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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Everyone over 40: "Yup, social media has really fucked those kids' brains up"

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

I am well over 40 and I agree with OP. Then again, I didn't give up my empathy at the door to adulthood.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Whereas the reality is that things are so fucked because these idiots get their news from Facebook. The Trump administration admitted to making a mistake deporting Kilmer Garcia - they’ll never find out because they’re too busy sharing OAN articles about that trans women they bullied out of fencing.

[–] Fenrir@lemmings.world 11 points 1 week ago

Social media was a mistake. User age has nothing to do with it.

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[–] Floosh@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

I'm glad to see folks talking on here. Makes me feel better knowing we're here all going through it. Gives me that Band of Brothers vibe "We stand alone, together."

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Kind of feels like there's two kinds of people out there right now in the US. Once you think we're fucked, and the ones who think they have enough generational wealth that "their" kids won't be fucked.

There's probably a sizeable third pool out there that are just watching propaganda and going everything is fine everybody's overreacting or I don't care it doesn't affect me. I think even that pool's shrinking a bit.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If the cure to existential dread is turning 40, it can't come soon enough.

[–] Kobester1985@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I turned 40 this year. Sadly it hasn't helped my existential dread at all.

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[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Half a century here, I've never had a time in my life where the next year was better than the last

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[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Look at the bright side: every day is the best day of the rest of our lives!

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago

Translation: every day will be worse than the last until death. I agree.

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[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

I wouldn’t be gentle. But then again both my parents are dead so I don’t actually have anyone to be bitter at.

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