I’m referencing Marjorie Taylor Greene. https://people.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-maga-was-all-lie-and-claims-trump-is-only-serving-big-big-donors-11898049

Not a phrase I thought I’d ever say but it rings that much louder when it’s someone who was part of this whole taking advantage.

But it’s also not a comment I make unthinkingly, let’s look at the voting intention tracker in the UK:

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/voting-intention

If you select ages 18-24, the Green party (actual leftwing party) is in the lead the far-right party (Reform) is far behind. If you select ages 25-49, then Labour is in the lead, they are just average run of the mill conservatives.

So everyone between the ages of 18-49, that’s a span of 32 years is at least in more or less agreement that we should not have the far-right in government.

Now let’s take a look at 50-64 A majority by a large margin are voting for Reform UK. This also tracks for 65+ by an even larger margin.

No other category demonstrates a split like this, not by class, not by sex, not by social grade, not by anything - age is the only predictor that is this reliable and obvious.

So yes, statistically speaking boomers are brainwashed. Or if you think voting for the far-right doesn’t mean they are brainwashed, then that’s fine, I’m also willing to accept that they are fully cognizant of what they are doing, but that would mean that they are just plain evil

Young people are suffering everywhere at the hands of a gerontocratic tyranny they practically institute serfdom by already taking everything they have via rent. It needs to end and it needs to end soon.

which allows people to avoid formulating thoughts altogether and let the machines do it for them, it seems to only be getting worse.

This is so eloquently and succinctly put.

I think that’s it. That’s what most people ultimately want, the ultimate convenience of non-thinking, of non-existence. They are so offended by the “terminally online” and the “informed” who write their “endless paragraphs” (2 sentences that take less than 5s to read).

Especially the brainwashed boomers turning out for the far-right in droves who actually use AI like this or fall for obvious misinformation for no reason other than they like the sound of it. They killed the world for this.

And it feels so good

yawn

If it’s not on Steam or GoG I pirate. Console children should go touch grass or go to school so they understand something other than defending multi-billion dollar megacorps.