gen z politics then vs now.

[@santihodge5278]

My dad asked me who I should vote for and I told him the accident wasn’t his fault and he needs to let go of me.

[@billmore6486]

does that mean you are dead?

[@noiseisgold3n42]

@@billmore6486 he hasn't answered. he must be.

[@LuisSierra42]

@@noiseisgold3n42 I am dead as well

[@meatgrinderisinfinite]

@@LuisSierra42 hello dead as well, i'm dad

[@Hurtdeer]

@@billmore6486 you don't have to reply to them. you need to let go

[@yakobsoulstorm5187]

I like his persistence.

[@PureRushXevus]

Please?

[@Karamaru_Crow]

No

[@LabRatz-Ivor]

Please no?

[@realdragon]

He should become president or something idk

[@LuisSierra42]

definitely carried

[@2007hondaaccord]

Man getting tired of comments formatted like this carrying thing

[@JouvaMoufette]

He never misses receiving comments like this, the absolute legend!

[@leonamvonborowsky7559]

@@JouvaMoufette Man Carrying Tirelessness in receiving coments like this Men Carrying Legendaryness

[@koolaid33]

He never shoots, so he never has to miss! The utter unit!

[@CreeFalcon-219]

706-18

[@PapaBradford]

I like your persistence

[@unspilledmilk7888]

"im a communist. i am also a facist" i think is an exact quote used in disco elysium

[@invurret9533]

There's another that's "Say one of these communist or fascist things or fuck off."

[@randomarchive1671]

Something that would be said in Disco

[@Anurania]

Communist leaders are fascists. The proletariat can't be obviously.

[@торговыйфлот-м1ш]

You are not ready for nazbol

[@RedNymph234]

​@@invurret9533 and if I don't want to say either a fascist or a communist thing, then the game makes fun of me for being a dirty centrist and I guess I deserve that 😅

[@CoryTheNorm]

Thd most unrealistic part is the parent asking for their child's opinion.

[@mark9294]

Not necessarily

[@kiraoshiro9251]

​@@mark9294 yes necessarily

[@Sari-b7k]

There are a lot of parents who will ask for their child’s opinion, there are less who will do what the child suggests

[@fyukfy2366]

I mean, would you ask you parents' opinion on who you should vote for?

[@cameronspence4977]

I mean, realistically if youre a parent you should never need to rely on another persons political opinion, much less your kids who are at least 18 ish years younger and less experienced than you

[@polly_pasta]

something about this hurt my heart

[@connorferguson2269]

because its accurate.

[@thecianinator]

Depoliticization is what happens when people realize their democracy has failed. We stop messing with the government in hopes that the government won't decide to mess with us. This happened in Russia after Putin started sending protesters to the gulag, and now we get to see how bad America can get.

[@thesurvivorssanctuary6561]

It's a message that "hope is dead, and the best you can do is make do with the hell you've been given". It is very disturbing, because things are bad. Hope is never dead though. Democracy dying is scary, police states are horrifying, but the humble cockroach will outlast us all! Be happy with what you have, learn to let go, learn to connect better and deeper, and get in touch with your ancestral heritage of old school survivalist ways. Such is the ways of the cockroach, evolving millions of years ago to just survive and scavenge ANY environment to thrive in the perpetually inhospitable.

[@keldoe1351]

It’s the brain worms singing. Consume more slop. They are happy.

[@ethanlivemere1162]

That may have been your cholesterol

[@merck__]

When I was a teenager someone once told me older generations look to the next generation to not repeat their mistakes. At the time I thought it was a way to maintain an optimistic mindset in the face of a bleak future. Now I realize it's a curse.

[@ulischmidt03]

Yeah, it's just the older generation pushing all their problems onto us

[@HumanityAsCode]

Pushing all of their problems onto the next generation while still fully standing in the way of that generation at every turn.

[@SA2004YG]

Just like your generation will one day 😊

[@YouCanCallMeReTro]

@@ulischmidt03 Thats part of it, but there's also the reality that younger generations are coming of age in a time of radical change. Just like past huge milestones in history it comes with new sets of challenges that we have to learn to navigate as a society.

[@RedNymph234]

​@@SA2004YGGen X did it to us Millenials, and Millenials ended up just doing it to Gen Z. Rinse, lather, repeat.

[@jakfan09]

This legitimately feels like something out of a horror film.

[@WM-gr4qi]

Twilight episode, maybe.

[@sweezlesquee]

This reminds me of Meat Canyon's new cartoon about Talk Tuah. It's definitely saying the same thing.

[@onemoment6769]

You know why that is? Because it's too real. We're all looking in the mirror, and it's not pretty.

