one way to look at this is that there's something messed up and violent among American youth, another way to look at it is that the 70+ cohort all already has single payer healthcare for themselves via Medicare
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Matt Novak
New polling on American attitudes about the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO:
Overall: 68% say it was unacceptable, 16.5% acceptable
18-29 year olds: 40% unacceptable, 41% acceptable
70+: 81% unacceptable, 10% acceptable
Overall: 68% say it was unacceptable, 16.5% acceptable
18-29 year olds: 40% unacceptable, 41% acceptable
70+: 81% unacceptable, 10% acceptable
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It's a lot.
Its training them to kill people. Duh.
But I suspect they're also a lot more likely to respond to violence with "well that's how things work" than older people, who had formative experiences when things didn't work like that.
2. I agree there is a kind of breezy nihilism at work here but I’m not sure if you mean violence, political violence, or something else. Violence is down relative to their parents’ youth. Political violence—depends how you define it but the heyday of
but also: a fractured and unscrupulous media has told them everything is shit and to their great, if understandable, discredit they believe it.
now I'm old and if a movie villain so much as pinches a child I turn it off and write angry tweets at @netflix expressing my horror
2) Those who do get a big kick from 0 to infinity at 26.
imo you need to at least ctrl-v something from chatgpt before you shoot some poor kid's dad from behind
Recently over heard a working woman say can’t WAIT for the 80 percent purge of government
“Go for it!” she grinned, rocking in her chair with joy.
“But disabled people will —“
“Good! I’m not disabled! Who cares? NOBODY!”
True quote
A demographic that sees the rich and powerful ignore people like them getting shot every day offers a resounding "meh" when the rich and powerful get shot.
Is "normal medical conditions" the difference between it being bad vs good?
I don't understand how normal people are supposed to understand these things.
These results are consistent with those findings.