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Gen Z commit to ‘canceling out’ their MAGA parents votes in new TikTok trend
(www.independent.co.uk)
Smells like Gen Z spirit
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she looks like the black guy from the good place
Lol, that would be Chidi.
Finally a great use of the word "cancel".
Good thing we have lots of kids, so I as usual cancel out my husband's vote (if he even bothers this time, R but not enthusiastic about Trump) and all the kids align with me. It may not matter here, with the influx of racist northerners, but who knows?
ETA I have at least one who was not going to vote when it was the two old guys but will vote for Harris.
Good to see, but in my country the trend is: Vote alt right because it's edgy.
Nice, 2016 throwback vibes
Huh. I thought young people never voted, so we could ignore their concerns.
Guess that was a fucking lie from people who just wanted to ignore young people's concerns.
Orrrr....hear me out here
This is a news article about a set of social media posts and has absolutely no link or relevance to the voting register.
you know the cool thing about people voting? You know who has voted and in what age group they are. Then you can look at the age group and say things like hmmm wow thats weird there are like 34 million people in the US between 18 and 24, but only 7 million of them voted, I wonder if the other 27 million would have swayed the margin on an election decided by hundreds of thousands of votes
Young people aren't participating yet they have the most skin in the game. It's daft.
Imo Implement compulsory voting, introduce third parties that can act as a protest vote, watch what the fuck happens. Suddenly the major parties have to be accountable outside their base.
The data doesn’t lie. People under 30 vote at embarrassingly lower rates than every other group.
Can confirm. I am 30 and voted. My brother is 29 and claims to not vote.
Because people under 30 never have anyone to represent them. And it's not a "oh they don't match my views 100% so I'm not gonna pick either" thing, for the average leftist we're lucky to get a choice between someone who represents us 0%, or 0.2%.
Bullshit, quit providing post hoc justification for your own shitty behavior.
Do they vote for Democrats less than Republicans vote for Democrats? Because the party expends a fuckton of effort on trying to win over Republicans.
To put it in a way Lemmy would understand: who is it easier to convince to try out your favorite distro, an Ubuntu user or someone who's never used Linux?
And Democrats keep trying to win over hostile Windows users.
It will take a while for us to get past the inertia of Boomers who have been gaslighting everyone for decades.
And centrists who don't want to listen to more progressive youngins.
Fuck. Gen Z should not "lean slightly toward Harris", Gen Z should be an overwhelming progressive and inclusive force.
Fuck Twitter and TikTok that fried men's brains with shit like Andrew Tate and similar things.
I mean Harris and "progressive and inclusive" aren't necessarily one and the same, from the sounds of it it's Harris that should be pushing more progressive, but in the context of this election I agree they should be voting for Harris
I don't think you can blame Twitter and TikTok for that. People who like Tate's toxic masculinity incel garbage will find somewhere that feeds into their preferences.
I don't think this is necessarily true when talking about modern social media
TikTok I'd wait for evidence, but Elon absolutely boosted people like Tate
Well the following is my unscientific belief:
Social media algorithms are studied to make you see always the same kind of beliefs and everything opposing them is discouraged. They incentive inflammatory, divisive and hateful content in order to obtain more engagement, especially on Twitter.
If they used Mastodon or Lemmy, those people would be less tense.
If they used Mastodon or Lemmy, those people would be less tense.
If they had more normies on it, maybe. But Lemmy seems to be composed primarily of the tensest people in the world to me.
Lemmy has some of the most obnoxious Dunning Kruger shit on any social media platform, especially when it comes to politics.
Just so! Particularly with election news being the order of the day. Reminds me that I'm on the hook for something I realistically have very little control over.
I'll do my bit, but cannot guarantee results.
It's probably more that gen z voters are notorious for not responding to survey requests, and ignoring texts and phone calls from unknown numbers
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