[@vitoc8454]

Heard that living in a dying empire is less "barbarians at the gates" and more "things just get progressively shittier until everyone just gives up"

[@callsignapollo_]

Collapse is often far less "the gates are being broken down" and far more "the walls have crumbled due to lack of maintenance"

[@ChristAliveForevermore]

It's like the ultra wealthy forget that when the rest of humanity has nothing left to lose, they go after the ones who stole everything they had. Time & time again. Read Aristotle. This is a phenomenon moreso than a happenstance of technology insulating the rich from our wrath. Eventually, they'll starve in their bunkers or their private armies turn on them and then on eachother. Order needs to be maintained, and order derives from a higher source than the guy with the most influence.

[@godabandonedmesoibecameaba8984]

My country rn

[@_fishy]

the barbarians wait until the gates fall down and then just move in

[@jasonmaguire7552]

What gates? They walk straight across the border

[@daanstrik4293]

“You’re not supposed to be like us” Yup. That moment when you realise your own generation truly is no different from those who came before. Mocking the young ones for their interests, having batshit insane political views, dumb celebrity drama. I always knew, in my mind, that we were no different. But knowing something is inevitable and seeing it unfold before your very eyes are two very different things. And it hurt.

[@TESkyrimizer]

there are those exceptional great men who change history for the better, but many who inherit the fruit of their labors prove ourselves unworthy of it our grandparents carried us across the bridge, then we burn it behind us because we think ourselves superior for having been born on the right side of it nobody learns from history. empathy is a weakness. virtue is for the fools. cynicism and greed are all that remains. a human life is only worth as much as the amount of capital that it can produce. too quickly we forget the sacrifices of better men that fought for our rights. a heap of discarded smartphones atop a mountain of skulls. that is what passes for humanity these days. that is what passes for acceptable leadership.

[@FrankieWilliams-kx9gp]

We are no better than the ones who came before, all that is left is to embrace our humanity with all of its evils and all of its triumphs.

[@pabloanimations2612]

Well just because some things won't change in our lifetime doesn't mean they won't change ever and even if it doesn't, so what? I never understand getting sad at the state of humanity because I identify myself as more than an individual. Sure stuff matters but I recognize my limitations enough to not care too much. Although that's kinda arrogant sounding.

[@مؤمنعمرو-ب7ط]

PRECISELY Skibidi still shit tho

[@shitpostingstevebecauseall6279]

So dramatic! You need to Skibidi yourself some more Talk Tuah

[@jedimario8860]

Politics in 2016: Oh wow, this political stuff is entertaining! Look at these funny memes online! Politics in 2024: Human nature is a curse and my life is directly affected by the whims of fools. I wish only to escape.

[@GMKriv]

Politics in 40,000AD:...

[@josh18230]

I am happy that Donald won

[@amanbawa574]

@@josh18230 Bruh it will still be stressful as the leftist media is going to repeat the same shit as from 2016-2020

[@urphakeandgey6308]

2016 was a horrible year for politics not because of Trump himself, but because suddenly a bunch of people who never gave a shit about politics before were now pretending to care and acting like they've always been paying attention. I was a senior in HS in 2016. I was the weird kid for kind of paying attention to politics. Then when Trump won, all the kids that never gave a rat's ass about politics were suddenly crying and acting like they knew what they were talking about. You can hate Trump all you want. I'm fine with that, but don't be such a fake insufferable attention seeking crybaby about it. Let the adults talk and stop playing pretend. People like that only do it to fit in and because social media tells them to act that way.

[@amanbawa574]

@@urphakeandgey6308 Right now I feel the tide has changed a bit though. More people are kind of on his side as no matter love or hate, he has won twice. You have got to give it to the man

[@JacF6734]

"You either die a Zoomer or live long enough to see yourself become the Boomer"

[@wkerro]

honestly it's pretty comfy here with the other boomers

[@Xetan123]

AND IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU!!! - abe simpson

[@danlt1497]

Generational jokes aside... zoomers can be boomers because baby boomers are the post world war gen. Zoomers will stick zoomers, millenials as millenials and so on. In short, isnt peyorative to call someone twice older than you MAX "boomer" as a zoomer... just ignorant.

[@fatronjones]

Boomers are cooler than zoomers.

[@gwooseytunes5115]

no views is terrifying ive never been this early

[@ManCarryingThing]

boo

[@ridergilwin1494]

Tell me about it brother

[@ogpandamonium]

Thats true the gen z people in this have no political views

[@shan4680]

I was here at 465. I too have never been this early.

[@frozentanukii]

@@ManCarryingThing AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@MicahReviews]

I hope the hawk tuah podcast collabs with Man Carrying Thing and they call it Hawk Carrying Tuah

[@RP-mp4ow]

I love how much I hate this. I typically don't like to feel more than 1 thing at a time unless they're similar things

[@christopherlundgren1700]

It grasps the Tuah in its talons.

[@patricklippert8345]

Plankton Hawk Tuahs and Dies

[@Flesh_Wizard]

The wolf howls but the hawk tuahs

[@koolaid33]

@@patricklippert8345 Hawk Tuahs and Dies

[@zuthalron7123]

The comments this time are a lot sadder... you got this guys, keep on hikin.

