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42 points

If you felt “meh” about doing the utmost to avoid Trump, you might just be an idiot,

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46 points

Remember, if they’re voting in their first election this year, there’s a decent chance they were under ten before Trump emerged on the scene as a politician. They don’t remember what it used to be like. They think this is normal.

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22 points

Shit, you’re absolutely right but I never thought about it that way.

Jesus, we’ve let these kids down. This is all they’ve known through their adolescence…

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8 points

There will be an entire branch of psychology opened up for kids who were born between 2006-2021. War, climate change, Trump, COVID, more war, more war? On its own, the fact that they’re not spending every waking hour in ceaseless screaming is worth writing a few papers on.

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3 points

Jesus, we’ve let these kids down.

Yes, and people call them idiots for wanting better than a Hobson’s choice between “genocide” and “more genocide.”

Just look at what happened when someone listened to them.

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12 points

Fucking yikes. That’s terrifying.

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11 points

Young people are not renowned for their wisdom.

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7 points

Yeah, kids are allowed to vote (and go off to war, and get themselves into crippling debt) at 18 but their decision making doesn’t mature until after they’re 25. Maybe adulthood should start a little later.

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5 points

Something, something, rent a car. I definitely had something for this. Come back to me.

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6 points

Their elders have done such a bang up job, eh. So much wisdom and here we all are blaming and knocking young people having to inherit all this bullshit.

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-7 points

speak for yourself

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0 points

Neither are boomers, but we’ve spent the past 4 decades doing every last thing those shitheels want.

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-6 points

not really.

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4 points

Yes, but. Let’s not circle the firing squad.

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-4 points

Not before they have voted.

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3 points

Voting is not your utmost. It’s the bare minimum.

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To whoever downvoted this: You won’t make it in life.

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0 points

Biden wasn’t the utmost to avoid Trump.

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