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The Soviet Reporter@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · 14 days ago

How come the majority of the leftists that I have met online are younger than 25? Why are there no more older leftists on the internet?

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How come the majority of the leftists that I have met online are younger than 25? Why are there no more older leftists on the internet?

The Soviet Reporter@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · 14 days ago
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  • pcalau12i@lemmygrad.ml
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    14 days ago

    I’m 28.

  • diegeticalt (any)@lemmygrad.ml
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    14 days ago

    Idk why anyone would share personal information like that here if they could avoid it.

  • aelixnt@lemmygrad.ml
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    Define “online”? Us old bastards don’t tend to hang out in places full of teenagers. Different social media platforms tend to be pretty age segregated, and the older people are, the less likely they are to have grown up terminally online and in the sort of places where most of the online left congregate, like Discord.

  • VaqueroRed@lemmygrad.ml
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    Not being able to own a home has been a very acute and visible example of capitalist decay for some time now… and this is a phenomenon which overwhelmingly effects young adults.

    Older adults were able to buy their home for much cheaper back in the 90’s or 00’s. That is to say, older adults arn’t as financially desperate in relation to the youth. This influences the politics of individuals.

  • propter_hog [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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    Definitely am older than 25, lol

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    How do you do fellow young Leftists? I’m also 19.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    You’ve probably been talking to my kids, then. I’m as ancient as time itself.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    I thought hexbear was largely a 30s crowd

    • propter_hog [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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      We have plenty of 40+s here, too

      • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        14 days ago

        Getting there deep breath

  • footfaults@lemmygrad.ml
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    The older you get, the more responsibility that you have (family, chores, etc) and also you get tired and go to bed way earlier. We suck.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    Young people are just more terminally online

  • TheTurner@lemm.ee
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    I’m older than 30.

  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    There’s actually quite a few older leftists on Hexbear, but I think the age difference is more a function of technology adoption than a particular leftist thing.

  • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
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    Its easier to lie about age on the internet

    • The Soviet Reporter@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      Nah, these are people that I have been talking with more than a year, I doubt they would lie like that, but, yes, it is likely

  • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    I’m. So. Fucking. Old.

  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    Young people are here? I thought most of us were millennial ages. lol.
    Fuck I’m so old.

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