• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Not conservative Millenials/Z. Apparently.

    Judging by slices I see on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter, they are in alternate reality where all this is hysteria. The plan is to settle down with a tradwife and smile into their Rumble podcasts, I guess?

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      Judging by slices I see on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter, they are in alternate reality where all this is hysteria.

      It is hysteria. The outcry is fully unreflective of social conditions, at least within the United States. Go back to the 1980s, when all the millennials were being born, and describe the modern era - historic low crime, a superabundance of cheap consumer goods, massive housing surpluses, cheap and inexhaustible energy, no nuclear wars. We’re not living with acid rain or radioactive wastelands or Soylent Green levels of food shortages. The scariest thing about AI is that it sucks.

      Imagine how many people wouldn’t have had kids 40 years ago knowing the modern state of America.

      So much of this shit really is just terminally online doomerism. It’s not material.

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        21 minutes ago

        There’s an entire homeless camp near me that popped up in a month and it’s freezing. You should say it to them.