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Some people, as they age, learn to accept the world's injustice. Others just learn to fight harder. (slrpnk.net)
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[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boomers to me in my teens: "Don't believe anything on the internet, find actual trust worthy verifiable sources."

Boomers to me in my 30's: "Don't trust the LameStream media! I found this guy on Facebook who made a real compelling video about how all Hollywood stars are transgender!"

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A real compelling video about how all Hollywood stars are transgender!

Well, that's news to me.

I know this is probably exaggerated for comedic purposes, but I'd like to see a video that actually argues that because it sounds really funny. In a completely unhinged way, of course.

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I actually used that example because some old guy at a thrift store said it to me. There are actually videos of people comparing unflattering photos of celebrities saying they have an Adam's apple, or "too broad of shoulders to be a woman". I didn't believe it either, but it was a big thing in small circles called transvestigation. I don't know if it's still being spread anymore though.

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People who know the truth already know that Hollywood stars can't be trans, because they're not real. Hollywood stars don't exist, they're actually all just crises actors pretending to be Hollywood stars.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hollywood stars are all... actors? And their job is to pretend to be someone else?

I think you might be onto something here.

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's actors all the way down.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could be talking to one of these "actors" right now!

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There's data on this: https://d6c748xw2pzm8.cloudfront.net/prod/42800fa0-876c-11ed-b4ef-3dee38a55a6d-standard.png

Millenials, and presumably gen z, are getting less conservative with age, a complete reversal of the traditional trend. We're also the first generation that's poorer than our parents.

They kept the money flowing in the post-war economy, and kept propping it up with increasing globalisation, pushing the poverty onto poorer nations, but it looks like that's stopped working and now the economy is cannibalising its own young.

I hope this sparks revolution, and I see our job right now as building the structures that will make a better world afterwards.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

I think it’s less that people get more conservative as they age and more that they get more conservative as they get wealthier. Previous generations typically could get wealthier as they get older, but younger generations are being screwed over, hence the reversal.

[–] stormtrooper@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I used to be conservative up to my mid 20s because I didn’t know enough about the world and all I had was my parents’ influence.

Now in my mid 40s I’m as progressive as they come, and I believe there are absolutely no redeeming qualities of being a “conservative” and it’s ruining society.

[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boomers started out progressive then sold out. They project this onto everyone else as if it’s the natural order of things.

[–] flipht@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same with the whole "social experiment" thing they accuse everyone of.

In fact, their childhoods were the biggest social experiment ever. Suburbs, nuclear families with mothers who needed uppers to do everything expected of them, easy access to free and cheap education and loans, etc. They act like it's the way things always were, and that it's the only way things should ever be.

It was all a fluke of the post war economy. Not normal, not sustainable, and trying to appease their fantasy is killing the world.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because the world is shitty the way it is, it doesn't mean that it has to stay that way.

And just because you personally benefits from the injustice of the broken system, it doesn't mean you shouldn't oppose it.

That's the part of the movie's message I feel that people tend to miss.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What movie?

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one that's playing in theater right now that I can't promote because of the strike.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh hey, I missed your name. I liked the movie but was disappointed that the Kens were treated with dismissal at the end, told they don't get representation in the new government, which felt like a squandered opportunity to convey a message of true equality and inclusion. It seemed to me that the message was that inequality is okay, as long as it's your group benefitting from it. But you're saying the movie's message is the exact opposite. Can you clarify why for me please?

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's more realistic to show that "systematic inequality cannot be overturned overnight even if slight improvements have been made." Not a fantasy happily-ever-after ending, because that's how the real world works.

Also, our protagonist actively choosing to refuse to participate in the unfair system at the end despite benefiting from it should have been a clear message that it wasn't something to be accepted.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I hadn't considered her refusal to participate as part of the message before, but you're right! Thanks for sharing that perspective. I had a nagging feeling that I was missing something, and that was it. Excellent job taking such a silly idea and using it to share a serious message, all wrapped up in goofy antics and fun.

[–] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, it’s true that you get more conservative as you “grow up”. The problem is that the last few generations of kids are simply refusing to grow up, in the traditional sense. They aren’t starting businesses and buying homes and rental properties, they’re not getting married and having children of their own.

For some reason instead they just decided to take out big student loans and then stay at their parents house and play video games and TikTok. If they would just grow up and start a successful business then of course they would get more conservative, but they just want everything for free.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Youth unemployment rate is at a low point in basicly the entire Western world. So most are obviously not sitting at home.

To start a business or a family you need money and some stability in life. With no wage growth and high housing costs with generally high house prices, combined with high intresst rates, buying a home is incredibly hard for young people and much harder then a few decades ago. However that means more people are forced to rent, which drives up rents. This leads to a tight financial situationa nd living with your parents is a good way to save some money, to get into a somewhat decent place at some point.

The big difference is that the old generaation mainly the middle class actually benefited from the system a few decades ago, so they want it back, as it was better for them back then. So they are conservative. Young people see the current system as broken and want change. As the best educated generation ever, which is much more likely to work then their parents.

[–] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Well that sounds like an awful lot of excuses. Maybe you have some points, but have you considered they should just do less TikTok and try harder?

[–] Compactor9679@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

Who knew at 40 you will be leaving your your parents. I think they meant when you start paying taxes