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145 points

The kids are alright.

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Young women are alright, right wing support amongst <35 y.o. men is surprisingly high…

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right wing support amongst <35 y.o. men is surprisingly high…

The media is flush with fascist attitudes in a country where going on the computer and listening to fascist rants is all you’re allowed to do with your time.

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“in a country where […] all you’re allowed to do with your time.”

Eh… The same phenomenon is observed all over first world countries and all of those countries you’re allowed to do mostly whatever the fuck you want with your free time…

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all you’re allowed to do with your time.

If you stopped listening to fascist folks you could step outside and see that you have a lot more options.

Sorry you’re in this rut!

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70 points

Agreed. I’m a teacher and see it in my classrooms. I often feel that they’re not taught how to have healthy community, so they become lil fascists…

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48 points

If they’re like my nephew, the “manosphere” gives them easy answers as to why everything seems to suck.

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6 points

They know this shit isn’t working, so they’re siding with the ones who give them someone to blame… It’s that simple…

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22 points

I have great hope that they’ll be better than our generation, just as we were better than our parents. Fuck the ‘fuck the kids’ mentality.

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I’m a classroom teacher, and I find that you’ve gotta sometimes have both “fuck them kids” and “for the kids” in different measures. But overall, I feel like they’re doing a lot of cool things.

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That’s a good point. I think that one of the myths that needs to die is that if the cherubic, sweet, innocent, and pure child. Many children, without guidance, are sociopathic assholes. We’re not born “good” then corrupted by the world, we’re born with some personality traits that may or may not help us as social creatures and need help to learn how to handle our emotions and cooperate with others in a manner that is pro-social.

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A side effect of me being terminally online is that you can predict the top comment of some posts

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