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MastMirrah@juglugs And gas.
Tyler McGee@juglugs Lead really did a number on that generation didn’t it?
Veirling | #MMIWG #LandBack 
@ty_406 @juglugs sure.
https://nationalpartnership.org/report/clean-water-case-study-flint/#:~:text=The%20water%20poisoning%20in%20Flint,the%20Flint%20River%20in%202014.
https://nationalpartnership.org/report/clean-water-case-study-flint/#:~:text=The%20water%20poisoning%20in%20Flint,the%20Flint%20River%20in%202014.
Lead Poisoning in Flint, Michigan | National Partnership for Women & Families
The water poisoning in Flint caused undeniable harm to residents’ reproductive health. Analyzing health records from 2008 to 2015, researchers found that fertility rates in Flint dropped by 12 percent and fetal deaths rose by 58 percent
RadicalEcologist
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Ehproque has moved@juglugs they also took away chances of owning their home and ever retiring for most. What are we supposed to want to preserve?
Claude Gohier@juglugs Seriously, I think there never was a link between age and conservatism.
It was a link between wealth and conservatism, and younger generations aren't getting wealthier.
Bob Thomson@claudegohier @juglugs sounds spot on to me.
Ronathon Livingston Seagull@claudegohier @juglugs don't forget that huge swaths of gay people, who would have been marginalized had they lived, were razed by HIV in the 80s; those people didn't get older.
Hobson Lane@claudegohier @juglugs Ding, ding. You are so right. It was always about class status.
No Gods , no Masters! RESIST
Kudra 
@claudegohier @juglugs plus the young ones that are going to inherit wealth are likely going to be waiting so long that the beachfront properties will be underwater and only sellable to aquaman. Who probably can't afford a lot of dollarydoos.
Clive ThompsonYeah, this is bang on
Mia The Puppy (she/her)@juglugs isn’t the current trend that young men and boys are becoming more conservative than previous generations, while young women and girls are becoming increasingly more progressive than previously?
Texty the Bard@mia_tortilla @juglugs White men and boys, yes.
Other demographic categories don't often get noted in the generational comparisons. Younger generations are less white, less Christian, less straight and more educated than older ones. And since the GOP has decided that the only people who matter are cishet white Christians, preferably men, that means their share of the electorate is shrinking. If they don't win this year, they're all but irrelevant.
Aaron@textualdeviance @mia_tortilla @juglugs One last big push to keep Donald Dump out of office so he can't hijack the whole system on their behalf before they fade into irrelevance.
Ted Lemon@mia_tortilla @juglugs Thats the scare headline, yes. Because it’s interesting, and that drives ad impressions. Doesn’t matter if it’s true, or to what extent.
Estarriol, Terrorist Dragon@juglugs and lead from petrol, not breathing the fumes either.
Dan Neuman 🇨🇦@Thebratdragon @juglugs Especially at small rural airports where leaded fuel is still used.
Billy Watt@juglugs Gen X aren't either
MisscrystallynYeah, but the Invisible Generation (GenX) gets left out of everything.
draNgNon@misscrystallyn @BenartyComputer @juglugs
I came here to say these two things ^^^^
Token Sane Person@juglugs Same thing is happening in the UK.
"*At the last election, the age at which voters became more likely to support the Conservatives than Labour was 45. Our data show that at the next one this crossover age will be almost 70.*"
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/02/28/how-to-build-a-british-voter
"*At the last election, the age at which voters became more likely to support the Conservatives than Labour was 45. Our data show that at the next one this crossover age will be almost 70.*"
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/02/28/how-to-build-a-british-voter
@tokensane @juglugs I'm not British, but considering the amount of cultural crossover between English-speaking nations, I'm going to claim this as good news here, as well. (I really need some good news.)
Wolf_Baginski@juglugs
I wonder if the Public Schools of England, the fascist YMCA of our ruling class, ever get tested for lead residues.
I wonder if the Public Schools of England, the fascist YMCA of our ruling class, ever get tested for lead residues.
Kenny Kravitz@juglugs Breaking the link between getting older and getting richer can't have helped, either.
pmars@kennykravitz @juglugs If only the conservative parties would realize this link and start trying to make more people rich to get more voters.
