• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Why would that be hard to imagine?

    Their brains literally aren’t fully formed yet. And the prefeontal cortex is the last to develop.

    Younger people will always trend towards “anti establishment” because of it, which makes a political landscape incredibly dangerous when the only two options only care about the wealthy.

    The best way to prevent fascism is a pro worker socially progressive party.

    Neoliberals stole that from us, then made America play Russian roulette 3x in a row with trump as the gun, and we lost twice.

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      19 days ago

      You should still have a decent idea of right from wrong.

      I wasn’t a perfect adult at that age but I wouldn’t have worked unelected for a billionaire to dismantle a government.

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        19 days ago

        Humans are not innately good, we need socialized like any animal.

        Lots of people don’t understand that, and it has terrible consequences