Thread 937225513

Anyone else notice that millennials have grown more conservative in recent years?

At least, I (also millennial) have noticed more of a conservative shift in the last half-decade. But not necessarily "conservative" in the politic sense; rather "conservative" in a cultural or general way. Like the kind people fall into when they get older.

Where, for example, they're more sceptical of new things in favour of what they grew up with. Or personal responsibility become more of a pressing manner (while also harbouring disdain for those who don't follow it). Or an increased preference for order and stability than experimenting with change or new routines. Or gradual contempt for younger generations similar to how older generations looked at us when we were young.

Basically the kind of conservative temperament that creep up on you with age. Nothing big, but it's still depressing for a variety of (obvious) reasons.

>>937225513 (OP)
Kys glownigger swine lulz death to all faggots hail satan 666

I was going to say "nope" after reading the first line. I grew up very deeply immersed in conservative politics. As a kid even I was going around the neighborhood handing out pamphlets for local Republican candidates. Later actually did the design and writing for those pamphlets. Went to the March for Life in DC in high school. Used to spend a lot of time in online forums arguing conservative positions. Was a Republican Party precinct committeeman for 8 years.

But when Trump was nominated as the Republican candidate in 2016, I went and changed my registration to Independent. I withheld my vote for him that year and in 2020. In 2024, I voted straight D down the ticket, not because I agreed with any of their positions but because it was necessary to place opposition in front of the nutjobs who had hijacked the Republican party.

However, as I read the rest of your post, it actually did resonate with me. And I'd argue that the two are not in contradiction, but rather that opposing the MAGA movement which is seeking to disrupt what we knew IS the conservative thing to do.

My likewise millennial, ex-military brother is on the same page mostly. He hasn't gotten to the point of voting D but is withholding any support from Republican candidates unless they have demonstrated clear opposition to Trump in both word and action.

>>937225513 (OP)
Only the ones who use tiktok, I've noticed. Every time without fail, when I heard someone talking politics from a conservative side, they always use tiktok. It's like a hivemind, the new thing right now is Trump refusing to release the epstein files. If they mention that at all, they are hard on the right and use tiktok. Dead giveaway.

>>937225513 (OP)
Life experience and having something to protect makes you conservative

>>937226533
>Hivemind is trump refusing to release Epstein
Nigger you're fucking stupid

>>937225513 (OP)
It happens when you grow up, you'll get there eventually

I got tired of hearing my more liberal friends and classmates echoing catchphrases like NPCs. It's the same case with my right-leaning friends, though they're not as bad. (Think Ron Paul 2008 and 2012 voters.) I voted Libertarian and still support their candidates.

>>937225545
fpbp kys op nigger

>>937227504
no it doesnt, i was born in a military household and im extremely liberal as most of my family as moved to the left. the right are literal retarded baboons now

>>937225513 (OP)
no, everyone noticed, Trump won the election

>>937227947
they bought into a showman not the right. nobody actually likes the right. fuck billionaire scum. unless the ads brainwashed you

>>937229130
>nobody actually likes the right
you really need to get out of your left-wing bubble and interact with actual people

>>937229331
i dont watch media fgt

>>937229130
>fuck billionaire scum
Democrats had over $1B in campaign funds, more than Trump had, largely donated from corporate interests, how delusional are you?

>>937229344
you don't need to, a large portion of social media and the internet at large is a left-wing bubble
go outside

>>937229396
derp, is that what the oligarch party told you fgt?

>>937229513
no, it's public record, you don't have to believe me, you can look it up yourself

>>937229513
Nta, it's public record that dems received more total donations from billionaires, and had more billionaire donors, in 2024. Dems have received 90% of all yearly tech industry political donations since the 2010s and have received the majority of Wall Street donations since 2018.

It's also public record that the dems' core voter demographic has since 2020 become the very rich and the very poor, while reps now hold the lower-middle to middle class aka the working class.

>>937229496
yea sure, i thought the right was becoming dominate. your breath smells like billionaire ball sacks

If Republicans are the party of the working class, why do they fight so hard for tax breaks for billionaires, crush unions, and gut healthcare?

>>937229923
are you pretending Trump didn't win the election, or that Republicans hold a majority?
having heavily moderated left-leaning echo chambers online doesn't change reality
and normal people think trans shit the left keeps pushing is weird and they want illegals deported

>>937230136
this, explain it trumpers?

>>937230136
Nobody said they're the party of the working class. But they are the party the working class is recently voting for. Youd have to ask the working class why, but then you'd have to talk to filthy poors, and champagne socialists don't like that sort of thing.

