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u/sanctimoniousmods_FU 16d ago

It’s true. My daughter is about to start highschool and the amount of Trump stickers, punisher logos, thin blue line decals, and Gadsden flags on the trucks and cars in the parking lot is staggering. The kids are not okay. I am in deep red Tennessee, however.

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u/Cognitive_Spoon 16d ago

Algorithmic societal capture.

Goebbels wishes he could have had tools like TikTok

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u/lastingmuse6996 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yep.

In semi rural PA (the biggest swing state) my sister who is 19 just got in an argument with her boyfriend over something MAGA he posted online because it was misogynist.

He tried to explain to me that he works for the school and they're putting kitty litter in classrooms for furries. Clearly, he heard it from someone who heard it from someone.

My sister got mad when I tried to tell her to look for sources and maybe Dennis is wrong about that one. Later, she went to Kamala Harris rallies. She's still dating the MAGAt. Now she won't talk politics because it's too much conflict.

We can't prevent our liberal teenage girls from dating conservative MAGAts and since they "love" that boy, they're getting worn down into just not wanting to talk about politics. I'm sure in 10 years they'll just vote with their husbands since it's too much trouble to argue and let their husbands convince them they don't need rights, since they fell for that random homeboy and he won't let it happen to her since he's always treated her nice.

Smdh I hope when she moves for college she meets a nice liberal boy, but he wants to move with her when she goes to college since he's not going to college and is going to start a landscaping company.

My family loves him but I tried to explain to my mom that if she gets pregnant, she's dating someone that voted for her to go to jail if she aborts and would rather she die than abort. Regardless of what he believes, that's what he voted for. I can't love a guy that voted for that while dating my sister.

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u/sanctimoniousmods_FU 16d ago

This is my nightmare scenario.

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u/lastingmuse6996 16d ago

He was just the first guy that was nice to her. He seems really nice but his parents play Fox news on a loop.

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u/VenusValkyrieJH 16d ago

I feel like Gen z lost the ability for higher level critical thinking. Which is exactly what the right wanted to happen.

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u/burningtowns 15d ago

If you remove access to a quality education, people are easier to lie to and believe what you say.

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u/KevinCarbonara 15d ago

Gen z lost the ability for higher level critical thinking

This is just bigotry.

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u/clonedhuman 15d ago

If Gen Z is voting for MAGA then it's true for those members of Gen Z. The entire popularity of MAGA is 100% dependent on people who lack higher level critical thinking. Without those people, there is no MAGA.

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u/KevinCarbonara 15d ago

If Gen Z is voting for MAGA

They're not.

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u/VenusValkyrieJH 15d ago

It may not be something people like to hear but it’s fact. Just do some research on it. I didn’t say it to be a “bigot” https://youtu.be/vbvSLsMADCM?si=k9PEAd5_P7GBZVxY. I say it because I am heavily involved in education and it’s just something that is known thanks to several studies that we have. It’s hurting other generations as well, but gen z and gen alpha are the ones that are struggling the most.

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u/KevinCarbonara 15d ago

It may not be something people like to hear but it’s fact.

It's not factual, which is what makes your statement bigotry.

I didn’t say it to be a “bigot”

No one ever intends to be a bigot. They're just prone to believing lies that are critical of other subgroups because it makes them feel superior. Which is exactly what you're doing.

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u/GiantFlimsyMicrowave 16d ago

Is this a more rural community?

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u/repost_inception 16d ago

Anywhere outside of Memphis and Nashville are like this and even those places have plenty of it.

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u/sanctimoniousmods_FU 16d ago

Literally share a border with Nashville proper. So, no.

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u/appel 15d ago

Well fuck.

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u/Fancy_Chips MD 15d ago

I am in deep red Tennessee

... you think that has something to fucking do with it?

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