• invo_rt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    22 hours ago

    It’s specifically young men that are becoming more right wing. I heard some poll numbers last week since Trump’s approval ratings are tanking. Controlling for male vs female, Gen Z has the biggest gap with 45% of men supporting Trump and 24% of women doing the same in the 18-29 age bracket.

    Tbh the COVID shutdown had serious reverberations through the culture that are going to be with us for the rest of our lives. People shouldn’t have been exposed to that much internet.

    • dat_math [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      22 hours ago

      What shutdown? Do you mean the mass infection events that were constantly happening in bars through 2020 and 2021 followed by the liberal capitulation and peeling off of the already rarely followed public health advice?

      • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        17 hours ago

        There was like a couple weeks where some people were forced to work and school remotely and that was horrible, check your privilege sweaty smuglord amerikkka-clap the-democrat

        P.S. Preaching to the choir here, but more people should wear masks even though we’re more than 5 years in… even if you don’t care about others’ health, there are other benefits to wearing them hexbear-direct-action

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        20 hours ago

        Most countries did try to prevent the plague slightly more than the US did. The “shutdown” was probably more about schools being closed for a few weeks/months and young men getting turned insane by youtube propaganda / anti-woke grifters.