my family member in his early 60s was the FIRST to comment on how fucking old they both are tonight. same guy who thinks 35 is too young for office.
i think middle aged people prefer middle aged people, young-old people prefer young-old people, but not many people root for more whole ass 80 year olds
how old does this person think 50 is? you get your first grey hair and root for primordial beings as your overlords?
i mean, it's not that hard to believe he lost largely because most USians are propagandized zionists (especially older people, who vote by far the most in local elections). advertising money doesn't guarantee anything unless you have something definingly different from your opponent (or no one knows them), and the election was very publicized in being seen as for or against israel. wrote this in another comment:
bowman already had a huge incumbent advantage and way more name recognition than most reps, so there's no reason to believe people seeing the other guy's ads more is the reason he lost (even if it certainly didnt help). if it were that easy, mike bloomberg would be president and all the other cases where interest groups spent ungodly amounts to unseat a progressive would've generally worked
my mom's friend was coping pretty hard
her husband was going "poor joe, he means well but he's gotten so old, he was so much better at the state of the union :(" and she starts raising her voice at him, "his voice is just coarse and he has a stutter! he's not perfect but everything he's saying is the TRUTH, you just aren't LISTENING to him!!"
12 to 25 in 2016
well that's measuring mostly millennials and zillennials. i'm middle-gen-z and just turned 12 that year. i also imagine we start later than other gens, most people i know didn't start til 17-19
i was looking at this, which admittedly didn't track data before 1988, but it shows a pretty big increase from 2016-2021 (i figure it's even higher in the last three years). also shows daily usage nearly doubled over ten years:
Marijuana and hallucinogen use among young adults reached all-time high in 2021
also, having it occasionally isn't the same as regularly using it and preferring it over alcohol. i know a lot of boomer hippie types were stoners, but is there any evidence they actually used weed more than us? maybe they WERE getting constantly crossfaded on everything, idk, but in college today weed's often the main social/hangout substance, not just something you do on a hike or a concert now and then
gen z uses most drugs less, but takes more weed/shrooms than any other gen. theres a study that 70% of us prefer weed over alcohol, which imo is a good thing
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with how publicized this primary was in terms of israel i think zionism was the losing factor here. the majority of americans (especially older ones who vote more) are indoctrinated zionists.
bowman already had a huge incumbent advantage and way more name recognition than most reps, so there's no reason to believe seeing the other guy's ads more is the reason he lost (even if it certainly didnt help). if it were that easy, mike bloomberg would be president and all the other cases where interest groups spent ungodly amounts to unseat a progressive would've generally worked
in elections between nobodies then yeah, a lot of people literally just vote for whoever's name they hear more
yup, went to r/borderporn (not a redditor just remember that one!) and searched "bridge", found tons of examples, especially in the schengen zone
"El puente de El Marco" bridge connecting Spain and Portugal:
tiny footbridge connecting Latvia and Estonia in Valga/Valka:
comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views ... any super low-hanging fruit doesn't belong on this site, period
isn't this like 50% of the site taglines?
i mean i get banning unoriginal stupid shit or reddit argument chains. but a ton of comments from nobodies are genuinely very funny and start a lot of memes, so this doesn't really make sense.
akshually sweetey, they get a choice between military service and forced, unpaid labor 
(i am not joking)
most british oldheads support it, but young people are understandably pretty pissed, seeing it's unpaid labor that takes time and energy from work/school they need to survive in a failing economy. (community service will require one weekend per month for a full year)
Labour figures also privately accused the Tories of making 18-year-olds fix the problems the government had created, by boosting numbers in the military, helping the NHS and repairing infrastructure.
for anyone missing context: the UK had a "national service" program in the early 60's, where all 18 year olds had to choose between military service and local community service (with most choosing the latter)
the conservative party's plan is to bring this program back for all genders, and this is how they're considering enforcing it
aight let me break it down: the UK had a "national service" program in the 60's, where all 18 year olds were required to choose between military service and community service (with the large majority choosing the latter)
the conservative party's plan is to bring this back and require it for 18 year olds of all genders, and this headline is how they're considering enforcing it. basically, most HS graduates will have to spend 24 days out of a year doing local volunteer work.
