2020 Senate + House Races

anon29622970 · October 21, 2020, 1:27pm

Their kids are becoming who they want them to be.

boredsocial · October 21, 2020, 1:28pm

It’s also really important to note that 13-14 year old boys sense of humor is heavily heavily skewed towards stuff that transgresses on their parents values. At that age I was all in on literally any joke at the expense of religion, no matter how poor the taste. I was also pretty racist at that age, although as an elder millennial I can say with some authority that we were all pretty racist and homophobic back then.

Pubescent boys want to be ‘bad’. This isn’t new that I’m aware of. In other news there are few things as outright gross as an 8th grade boy who will not shut the fuck up about sex. I know it’s perfectly normal, but sex and boundary pushing are a bad combination lol.

I will say that if I was in that discord chat I’d probably end up saying something along the lines of: “You guys know what will really annoy your parents? Being a communist. Give it a try!”

pvn · October 21, 2020, 1:50pm

I think that’s mostly it. I mean my kids play a lot of x-box or whatever and I don’t monitor thier discords/chats or whatever, and I am pretty sure they’re not turning into deplorables (because I actually talk to my kids).

grue · October 21, 2020, 2:00pm

I would have to guess these kids grow out of it by college time. I mean reddit is 95% libs, /r/politics is 100% left and progressive and gets 5000+ posts on bigger news/events.

dlk9s · October 21, 2020, 2:38pm

My 11-year-old chats with his friends while playing games online. He has a friend who is a Trumper, but my boy understands that it is almost certainly because his parents are Trumpers. My son lamented yesterday that his friend said, “All lives matter.”

dlk9s jr said, “Well yeah, of course all lives matter, but that’s not the point.”