Inspired by a post I saw on AskReddit (which has now been removed). What is something you believe is growing because of young people?
The consensus in the West that Israel is an unapologetic fascist ethno-state prosecuting a genocide against Palestinians
Hey, now. You almost forgot to include the Lebanese people in that list.
They haven’t really done anything comparable to the Lebanese, but there is all kinds of places in the Middle East they covet.
Only because they haven’t had as much time and because Iran (a major ally of Lebanon) is much more capable of fighting back. The Israeli government officials have said similarly genocidal language as they have been saying about Palestinians.
Iran is an ally of Hezbollah, which is actually in competition with the (other?) Lebanese state. Iran’s also pretty tight with Palestinian Hamas.
Yeah, that’s true. Israel was specifically talking about Hezbollah when they said all of those things, but they are absolutely still massacring civilians, regardless of their ties to Hezbollah, as they are trying to seize land.
Iran does monetarilly support Hamas from what I understand, but they did not help militarilly defend either Hamas or Palestinians in Gaza when they were being massacred. It was only after Israel and the US attacked Iran directly that second time did Iran get involved militarilly.
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Not just young people, but they help
Maybe not directly related to young age, but incompetence in problem solving is growing. This could be COVID era fallout.
My kid is a teacher and the newer generation of kids can’t do anything by themselves without explicit direction. They dont know how to help themselves. They have no life learned skill or curiosity, as they possible just were fed screen time as a babysitter.
From what I understand, the kids who can figure things out, they read well, they can problem solve, they’re doing it really well. But the kids that my generation raised on iPads, didn’t work with them, didn’t let them go outside and play, didn’t let them fail, they really really can’t do anything.
It’s not that this generation is ALL fucked. It’s that the gap between the “smart” kids and the kids who got screwed is wider than usual. A lot of these kids are functionally illiterate. If they’re reading a paragraph and come across a word they don’t know, not only can they not figure out how to pronounce it but, they have no idea how to use context clues to figure out what it even means.
My 17 year old niece saw idiocracy for the first time recently. She compared it to half her high school. Some kid made fun of her recently for using the word “peculiar” because it’s apparently a big word no one has ever heard of before.
Social pressure to be dumb is a hell of a drug
Well certainly not Lemmy it seems 😝
I suggest that youth or young adults are a core contingent of pretty much every antifascist and climate movement. Those movements are growing as well.
Pubic and under arm hair. Body hair in general.
Mocktails and thrifting, in North America.
Huh, interesting. This is something i associate more with millennials
Mocktails are definitely zoomers, IIRC millennials drink more like gen X. If you’re in an area that had the OG hipsters, remember they were all guzzling craft beer.
Thrifting might go back further, but it’s definitely a trend that continues.
The dicks of people in the Epstein files who are still not prosecuted
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Conservative ideology.
Yeah, fascism.
Angst and hopelessness.
That’s not because of young people, that’s their reaction to the actions of the boomers.
It’s hard to imagine why they would remove it; I can’t think of a way that this topic would be objectionable to anyone.
You’d be surprised, matey.
matey
Needoh consumption
Baggy pants and chunky white sneakers. Ugh I’m so done with then. When can we get back to straight cut? I’m so sick of the skinny-baggy jeans back and forth
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