I think people that are paying attention are fighting back, it’s just 1/3 of the country love this and another 1/3 aren’t paying attention at all and have no idea what’s going on. Completely checked out
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And those "completely checked out" people somehow made it to the polling places (not forgetting the millennials who refused to vote at all, because Trump has made them believe his bs that "every politician is corrupt", just because *he* is.)
aug 25, 2025, 11:06 pm • 3 0 • view
What do you think “millennial” means? Because the *youngest* millennial was 28 in 2024 and most were over 30. Some were over 40!
aug 26, 2025, 2:07 am • 1 0 • view
Haha I just moved on from that comment. Millennials always catching strays!
aug 26, 2025, 2:10 am • 2 0 • view
It’s our lot in life!
aug 26, 2025, 2:11 am • 1 0 • view
Til the end of time, apparently
aug 26, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
So sorry for identifying "millennials" failure to turn out as part of the problem--was shocked to see it in my extended family. if you think that's (your) lot in life, why not try something different? No one can afford to stand on the sidelines now. It is now at a tipping point.
aug 26, 2025, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
You’re missing the point. Our lot in life is to be blamed for things we didn’t do. We voted at the same or higher rate as prior generations at the same age. But millennials get blamed for everything that happens. We killed all sorts of industries! We sat out the election! (None of it is true.)
aug 26, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 0 • view
OK I have never heard you killed any industries, or heard an entire generation blamed for large economic changes. No one has that kind of power, generations are not monolithic.
aug 26, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, haha, it was a huge thing in past years. Here’s an example list (although to be clear the article itself is disagreeing with the take because you are of course correct, generations are not monolithic). www.cbinsights.com/research/mil...
aug 26, 2025, 2:35 am • 2 0 • view
Blue Sky needs bookmarks.
aug 26, 2025, 3:01 am • 1 0 • view
I will have to wait to read this until later this evening after I finish daily tasks.
aug 26, 2025, 3:01 am • 1 0 • view
Thanks for taking the time!
aug 26, 2025, 3:02 am • 1 0 • view
Also (and this was not you) lots of people think “millennial” means “young person.” Thats why my initial reply *was* snarky (sorry), because I thought you were, like so many others, looking at 20 year olds and calling them millennials.
aug 26, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
OK. Makes sense; while the 30+ yo are involved with those 20 and under in their jobs, I am not. However, it makes more sense to me that truly young people might skip an election, even if I never do. I left Twitter after 10+ yrs to come here for knowledge and information
aug 26, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
I mean this sincerely, and not sneakily: your personal experience with a few people in your family is not data. Your experience is not universal. Data disproves what you’re arguing.
aug 26, 2025, 2:26 am • 2 0 • view
Fine, I am not arguing, I am telling my experience, with a wide diverse group of people, all over 30. Not arguing I have any "data", asking questions and encouraging discussion, but the little quick responses were simply not responsive and apparently I did not know the code.
aug 26, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
So? Whatever their age (in my extended family, all over 30) they did not vote, yet constantly complain. Things might have been different if those people had voted, rather than sit it out.
aug 26, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
The same can be said of every demographic. 80 million registered voters did not vote, spread across every generation.
aug 26, 2025, 2:19 am • 0 0 • view
Well I could agree with that just as a common sense statement. I tried to look it up, because 80 million seemed a lot given the numbers who did vote, but AI jumped up and gave me a bunch of gobbledegook.
aug 26, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
More people sat out than voted for either party. It was a low turnout election. 75.5 million for Kamala. 77 million for Trump. 80 million no vote. And now we get to hear for the rest of our lives it was a landslide for Trump and a mandate. Yay.
aug 26, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
Whatever might have happened in your family, 60%+ of millennials voted. We didn’t “sit it out.”
aug 26, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
In my extended family, they, and their rather large group of friends, said they did not believe their votes mattered.
aug 26, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
In my extended family, most of the older members are Trump supporters and all of us “kids” are passionately against him, and every single one of us voted to reflect that.
aug 26, 2025, 2:30 am • 2 0 • view
Glad to hear that! I have a now-former Republican brother who never voted for Trump BUT had his family "write-in" Bernie Sanders rather than vote for Hillary. In 2024 he voted with the family for Kamala and now goes to protests with me. But 30+ yo are afraid to go (they think they will be arrested)
aug 26, 2025, 5:34 am • 1 0 • view
Did that 60% vote for Trump?
aug 26, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
Slight majority for Kamala, actually, while a similar majority of voters over 45 backed Trump.
aug 26, 2025, 2:29 am • 1 0 • view
I see that. Yuk, what happened to over 65 that they believe that guy and look what is going on. Well, guess we should blame our elders, but it is pretty well spread out. Thanks for the graphic.
aug 26, 2025, 5:37 am • 1 0 • view