Labour figures also privately accused the Tories of making 18-year-olds fix the problems the government had created, by boosting numbers in the military, helping the NHS and repairing infrastructure.
conservative party never gave a second fuck about that lmao they get like 95% of their votes from 35+
Back in 1982, a whopping 43% of fathers admitted they’d never changed a diaper. In recent years, that number went down to about 3%
well damn
he wasn't even that old, might've actually been early gen x but idk
kinda hope the bastard felt old tho. he was a full zionist chud who constantly went on about how communism killed a gazillion people or how "hitler was a socialist". econ classes, never again
lol i thought they would've caught up by now, but a few months ago my econ 101 professor complained about young people's work ethic and called us all "millennials" like three different times. someone said we're gen z and he just went "same thing"
Owens and her boss had been publicly beefing for months over the Israel-Hamas war, with Shapiro at one point daring her to quit.
> The feud began last November when Owens tweeted that “no government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide.” Soon after, Shapiro publicly called Owens’ behavior “disgraceful”
Spoiler: she doesn't actually care about Palestinians, she's just anti-semitic.
> Owens posted to X a series of Bible verses suggesting “you cannot serve both God and money.” That pointed remark was viewed by many as a not-so-subtle use of the antisemitic “dual loyalty” trope against Shapiro, who responded: “Candace, if you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit.” Owens hit back that her boss was “utterly out of line” and “acting unprofessional and emotionally unhinged for weeks now.”
btw, pretty sure he couldn't fire her because the CEO wouldn't let him
> Owens later liked a social-media post asking conservative rabbi Shmuley Boteach whether he is “drunk on Christian blood again” [and] defended Kanye West's remarks.
> [She previously suggested] that 'secret Jewish gangs' control and perpetrate 'horrific acts' against people in Hollywood
> Hunger Games is about revolutionary anti-imperial class struggle
> George Lucas said the Empire is inspired by America and the Rebels by the Viet Minh
> The Matrix was created by a trans woman and at least partly an allegory for being trans
> Divergent is shitty lib fanfiction but very obviously anti-conservative
> Alan Moore was a communist or anarchist
wow these movies are just like January 6th when we resisted communism by smearing our shit on the capitol walls!! !so-true !biaoqing-copium
Heard My Chemical Romance was created after witnessing 9/11, so I looked up the band's political beliefs and came across this thread about Frank Iero
> he's literally so confusing. remember a few years ago when he had a 'don't tread on me flag' on his basement wall? he also was totally voting for bernie sanders. ... when blm movement got its biggest attention in 2020 he published some shitty depoliticizing note. its one of the worst notes i've read back then
> > He's definitely not a right winger. Maybe moderate leftist. Not everyone needs to fit into a neat little box.
> > He is an "Italian American" style leftist from NJ. Definitely socially progressive and left of center on social issues, but still sees value in some traditions. It makes sense if you know anyone from New Jersey
I hate liberals I hate liberals I hate liberals I hate liberals I hate liberals
The 25-year-old actor was among 30 demonstrators taken into custody during Joe Biden’s appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, organisers confirmed
https://www.instagram.com/p/C31D99SOJuq/?utm_source=ig_embed&img_index=1
> Hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews and allies just took over NBC’s famed 30 Rockefeller Center headquarters in NYC to disrupt President Biden’s appearance on @LateNightSeth
Trump later claimed he was intentionally mixing them up key background Biden has had a series of physical and verbal slip-ups throughout his presidency, which critics ...
> Biden, 81, recalled a 2021 conversation with world leaders regarding the Jan. 6 riots:
> “And then Helmut Kohl turned to me and said, ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the London Times and learned that 1,000 people had broken down the doors of the British parliament, killed some bobbies on the way in, to deny the prime minister to take office?"
> Kohl served as Germany’s chancellor from 1982 to 1998 and died in 2017. Merkel was the country’s leader at the time of Biden’s conversation.