[@MrQuantumInc]

It is genuinely dystopian to imagine the youth as completely disengaged from actual politics. It isn't much of a conspiracy theory to say that certain companies want us to be addicted to social media, perhaps somebody somewhere recognized that there is a side benefit if everyone is too distracted to challenge corporate power.

[@ChloekabanOfficial]

bread and circuses: 2024 edition

[@Saridge17]

Tbf, with how politics is nowadays, I'm not surprised. It's so much like this side is better over the other side. It's... too much for our brains to really handle that we just want to turn our brains off. I don't know what's hits harder, the fact that people are too distracted by the media to be focusing on politics or...that we are just too tired of politics now. And that's something.

[@robertbernard7844]

​@@Saridge17Everyone's just tired of the people in power abusing their power. You know, like they've been since the daen of time.

[@actualgoblin]

We cannot effectively engage with politics through legal means

[@Typexviiib]

@@robertbernard7844its almost like power corrupts and the only way to prevent corruption is to disempower the state

[@U_N_Owen]

Speed ran the entire Millennial life experience before 30. So quick they had to give up drinking because of anxiety medication while still IN COLLEGE.

[@t.b.m.5718]

Funny that i only returned to college once i turned 30

[@switchnslider1636]

Depoliticization goes so hard I thought you were talking about IShowSpeed using they/them pronouns for him

[@dennischiu272]

@@switchnslider1636 All I know about pronouns is that U.N. Owen was her.

[@switchnslider1636]

@@dennischiu272 Touhou fan in the wild in 2024 is crazy

[@dennischiu272]

@@switchnslider1636 The original's commenter's name was an opportunity and I took it.

[@LunaWitcherArt]

This video should play under the definition of "You are not immune to propaganda"

[@coltondavis7022]

It’s actually the opposite. The propaganda from both sides, is so omnipresent, and so obvious, but every other generation has bought in anyway, and we still got like 15-20 more years before we’re even going to get a chance to be in a position of power, so it all circles around until eventually you just say “fuck it. Talk tuah”

[@IsiahGames]

"You're not supposed to be like us" goes hard honestly

[@bolt4516]

Absolutely agreed. Especially given I've heard folks say it before about us Gen Y folks

[@selunescorpio]

“Hawk Tuah podcast called ‘Talk Tuah,’ clever play on words” has me laughing uncontrollably

[@cattysplat]

2016: Haha funny doge meme 🐶 2024: Doge a planned government department 💀

[@chocolate_maned_wolf]

🙁

[@AntiC7]

Its cool

[@CiphersVII]

other than the name, the goals of the department seem completely normal. not saying the name isn't stupid as fuck though.

[@andrewsprague4566]

​@@CiphersVIIis also hilariously absurd that we will have two government agencies for efficiency, the other being the GAO who are positioned outside of the executive to be less subject to the "we've investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing" effect. A less efficient than the Government Accountability Office "department of government efficiency " is a beautiful absurdist art piece.

[@svyatoyaleksnevskiy]

@@andrewsprague4566 the Department of Redundancy Department

[@nagesutemcbob]

The Boomers I know actually grew up poor/lower class (families of 5+, shared everything with hand-me-downs, shared rooms, quit after middle school to help with money or the farm, etc...) and then in their twenties great opportunities appeared in great quantity, rewarding those who worked hard and made good choices, but like, to a reasonable extent. Everyone could do it if they just reached out for that well-paying factory job filled with benefits, or that government job, or started at the lower rung of some corporate ladder, etc... and kept their head down for 35ish years. This makes it _really_ hard to communicate to them with words how fcked everything is for people under 40 right now, since they even got to see our comfy TV, restaurant, club activity, Nintendo-filled childhoods for themselves.

[@nathagar9251]

That’s the real trouble - how do you convince people things are getting worse, when their core life experience is things getting better, and when they see you doing better than they were at their age? How do you explain that sure you have a nicer first apartment than they did, but you know you’ll never be able to own a home?

[@stratomaster891]

@@nathagar9251 You don't, they don't care.

[@journeytotheotherside]

I’d assume Man made one character wear a red shirt and the other one wear a blue shirt to symbolize their opposing ideologies, but actually he just wanted to wear those shirts

[@nathancarter8239]

Sounds like the kind of thing said by people who wear the _wrong_ color of shirt, get 'em boys!

[@koolaid33]

Well, clearly you woke up today and put on your gray shirt friend!

[@KumoKumiko]

sometimes the shirts are just blue the curtains, however...

[@phil-gd6es]

Guys! Guys! It's actually both shirts that are bad.

[@RobCamp-rmc_0]

Both shirts are the same I refuse to wear one

[@JosephDAndrea05]

What’s with kids nowadays? It’s all drones this, vapes that. What ever happened to good old fashioned crusading?

[@cameronbennett1809]

Yeah! For the emperor, am I right?

