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[–] 165 points 2 years ago* (79 children)

Translation: you'll become more conservative when you have children and own a home

Millennials: 😆
Zoomers: 😂
Alpha: 🤣
Whateverthefuckcomesnext: 💀

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have a child and own a home, and am a member of the lost generation. Fuck the Republican Party and any conservative who believes their selfish bullshit should outweigh the greater good of others.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Republicans are fascists, not conservatives.

    Democrats are the conservative party.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I agree about Republicans. I don't agree about Democrats. Some, of course, are conservative, as they historically always have been. But a good portion are quite liberal.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    As a whole, the Dems are pretty center of the aisle, because America as a whole is fairly conservative compared to Europe (despite 60% of the population being more liberal than the government at most times). Europeans generally consider the Dems in the US a conservative party, and corporate Dems are definitely closer to the right than to the left. The other issue besides the general conservative leaning in the country though is that there's about 50 other groups of various left leaning shades that would be their own separate parties in Europe but are bunched in with the corporate Dems and therefore have little say in the party platform.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've been fortunate enough to have seen my material conditions improve as I've entered my mid-thirties which has let me start a family and buy a home. I've also watched my incredibly talented and hard working friends/acquaintances/neighbours be ground into dust under the cruel rule of capitalism. I got lucky, they didn't, this has radicalized me far more than any naive idealism ever could.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Exactly this. I'm fortunate enough that the skills I'm good at have a lot of demand at the moment, but people I know that are more hard working than I am and very talented, struggle to get by just because their job for some reason is considered less worthy to pay for.

    Wanting to maintain this rotten system is the purest form of greed.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Having to mow the lawn is the first step in the pipeline of fascism

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You joke, but if you ever talked to a homeowner about their lawn and heard them complain about their neighbor's lawn...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Mowing the lawn is the only hour of uninterrupted creativity I get in the week. Also my neighbour's lawn is 50% dandelions.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Your lawn is green concrete; a lifeless painting with nothing for pollinators.

    Your neighbor's lawn has wildlife in the deadlands of the suburbs.

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