people with the actual power, the bourgeoisie. This isn't to say your average old conservative is entirely free of blame, that previous generations didn't have their own share of centrist and reactionary shitheads, nor that there aren't genuinely principled communists among my own generation. I'm just saying that talk of boomers ruining everything and gen z'ers all being revolutionary just muddies the waters because it blames individuals for a systematic problem and also just demonstrates a general ignorance of history.

#scarletposts #generational politics #communism #marxism leninism #ageism

[cactiboinking]

Is it just me or is it so maddening to see people posting about how tiktok is aweful but then reblog tiktoks or screenshots from tiktoks with tags like "this is so funny".

Guys.

All social media is bad. We here are known as the Hellsite. We are just as bad as tiktok. Just cause it's a younger crowd and can be seen as "cringy" so is fuckin tumblr.

Sure you can't say suicide on Tiktok but we can't have female presenting nipples here.

Oh kids are cringe over there? Let me remind you of the superwholockians.

All social media is cringe to other social media users. Stop shaming a group of people for using a platform that is perfectly okay to use just because they have a younger user base and unbrain wash yourself from generational politics and focus on the important things and touch some fucking grass.

#tiktok #generational politics #discourse

[cowboylikedean]

the idea that generational politics (a literal very important thing in political science and sociology and the progression of society) is "just" a lie made up to distract us from class warfare is just literally one of the dumbest things the internet has ever said

#generational politics #y'all are so fucking stupid sometimes

[cipheramnesia]

Tumblr stop recommending me horny sapphic blogs that all say men dni in the pinned post, go back to sending me posts from the one that's just horny all the time please, I want the fat furries and the queer freaks that are way less respectably normal about me and my body.

#long post #feels weird to have this tagged important although I'm glad it resonates with many different trans people #dni lists are generally useless and rarely seen but i see all the saph ones bc I'm checking they're not terfs and its weird #but its just always weird bc they always are trans inclusive binary exclusionist and its like what are you doing #anyway its pretty much all an online thing but weird insight into the whole neoliberal gender politics #trans inclusive politics that still fundamentally are binary exclusively in action

[probablyasocialecologist]

Read through the thousands of comments beneath the numerous proper binmen posts and you will find a striking consensus. Back then, in an unspecified period between 1950 and 1980, the binmen were stronger, more hardworking and more polite. Not just that – back then, the binmen were happy. Everyone remembers them the same way: always cheerful, always smiling, frequently whistling. They always had a kind word for you, never complained, and always closed the gate. They took pride in their job, which was hard work, but honest work. These judgments are delivered with absolute certainty. Back then, “They were always a really friendly crowd who you could have a good laugh with,” writes one commenter. “Not like the bin men of today, you are very lucky if they respond to a ‘good morning’.”

The historic shift in bin collection is taken to mark a wider crisis in masculinity. “That is when men were men, not the wimps we have today,” writes one Facebook commenter. “All be off work with PTSD nowadays,” chimes in another. Proper binmen “didn’t care about Health & Safety Shite”, writes another. The plastic wheelie bins we have today – with their emasculating pastels, often colour-coded for recycling, and their humiliating, labour-saving wheels – are just further markers of our moral, social and spiritual decline.

[...]

There are plenty of grim references to old-school bin-collection work being “back-breaking”, and some apparently firsthand binman testimonies specifically refer to having “paid for [the job] with bad backs in later life”. Yet there is a powerful anti-health and safety component to all of the Memory Lane UK reminiscing – against coddling, against rules and red tape, against the easy ride of modern youth. “Remember when your mum would let you lick the egg beaters without anyone freaking out about salmonella?” asks one post. “Remember when we used to play in the dirt?” “Who remembers getting beaten with a cane at school?” We had it tough. We kept calm and carried on. We didn’t complain. We muddled through. We made do. We mended. It never did us any harm. It made us who we are.

Binmenism, as this worldview could be called, is distinct from the common type of nostalgia we are all prone to as we get older – that things were “better in my day”. In fact, the memory lane memes and comment threads make clear that in terms of physical comfort, convenience, domestic labour, work, consumer goods and leisure choice, things used to be worse. But that is not the endpoint of the philosophy. If Binmenism had a motto to stitch on to its itchy old Boy Scout uniform, it would be: things were worse, therefore they were better.

And once you see this, you can’t stop seeing it everywhere.

#uk politics #facebook #nostalgia #generational politics #Binmenism

[feluka]

calling someone (and palestinians no less!!!!!!) fixating on US politics for matters outside the US 'american-centric'... buddy it will be heaven on earth whenever US politics stop affecting matters outside the US. also where the fuck have you been

#especially in reference to palestine you can NOT be serious #even if you're entirely unfamiliar with the plight of palestine SURELY you've heard of one or two instances #or america meddling in middle eastern politics in general??? surely you must have?? the iraq war at least?? hello?? nothing rings a bell??? #how is it far fetched to you that *gasp* they're neck deep in this genocide? #have you been asleep since birth

[alanshemper]

Leaked donor call from a panicked Jonathan Greenblatt, Director of the ADL, where he says Israel has a "major, major, MAJOR generational problem". The source for the this is the Tehran Times [Iranian state media]. I have not seen any independent verification, and Western media appears to be ignoring it. The viral tweets about it are all mostly right-wing grifter accounts.

Transcript below the cut ⬇️

"But I also, wanna point out that we have a major, major, major generational problem. All the polling that I’ve seen—ADL’s polling, ICC’s polling, independent polling—suggests this is not a left or right gap, folks. The issue in United States’ support for Israel is not left and right. It is young and old, and the numbers of young people who think that Hamas’s you know massacre was justified is shockingly and terrifyingly high, and so we really have a Tik-Tok problem a Gen-Z problem that our community needs to put the same brains that gave us Tagly(?) the same brains that gave us all these other amazing innovations need to put our energy toward this like fast, cause again, like, we’ve been chasing this left right divide. It’s the wrong game. The real game is the next generation, and the Hamas and their accomplices the useful idiots in the West are falling in line in ways that are terrifying.”

“The last thing I’ll just say, we saw a dramatic change in the language of the activists here in the America on Oct. the 8th. The language of groups that we’ve long tracked, to have long been problematic, like Student for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace, they flipped like this and went to like Iranian Propaganda. The language I could show you from their toolkits, cause they’re endless in their groups. We saw this again on October the 8th. It was that fast, like the language in their toolkits was all about Zionist entity, and lots of other language that we recognize from Iranian propaganda.”

#jonathan greenblatt #adl #leaked audio #tehran times #generational politics

[uboat53]

"[Nse] Ufot[, formerly of the New Georgia Project,] uses a striking analogy to express her expectation of how this struggle will unfold in the coming years across the red states. Her mother, she explained, ran a shelter for battered women, and even as a young girl, she came to recognize “that the most dangerous time for victims of abuse is when they are preparing to leave, when they have made up their minds that they are done and they are making their exits. That when we see their abusers escalate to crazy tactics.”

Ufot sees the Tennessee expulsions, like the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and Trump’s broader effort to overturn the 2020 result, as evidence that those “who are afraid of what a diverse, reflective, democracy looks like” will likewise turn to more extreme responses as the challenge to their position grows more acute."

Source

#politics #us politics #generational politics

[generalelectionmusings]

Reminder: If you have no voter ID, apply for a postal vote.

#voter ID #uk #politics #tory #conservative party #nasty party #ukpol #general election #GE2023 #GE2024

[skelet-bone]

#disney #disney vs desantis #star wars #general hux #us politics #don’t attack me i just thought this was funny #also fuck the dont say gay bill