[@abcdefghij337]

We’re still working on the logistics for retaking Europe. It’s a big continent, you see. But I figure we can start with the island nation of Great Britain. The native English will probably join us.

[@DoctorScrimguard]

@@abcdefghij337 Yeah, I'm with the Back to Europe movement. Thinking we could establish a colony on Great Britain and rename it New Canada. The English people can go live in France or something.

[@Vulkanprimarch]

Neglecting to ally with and support the Byzantines has had a detrimental effect on our ability to crusade in the long term.

[@kingstarscream320]

Kids these days be like, “ewww Columbus is bad because he killed a bunch people, who cares if it was 500 years ago and he did more good than bad”

[@superanimenerd13]

I feel like this honestly gets at what politics feels like for a lot of younger people. A chaotic hodgepodge of different ideas that they're all just trying on and seeing what sticks. That's why I always feel it's reductive when people say stuff like "Gen Z is This persuasion" as if there's not a million different influences assaulting their brains at any given time. It also feels like with the end that they get subsumed by a noxious blend of cultural and political influence, unsure where one ends and the other begins. How far away are we really from "House Speaker Hayley Welch"?

[@Ranstone]

Nah. Gen Z went full retard and was woke. Over the past 4 years, they realized they were being played by the left, and now they all voted red. This "Brain rot confused, lost Gen Z" ish is just the leftover lefties trying to figure out what the hell just happened. Literally as simple as that.

[@tacothedank]

Hawk tuah for president 2052!

[@ethanwilliams1880]

The problem is, like most generations, they are looking for a set of socially acceptable beliefs instead of trying to find the truth. On top of that, critical thinking matters more in this age than ever before, but because it's more difficult due to the volume of information bombardment, more people give up, so even less are actually trying than ever before. This situation also leads to a negative feedback loop, because the more people give up, the more socially acceptable giving up becomes, so you end up with a bunch of people who "believe" a bunch of nonsense without knowing why, and with no desire to change or find the truth.

[@Gum_Cuzzler]

@@tacothedankpeople joke, but the current president is a reality TV star and has staffed his cabinet with lots of other TV personalities. In 20 years people like Logan Paul and other E-celebrities will 100% be leading political movements

[@Paiwan-i6x]

Did you hear about the AOC and Trump supporters?

[@DrakeBarrow]

The "No! NO!" said with abject futility as the parent sees the void reflected in their child's eyes accompanied by the drone of static obliterating all conscious thought. Hot damn this went full Black Mirror quick.

[@JiveCinema]

Because he's both a fascist and a communist. And I know someone like this too. I can never tell what's in his brain.

[@delightedmatt]

Oh nice. One of those weird shorts that I can actually bookmark for later brain rot consumption.

[@iRekishi]

I remember telling my mom in 2019 that i wouldnt be able to buy a home without her help when i get out of college and she thought i was being dramatic. Now as me and my fiance look for apartments she’s encouraging me to stay at home with my her and my dad because rent and mortgages are outrageous

[@poyokid916]

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BRING BALANCE TO THE FORCE, NOT LEAVE IT IN DARKNESS!

[@dennischiu272]

You understimate my powuah.

[@katarvitz4850]

Pre-2016 person - Warhammer is unrealistic, dark, and should not be emulated in real life. Post-2016 person - Perhaps I judged Konrad Curze's policies too quickly...

[@CalvinLee606]

He wears his heart on his sleeve. Quite literally.

[@alexgichmartinez4477]

2016 was were everything went to shit

[@mooncll1]

My beloved comfort character

[@Pingviinimursu]

​@@alexgichmartinez4477 it started with Harambe, brother 😔

[@idontknow164]

I'd rather be a Son of Vulkan. I can help average people while turning assholes into flaming goo.

[@cartoonist_key]

Gen Z grew up while nobody was looking.

[@theX24968Z]

pretty fitting given that their parents were also told to grow up on their own

[@fuosdi64]

The internet and smartphones raised them😂

[@JamesBond-wv9xz]

@@theX24968Z Except they didn’t. Previous generations had community and family-and that’s what raised them. Gen Z grew up on their own.

[@dennischiu272]

Gen Z never grew up. They were born with a brain which spent their entire lives rotting away. What a blissful way to live.

[@Armateras]

​@@JamesBond-wv9xzmillennials had none of that shit either tf u on

[@mbader2399]

It’s been depressing watching my generation slide backwards. I used to think we would change the world for the better

[@duncangilbey1972]

So did I. I turned 70 last Saturday...

[@melvinjoseph952]

We're all in our 20s still, it might happen ...a long time from now, but that's not nothing

[@girl-fromthemoon]

Bruh we can't even afford to pay rent by ourselves...

[@joebob4579]

​@@duncangilbey1972 hmm

[@lithuaniaball]

​@@melvinjoseph952you can hold the whole world in your hand, but you can't ever squeeze it. Once you stop fighting the tide, you can learn to surf on it instead, and let it take you where you want to go

[@jackc4947]

Would you rather: A) your child grows up healthy, happy, and has a great life full of joy B) you get invited on the talk tuah podcast

[@joanmoriarity8738]

Um, I'll take option A please.