>>937230158
ask me how i know youre in a right bubble?

'psst the left dont push trans shit. thats right win boogieman shit. just the left doesnt attack them like nazis

>>937230226
>psst the left dont push trans shit
they literally do, that's what Democratic politicians actually talk about, what?
those words come out of their own mouths, it's not a boogeyman the right invented, they actually say this stuff themselves, and people are tired of it

>>937230211
if the working class is voting GOP, maybe ask why they’re backing the same people who gutted their unions, froze their wages, and shipped their jobs overseas.

spoiler: it’s not because they “love conservatism.” it’s because decades of propaganda told them “real freedom” means cheering for billionaires and hating anyone who cares about them.

and calling them “filthy poors”? thanks for proving exactly how these psyops work

>>937230226
>psst the left dont push trans shit
Lol, lmao.
Every ranking DNC member signed a statement urging the Supreme Court to rule against state bans on sex reassignment surgery for minors, and every ranking DNC member decrird the court when it said that ban was perfectly fine.

>>937230226
this isn't photoshopped, this is an actual screenshot from a DNC event

>>937230280
you dont watch left shit remember? youve backed it up by saying they push trans stuff. in b4 2 second anecdote you watched 500x in your right wing manoshpere bubble

>>937230297
>who gutted their unions, froze their wages, and shipped their jobs overseas
They aren't voting for Bill Clinton and NAFTA, though. Or Obama with the TPP. Are you lost?
>how dare you point out that cozy leftists hate the poor
>also surely those poors are just too stupid to understand their own interests, must be all the propaganda
Not beating the allegations, sonny

>>937230299
sure nazi, protecting =/= pushing

>>937225513 (OP)
>Nothing big, but it's still depressing for a variety of (obvious) reasons.
Can you explain this part? I'd say our move towards conservatism is a normal thing.

>>937230349
it's obvious you're a shit troll and aren't from this country

>>937230341
> silly anecdote nobody saw
like pottery. i bet you think thats pushing it

>>937225513 (OP)
>>937225513 (OP)
Nope. I'm seeing the exact opposite where young adults are realizing the system failed and is 100% rigged against them, to where if they aren't starting with family capital.... it's nearly impossible to be successful and at best, you're working just to have all your funds taken back from you with rent and bills.

The only young people that are "conservative," I've ever seen, still live with parents and think the Zombie Carpenter is blessing the party that Fox News preaches about. i.e. the absolute dumbest and youngest people.
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There really needs to be an intelligence test for voting and the opinions/beliefs of the dumbest cattle shouldn't matter. These people are no smarter than toddlers.

I've never once in my life met a "conservative" who's not the dumbest sack of shit ever. "Oh please, big daddy government, sky daddy says we should have even less rights. Tread harder on me, government!"

>>937230398
NTA but a lot of people feel that kids shouldn't even be told about transvestites. Personally I think it shouldn't be taught at schools at all.

>>937230443
Counterpoint; almost all young straight white men are conservative.

>>937230435
next youll call me the logfag. kys right trash

>>937230459
Based moderate

>>937230442
>nobody saw
everyone saw it, what do you mean?

>>937230475
>logfag
who?

>>937225513 (OP)
>Anyone else notice that millennials have grown more conservative in recent years?
It's called "aging".

>>937230459
>transvestites
NTA but your baggage is showing grandpa. fuck off with the disingenuous crap. teaching kids about trans people isn’t indoctrination, it’s education. it’s called empathy. kids aren’t dumb, they can handle diversity just fine without your fear soaked projection. the agenda panic is a steaming pile of shit

>>937230443
>I've never once in my life met a "conservative" who's not the dumbest sack of shit ever. "Oh please, big daddy government, sky daddy says we should have even less rights. Tread harder on me, government!"
Sounds like the conservatives you meet are all from 2005. No wonder your anti-conservative messaging is so stale and ineffective

>>937230541
I think since public schools are publicly funded institutions they should reflect the parents' values to some extent.

>>937230541
>teaching kids about trans people isn’t indoctrination, it’s education.
This nigga probably doesn't even know the details of Mahmoud v Taylor.
Spoiler, it was indoctrination

>>937230474
No they aren't. I've never met a single one of them.

That's just one of the many party line that you cattle bleat verbatim.

You try to act like anyone who doesn't worship the zombie carpenter has to be some gay muslim blue haired "librul". You dolts think in binary where you can only comprehend two nearly identical idealogies in America.

