New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, once a figure of contention among leaders from both major political parties, has seen a remarkable surge in his political standing just six months into office.
The 34-year-old democratic socialist, a prominent figure on the progressive left, has garnered unexpected praise from both Donald Trump and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
He has also emerged as the face of the region’s sports renaissance. Now, days before New York’s primary elections,
Amazing what electing somebody who wasn’t born in the 1940s can do!
There are tons of young fascists.
Thanks to Beijing’s TikTok psyop theres a brand new generation of fascists from the USA to Germany.
The fascists are on Russia. They have literally been funding right wing extremism all across Europe and the world for decades, as a matter of stated intent and strategy and they’ve been caught doing it straight up.
Tiktok only exacerbates the issue, but make no mistake, Russia bears by far the biggest part of the blame.
Meh.
TikTok led to the largest shift rightwards among youth voters ever recorded in the USA.
It isn’t just conjecture it is measured.
are there? hard to say with none of them in charge of anything.
Seems to me when we get the boomers out of the way, a lot of problems also go away. ever notice how racism and sexism is much more prevalent and “normal” with older people? Stands to reason that putting those people in care homes and out of power would make drastic improvements to society.
Are you familiar with the Joshua Generation at all? Literally a training ground for christo-fascists that trained former and current senators.
There’s absolutely young fascists currently in charge. Heck “DOGE” was nothing but a bunch of 20 somethings allowed to enact part of their fascist wet dream.
Putting the blame on age and not class is why you’re getting so ratiod
Ratioed? Kharma’s not a thing here so who cares. And maybe I’ve just met more old people than you have.
Also your Joshua generation thing doesnt show a prevalance for idiocy in youth, just that some exists. Idiocy in the elderly is a fact of life. Brains dont get better as they age, and the context they grew up in doesnt keep up with the times they live into. I dont care if people like it, people dont get smarter or more relevant to the times as they age.
There’s not karma but it’s still a good sign of how many people disagree with your argument and experience.
Your original comment was to someone saying “there’s plenty of young fascists”. Didn’t say anything about prevalence, just that there’s enough to be a problem. That’ prevalence argument is bullshit you added. You’ve said they aren’t in charge of anything. You were given direct evidence of examples of young fascists existing and being in charge of things.
You trying to make it an age based thing is just asking for trouble because it’s setting up complacency instead of fighting the fascists no matter who they are.
“I’ve met more old people than you” is such a dumb and weak argument I legitimately don’t even know where to begin there.
No. Using inductive thinking is the bullshit you started with. You cant use a small sample size to make generalizations across a group of people. You have to deal with any discussion of a group of people by talking about them in terms of proportionality or percentages. You cant say “mushroommonk on Lemmy doesnt underdstand the most basic logic, so clearly no one on Lemmy understands basic logic.” Thatd be bullshit. Get it?
Except the group being discussed is the group of young fascists. That’s it. The entire group is the ones that exist. Your false equivalence trying to extrapolate from there is adding another group.
Please just go learn some basic reading comprehension. I’m not the only one to point this out.
I’m out
Teachers are having trouble with boys as young as 8 not listening to them because the manosphere tells them they shouldn’t respect women.
Pretty much everyone went to school with some Young Conservative type who was weirdly into politics at a young age.
I think it depends on your definition of “young”, but there are the folks like Kyle Rittenhouse, Jacob Chansley, Ben Shapiro, and tons of other netizens younger than Joe Rogan with their hate-mongering podcasts. Being emboldened in the way they are, more seem to be popping out of the woodwork instead of being shamed or reformed into better viewpoints.
So if you can name 4 shitty young people then all young people are shitty, thats your assertion?
Unfortunately, these are all young people with a vast following of young people. Not to mention Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate…
Young people skew left and that’s a fact, it’s not a supermajority like it might seem on places like this.
They are exemplars of what befuddled you from the other poster’s note of young fascists out there. Forget about that and just look towards basic reading comprehension to better prepare you for understanding complex concepts like examples.
JD Vance?
At the very least, the younger generation would have less lead to addle their brains.
Or at least different kinds of addling. Although, I suspect that algorithmic social media does less long term damage than persistent developmental lead poisoning (SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK? LEADED GASOLINE?)
Oh, like they should have been developing - heh - what, electric cars?!
Okay Space Commander Hippie Love!
/s
already has made drastic improvement everywhere else in the world outside of the USA, Israel, Russia…
all still run by rapidly aging boomers.
Oh god. I didn’t do this math. This means that the same people in that age bracket were kids glued to the TV during all the McCarthy-era bullshit. No wonder.
don’t forget decades of breathing aerosolized lead!
Not to mention global radioactive contamination from nuclear weapons testing and the occasional reactor meltdown!
To be fair I think this guy has actual talent for this kind of work.