Republicans Are at War With College Towns. And They’re Losing.

https://lemmy.world/post/1918927

Republicans Are at War With College Towns. And They’re Losing. - Lemmy.world

Republicans are at war with young people in general. It honestly looks like they are actively TRYING to lose as much of the youth vote as possible:

  • Young people deeply feel the existential dread of climate change. Republicans still deny the basic facts about it, and fight all attempts to mitigate it.

  • Young people understand that their lives have been destroyed by student loans at rates and amounts unheard of in the past. Republicans not only have ZERO empathy, here, they are actually delighting in cruelty about it. They actively tried to add RETROACTIVE interest charges to student loans as we reach the end of the pandemic loan freeze, on top of their efforts to make it virtually impossible to have loans forgiven for public service.

  • Young people are less religious than ever, while the right wing is using the court to turn us into a theocracy.

  • Young people have progressive attitudes about LGBTQ rights, and the Republicans are centering their 2024 campaign on a contest of the bigoted they can be in this area.

  • Climate change/action is a hoax.
  • Life has never been harder for younger generations but a loan is a loan.
  • When does the whataboutism end…
  • So what. Let the LGBTQ people vote for whomever they wish to.
  • Found the fox news viewer
    I’m continually in awe at how somebody can still insist climate change is a hoax in 2023 💀 Like damn you haven’t even moved onto the downplaying stage you still think it’s outright not real?

    Yeah, considering you can pretty much feel the effects almost everywhere on the planet these days, it’s an absurd position lmao.

    Even if I knew nothing about climate change, I would have noticed the stark differences in summers and winters. Even if you weren’t paying attention at all, you were bound to notice something. Sometimes it has been too drastic, and too unprecedented, to just ignore.

    Meteorologists get the weather wrong all the time. All the time.
    When did we start talking about the weather?
    Extrapolate what I said into whatever you’ve been told about weather patterns and climate change.
    This is some ignorant shit right here.
    This is what happens when you drop out of school.
    I mean, if anything meteorologists being bad at predicting weather patternsnisnproof of climate change fucking up standard weather patterns.
    That’s not how logic works son.
    Climate change is a hoax. It’s ridiculous to think we can destroy mother nature when we did not create the climate system and certainly have no control over it. It’s really simple. The earth has been alive longer than we have been in existence.
    And nowhere in your sentence is a real argument. Your just saying, all of this was here long before us, so its impossible for us to destroy it. An old tree was there long before me. It’s still possible for me to destroy it.
    I think there are scientists way knowledgable than you and me combined on matters climate change that think it’s not real but am not hear to persuade you into any line of thinking. Believe whatever you want to believe.
    You realize that virtually all climate scientists agree climate change is real and human caused? NASA says so. Either you’re a troll or not paying attention.
    Do scientists agree on climate change? – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

    Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.

    Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
    You clearly haven’t done enough research on the topic.
    You’re either a troll or you’ve had your brain freshly Zambonied, either way you’re not worth the effort to debate.
    Cool. You aren’t worth my time either.
    Your -1500 comment points tell the story of who isn’t worth time talking to.
    You seem obsessed with my comments.
    It’s the multiple reports.
    Stay in school kids or your brain becomes swiss cheese as seen above.
    I didn’t create your arm, and I don’t control it, but I can absolutely break it.
    I love simple answers to solutions too but this is a terrible example. Besides if my arm breaks today, it will revive itself back to form after a few months.

    Climate change/action is a hoax.

    This right here. This is why the mods allow misinformation.

    Good thing we are not on Reddit.

    reddit also welcomes misinformation.

    I’ll point out that you didn’t object when I correctly identified your misinformation as such.

    No they don’t.

    And, it’s not misinformation if it’s true that climate change/action esp the action part is a big lie and a hoax.

    No they don’t.

    Yes, it’s practically all reddit is for anymore.

    And, it’s not misinformation if it’s true that climate change/action esp the action part is a big lie and a hoax.

    And since it’s false, you’re spreading misinformation.

    Nope. I just haven’t bought the lie. You can call that whatever you want to call it. But that’s it.

    I just haven’t bought the lie.

    Whether you buy the lies you’re spreading doesn’t matter. You’re still spreading them.

    Thank God for the power of free speech and the internet.
    You’re certainly free to continue lying.
    There is no “free speech and the internet” as free speech is a right granted by select governments. What you are saying isn’t free speech, it’s actually showing a lack of education and possibly a mental health issue or brain damage.
    Provide proof to back up your point.
    Please explain how we can add colossal amounts of CO2 and methane to the atmosphere but it has no effect. Are CO2 and methane chemically inert?
    You may think you sound smart but I promise you, you haven’t even began to scratch the surface with that explanation.
    I don’t think I sound smart, I would like an explanation please.
    We are all waiting on your explanation. Lack of doing so shows your lack of education and you should admit you are wrong.

    Climate Change is a hoax

    Yeah, just like basically a month of record high temperatures and more people dying of heat incidents than ever.

    A loan is a loan

    The bigger issue is the predatory nature of these loans and exhorbidant and exploitive interest rates.

    Whataboutism

    What does that have to do with the original point 3?

    Let LGBTQ vote how they want.

    Until they aren’t allowed to vote or exist right?

    Yeah, just like basically a month of record high temperatures and more people dying of heat incidents than ever.

    Nothing new. We have had heat waves way before the word 'climate change’s was even coined.

    The bigger issue is the predatory nature of these loans and exhorbidant and exploitive interest rates.

    Cancelling student loans doesn’t fix this issue.

    What does that have to do with the original point 3?

    Google the meaning of the word.

    Until they aren’t allowed to vote or exist right?

    This is nonsensical and you know it.