(He made this same mistake twice in the same meeting)
> Earlier this week, Biden confused French President Emmanuel Macron with late President François Mitterrand—who led the country from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996
> Biden claimed he declared “America is back” in 2021, and “Mitterrand from Germany — I mean France — looked at me and said, ‘How long you back for?’”
There's certainly a larger anti-zionist crowd on the app, but western tiktok is 100% still run by neoliberal ghouls
I've reported blatantly fascist stuff on the platform before; a comment saying race mixing is immoral, a comment saying desegregation ruined America, a video saying Gaza should be turned into a parking lot, and I've ALWAYS ended up getting the "we've reviewed your report and found no violation" thing. Exact same shit I've gotten with Instagram, Reddit, and pre-Musk Twitter
Meanwhile today I commented this at a The Strokes fan with an Israeli flag in their name, and fully ratio'd them before getting this notification a few hours later:
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan reports.
Not sure what to make of this. TikTokers' first anti-imperialist "theory" being from a far-right anticommunist religious zealot with valid criticisms but no real analysis and a bit of "Jews control everything" seems perfect for the mainstream media to weaponize. On the other hand, people are realizing America are the bad guys and terrorists don't hate us for our freedom, and will hopefully learn more, far better stuff?
Tiktok took the videos down but I screenshot these two comments lmfao: !joker-laden !
Edit:
CNN article (the thing I linked in the post was a video)
FOX News, NBC, New York Times, Forbes, Washington Post, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, CBS, Reuters, TIME Magazine, The Hill, etc. all reported on it in the past few hours. You got headlines like "Bin Laden's Letter to US Stuns Young Americans: 'He Was Right'"
In a letter first shared with NBC News, progressive leaders said the administration's position on Gaza "risks millions of young voters staying home or voting third party."
> The leaders of progressive groups focused on mobilizing young voters are warning President Joe Biden that his handling of the war in Gaza could depress turnout in a demographic that’s already notoriously difficult to energize on Election Day.
> "We write to you to issue a very stark and unmistakable warning: you and your Administration’s stance on Gaza risks millions of young voters staying home or voting third party next year.
> “We mobilized the record youth turnout in 2020 that pushed your ticket over the finish line... Many of us worked to provide the critical source of support for Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections that prevented the Red Wave.
> "Young people are a cornerstone of a winning Democratic coalition, and the vast majority of young people in this country are rightfully horrified by the atrocities committed with our tax dollars, with your support, and our nation’s military backing.
> “We did not spend hours upon hours knocking doors and making calls to turn out the vote so that you could support indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and violations of international law. Your legacy hangs in the balance.”
> Signers include the heads of groups like March for Our Lives, United We Dream, Gen Z for Change, and the Sunrise Movement.
> A New York Times-Siena College poll of five swing states found that among voters under 30, who lean heavily Democratic, just 5% “strongly approve” of how Biden is doing his job and 25% “somewhat approve.”
Literally has a lower approval rating with the most Democratic generation than the most Republican generation. Zero chance his ass is getting reelected
> Your first mistake was commenting or even being part of "World Politics." It's just full of clueless yanks and Israeli sympathisers.
a few months ago I was dating a girl. my cat loved her, she purred a lot when I had her over.
and I'm bi, so now I'm seeing a guy. first time I bring this dude over, she seems chill with him at first... until we start making out.
we're sitting, facing each other on my bed, and a few seconds into kissing my cat jumps on the bed and BITES HIS TOE. he laughs it off but it kinda ruined the mood so we just played some videogames and flirted. a couple days ago, I try bringing him over again: my cat GROWLS at him when he pets her. we tried kissing again and she attempts the same shit of attacking him. I shooed her away and she just stared at us in the corner all upset (I'm in a studio apartment)
for the most part she's so well-behaved around anyone else. why is my cat cock blocking me?? I'm probably gonna have to wait til our semester starts and I can come over to his dorm
As states across the country move to make sure students are well fed, Republicans have announced their intention to fight back.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230622233542/https://newrepublic.com/post/173668/republicans-declare-banning-universal-free-school-meals-2024-priority
