• Tedesche@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    As a serious answer, I’d guess Lemmy skews younger. Too many idealists here to think the average user base has the wisdom that comes from experience.

    Sorry, younglings. You’ll know when you get older: the long view clearly demonstrates optimism is a lie. History is a corkscrew. Progress is made, but only through endless repetitions of past mistakes.

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      “Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over thirty who is not a conservative has no brains.”

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        4 days ago

        That’s a limerick conservative parents tell themselves to feel better about their rebellious kids.

        And not what I’m talking about at all.

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          Honestly, it had more validity behind it in the '80s. When you were just starting out your career you didn’t have a house yet you didn’t have any wealth amassed, The ideals of the left really shown through. But once you got older and started having some money, the fiscal Republican ticket sold you on tax cuts and provided boosts to help certain investment opportunities. It was still mostly just bullshit to make themselves rich but there was some financial opportunity there. It’s pretty much long gone for middle-class advantage anymore though.