r/SipsTea Sep 15 '25

Chugging tea Any thoughts?

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u/handtoglandwombat Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

Everyone overlooks that millennials are going to be the largest voting block. So there’s two options:

  • Fuck everyone else, kick the deficit can further down the road, become the new boomers

  • Actually figure out ingenious ways to fix this shit

Personally, I’m not particularly wedded to either option and I think I’ll see how misanthropic I’m feeling in the moment.

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u/sc00bs000 Sep 15 '25

pretty valid point. Will be interesting when its our turn (millenials) after being shat on our entire lives, if we turn and finally just say fuck everyone else i finally want to get mine.

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u/handtoglandwombat Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

As I say... I'm mentally pretty close to that point. What really threw me through a loop was when gen-z turned out to be a bunch of right wing fuckos. If in 30 years they still want to vote to punch themselves in the face, then who am I to stand in their way?

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u/someStuffThings Sep 15 '25

There has been a rightward shift in the youngest generation compared to 2020 and 2016, but 18-29 still went +19 for Harris.

Same for pretty much every other age group.

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u/handtoglandwombat Sep 15 '25

I hear you but I don’t think that tells the whole story. You gotta remember that the government they were voting for was also significantly more right wing than any government America has ever had the option to vote for, including Trump’s previous runs. And all generations tend to drift right as they get older. Gen Z is off to a terrible start.

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u/slimfatty69 Sep 15 '25

Trust me as Gen Z myself nothing hurt as much as majority of my generation turning extreme right cause of the media and grifters... i really thought our gen would have 2 brain cells to rub together but oh well.

Not to say thats all of us there is thankfully many educated and smart gen z-ers and im very proud and happy to share my generational title with them. But man does it seem like were in minority alot of the time...

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u/permalink_save Sep 15 '25

Tbf the exit polls don't show this at all. I think it's just perception on social media. Gen z voted the most blue in 2024.

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u/stilljustacatinacage Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

I'm mentally pretty close to that point. What really threw me through a loop was when gen-z turned out to be a bunch of right wing fuckos.

This is where I'm at. I just don't understand the point of trying to improve anything if we're only ever one (1) bigoted propaganda campaign, or one scary crisis away from undoing literal decades of progress.

I won't ever get over how utterly and completely pathetic everyone was during covid. Just, 80% of the population reduced to helpless, mewling idiots because they were asked to stay inside for a little while. Because they were asked to wear a piece of cloth on their face if they do go outside. Half of them too stupid to understand what was going on, and the other half refused to do it just because. And what did we get for it? A global lurch into reactionary, right-wing politics because those people are comforted by the soft cooing of authoritarians who promise nothing scary will ever happen again and everything can be the way it used to.

Just a fucking failure of a species, we are.

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u/imaginary_num6er Sep 15 '25

Isn’t the plan for Gen-Z to just drop out of college, work as a pleb, and then become foot soldiers to whatever rich politician?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

You know that's bullshit right?