Gen Z will at least change their votes, hopefully.

It’s a shame idiots didn’t listen to those of us who said exactly what would happen. You fucked around. Now you found out. And in the meantime the rest of us got screwed. Gee, thanks.

Don't cry, Zoomers. At least you don't have to live under the socialist tyranny of health care, time off from work, and fully funded public services.

It a shame they didn’t listen to Trump.

He said EXACTLY what he was going to do.

related:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gen-z-is-the-first-generation-dumber-than-their-parents-neuroscientist-claims/

Gen Z won’t vote.

Nope, they wont

I’ll never understand how they could ignore literal millions of loved ones and trust a rich spoiled known scammer to change things for the better for them and not himself, on top of all of us explicitly saying he and republicans will purposely crash the economy and hurt innocent people for fun in the name of religion and conservatism.

wandering around lemmy pretty much proves this.

People will belive anything if they want it,or fear it to be true.

Who would have thought voting in a pedo con man could make things worse. The majority of the American voters are repulsive.

The genZers that I know are pissed and have told me that are going in groups to vote. May the rightly angry youth save us all.

Yeah. Turns out shit get worse when nobody wants to apply critical thinking skills. Weird

"I'm gonna run this country like one of my companies."

Like a fascist dictator, right into the ground...

Can you hear the Oompa Loompa chorus?

Before it came if you couldn't see this one coming then frankly you had it coming.

i work at a community college which includes the county's "early college" which is pretty much 9th-12th grade high school age kids who qualified to take AA/AS courses for higher ed credit at the same time as their high school curriculum. what i see is pretty much it's not the kids that are the problem. for the most part, dumb kids are the result of dumb parents, which there are a lot of in my redneck mountain town. and, surprise, dumb parents have a lot more kids than smart parents.

yea, gen z may be dumb, but it's not gen z that made them that way

edit: i want to add, there's nothing inherently wrong with a lack of intelligence. some of the best people i've ever known are not intellectuals. it's character that makes people worthwhile. empathy. how you treat people who can't do anything for you. if you're accepting of people regardless of whether they hold the same beliefs, values, religion, have the same skin color, and everything else, then i would choose to be around you instead of the dickhead who's the smartest person in the room. fuck that guy

it's telling that these fucking dickheads are trying, desperately, to paint empathy as some kind of flaw or weakness. empathy is how the human species survived past the stone age

The entire point of a campaign is to get votes...

2020 people held their noses and voted Biden, and the people running that geriatric puppet show used it to latch onto power and do whatever the fuck they want.

Jamie Harrison only knows how to take bribes from the wealthy, that's why he lost to Lindsey Graham despite breaking fundraising efforts. As DNC chair from 2021 to 2025, he did what everyone expected him to do who knew who he was.

He raised a shit ton of money and lost an election because of not caring about anything else.

The real shame is uninformed people not understanding the DNC is just whatever the chair wants it to be, and when the chair changes you judge the organization by the current chair, not the one who fucked up and got fired

Anecdotal, but I hope you are right.

Oh. You mean voting for something because "it's funny" has consequences? Fuck off. I like so much about Gen Z, but this is one of the things I despise.

Someone told me the moon was made of cheese. I'll believe it when I see it.

I mean, zoomers were around for the first term too, right? Short memory I guess.

Right, I know that intellectually. I’ll never understand it in my heart.

Zoomers have proven they can be just as stupid and gullible as the older generations that have allowed this to happen. I won't hold my breath for them to do the consistently right choice when voting as a block. Best I'd hope for is them to get upset enough to go against their initially wrong choice once in a while if they ever bother to vote again.

It's not about the kids tho...

The same decline appears outside the United States. Horvath told senators that across roughly 80 countries, academic performance drops after digital technology becomes widely embedded in classrooms. The timing alone raises serious questions about how learning environments affect cognitive development.

It's about how instead of making them think, we taught them to just fucking Google shit and believe what it says.

"Oregon Trail generation" who grew up using computers but still having to learn legacy methods was the sweet spot, and there's absolutely nothing stopping us from returning to that.

Absolutely none of us use the Dewey Decimal system, but having to go to libraries and physically walk around pulling cards and finding books built critical thinking.

Typing in "Harry Potter" on a computer and getting a PDF doesn't build any skills.

The human brains biggest strength is offloading and being lazy. If the system thinks it doesn't need skills because they can be offloaded, it just won't learn them. Then at 22-23 when it's harder to learn those skills, gen z is finding out they actually need them.

They can be helped, but what's more important is making sure all those little kids right now start getting real educations again.

They can be helped, but what’s more important is making sure all those little kids right now start getting real educations again.

yea, that's the problem. dumb parents, not only raising their own kids to be dumb, but also voting to raise everyone's kids to be dumb

A: "Don't touch that - fire has a long history of hot."

B: "Ow, fire hot!"

A: "You fuckin moron, I just told you it's hot!"

...

A: "Hey, remember fire? Its back, still hot. Don't touch it this time."

B: "HELP! IT BURNS!!!"