You know, not everyone works in that retarded paradigm right? Both parties have incontestably failed us, but undeniably one party is shitting the bed far worse at the moment, so that's where my scorn currently is.

>>937230608
>You know, not everyone works in that retarded paradigm right?
Yeah but most people do.

>>937230608
>undeniably one party is shitting the bed far worse at the moment, so that's where my scorn currently is.
Totally agreed, corporate democrats are the absolute worst

>>937225513 (OP)
people on average do get more conservative with age. they also get fatter, slower, and dumber.

agreed that it's a bummer. keep exercising, read books, and don't turn into a fat retarderd MAGAt, kids

>>937230594
oh wow, you dropped a random court case like that’s supposed to impress someone. “Mahmoud v Taylor”? congrats, you memorized a footnote and still missed the plot.

public schools don’t exist to coddle your paranoia. they teach facts, not your curated version of reality. empathy isn’t indoctrination

>>937230574
and if your values can’t survive a second of open discussion, maybe they’re not values. maybe they’re just bigotry dressed up as tradition

>>937230541
>teaching kids about trans people isn’t indoctrination,
yes sit is, kids don't even know about sex or sexual orientation yet, they haven't even hit puberty, they have zero frame of reference
there's no reason it even needs to be brought up that young, maybe in highschool, maybe

>>937230695
>congrats, you memorized a footnote
That's funny, because trans activists have been screeching about its consequecnes (for them) for weeks now. No more mandatory queen story books in public schools. Bummer for you.

>>937230695
Maybe what you call bigotry we call family values. In any case we can agree to disagree and you can leave other people’s kids out of it. You’re welcome to teach your own kids about transvestites at home. It doesn’t need to be part of the curriculum.

>>937230836
>muh weak family values that need all the protection they can get
Congrats, so did the Nazis. Not all ‘values’ are worth passing down dinosaur

>>937230904
Sure, but that’s for the parents to decide, not you. Or at least not you alone.

>>937230904
>Not all ‘values’ are worth passing down dinosaur
The public agrees, which is why child transition and child "gender education" is decisively unpopular

>>937230785
sorry you're so triggered by drag queens? maybe your masculinity is flimsier than a wet noodle and isnt worth much

>>937230949
Land of the free where governments tell parents and doctors how to do their jobs. Way to loose the plot retards.

>>937230967
2010 called, it wants its arguments back.
You can say whatever you like, the reality is the same - you've been prevented from indoctrinating kids and you're seething over it.

>>937231012
Teachers are literally government employees.

>>937231012
>government tells parents and doctors how to do their jobs
Yes, that's always been true. Welcome to reality.

>>937227452
When a large group of people all start talking about the same thing at the same time, what else do you call it? Hivemind fits perfectly.

>>937231012
>where governments tell parents and doctors how to do their jobs.
...the government is elected by the people, and the people don't want their kids in public schools being taught weird shit they don't agree with, that's how that works, by design
if you want your kids to learn about trans stuff then you teach it to them, it's not something that should be in an elementary school curriculum

>>937231078
nobody said teacher? reading comp?

>>937231078
Teachers aren’t federal agents. They're hired and managed at the local level. So lumping them in with “the government” is a reach

>>937231130
I’m talking about public schools. People don’t want lgbt shit taught to their kids in public schools and that’s totally reasonable.

>>937231127
Thank you. You explained it better than I did.

>>937231056
this was never about the kids. your cults just angry they might grow up thinking for themselves instead of echoing your insecurity. youre the ones seething at nothing

>>937230949
>>937230967
>>937231127
>>937230836
>>937230949
>>937230967
You trans people are like .06% of the population at best right.

You fucktards blow this shit ridiculously out of proportion. And they're no threat either. Not like your local clergy leaders and conservative boyscout leaders, who you fully trust.

You fucktards are so stupid that your politicians scare you sensely with a chimera like "the trans threat" to where they strip you of your rights wholesale and you dumb motherfuckers cheer.

Every political debate with you tards has to go back to the imaginary threat of some disdained outgroup. It's all you chimps understand.

>>937231172
you don’t get to erase people just because you’re uncomfortable. public schools serve everyone’s kids, not just the ones raised by bigots. they make private schools if you werent so poor. thank the right for that too

>>937225513 (OP)
I haven't really seen that to be the case, but there are retarded, degenerate millennials, like in any generation - so of course a portion of them will become rightoids.

>>937231233
>You trans people
>everybody i dont agree with is trans
not that i care what you project but you space like a reddit tourist and you type like someone who's never had to defend a thought in their life. get back to whining about trans people ruining your fast food, you facebook uncle

>>937231275
Public schools should reflect the values of the community.