[@Shadowswolf9666]

B

[@dillis2188]

Depends on what happens on the podcast - I don't know much of this woman, but I know enough not to turn down an invite. That said, I hope we won't be talking.

[@pneuma23]

b

[@testname4464]

Is abortion still an option?

[@owenleal]

My political outlook from 2016 to now has gone from deeply invested in politics and the future of our society, to being aggressively and purposefully oblivious to all news political or otherwise for the good of my own sanity. I'm currently binging all of One Piece, I'm trying to take up fishing and I've gotten into fitness. Just living my life serenely, waiting patiently for the inevitable nuclear warhead or cat 5 hurricane to blow me and everyone I love into tiny pieces.

[@Bakucryptid77]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEP Amen.

[@hinasakukimi]

i feel you. i can't fully look away from it all but most of the time i am trying to keep my sanity

[@popcorn8153]

I'm disengaged - but pragmatically so. I'm never going to raise a kid in this world. What a shitty deal that would be. Not asking to be born but being crapped out at the end of the Pax Americana. We got 30 good years left before the sun sets.

[@magyar_1949]

@@popcorn8153 I'd disagree with calling it the "pax americana" given the large portion of that period we've been at war. It just hasn't been on American soil

[@squirtleawesome1064]

​@@magyar_1949 The Pax Romana and Pax Britannica still had a lot of conflict, so Pax Americana isn't so different.

[@matthewleonmartin]

as a 40 year old man, the thought of anyone asking my 16 year old self who to vote for is both terrifying and hilarious.

[@bruce-le-smith]

when I was a teen voter I had the option to formally decline \ refuse a ballot, so that it was officially counted as a lack of confidence in all candidates. it's different than spoiling a ballot. when I look back I think my teen self actually had some reasonable ideas. it would be nice to see more people formally declaring they have no confidence in any of the choices offered

[@svyatoyaleksnevskiy]

Speak for yourself. I knew everything at 16. I guess I just forgot.

[@poika22]

Meh, I would've voted the same at 16. Not because I LOCKED IN my political affiliation at an early age and refused to budge, but because my disinterested "meh I guess these guys are the least dangerous" based purely a gut feeling turned out to be pretty accurate.

[@eyeseer1]

Thin line between humor and horror with a nervous laugh.

[@Kira1Lawliet]

"Hey son, who are you voting for?" "Plankton Farting." "That's good. What about Plankton Dying?" "Both sides have reasonable points."

[@koolaid33]

Look, call him crazy, but my ballot went straight to "and". I mean, they had the best of both worlds, it's like "and" was a bridge that connected both Plankton Farting and Plankton Dying!

[@TorilAzzalini-Machecler]

Actually, the "and" only joins "farts" and "dies" together, leaving Plankton behind and isolated. Another example of the fake news liberal media refusing to focus on the important issues ​@@koolaid33

[@oscarguzman3017]

​@@koolaid33 Amen 🙏

[@Aliamus_]

Forget the dead internet theory, Dead brain theory, is where it's at.

[@matthewwynn3025]

This ^%^^^

[@Bo0tmun]

​@JuanSmithersI believe Frank Herbert the author of the Dune series was more concerned about humans outsourcing their thinking capabilities to machines rather than some skynet ai takeover scenario.

[@matthewwynn3025]

This ^^%^^^

[@EV-wp1fj]

It's not really just a Gen Z problem. It's what happens when people get "educated" online in general. I've seen boomers act this way. The real crime is making college so unattainable / glorified trade school that people are never exposed to critical inquiry and instead must go through life being assaulted with random concepts and no mental equipment to evaluate them, gain practical insights or make sound decisions from them.

[@BobbinRobbin777]

Wtf is critical inquiry?

[@chyguy3776]

watching man carry thing is my favorite way of carrying out praxis for my anarcho-syndicalist-neo-confucian-communobuddhist-hegelian ideological beliefs

[@ceccascorp8149]

"You are not supposed to be like us" truly brings me some level of fear

[@cameronpearce5943]

Gen X saw the Millennials and freaked the fuck out, fumbled Gen Z, and now it’s on us to A) educate our younger siblings, B) raise Gen A to have an iota more critical thinking. Like, man, I don’t blame Gen Z but boy they’re really dropping the ball on defying the ‘conservative as you get older’ trend we started to break. They had the odds stacked against them but I didn’t expect them to jump off the slippery slope

[@snakelama]

yeah us zoomers we want to be just like you. no families nothing to show for it economically. middle aged and obsessed with weed, junk food and cartoons. you belong to a lost generation who believed their own bs so much they flushed their own futures down the toilet for vague impossible political ideas and hedonism.

