In the early 2000s everyone made fun of congress for not being able to read or send email. Many of those very same people are still in congress making decisions about the internet.
Anyway yeah, Gen Z is increasingly right wing, and refusing to admit that fact is simply another form of identity politics. Like the "women are wonderful" effect, except for your own generation only.
The poor brainwashed souls who are slaves to social media and don't know that the US economy is the strongest it has been since the 1960' yet the Majority of them believe its in recession... because they have been manipulated... ( More)
Social media isn't freedom... it slavery to those enthralled to the Billionaire owners, the AI that categorizes you and the Algorithms that " curates" the information you see so that you believe in a world that doesn't exist.
I'm putting out reality... it has nothing to do with votes... if you can't see reality.. I suggest moving away from the Mind bending social media you consume
sorry for your circumstance... but that isn't the norm... when 1/3 of the nation was ill clothed, ill housed and ill fed... there was a poverty crisis... now there is a housing crisis and 4F ( FatFeloniousFascistFuck) isn't going to do a damn thing about it. Start forming coops, pooling resources
Seems like there are some pretty substantial issues with how a hostile foreign government is using the app. But the kids like it so pretend everything’s okay?
I cannot imagine how fried our brains would’ve been had all this stuff been around when I was a kid. AOL was bad enough, and that hit when I was a teen.
Kids now have so little ability to distinguish things from being real and fake. TikTok is basically porn but for everything else.
Dems don't understand it. GOP does & makes massive use of SMedia 4 disinfo, helping T to win.
Dems are overwhelmed with cleaning up GOP messes after every GOP admin. GOP is helped by massive media/SMedia & other privately financed infrastructure. Dems lack this.
Democrats keep ignoring the left's plans to actually undermine the influence of the GOP by knocking down the industries that prop the GOP up, which serves the additional purpose of providing for the most vulnerable. Kicking the legs out from under car dealers, real estate, and finance would win.
It is not that hard to learn to listen to others, I can do it at 69. But maybe they are not only suffering from the hardening of the arteries but also from the hardening of their brain cells. Looking at YOU Nancy Pelosi!
its cuz they got people in their intelligence department who don’t know how to decode gen z’s meme speak, we millennials can SORTA understand em but its rough I feel like an old man playing a young man’s sport
I don't understand the hashtag nodemunder100k. We're practically rolling out 90 year old skeletons to vote. Not to age discriminate but I draw the line at 100k years old
The congress are as old as the people in Amy's choice Doctor who episode. They give me the creeps. Nancy Pelosi looks like Demi Moore in the Substance after 3 months of getting her bone marrow sucked dry.
Sure, money has tons to do with the elections, but there’s a big demographic whose interests would be best served if they started using their votes instead
Record numbers of young people turned out for Obama. And for Biden. Massive lines at college campuses. Young people absolutely desperate for a politician that sees their struggles and cares about their future. Sanders filled football stadiums. This is about delivering for them.
Democrat feel into the trap of doing the right thing this handing opportunity to Republicans. It's probably the right thing for our society to eliminate tik tok, but Republicans will never care about that, they only wanted a ban in for leverage. If you're agreeing with the GOP one needs to evaluate
or maybe genZ is a bunch or whinny, ignorant twats. they were born decades after the cold war ended and after 9/11, and they think anything that happened before they were born isn’t important. they don’t have a clue about anything, least of which is national security.
“National security”. Yeah, it’s horrible for a company with ties to China to know that I like cooking and birdwatching videos. Much more dangerous than Zuck creating a monopoly and manipulating the narrative
The Cold War was stupid bullshit that rotted the brains of everyone who took the red scare nonsense seriously. You guys let the ruling class demonize the concepts of cooperation and community, and normalized the assassination and framing of civil rights activists by federal agencies.
People have been saying shit like this about younger generations for all of recorded history. I would recommend shifting your energy to teaching instead of scolding.
The tobacco companies kept on insisting tobacco did not cause cancer. For decades. In the 1990s, they got their asses sued to hell because internally they admitted they knew.
Meanwhile younger generations will still pick up smoking even though thankfully we banned cig ads, vending machines, etc.
Oh nevermind then, the next generation really IS inherently stupid this time. Glad we finally got that settled after thousands of years.
My personal rudeness aside, gen Z has the highest likelihood of forming addictions in general, which are on the rise for every age group. 1/2
We should be focusing on the mental health and economic factors that exacerbate these issues instead of attributing it to young people being whiny and stupid. 2/2
you thing the gens before had it easier. what effects on mental health would the wide spread starvation of the great depression have been? being shipped off to WW2/vietman? the upheavals of the 60s? the real inflation and recession of the 70s? they’re experiencing the best economy in 60yrs.
It's worth noting that millennials, who received this same "No, it's the children who are wrong" treatment were much likely to vote for Trump proportionally than gen Z. These generations get older and start voting more, and we can actually make tactical moves not to lose them.
