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This is not my personal opinion, I know Gen Z men who voted for Harris. But the voter demographics really speak for themselves, and maybe now people will look at the radicalization of young men as a serious (but solvable) issue.

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[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The main source of this recent trending fascism, anti-scientific thinking and so on is social media or the web in general. To resist or refute the mass of false information and find out what's likely true and what's not, requires education, literacy, media competency, things like that. I guess current generations are lacking this so they fall easy prey to "funny" fascist memes, fakes and rhetoric, then vote for rightwing extremists, destabilizing their own country as a result, not realizing that this leads to big disadvantages for everyone including themselves. We failed to protect these younger generations from misinformation, and now they are turning the world into what they are misled to believe is true.

We used to have relatively high living standards in the Western democracies. This will soon all crumble and we (most people who aren't rich) will suffer from it, regardless of who you voted for. And on top of that, climate change will finish us all off, because battling that isn't even on the radar for those fascists because they don't even believe in it. So instead of doing too little, we'll do literally zero and even accelerate the problem, meaning it'll affect us all much sooner already and with higher intensity.

So enjoy your still existing relatively privileged life while it still lasts. It's ging to get much, MUCH worse before it's going to be better again. Buckle up and prepare yourselves.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With the levels of anti-intellectualism, it's also quite hard.

You write more that 3 lines? You used a "buzzword"? Congratulations, your refutation won't be read, but will met with ridicule!

My mother's boyfriend often "reads" articles from more liberal-leaning news sources, and he just laughs at the buzzwords. Cannot tell what the articles were about.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

A buzzword being one with three syllables or more, I presume?

(Syllables are probably woke nowadays)

[–] emmie@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

map of climate change outcomes. 2.7 warming. Violet - unhabitable

[–] uis@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

*looks at Russia*

Well, I knew we are fucked.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Russia is going to be a bit busy with a massive influx of climate migrants. America will also have this issue, so they will both have that much bigger problem to deal with.

[–] felixthecat@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you have the source for this? I'd be interested in learning more, this is pretty useful imo

[–] emmie@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

In the linked sources, I don’t see that huge black area in Siberia

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

“More suitable” than what? I live in a green area: both this phrasing and a scan of sources added below, make it look like I benefit from 2.7°C global warming. Bring it on!