Gen z is left of millennials, at least in the US, but not as far left as millennials were at the same age.

Millennials are moving right, we are the largest voting gen and trump just won a trifecta.

Not as far right as boomers at the same age, but it happens to us too.

I met my wife on OK cupid. 8 years ago though.

The boomers are shit. Because they are old and the elderly are generally shit.

It’s not that they were born shit or taught to be shit, it’s that people with money, greedy, low empathy people, live longer on average.

So the empathetic people doing their thing die off over time and leave the conservative assholes alive and voting.

Also the boomers were exposed to leaded gasoline for the longest period of time.

Gen X wasn’t shit but they are turning to shit because they are getting older and wealthier. Millennials will be the same. There used to be a theory that millennials would break the trend and stay leftists but it was just delayed and as they buy houses and build wealth they are shifting right.

Every generation turns to shit because they get old and the poor die off and the remainder vote to hoard their wealth and fuck the younger generation.

This will keep going until something changes at the level of great. Depression or WW2. A pandemic 20x as bad as COVID might do it. Actual nuclear war. Complete economic breakdown, something that destroys the wealth of everyone and resets the board. Maybe birthrate collapse will do it.

Short of that we will keep having the same fights every decade.

If PTSD sets in, the teabagging will increase.

Separating Europe and Asia is just racism really.

Honestly a better convention.

Smuggling is what it will cause. I’ll risk dying in a hot truck.

If you want to kill a whole lot of people, your police will suffer and eventually quit if you just have the execute people en mass. This happened to the Nazis and it’s the prime reason the gas chambers were constructed.

The police need to feel like they are doing the right thing.

If just my state left, and I could leave to another state, that would be pretty good. Two Republican senators gone, roughly 15 net house reps gone, and an influx of dem refugees like me into neighboring states.

Texas could legit try to make a go of it as an independent nation. It would be a disaster for my family though.

They are not, in fact, enforcing the law. See Abrego Garcia.

When masked men in other countries roll up and black bag people to unmonitored black sites we call it what it is, secret police.

Overstaying a visa is a misdemeanor. Should jaywalkers get sent to torture camps? Shuffling people in to camps to starve wasn’t right when Greece did it either, but they had the excuse of being overwhelmed by volume, not deliberate cruelty.

The majority of citizens are not “fine” with it, we are watching the results of the capture of every branch of government.

The template for this actually played out in Texas. Texas has a very weak governors office in terms of formal powers. Under George W Bush the Republican party systematically took control of each state office and coordinated their efforts to effect the agenda of Bush, Perry, and now Abbott.

They are doing the same thing at the federal level with project 2025 under Trump, they took the supreme court, and now they have removed the career civil servants that would refuse illegal orders from Trump.

If history of other dictatorships is any guide the powers of ICE will be expanded steadily and the other law enforcement agencies and military will be continually overshadowed by ICE and eventually subordinated to them, like the Republican guard of Iran or the SS in Nazi Germany.

We should respond to these people as what they are, domestic terrorists.

It’s terrifying in many ways.

Millennial, briefly experienced a life with limited access to information.

You are capable of more than you think. You wrote phone numbers down and memorized your own. You memorized the ones you used regularly. I had 7-8 friends and family numbers memorized.

You also only needed one phone number per household.

When you needed to know something like how to fix a car or replace a light bulb you asked someone. Often An uncle, aunt, or cousin. If nobody in your friends/family group knew, you went to the library.

Yellow pages and magazines and instruction manuals were constantly floating around with information. I never felt deprived of curiosity. I read a lot.

Hope she feels good about providing a meal to a face-eating leopard.

What’s not to respect? Get that bag girl.

Robert Evans, podcaster and Journalist that I have some respect for, concluded that it could be either true suicide which is also criminal negligence or conspiracy coverup, but the negligence/suicide has more evidence. The doctor saying it’s a conspiracy coverup and is a known grifter.

Thanks this one could be useful.

I can shapeshift.