A: develops drinking problem

The youth won't vote for the lesser evil, or foe things to stay the same instead of getting worse...

But they absolutely vote for improvement.

Them not voting for Obama the second time, Hillary, Biden, or Kamala doesn't mean they won't vote.

Stop acting like the fucking candidate isn't important, it's lit the most important thing about an election

In 2028 a neoliberal won't get shoved down our throats again, the most recent example of how that works out is 08 Obama. Regardless of how he was in office, the 08 election everyone believed he was going to bring good change.

Like, it's basic fucking psychology/sociology...

25 and under want change, they're wired for it, it's the entire reason change happens. All the way back to "why don't we just throw the pointy stick?"

We have 2 choices. One is better. This discussion has now concluded.

The majority of the American voters are repulsive.

The majority of American voters didn't vote for trump...

That would mean he got over 50%

Unmentioned by the article: only 1/3rd of Gen Z voted Trump.

More than a third (35%) of Gen Z who voted for Trump in 2024 now regret their vote, compared to 24% of millennials, 16% of Gen X, and 8% of baby boomers.

It sounds like it’s a lot better for over 1/3rd to regret their vote than less than 1/10th, yeah? Thinking 0% will start voting for Democrats after regretting their vote is basically delusional. Even just not voting in the future is making it easier for Democrats to win.

No.

This may shock you but dumb people have become parents thru all of human history.

We corrected that as a society by creating an education system, shockingly recently in America. I have an uncle who "went to school" in a one room schoolhouse with an outhouse. There was one other student withing 4 years of his age. He's not dumb, but he's always been uneducated. A real education and he could have done anything he wanted.

We fixed it as a society and then stopped caring about education as society because for some reason people thought IQ would just magically always increase naturally, and prior gains weren't just getting everyone on the same level of education.

Stop acting like a conservative and pretending the next generation is only the responsibility of their parents.

The next generation of society is everyone's problem, so it's society's job to educate them.

The youngest Zs were 4 during the first Trump term. And couldn’t vote in 2024, but there are plenty of people who would have been children in his first term and then came of age under Biden. So less short term memory and more ‘I was too young to be politically conscious’.

yea. "society." which i guess is distinct from the parents that make up society?

yea, everyone wants to be able to tell everyone else how to raise their kids, but unfortunately that's not how the world works. if some kid comes home and says the history teacher told them the civil war was about ending slavery, and the parents say that's all lies, it was about the north victimizing the south, then do you honestly think that kid is going to listen to the teacher (society) over their parents?

good job putting me in my place though

Not talking about the youngest Zs though, right? With love, my biggest criticism is there's no excuse for those that have phones and can read.

I'm just shocked to see people agree with MAGA on the topic of education but claim to not be MAGA...

Like, can you at least say that you think public education should be a thing tho?

yes, public education should be a thing, is important, etc.

but despite all this public education, if parents are negating it at every turn, then what that means is that dumb kids come from dumb parents. yes, dumb kids come from smart parents too, thanks to society telling them they need to be on instagram 20 hours a day.

you can call me maga if that makes you feel like you've hurt my feelings, but i assure you, i don't care what you think. parents have a bigger role in raising kids than society ever has, and ever will. i'm not claiming whether that's good or bad either way, just that it's how it is. we do absolutely need high quality public education rooted in facts and science.

but who is sabotaging this? dumb parents

FYI the "Early college" thing is called dual enrollment.

yea, there's dual enrollment where the local high school kids take some classes, but there's also early college whose campus is on our campus. they are separate; not the same thing.

thanks though

Why the hell are they pointing out the skin color of every person they interview

If you’ve never made a vote you regretted at 18-25 I’m happy for you. Isn’t it better that they regret their vote than not regret it?

socialist tyranny of health care

Lot of Gen Z is under 26, which means they can be under their parents healthcare. Have a coworker that's in that and until my job he didn't realize healthcare costs for insurance that comes out of paychecks. Like I told him, save up while he can be under his parents insurance.

But anyone older than, at this moment, being born after 10/18/2000 is now falling into the insurance pile.

Sucks... but this is the choice the country made.

Sorry friend, the homework wasn't hard on this one. We can agree to disagree but my mind hasn't changed on this.

The majority of Usian voters either voted for him or didn't vote at all; meaning they were ok with pedohitler if he was elected.

If we're lucky, some of the "both sides" people might take note.

Ah, who am I kidding, they only listen to fascist propaganda.

(not that the establishment Dems don't suck, mind, but still an order of magnitude better than the fucking fascists)

I think there are degrees to this. If you are 20 and your choices are 2 establishment candidates, I can understand you lean towards one or the other.

But if the candidates are a black woman from the establishment and a literal nazi who's saying he's going to make the US become a nazi country and who is famous for being a rapist, a felon and for bankrupting even a damn casino...

When it comes to a white supremacist nazi like the pedohitler, being a white male and voting for him is stupid; but being other than white (and whatever your gender) and voting for him is a whole different level of stupid.

It is kind of funny how the US simultaneously exalts FREEDOM and tyranny. The tyranny being the private realm, where your boss has total control