>>937231233
Meh, then stop using minorities as weapons against us.

>>937231233
>You trans people are like .06% of the population at best right.
then why is the left pushing their ideology so hard if there's almost none of them? why does it need to be taught in schools? why do we need legislation for them?

>>937231233
>You trans people are like .06% of the population at best right.
Then they should stop demanding ridiculous concessions from the 99.4%.

>a chimera like "the trans threat"
>doctors to every parent of a gender-confused kid since 2014: "you better transition them or they'll kill themselves"
>doctors in 2024: "ywah turns out we said that for years knowing there wasn't any evidence of it"
Lol, eat shit, the people are onto you.

>>937225513 (OP)
No, they've just become better centrists. It isn't wrong to question if homosexuality, depression, autism, ADD, etc might be more affected by nurture rather than nature, but if you were to say any of that during any time of their lives up to like 2015, you would immediately be dubbed a radical right wing conservative.

>>937225513 (OP)
of course. there's an old saying:
>if you're young and conservative, you don't have a heart
>if you're old and liberal, you don't have a brain

>>937234335
Similar:
>a liberal is a conservative who hasn't yet been mugged

>>937225513 (OP)
The radical change that we all wanted was successfully co-opted by the DNC. Abolishing gender became >>937230341.
Abolishing police became defund the police became reform the police became spend more money on the police for body cams they just turn off became ban menthols on day 1 of Biden's term.
Support the 99% became literally nothing, totally erased, it was an unsellable product so we were blitzed with identity ads. Communism to even think of this. Sanders went up against a rigged primary twice, and the whole system circled the wagons and locked down as hard as possible to keep him out. The RNC literally does not have as much power over its party as the DNC, the DNC has had to assimilate the American left for decades so it is very good at it, but the RNC's lack of practice at assimilating its right wing lead directly to Trump.
>>937229864
>>937230211
And nobody actually likes Trump. Trump leads a loose coalition of people that all hate everything. This is the nexus of conservationism, sure, which is founded on the principle that when change and innovation happens, you Just Say No to it, and Trump says no louder and harder than anyone, and is very, very good at basically trolling. You can draw a straight line from /b/ to Donald Trump, in many ways he is the /b/tard president. The main Trump policy justification is the lulz. The cruelty is the point because that's how you get lulzy. And these oligarch Rs and Ds just seethe, and you feel a little better that you live in the rust belt (ruined by corporations going to Mexico and China) or the ag belt (ruined by corporations going to Mexico and China and then buying all the family land for pennies on the dollar) because at least the coastal elites are seething. Lulz.

So that all happened. And the rate of change kept picking up. T*kT*k is more foreign to Y**T*be than F*ceb**k was to Mys**ce. You lose the ability to keep accelerating.
Unless you practice.

>>937235479
You have to actually practice being mentally flexible. Most people ascribe mental flexibility to childishness (because children are flexible and able to learn) and worship becoming closed off as they age. Conformity pressure drags you down like gravity, all those little crabs pulling at you from across space and time, and you fall into the center. If you don't have this conformity pressure, you can actually think, because you're asking yourself what is correct, rather than what is popular, and that's why /b/ actually did used to be good, because the culture (the thing you conform to) was about not caring about what other people thought, and doing what was funny, but people stop posting on /b/ as they age because they see it as something they should stop doing in high school (not realizing that when they themselves were underage b&s, at least some of the other posters were a wide slice of ages - like, the >>>/hc/ content that used to mostly be on /b/ because there was no other board you could post your ex blowing you on was made by gen x or even boomers who actually fucked, and you see their legacy in contemporary IRL, dilf, and gf/ex threads, proving that /b/ was always about porn more than anything else). So you choose to ossify. And I think that's what you're getting at, OP. It's hard to see, especially for us, here. Like, you're trying to ask a serious question on /b/ of all places, in 2025, $CURRENT_YEAR. You obviously have the degree of cognitive flexibility that most people will never even know they should aspire to. It's hard to watch the people around you choosing to stagnate.

Traps are good (but gay), loli is love, loli is life, /b/ is not your personal army, lurk more. Lurk. Just observe and think and when you're ready, try to contribute to the lulz. But try to build something, not in a faggy Chanology way, but the real way, anonymously, unselfishly, egolessly contributing original content that lifts up everyone.

>>937225513 (OP)
TL;DR
>anyone else notice that the thing that always happens is still happening?