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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 59 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Lots of genX Trump voters for a generation that identifies with "sneering distrust of everything". Or are we talking about Q-Anon-style "sneering distrust of everything (except this totally believable source that conveniently aligns with the far right)"?

Look up some exit polls/surveys, e.g. this one: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/

According to this, people born in the 60s (late boomers/early gen X) was the age cohort most likely to vote for Trump, and people born in the 70s and 80s still preferred Trump.

Though age cohort wasn't nearly as good as predicting the voting decision than other markers like urban/rural, black/non-black or atheist/christian.

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Has anyone ever told you that “lots” isn’t “all”?

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody claimed it was every single gen x? A statement was made that a large portion (in this case a majority) of gen x voted in favour of Trump; which is backed up by exit polls

[–] Vreyan31@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Do you understand aggregate descriptors? That it is quite typical and appropriate to talk about groups based on their average or median value, even if it is acknowledged that there is a proportion of exceptions?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's strange because the vast majority of my GenX in all my circles are super left. But I'm a suburban guy with most of my acquaintances in high literacy areas.

Once you get outside of the suburbs, things change. I could see gen-X going full conspiracy theorist, then double-thinking as propaganda feeds them ideas.