my family member in his early 60s was the FIRST to comment on how fucking old they both are tonight. same guy who thinks 35 is too young for office.

i think middle aged people prefer middle aged people, young-old people prefer young-old people, but not many people root for more whole ass 80 year olds

how old does this person think 50 is? you get your first grey hair and root for primordial beings as your overlords?

i mean, it’s not that hard to believe he lost largely because most USians are propagandized zionists (especially older people, who vote by far the most in local elections). advertising money doesn’t guarantee anything unless you have something definingly different from your opponent (or no one knows them), and the election was very publicized in being seen as for or against israel. wrote this in another comment:

bowman already had a huge incumbent advantage and way more name recognition than most reps, so there’s no reason to believe people seeing the other guy’s ads more is the reason he lost (even if it certainly didnt help). if it were that easy, mike bloomberg would be president and all the other cases where interest groups spent ungodly amounts to unseat a progressive would’ve generally worked

my mom’s friend was coping pretty hard

her husband was going “poor joe, he means well but he’s gotten so old, he was so much better at the state of the union :(” and she starts raising her voice at him, “his voice is just coarse and he has a stutter! he’s not perfect but everything he’s saying is the TRUTH, you just aren’t LISTENING to him!!”

12 to 25 in 2016

well that’s measuring mostly millennials and zillennials. i’m middle-gen-z and just turned 12 that year. i also imagine we start later than other gens, most people i know didn’t start til 17-19

i was looking at this, which admittedly didn’t track data before 1988, but it shows a pretty big increase from 2016-2021 (i figure it’s even higher in the last three years). also shows daily usage nearly doubled over ten years:

Marijuana and hallucinogen use among young adults reached all-time high in 2021

also, having it occasionally isn’t the same as regularly using it and preferring it over alcohol. i know a lot of boomer hippie types were stoners, but is there any evidence they actually used weed more than us? maybe they WERE getting constantly crossfaded on everything, idk, but in college today weed’s often the main social/hangout substance, not just something you do on a hike or a concert now and then

gen z uses most drugs less, but takes more weed/shrooms than any other gen. theres a study that 70% of us prefer weed over alcohol, which imo is a good thing

with how publicized this primary was in terms of israel i think zionism was the losing factor here. the majority of americans (especially older ones who vote more) are indoctrinated zionists.

bowman already had a huge incumbent advantage and way more name recognition than most reps, so there’s no reason to believe seeing the other guy’s ads more is the reason he lost (even if it certainly didnt help). if it were that easy, mike bloomberg would be president and all the other cases where interest groups spent ungodly amounts to unseat a progressive would’ve generally worked

in elections between nobodies then yeah, a lot of people literally just vote for whoever’s name they hear more

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saw that and had a weird feeling too! thought i was just being pedantic since nothing to really pin down, but i feel like the connotation of that word for anything to do with humans, cultures, beliefs systems etc is inherently fashy

also hate the way this person types like they’re trying to reach a word count in an essay. “Yet, in contrast,” PICK ONE!!

yup, went to r/borderporn (not a redditor just remember that one!) and searched “bridge”, found tons of examples, especially in the schengen zone

“El puente de El Marco” bridge connecting Spain and Portugal:

tiny footbridge connecting Latvia and Estonia in Valga/Valka:

comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views … any super low-hanging fruit doesn’t belong on this site, period

isn’t this like 50% of the site taglines?

i mean i get banning unoriginal stupid shit or reddit argument chains. but a ton of comments from nobodies are genuinely very funny and start a lot of memes, so this doesn’t really make sense.

yeah /fashion/ apparently

akshually sweetey, they get a choice between military service and forced, unpaid labor

(i am not joking)

most british oldheads support it, but young people are understandably pretty pissed, seeing it’s unpaid labor that takes time and energy from work/school they need to survive in a failing economy. (community service will require one weekend per month for a full year)

Labour figures also privately accused the Tories of making 18-year-olds fix the problems the government had created, by boosting numbers in the military, helping the NHS and repairing infrastructure.

for anyone missing context: the UK had a “national service” program in the early 60’s, where all 18 year olds had to choose between military service and local community service (with most choosing the latter)

the conservative party’s plan is to bring this program back for all genders, and this is how they’re considering enforcing it

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conservative party never gave a second fuck about that lmao they get like 95% of their votes from 35+

he wasn’t even that old, might’ve actually been early gen x but idk

kinda hope the bastard felt old tho. he was a full zionist chud who constantly went on about how communism killed a gazillion people or how “hitler was a socialist”. econ classes, never again

lol i thought they would’ve caught up by now, but a few months ago my econ 101 professor complained about young people’s work ethic and called us all “millennials” like three different times. someone said we’re gen z and he just went “same thing”

from this poll the public actually seem surprisingly anti-israel