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AMI's avatar

my kids say that, with the eye-roll too. (thank goodness I'm not a boomer, I remind them) and I agree with Hilbert, all the things my kids care about is what the GOP show contempt for. Showing contempt is the worse way to engage with this generation.

I grew up in Australia and have been working in Texas for 8 years now, it is NOT normal to teach kids active shooter policy - I believe its a form a torture (my kids do not attend a public school for mainly this reason) and you bet, they will be totally mobilized. my daughter is 16 and just cannot fathom how the government now has more rights over her body than she has, yet put individual rights to use a gun over the right of a community to be safe - and i agree with her!

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

Aside from the contempt for democracy, the right wingers have repeatedly demonstrated contempt for the rights of anyone outside their bubble, and of course, a total disregard for real, observable and solvable problems. My god, they were opposed to friggin LED lightbulbs. Today, anything they don’t want to think about is either banned or labeled fake news.

Freedom, baby!

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Hilbert's avatar

If these politicians would speak with these kids they would understand how tuned in they are.

They're paying attention and not happy.

If Trump / Desantis think punching down to a minority is going to work in their favor they have no idea the furry they will release from the gen z kids

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

Picking on minorities is what autocrats and would-be autocrats do. The smaller and weaker the target, the better.

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