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(this is a shitpost, generational politics is a fuck) (no third party votes were allowed, as it is democratic process)

  • Guamer [she/her]English
    15•6 months ago

    Gotta indoctrinate the kids early that there are only 2 choices and no other possibilities

    • plinky [he/him]OPEnglish
      16•6 months ago

      They haven’t heard about crypto investment insurance tax break for pell grant recipients

    • UlyssesT [he/him]English
      29•6 months ago

      The other 48% may be the kind that are doing the “totally not racist” bullying evasion thing of chanting “TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!” at visiting teams with certain… attributes. us-foreign-policy

      Ask me how I know. debord-tired

        • DragonBallZinn [he/him]English
          13•6 months ago

          Ugh, shit sucks.

          While I know next to nothing about how Gen alpha will shape up politically, when I started out substitute teaching one of my first students was this kid, let’s call him Henry.

          Henry was a pretty well-intended kid, he really liked the UK and Japan in particular (I didn’t have the heart to tell him) and he mentioned that NATO stands for the free world….and mentioned that the Middle East and Russia are just absolutely unsalvageable (but FWIW. He did express sympathy for Malala and he think she’s cool.)

          This trend tends to be consistent with Gen alpha people who have given politics any serious thought, and tend to be…NAFOy. “liberal democracy good and the US is the liberal democracy factory!”

          • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]English
            9•6 months ago

            tends to be consistent with Gen alpha people who have given politics any serious thought, and tend to be…NAFOy

            generic centrist vibes-based hawkism is like the stem cell of what ideology an american develops into as far as ive seen (I was there up until i was abt 10yo, and that was even while i started becoming a politics nerd)

          • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]English
            4•6 months ago

            I don’t really see any serious trends, tbh. I have more than a few that are out-and-out communists, but lots of them are just libs. I’ve definitely had some NAFO fans, but it mostly just looks like the general population, with maybe slightly larger numbers of radicals (which you’d expect from young people).

      • VILenin [he/him]MEnglish
        3•6 months ago

        There is no amount of money you could pay me to deal with Gen Z white kids for an entire day

        • UlyssesT [he/him]English
          1•6 months ago

          Millennial kids demographically weren’t great when they were the same age; a whole lot of them used gayness as a universal insult, for example.

          • VILenin [he/him]MEnglish
            2•6 months ago

            Yeah, and they still get extremely mad when you remind them of their behavior. Already had the “presentism” card pulled on me a couple times. Like holy shit, 1994 isn’t prehistory.

            But about the Gen Z kids… when my niece told me a kid at her school (apparently known as a Rogan fan) started an NFT club, I just sat there and stared at the wall for a minute or two. I guess we are reaping what youtube fascists had sown circa 2016 with the UPPITY SJW DESTROYED COMPILATION #243, which a teacher friend of mine (now retired) said was spreading through teenage boys like a mind virus. They spent weeks playing a game of cat and mouse with the “subscribe to pewdiepie” bullshit, amplified by the then-nascent wannabe slaver MrBeast.

            I’m reminded of that poll from a few years ago where the #1 most desired career for Chinese kids was “astronaut”, while the same for American kids was “youtuber”.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]English
    11•6 months ago

    The slime placement seems to say “fuck Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, and especially fuck Vermont.”

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]English
    58•6 months ago

    It’s so sad that they limit the kids to the same shitty two party system

    Can’t even have president Taylor Swift in the imaginary realm, capitalist realism is a motherfucker

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]English
      18•6 months ago

      The virgin Nickelodeon Kids-Pick-The-President vs the CHAD Cartoon Network “just have the characters run for an imaginary office LMAO”, could at least be a good way to teach kids basic Civics.

      (BTW. I’m voting for Goku under the Toonami party)