[@incisive2641]

@@snakelama those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

[@jverkaik100]

Gen z politics 2028: Hawk Tuah girl started a new Wamzam, and she's colabing with Mr. Wamzam himself, Mr. Wamzam. Please note: this comment will make more sense in 2028, when "Wamzams" become a thing.

[@WindsorMason]

Zam on good wam

[@TheArnoldification]

We're already headed to the point where subway surfers playing on-screen is no longer enough so probably

[@Wewantjusticeandpeace]

As a person who was born in 2004, I'm not falling on the generational labels because they are just conspiracy theory.

[@Astro_Crunch]

To the untrained ear, 2024 gen z was just talking about internet culture happenings, but he was actually listing off his personal picks for the president-elect's cabinet. I think "Big Justice" of Costco Guys fame will be an excellent attorney general.

[@79pure]

the red bloodshot eyes make it better

[@MYMOTHERISAFISH-ci2ts]

My Gen Z son was radicalised by plankton farting and dying

[@KRobinson-ko1ne]

Did he finally get that secret ingredient for the Krabby Patty?

[@spud7234]

The static should have been playing thick of it with reverb

[@mohammednegm4007]

You forgot to slow it down + bass boost to make it accessible to brainrot victims 🗣️🗣️

[@Nilmand]

🇺🇸 Mr. Beast 2028 🇺🇸 (If he's already a war criminal he may have good chances)

[@TheHyperTuber-VantaBlack]

True. Ignoring that Mr. Beast will be too young to run for President until 2036-

[@insertchannelnamehere1448]

@@TheHyperTuber-VantaBlack oh, by then he'll be ahead of the war crime curve :D

[@bunlogunbo5771]

So, what he did to be war criminal?

[@jacobbaumgardner3406]

As someone born in the year 2000, this lines up too well.

[@markofilak2388]

I could have been first but didn't know what to write cause my mind is empty

[@WindsorMason]

.

[@TheUnnicknamed]

Great video as always, Man Hawking Tuah

[@neverlandgrounds1225]

I feel like it's the opposite for me. I was 19 in 2016 and all I cared about was smoking weed and chasing tail, now I'm about burning down the whole system

[@rainbowlack]

i see no reason for those to be mutually exclusive (i am younger than you and therefore have less life experience)

[@Bo0tmun]

I was chasing money, power, and fame in 2016 now I'm about finding God and being a better Christian in 2024. I figured that if this world is going to hell I may as well pray for salvation for when my short existence inevitably dies. Finding no hope in life and the future ironically got me to find God and now I feel that there's atleast something worth living for that's consistent and can't be taken away from me by force.

[@youtubehandlesux]

​@@Bo0tmuncongrats for becoming part of the problem

[@actualgoblin]

​@@Bo0tmun im so tired of the death cult bro

[@d.airhorn3702]

@@youtubehandlesuxyou really gonna shit on this man’s epiphany like that?

[@pheonix_soldier]

We gave up over the last 8 years, nothings worth fighting for anymore

[@yumabaeza8851]

Childhood is when you idolize politics, adulthood is when you realize hawk tuah makes more sense 😔

[@oscarguzman3017]

😢

[@ghoulbby]

Teen you idolize, young adult hawk tuah makes sense, then when (if) you ever becomes an adult you'll realize that politics actually does have an impact and matters _and_ it's not difficult at all to not idolize while still engaging. Though many people never reach that point.

[@VAVORiAL]

0:45 Someone please let me know where that soundtrack is from? Would really appreciate it

[@AYUSHMANTIWARI3110]

Idk (I like to ruin people's day😀)

[@muhammedgezer3915]

@@AYUSHMANTIWARI3110🥤

[@thezeronelite]

this is straight-up scary.

[@ThomasTheCure]

This is your most brilliant video dude lol

[@bobeebil]

man carrying thing, you're so smart! that's why i love you

[@juliusnovachrono4370]

I can confirm that as a gen z who saw 2016 gen z politics turn into what it is now, this hurts me.

[@Megaawesomeguy]

That's what happens with Three Letter Agencies manage to single handily destroy anything remotely controversial or funny

[@4zdr456]

​@@MegaawesomeguyI was mostly insulated from it by the fact, that I only lurked at the -chan sites for a while now, so when I pulled my head out of that to look around a bit, it just hit me in the face. Unfortunate, but not surprising.

[@lobodasneveswastaken]

@@4zdr456 Wdym?

[@crushycrawfishy1765]

@@Megaawesomeguy More like when russian troll farms manipulate the online space and pay influences thousands of dollars to spread fear and doubt. I'm not joking about that last one. I'd post a link but over 200 influencers, including big names like Tim Poole, took money from Russian back companies/agencies.

[@HWHAProb]

Makes me so fucking sad. When the Democrats killed the grassroots youth momentum behind BLM and Bernie, they really killed the passion we once had. Now so many people are overworked and disenchanted from politics all together while the far right is filling the void

[@cobinasaur]

My political beliefs are whatever fuels my own self-hatred the most.