@hysteretic @kennykravitz @juglugs It would defeat the purpose, which is to maintain a feeling of superiority. The fewer, the merrier.
@hosford42 @kennykravitz @juglugs They still want to be elected. So at least for countries where the popular vote matters, they might want to improve the wealth of as many people as they can.
@hysteretic @kennykravitz @juglugs Instead they are busy trying to make the popular vote cease to matter.
kaffando@juglugs
That gave me an actual laugh out loud. Thanks!
That gave me an actual laugh out loud. Thanks!
J.H.Noyes@juglugs
I'd trade lead exposure over covid any day. Heck, I'd trade HIV for covid. Lead and HIV are so much better for you than even a mild Covid infection.
@CassandraZeroCovid
I'd trade lead exposure over covid any day. Heck, I'd trade HIV for covid. Lead and HIV are so much better for you than even a mild Covid infection.
@CassandraZeroCovid
I'm early GenX and I have already matured to a few miles to the left of Jesus.
Anarchocommunist/communitarian with a side of #landback and #reparations and #AbolishBillionaires.
Do not give me the One Ring, kids.
Qole@misscrystallyn @juglugs
A strong case can be made that Jesus was socialist, communitarian and pro-reparations, and a non-violent anarchist. He was unequivocally #AbolishBillionaires
A strong case can be made that Jesus was socialist, communitarian and pro-reparations, and a non-violent anarchist. He was unequivocally #AbolishBillionaires
J. David EisenbergHeadline from National Review: “The Link between Age and Conservatism is Breaking”
Comment from francis wolf: “because they took away the lead paint”
66gardeners@juglugs
That would also explain why democrats are getting more of the colledge-educated vote; people with low brain capacity are not usually college educated.
That would also explain why democrats are getting more of the colledge-educated vote; people with low brain capacity are not usually college educated.
arceuthobium@juglugs Covid is killing antivaxers faster than poverty is killing poors.
selje 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇮🇪@juglugs
Or the lead water pipes.
Or the lead water pipes.
Joe ❌👑@juglugs I think that for boomers, especially older boomers who were worried about being drafted and forced to go to Vietnam, many were protesting and attached to the New Left only so long as that was a threat. Others were sincere and stayed left, but many drifted into "I've got mine" because their youthful leftism was just personal self interest. In more normal circumstances I think people form their politics at a young age and it sticks. Take older white GenX people, they vote to the right of boomers. Why? Because so many of them were Reagan Youth.
@juglugs @cstross
This study from 2020 says political views are generally ("remarkably") stable, but if they do shift, they're more likely to shift right. 😢 Interestingly, I have gone the other way, becoming more progressive as I have gotten wrinkles.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706889
This study from 2020 says political views are generally ("remarkably") stable, but if they do shift, they're more likely to shift right. 😢 Interestingly, I have gone the other way, becoming more progressive as I have gotten wrinkles.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706889
Site Reliability Enby🏳️⚧️🏁🔦📈🐺👗😷@juglugs That and "massive, unprecedented wealth hoarding by boomers and early X makes millennials and Z start looking up guillotine design due to being shut out of the housing market"
Owen Nelson@juglugs this is why they are fighting to keep the lead water pipes
@juglugs good.
cameronbosch 
@juglugs Or... Maybe they realize the GQP scam unlike previous generations. Maybe they realize the "do onto others as you would do onto youself" rule should apply in both directions. Maybe they do want people to have basic rights like food instead of being denied them. I could keep going on, but I think you get the point.
Charlotte Joanne@juglugs @KraftTea The image shows a screenshot of a tweet by a user named "francis wolf" with the handle @francisxwolf. The tweet reads "because they took away the lead paint". Below the tweet is a screenshot of an article headline from NATIONAL REVIEW that reads:
POLITICS & POLICY
The Link between Age and Conservatism Is Breaking
By MICHAEL BRENDAN DOUGHERTY… (1/2)
The subheading of the article states "Millennials and Gen Z are not becoming more conservative as they age, as generations before them did. Why not?" (2/2)