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I have bad news about beta generation (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by plinky@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net

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

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 66 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The thing you Toonamis will never get is how Goku is KakaROTTING our planet with his stupid wishes. We need a strong leader who will grab the dragon BY the BALLS! ALL OF THE BALLS! Vegeta Will Make Saiyans Great Again

#PrinceVegeta2024 #MSGA

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You're just going to trust stewardship of the planet to the nepobaby failson of King Vegeta the First, the only Saiyan ruler so hilariously incompetent as to think he could pull a fast one on the God of Destruction and nearly sentenced this whole galaxy to summary erasure as a result? Not my planetary leader.

We're seriously talking about a man who intruded upon the realm of the Gods and still couldn't secure the W against the genocider of his people!!

My vote goes to Broly, if it has to be a Saiyan.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And still only 52%

[+] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I heard a 15 year old say "Jill Stein is a Russian plant" at work today. pain

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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@hexbear.net 10 points 3 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@hexbear.net 4 points 3 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).

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or even more embarrassing: trolls on 4chan who have nothing better to do.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[+] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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”.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] Deadend@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The kids are liberals deeper-sadness

[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

makes sense, liberals are children

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I can't wait for this to be over

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It'll never be over. It's been 2016 for eight years with no end in sight.

[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

just one more week luffy-exhausted

[–] buh@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

Unlimited slime on NicKKKelodeon

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

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

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

That's still gen alpha unless generations are only like five years now

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How's the track record on this?

Edit: I looked it up. 7/10. Good odds on this.

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

I hope it's not too late to radicalize them.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Try to impeach THIS!

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

well it's not like they were given real choices