[@yhooperdooper6604]

0:18 “The Goomba Fallacy refers to a phenomenon in which two groups with contradictory views are perceived as one group that contradicts itself. This often happens on internet fandoms where due to large amounts of people interacting anonymously, it creates the illusion of people wanting multiple contradictory things at a time when in fact it is the result of disagreements between multiple sub-groups in the fandom.” - the pig from Barnyard (2006)

[@Icewall956]

Man Carrying Multiple Conflicting Political Ideologies

[@quabbittherabbit773]

2016: yo its 2016 2024: yo its 2024 hope this helps

[@cattysplat]

Actually it's 2004 because I'm playing classic WoW again.

[@quabbittherabbit773]

@@cattysplat 2004: yo its 2004

[@SimonBuchanNz]

The difference between 2016 and 2024 is -8. Hope this helps!

[@quabbittherabbit773]

@@SimonBuchanNz -8: yo its -8

[@wkerro]

hey this really helped thank you

[@kinggrimm2700]

"Watch this Mancarryingthing video" "No" "Please" "No" "Please" "No" "Please" "I like your persistence"

[@xaayer]

Ngl 2016 would have been a bernie vote. So many my age and younger felt spurned when he lost to clinton

[@thesocketsnatcher4306]

The elderly women will really love this one.

[@WaterMeLoan64]

Man Carrying The Current Political Landscape

[@abcanum]

You forget the 3 most important words for modern politics; “nothing ever happens”

[@johnsmith-jq1uc]

Man carrying social commentary

[@eggbort413]

0:18 This is kind of a goomba fallacy (Believing one person holds many conflicting beliefs because they hear many people hold different beliefs)

[@rhombicdodecahedron1665]

goombas is mario

[@bzipoli]

as in mario?

[@eggbort413]

@@Jonathanking88 They probably do but they don't exactly represent a significant portion of gen z

[@benjamincarlini498]

​​There was no significant communist vote for Trump, the vast majority of 'tankies' either did not vote, voted third party or would have voted Democrat. There was a numerically more noticeable amount of voters that went from Bernie to Trump although this is actually fairly normal (many more voters went from Hillary to McCain during 2008 than Bernie to Trump during 2016) especially since Bernie and Trump both actually get quite a lot of support from certain specific demographics. It's not so much highly politicised 'Bernie bros' that went and voted Trump moreso it's less politicised working class white voters that just want to vote for someone that speaks to them about issues they care about and opposed the establishment​@@Jonathanking88 .

[@saucevc8353]

I think it’s more about how young people who are still formulating their political ideology are easily radicalized and constantly change their politics due to the internet. I know because that was me.

[@agiar2000]

Parent: "Who do you think I should vote for?" Child: "Franklin Roosevelt"

[@lordofspearton8643]

When asked who I was going to vote for I have legitimately said Theodore Roosevelt.

[@Microcolnovka]

@@lordofspearton8643 Teddy ain't the guy for modern politics, but I'm not even sure if we have any trustworthy guys left

[@lordofspearton8643]

@@Microcolnovka we may have just missed our last chance to reelect Jimmy Carter.

[@Microcolnovka]

@@lordofspearton8643 He is not much older then any of the current candidates🤷‍♂️

[@Rayski_]

great video!

[@seryerie9485]

Possibly the saddest video on this channel

[@jerrydestiny7339]

I can't believe Man Carrying things is the Bay harbor Killer

[@BobbinRobbin777]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN "bay harbor killer"?!?!?

[@doomakarn]

Our woes were left on read, so our souls are left for dead.

[@sunnyglowvt]

I just want to build a house out in the middle of nowhere with no responsibility but my own.

[@vincentpelletier1246]

This is accurately depicting what is happening to the future generation's brains

[@hharrin3000]

You can tell that a part of “boomer character” knew this would happen all along 😢

[@justforplaylists]

If they have a Gen Z kid they're probably Gen X.

[@Sari-b7k]

@@justforplaylists some older Gen Z have younger boomers as parents, I know I do.

[@whiterussian4498]

- Also when are you getting a job? - pfffff

[@notyourdad]

When his mouth emitted white noise, I felt that in my soul.

[@GhostfaceRocks]

"I am the bringer of death, a mortal with the mind of a god, and I am mortified by I have comprehended."

[@ReidSchmidt]

Man Carrying Ideologies

[@henrychurch6062]

"I can't believe the average American paid TWENTY TWO DOLLARS to Ukraine last year. OUTRAGEOUS! I'm Voting for a $5,000 increase to household expenses through tariffs because public education failed me and I cannot in fact think critically." -Average 2024 voter

[@firstNamelastName-ho6lv]

Literally! And Trump's explanation was "just trust me bro"

[@Vfdking]

Brain, I will always miss you

[@DoctorScrimguard]

As a passionate anarcho-monarchist, I can relate to the generational divide.

[@thenablade858]

Basically Tolkien’s politics.

