Ask Lemmygrad

Define "online"? Us old bastards don't tend to hang out in places full of teenagers. Different social media platforms tend to be pretty age segregated, and the older people are, the less likely they are to have grown up terminally online and in the sort of places where most of the online left congregate, like Discord.

Young people are here? I thought most of us were millennial ages. lol.
Fuck I'm so old.

I thought hexbear was largely a 30s crowd

Young people are just more terminally online

There's actually quite a few older leftists on Hexbear, but I think the age difference is more a function of technology adoption than a particular leftist thing.

Definitely am older than 25, lol

I'm. So. Fucking. Old.

The older you get, the more responsibility that you have (family, chores, etc) and also you get tired and go to bed way earlier. We suck.

I'm older than 30.

You've probably been talking to my kids, then. I'm as ancient as time itself.

Of course, old leftists don't exist on the internet. I too am totally younger than 25. How do you do fellow kids?

I'm 28.

Internet is only for people under 25. They are all doing skibidi fortinet cisco dances from TitsTok.

We older people are only doing adult things, like looking outside on Sundays, so you can see if your neighbours are doing something interesting. The other time we are mostly shocked, that they weather has changed. Can you explain, why it was 0°C three days ago at night and now it is near 20°C at 12 o'clock! This is not normal, isn't? And the weather is also at fault if something hurts. Also the neighboard looked 10% less friendly yesterday, we will talk with our partner for 5 hours about that.

At evening we engage in solving crosswords, while listening to muzak.

A Planck second after you turn 25, you will be the same es the rest of us. Enjoy your youth, it will be over soon. Less internet over 25

Not being able to own a home has been a very acute and visible example of capitalist decay for some time now… and this is a phenomenon which overwhelmingly effects young adults.

Older adults were able to buy their home for much cheaper back in the 90’s or 00’s. That is to say, older adults arn’t as financially desperate in relation to the youth. This influences the politics of individuals.

Its easier to lie about age on the internet

We're dying off. Many of the people who fought the good fight in the 60s are gone and the early 1970s crowd, like me, are on our last leg. Serious protesting is a young people's game.

How do you do fellow young Leftists? I'm also 19.

It comes down to material conditions. You mostly are interacting with Anglo-westerners who's biggest cost of living concern is home ownership. The possibility of owning a home is very dependant on when you were born.

90% of Zoomers even if they come from a middle class family know they will never own their own home. Half of millennials only came to realize how fucked they are in the last decade and another 20% have been able to purchase a home and will eventually be able to pay it off so they won't question things.

Processing the fact that the system is broken is much easier when you are first stepping into the system. (like how the new guy at a workplace can see all the safety issues and maintenance concerns that everyone who worked there for years doesn't see.)

So as young people, 70% of millennials saw that there might be issues with owning a home for some of us but the degree that we would be affected didn't settle in until we had too many concerns to actually consider how to fix the issue. Zoomers are coming into adult life seeing all the accumulated problems and they want to fix things before they have any other concerns to think about.

How do you know how old internet leftists are?

I’m on the oldest end of genz and I’m in that >25 age bracket lol

How do you know that? Maybe in some circles people talk about their age more but that's not my experience.

It probably matters where you hang out too. Some sites are more frequented by different demographics.