Dale Ribeiro
Dr. Lucky Tran 
Shout out millennials for being the generation that is not veering right as they age.
Gemini6Ice@luckytran zoomer erasure!
Alyssa Voronin@gemini6ice @luckytran Zoomers have only been voting for a few years. It'd be hard to establish a trend with only part of the cohort and maybe two elections under their collective belt.
Misuse Case@TranshumanBlues @gemini6ice @luckytran Zoomers who voted in the recent election seemed rather attracted to fascism
Eunakria@MisuseCase @TranshumanBlues @gemini6ice @luckytran Gen Z speaking. this is the first election that many of us are voting in (including myself!) and many of us were too young to even have strong feelings about the first Trump presidency.
I don't blame anyone for not being tremendously politically involved (I wasn't in 16 nor 20!) because many of us have bigger concerns and generally trust that no matter who our leaders are, ... (1/)
@MisuseCase @TranshumanBlues @gemini6ice @luckytran ...they'll at least be sane and level-headed individuals. Trump challenged that assumption, and fed into many of the feelings of discontent that first-time voters w/o a fear of the fragility of democracy had.
and once you make up your mind, one way or the other, it's hard to change. any evidence the other way, even if it is totally impartial, feels like an attack on your character. (2/)
@Eunakria @TranshumanBlues @gemini6ice @luckytran I know itβs definitely not all Gen Z or even a majority of Gen Z, but quite a lot of Gen Z men.
Although like, itβs just been quite a lot of men in general.
Anarcho the Regicidal Maniac@luckytran too many "once in a lifetime" recessions for any of us to own any property. Not many of us were able to get to the essential "got mine" part of life in order to become complacent and more right leaning
John@ExperimentV @luckytran I don't question your experience, but that's exactly what the Trump voters are saying too. "Taxes, inflation, economy" etc.
@mrkeen @luckytran I didn't talk about my experience. Trump voters simply do not understand "taxes, inflation, economy, etc." so I don't know what you're trying to insinuate here by comparing me to them.
LR@ExperimentV @mrkeen @luckytran nobody's insinuating anything. what john meant was that your argument is not the distinguishing factor, just like dem and rep voters both drink water. it must be something else.
@lritter @mrkeen @luckytran I disagree. The determining factor was exactly what I laid out in my previous post. If you want liberals to become more right wing, who cares about their property, and keeping "riff raff" away from their safe neighborhoods, then they will need property to take care of in the first place, which I have just pointed out, not many millennials have.
blanΒ©k.@ExperimentV
Came here to say this. I'd be a lot happier with the establishment if it had literally ever benefitted me.
@luckytran
Came here to say this. I'd be a lot happier with the establishment if it had literally ever benefitted me.
@luckytran
starkraving666@luckytran FUCK YEAH!
Class consciousness will do that
cobweb 2026 edition@luckytran when facebook started to get really big is when I realized that X have become Jr Boomers. All my old school friends took a hard right turn
The Great Llama 
@cobweb @luckytran
More and more, I've come to the conclusion that Gen X doesn't have a solid identity. Half are basically young boomers and the other half are just millennials whose joints hurt more.
I know plenty who have taken the right turn, but most of my oldest friends keep going further left as the world fractures around us.
goedelchen@TheGreatLlama @cobweb @luckytran as a young boomer: Just search for " the forgotten generation".
Btw.:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxSkOcgcKdx16m_nxyJt-h_nvuy3RjlAZG?si=Ut-g_ksN43COy9dR
@goedelchen @cobweb @luckytran
A while back, someone on here (it may have been @babe, but I can't remember for sure) did a survey; something like, "which is the most ignored generation?" There was no category for Gen X. Pretty good joke.
A while back, someone on here (it may have been @babe, but I can't remember for sure) did a survey; something like, "which is the most ignored generation?" There was no category for Gen X. Pretty good joke.
Earthshine --> moved@luckytran we're fucked and we know it
Police State UK@luckytran I'd be interested to see this broken down more... to decade of birth maybe. I suspect it would just be an even closer correlation/smoother curve though π
Zeiros Lion@luckytran
We're doing our damnedest.
We're doing our damnedest.
Talcott@luckytran cool, tell them they need to show up to vote if they don't want the worst possible outcome because they're clearly missing a step
NosirrahSec π΄ββ οΈ guillotine enthusiast@luckytran We said, "fuck those people." and stuck with it, now into our 40s.
β¨pencilearsβ¨@luckytran it's because we have no money
Jay Mutzafi@luckytran what explains this?
refraction 
@Jay @luckytran probably a few things at play here, but wealth is likely a major factor. wealth predicts political attitudes to a substantial degree, as the wealthy want to preserve their wealth and see others as a threat to their wealth and privilege and wealth also increases life expectancy by a lot. Millennials had way less chances to accumulate wealth compared to previous generations.
Casper π»@luckytran not yetβ¦
Mark Burton
Kevin E. Walsh
WideEyedCurious πΊπΈ π πΊπ¦ & π¨π¦@whaleknives @markhburton @luckytran yes, although we are the smallest generation of the four. Still, Iβd like to punch a lot of my fellow Xers. π€¬
Cat Lady Kydia Music πΊπ¦@WideEyedCurious @whaleknives @markhburton @luckytran
Same. WTH I donβt get it.