Gone are any hopes for this, but Congress should treat internet related hearings like they treated the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing: cede their time to experts on the issues at hand.
The internet, for all intents and purposes, might as well be another dimension.
A political strategy that insists on dropping Universal Healthcare from the party platform is a strategy. A strategy that serves a goal. I'm running for the other goalpost, however.
To read the private letters on politics that the obviously right wing Eisenhower wrote to his brother is an eye-opener to how such language and thought woud be considered radical Left wing ideology today. And I don't like Eisenhower at all.
I'm nearly 74 years old. I was a young man during the last of the New Deal (The Great Society). The bridge the Democratic party has been on since 1972 has lead only rightward.
It’s the gerontocracy + the Democratic Party being run by Atlanticists and out of touch professionals who believe their own bullshit geopolitical grand strategy and New Cold War paranoia. They live in a deranged bubble
It doesn’t get better than this. Ron Wyden’s Comms person just defended Wyden’s vote saying he voted for it because it was packaged with “aid” to Israel.
Genocide AND a new toy for Musk, what a bargain!!!!!
I love that my senator Ron Wyden voted to ban it and now introduced legislation to delay the sale saying “The rushed divestment of Tiktok is a huge giveaway to Donald Trump and his cronies”
YOU GAVE IT away dumbass.
Wyden isn’t an awful senator but holy shit this is stupid.
He sounds pretty awful. If he so shamelessly backtracks and misses something that obvious, I can't imagine what else he might be missing in his career.
He is awful. He's also taken millions of dollars from AIPAC, and therefore refuses to respond to any of us constituents begging him to address the ongoing g*****ide.
Just not forever for the same people in the same office. Reps will more likely vote their conscience in final terms, not in a way to avoid a primary to keep a job they crave for its power. They'll all make a fine living afterwards. These jobs have been called public service. Let's act like it.
Which is why the move to REDnote is actually a good thing and should be encouraged.
Like, yeah, whatever, the Chinese govt is not exactly a picture of permissivism either, but we just need to preserve whatever can be preserved of the community.
I am not sure if that is a good thing to do. China is nothing like the US, and the Chinese are nothing like Americans. It is easy to believe something as it is presented to you without actually understanding anything of the reality of it.
No, definitely. Only that vis-a-vis Trump and friends the interests are broadly aligned.
When an indepenendent US based video app happens, a second move will have to be made.
But also, speaking of which, REDnote will be ending up getting banned, so I'm not too worried about any influence concerns.
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more lies?
Gen Z does. Not like Trump dude where the hell did you hear that.
There’s no real verification whatsoever and the results can be heavily skewed by bad actors.
Again, you’re getting skewed, incorrect data.
Most of the people I talk to are Gen Z, and I travel for work at events and interact with hundreds to thousands of people every day.
You’re against the far left.
THAT is why we almost made you quit your job.
I’d say we are more likely to be far left or MAGA than liberals, because the way things are headed our futures are effectively already ruined
Part of being a #humanist instead of a #feminist is I oppose ALL false accusations, not just ones against certain people.
Oh wait, you wanted that?
Guys, we rescued TikTok for you! Also it was all Biden's fault. Only Biden.
We don't get credit for shit 🙄
✋️🚫 -E
Kids now have so little ability to distinguish things from being real and fake. TikTok is basically porn but for everything else.
Dems are overwhelmed with cleaning up GOP messes after every GOP admin. GOP is helped by massive media/SMedia & other privately financed infrastructure. Dems lack this.
https://upine.medium.com/open-letter-to-mackenzie-scott-laurene-powell-jobs-and-other-liberal-donors-please-consider-43e32433c545
Meanwhile younger generations will still pick up smoking even though thankfully we banned cig ads, vending machines, etc.
My personal rudeness aside, gen Z has the highest likelihood of forming addictions in general, which are on the rise for every age group. 1/2
"the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."
The internet, for all intents and purposes, might as well be another dimension.
The same foreign influences, the same data being sold to bad actors, the same brain breaking algos. This is all so silly.
(except obviously we’ll still be stuck with CAPITALISM)!
It's all political strategy but I'm just a rando. What do I know?
Genocide AND a new toy for Musk, what a bargain!!!!!
Someone just said,”But scary Chinese national security risk” and they all bought it with zero evidence and no trial. JHC
YOU GAVE IT away dumbass.
Wyden isn’t an awful senator but holy shit this is stupid.
He needs to go.
Like, yeah, whatever, the Chinese govt is not exactly a picture of permissivism either, but we just need to preserve whatever can be preserved of the community.
When an indepenendent US based video app happens, a second move will have to be made.
But also, speaking of which, REDnote will be ending up getting banned, so I'm not too worried about any influence concerns.