Generations are an op to divide the working class and sell AI generated T shirts ripped from data mined Facebook profiles that say shit like "Do NOT f*ck with forklift operators born in Idaho in August 1987 who own German Shepherds and drive a cardinal red 2005 Dodge Neon"

That said that post was weapons grade cringe and should 100% be mocked, I hope it was at least some kind of Democratic Party operative and not someone doing it pro bono but who knows.

If you want to have dreams and fantasies about a better world, I'm not sure why you would expect to find it on Reddit.

I think the pipeline of school->work alienation makes people stuck in their ways.

Also reddit is kind of a selection bias because no one cool uses reddit

Im a millenial who grew up w rush limbaugh propaganda and i became based as fuck, its all more complicated than that

Not trying to be a pick me ass millennial but holy shit the millennial generation has been a fucking appalling disappointment. So many terrified articles written by boomers when we were coming up in our early 20s about how much things were gonna get shaken up. Then seeing 95% of my cohort become clueless tepid shitlibs at absolute best who are constitutionally incapable of imagining even a slightly better world.

Anyway the idea that politics would naturally drift left with generational change was brutally murdered by first millennial presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his unbelievably crackertacular high high hopes dances.

The only piece of advice I would give younger people is don't listen to your elders, especially about politics. They are housebroken pieces of shit.

Well yeah did you think redditors would be the vanguard?
Boomers are a real thing because in a general sense they did well out of capitalism, at least in the sense of being upwardly mobile. They have a vested interest in protecting the status quo. And so they’ve fallen prey to all kinds of media propaganda because it ultimately serves their interests. And - again in a general sense - they have enormously greater wealth than other generations, which is just an objective/statistically provable fact. So analysis based around Boomers is not automatically bullshit.
There is no real difference in my experience (real world at least) between Millenials and gen z apart from small incidental cultural differences, which mostly just relate to gen z having become too online at an earlier age than Millenials did.
In so far as a lot of Millenials remain disappointingly radlib/ non-Marxist socialists, well it’s probably just an effect of being so close to the most materially successful generation that capitalism ever produced. They imagined their lives would be even better, and many of them are still wedded to the idea that we can turn back the clock to the old 60s style social democracy and save capitalism from itself.

It's the U.S. any morality or empathy that you can develop in your teens and college is quickly and decisively stripped away from you by the universalized and all-pervasive corporate culture. People mistake it as a generational thing, and while some aspects are, contempt for the kids is consistent.

Every generation thinks they'll be so much different. They aren't.

Millennials are killing fantasies of empathetic and moral cultures.

Seriously, boomers were racist Reaganites at the same age. It is an objective measurable fact that boomers voted for and still support a lot of destructive shit and we're all living with it and trying to figure out how to get out of the hole. We have a genuinely more empathetic and moral culture right now. No, it's not good enough, but don't give up hope that it won't continue getting better. No generation is free of assholes and every generation has empathetic and tolerant people.

What's the matter with kids today is a sentiment that has been posted about and whined about for as far back as humanity has written records. It's not different just because we do it on phones

People on Reddit talking to people on Reddit is the worst.

Generations will always go "those darn kids"

It is literally unavoidable

I don't know that a single vector exists for someone developing shit/good politics in the US, but there is definitely some kind of trend where, as people age and [some] "buy in" to get the comforts and protections that buffer us from the grinding gears of capital, it seems like the will to radicalism tempers and/or withers into an aesthetic.

the people my age are mostly assholes. I was slow to the table and as a result, most of my cohort are 7-12 years younger than me.

there was a time we were all pissed at the corruption and wanted to live with compassion, integrity and authenticity, and I was the old head who was like "yeah, the olds have lost the plot." now little by little, people have gotten bought off, b'treated, mortgaged, HELOC'd, small business tyrants, new cars, conspicuous consumption, and repeating the lies of the meritocratic myth making to justify their rise above.

not everybody, but many. I prefer to be affable over insufferable (the 69th form of liberalism), so I hold my tongue. but it's lame to witness the shift.

I take comfort in the people I do know who pop up in every age group and keep to the same values of anti capitalism, anti imperialism, and universal human rights. we're out there and we look like anyone, though we're rarely in charge of anything lol.

Tale as old as time

Song as old as rhyme

"No, Mr. Simpson, nobody can escape boomerization".

Well, on the one hand, at least millennials tried to channel their politics into political movements instead of things like music subcultures (Because saying Maggie three times definitely made neoliberalism go away in Britain). Of course, it could just be that way because politics has replaced music subcultures for some people, myself included.

On the other hand though, millennials just ended up recapitulating and losing many of the same battles the Silents and Boomers fought during the New Left era without trying to learn from the failings of those movements. Even the turn towards foreign policy with "multipolarity" on everyone's tongue as a political panacea reflects a inability to affect politics at home that the Boomers faced in their own time.

the genx sub on reddit is boomer training ground

First as tragedy, second as farce.

Please don’t refer to Millenials as old, that’s a slur and for some it can cause extreme existential distress

Yeah, it sucks. I'm trying to not turn in to that but it turns out that not being a Boomer is a whole as skill set and world-view revision and isn't just something that comes naturally. "Kids these days" are kids these days because they have a fundamentally different life experience, different knowledges, different experiances than my decrepit ass and I forget that and start ranting very easily.