Internet-Jakob
Hugo Slabbert β οΈ@luckytran it is extremely frustrating that the article basically ends with treating this like a problem to be solved ("how do we 'fix' this to make them become more conservative?"), and extremely depressing that the proposed "fix" is "pay them off by having them exchange their principles for security". Though i guess neither should be surprising given the source.
https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4
These people "turn more conservative with age" because they got ahead just enough to be a little bit comfortable, but still precarious enough that they still see things as a zero sum game, feel threatened by others, and pull up the ladder behind them.
We could as a society realize "hey, if people don't feel precarious all the time, we're all better off as a whole!"
Instead, these twerps decree "hmm...we don't have enough people right on the knife edge of 'comfortable but precarious' to preserve the status quo; let's give a few more people just enough of that 'comfort ladder' for them to start feeling threatened and pull up that baby ladder behind them".
XerΓΈ@luckytran those kids never lived through Reagan, both Bushes or a recession, but I reckon that the first ten years of the #MAGAmerikkka dictatorship will get them caught up.
I'm not seeing any good reason to continue using my US passport, so I'll be switching to my UK one. And because my mother is still a Jamaican citizen I can also apply for and receive a Jamaican passport.
Robert Wilson@luckytran pretty obvious, really, since they are up to their eyes in debt and can't afford a mortgage.
The first generation that will be worse off than the one before.
Chris Pirillo
draNgNon@luckytran I kinda feel that for genx in the US it kind of erases how a lot of left-leaning cohort died off in the 1980s
π¦ π΄ππππ π³πππ π§οΌπ¦£)@luckytran Apparently I am a millennial despite being born a quarter century to soon.
Benjohn@luckytran I'll use this as further evidence for my daughter that I'm a five year early millennial, and not gen x.
Cheryl G Kasson@luckytran
I am a boomer and not growing more conservative as I age. I can't speak for everyone in my generation, but the same is true of most of the boomers I know.
I am a boomer and not growing more conservative as I age. I can't speak for everyone in my generation, but the same is true of most of the boomers I know.
Maurice Milligan@luckytran Embarrassed (for myself and contemporaries) that Gen X seems to be giving in and following the arsehole curve with sudden enthusiasm. WTF happened there?
GG@luckytran Well, Iβm a boomer and I continue to go further and further left as I get older. π€·π»ββοΈπ€·π»ββοΈ
Log πͺ΅@luckytran Elder Gen X are losing the plot, of course, but I'm just happy to see an infographic that acknowledges we exist.
FreediverX@luckytran
I think this is a function of how each successive generation has been increasingly fucked by neoliberalism.
I think this is a function of how each successive generation has been increasingly fucked by neoliberalism.
TransitBiker@luckytran as a Gen X person who has a Gen X significant other this explains why we have very few friends, I guess.
Potato Enthusiast π΅πΈ@luckytran I wonder how much this is influenced by left and right redefining themselves over the decades. the places gen x lands now would have been lefty policies twenty years ago.
Lazarou Monkey Terror πππ@luckytran (sigh), we've done our bit and all we ever get is fucking grief for it. Some of us are in our 40s now and still being infantilised by people who voted for a bigot who fellated a microphone stand.
I know it's 'not all Olders' and by the very nature of Mastodon most of those good ones are right here, but folks, ......your generational cohorts can suck it I'm afraid.
Mike Macgirvin π₯οΈI guess I'm not typical. A boomer that started swinging to the right around age 40. Then I spent a number of years in the belly of the capitalist beast and started smoking the imaginary money -- and witnessed first hand the consequences. Around y2k I was asked to lay off half my team because we failed to meet numbers, but couldn't tell them until the SWAT team was in place. This flipped a switch in my brain. Now I'm pushing 70 and much further to the left than most people here. We need to remove the oligarchs and take back our planet; completely reject their NLP brain-washing (masquerading as brand and ego loyalty), or there is no future for any of us of our offspring.
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@luckytran People don't turn more conservative with age, they turn more conservative with growing wealth.
Ghost π³οΈβπ@luckytran Could this effect be attributed to both major parties' platforms moving rightward, though? Typically politicians become more liberal over time as conservative positions get less popular, so the voters who don't change opinion appear to become more conservative. I wonder if that has something to do with it, but in reverse this time.
Lou Thomas@luckytran Reduced home ownership?
@luckytran I don't think you can draw any conclusions from this data, particularly the U.S. where incidentally young people by U.S. polling significantly switched to Trump. I think Ukraine and Gaza played a big part. The Democrats clearly were not doing anything to end either. The images we are seeing every day are distressing. Trump said he will end both, he won't, but Harris didn't make any such promises.
Ambient Sponge@luckytran As a gen x'er I'm disgusted to see where my generation is going on those π‘
Eugene Kim@luckytran I knew genX were just boomers in disguise
Taz the pika@luckytran You are welcome; now please stop calling us ΓΎat, it is infantilizing.
Hugo Mills@luckytran Happy to be bucking the trend for Gen X.