• weebs@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    On the flip side when I encounter this offline it’s someone who’s so disillusioned they can’t even bother to figure out how to describe themselves politically (and I don’t blame them). Not to invalidate what you’re saying because I’ve noticed it as well, but to give some hope that some of the kids are alright

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      1 year ago

      You are right, there are people who just gave up. But they sadly don’t comment most of the time.

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        1 year ago

        There’s probably a good amount of literal kids on these networks who are just too young to understand/like politics. And suddenly see their idols get into stuff they don’t understand. It’d be interesting to figure out ratio of kids to adults who dislike people/media/companies “going political”

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            Not sure if sarcasm or not. But I’m also not saying the kids are the majority - I just remember going to shady websites when I was 12. The internet felt safer back then but what kid is going to be stopped by “are you at least 13?” prompt. Imagining kids going to your_least_favorite_instance also seems petty bad.