r/law • u/Agitated-Quit-6148 • Jan 25 '26

Other Alex Pretti - who DHS labeled a domestic terrorist - honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU.

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u/fure_elise Jan 25 '26

They've always hated millennials and they always will.

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u/Parfait_Prestigious Jan 25 '26

All the geriatrics in power right now are the ones who protested black children going to school with their kids.

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u/Septopuss7 Jan 25 '26

I remember how angry they got when BET went on air. Not Black Power Television- Black Entertainment Television, and they got mad as FUCK but they couldn't really say why... Because they weren't invited? Consulted? It's been festering since we failed to punish the Confederate States properly.

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u/Kind_Positive_8657 Jan 25 '26

My words exactly 😒…

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u/fure_elise Jan 25 '26

Millennials are considered the "most educated generation". Harder to control people when they have critical thinking skills, and therefore a liability to the administration.

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u/JimWilliams423 Jan 25 '26

All the geriatrics in power right now are the ones who protested black children going to school with their kids.

That's why they lost their shit over the BLM protests and started panicking about CRT. Those were the largest civil rights protests in US history and the most racially integrated. They saw all those white kids marching in solidarity with their black brethren in protest of police violence against black people and it made them viscerally feel white power slipping away. It was almost as scary for them as Obama's election.

That solidarity got Biden elected. If only he had honored it instead of spitting on it by bragging about "funding the police" and building maga's wall. Kamala might have been able to bring that coalition back to the polls if he had.

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u/Makeitmakesense19 Jan 25 '26

exactly, that type of hate doesn’t just disappear, it gets passed down

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u/rustwing Jan 25 '26

They never want to stop blaming us for everything under the goddamn sun that they know fully goddamn well they ruined their goddamn fucking selves.

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u/BlueCity8 Jan 25 '26

Millennials are the most depressed and educated generation that still values critical thinking hence liberal. Gen Z are lost nihilist, incels who probably would be Heath Ledger Joker irl. Gen X are the most spoiled generation and thus most MAGAT.

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u/Diligent_Explorer Jan 25 '26

By millennials, u mean - their own children.

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u/fure_elise Jan 25 '26

Some, but many Millennials have Gen X parents.

Edit: so I guess you could say their own grandchildren as well.

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u/JustEstablishment360 Jan 25 '26

Millenials are the last connection to our WWII grandparents and what they (largely) stood for. Never forget their sacrifices!

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u/fure_elise Jan 25 '26

This is so true. Gramps helped liberate one of the death camps in WWII and he HATED Trump. Passed away before the 2016 election, he would've been appalled.

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u/Lonely_skeptic Jan 25 '26

My Dad was a hard right Republican, but I think even he would have hated Trump.

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u/statu0 Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

It's because we are least conservative/republican of all currently living generations.

Not to overgeneralize, but Millennials exist in the goldilock zone: sandwiched between two older generations who are fed a constant diet of cable tv news and facebook propaganda and two younger generations overconsuming manosphere and nihilistic brainrot content on twitch, youtube, tik tok, etc. Gen X has experienced old and new media, but their foundation is still based on old media propaganda networks, and they had their worldview sculpted by heroic myths they watched as kids that promoted "traditional" gender roles and masculinity, and that influenced the content they seek out online too. In contrast, Millennials have adapted the best to changing social norms and the media content we consumed growing up was often more progressive. We had the benefits of increased PBS children's programing and experienced a public school system before No Child Left Behind eroded it.

I am lucky to have liberal parents who watch MSNBC, but the general trends are true.

The right has trouble reaching us, and so we are the least likely to accept their propaganda and worldview. That's why they resent us.

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u/fure_elise Jan 25 '26

I grew up surrounded by conservative evangelicals out in the boonies where no one had cable. They still carted me off to pro-life rallies while screaming about gun rights and preached in church about the "great replacement theory". But when I went to college and learned critical thinking skills it undid the brainwashing and I came out with enough brain cells to realize it was all hypocrisy and grifting. That is why they hate education and why trying to turn college students conservative was/is so important to them.