[@DoctorScrimguard]

@@thenablade858 Basically. Tolkien is the only respected intellectual figure I'm aware of to have taken the concept of An-Mon seriously, so the ideology's generally always discussed as a re-statement of his ideas on it. Then again, he was never super specific as to how a society like that might actually function, so who knows what he really believed. As for me, it's a little embarrassing to admit, but I first got started on monarchism by C.G.P. Grey's video. I still really like the idea of kings, but since I'm not a conservative by any stretch, it can be hard to justify the sentiment to myself.

[@CornwallisCornwall]

@@DoctorScrimguard Why is the concept of kings agreeable to you? Do you think some people deserve arbitrarily better treatment than others?

[@rolothomosky]

Man Carrying the crushing realization that the rising generation stopped caring.

[@bigyoshi5170]

As soon as 2016 happened I just thought the Orange guy was funny, then it all got more complicated over time from there.

[@Junket-20]

Orange guy is still funny lol, he's a mix of unhinged and humorous

[@koolaid33]

2016: Hahaha look dad, it's the funny man with pencil and apples. Oh my God, he just put the pen in the pineapple! So wacky! 2024: Father, come witness this toxic clip of JD Vance shooting an old man in his arthritic legs. It's AI, but I can't believe JD Vance would do this. Father? Oh, right, father died during January 6th.

[@rainbowlack]

i can never stop thinking about a post that says he would've been such a good bitchy drag queen. we could've lived in a much better world if he picked up a wig and high heels back in the 80s but instead he went all fascist

[@henrybierman8431]

​@@koolaid33that's not even physically possible because the only one who was killed on jAnuArY sIxTh was a woman

[@Shlepp]

As a foreigner, he is still hilarious and incredibly based. He’s one of the few remaining American celebrities that’s actually entertaining

[@Krisfallion]

WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES!!!! (shakes fist at half buried Statue of Liberty)

[@j.i.nthenobody54]

“You bastards! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!”

[@danlt1497]

The brain rot on that time span man

[@demoscassi8055]

Why do I feel like this is an intro to a soon to be new type of Horror

[@pearguy2092]

The effects of brainrot are truly terrifying. 10/10, best horror skit I have seen.

[@thehorrorhound6575]

Haha it was the opposite with my dad. I was 22 during the 2016 election and I was sitting with my dad and his friends and some family members. I was the youngest one there by at least 20 years. And when I tried to say something my dad goes “no offense but you’re too young to even know what you’re talking about. You’re still a kid and you’ve barely experienced life on your own let alone what the world is like without parents holding your hand. Let the adults talk.” 😅

[@rakino4418]

Your dad is a bad dad.

[@scottbuck1572]

As someone born in the year 2000, this has shaken me to my core with how accurate it is

[@christopherlundgren1700]

2016 guy likes politics so much he’s aligned himself with every ideology simultaneously.

[@hariman7727]

... Communist fascist anarchist is actually the same side. Communism and socialism would call themselves fascist to the skies what they were in the World war II era. Both use anarchists as tools to tear down prior orders. Wait... Aren't there openly socialist and communist Democrats who helped rioters in 2020 riot? Weird...

[@qs2668]

man dropping thing lately. and thing is content.

[@RomWatt]

Man Having a Mental Breakdown

[@ScireVetitum]

This man carries too much relatable content, I will reform my entire life if it means to escape his fateful grasp over my feeble existence. ... Or just wait for the next video.

[@marksonofnel55]

Conclusion: the second you have to pay rent your soul permanently and entirely dies.

[@pixeiotto122]

Well at least my generation finally understands how pretentious they sounded and how way in over their heads they were from the start. Can't wait to point it out and have "I never was that into politics actually" as an answer

[@pixeiotto122]

Seriously, how do my guys manage to be around 20 and still sound like you're 15

[@jamsistired]

I don’t know a single person in my generation who I take seriously who isn’t anything but extremely concerned about the state of the world. Gen Z isn’t this unified front of brain rotting children, there are people out there fighting for serious change and have a pretty strong understanding of the political climate and current events

[@pixeiotto122]

@jamsistired That's what they all tell me until they start going in detail and then you notice how vague and superficial they are. Really just complaining to feel special or belong to a group but certainly not to make a difference in the world unfortunately

[@jamsistired]

@@pixeiotto122 I do a little community service here and there, but nothing crazy. I research almost every news story I hear, and I fact check conspiracies that I sometimes hear from acquaintances who gossip. And despite feeling quite cynical at times I try to keep up my optimism and basic faith societies ability to find success eventually. I don’t know if there’s anything pretentious about that. Nobody in gen Z thinks they are better than previous generations. We are all just people, living our lives

[@jamsistired]

@@pixeiotto122 But like, I feel like you probably know that making a sweeping generalization about an entire generation and their collective experience over the last 8 years is probably going to make you wrong at some point because everybody is different

[@joshhickman77]

Best one in a while, and they're all quite good