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Summary

Ahead of the 2024 election, Generation Z has sparked a trend on TikTok, “canceling out” family members’ votes by voting opposite their Trump-supporting relatives. Many young women post videos showing them voting for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, contrasting with family members supporting Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Although Gen Z voters lean slightly toward Harris, a significant portion supports Trump. With over 47 million early votes cast, polls show a tight race, especially in key swing states.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Smells like Gen Z spirit

[–] LovableSidekick 13 points 8 hours ago

Finally a great use of the word "cancel".

[–] RBWells 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Good thing we have lots of kids, so I as usual cancel out my husband's vote (if he even bothers this time, R but not enthusiastic about Trump) and all the kids align with me. It may not matter here, with the influx of racist northerners, but who knows?

ETA I have at least one who was not going to vote when it was the two old guys but will vote for Harris.

[–] feedum_sneedson 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

she looks like the black guy from the good place

[–] CaptPretentious 2 points 2 hours ago

Lol, that would be Chidi.

[–] Ensign_Crab 22 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Huh. I thought young people never voted, so we could ignore their concerns.

Guess that was a fucking lie from people who just wanted to ignore young people's concerns.

[–] macrocarpa 0 points 3 hours ago

Orrrr....hear me out here

This is a news article about a set of social media posts and has absolutely no link or relevance to the voting register.

you know the cool thing about people voting? You know who has voted and in what age group they are. Then you can look at the age group and say things like hmmm wow thats weird there are like 34 million people in the US between 18 and 24, but only 7 million of them voted, I wonder if the other 27 million would have swayed the margin on an election decided by hundreds of thousands of votes

Young people aren't participating yet they have the most skin in the game. It's daft.

Imo Implement compulsory voting, introduce third parties that can act as a protest vote, watch what the fuck happens. Suddenly the major parties have to be accountable outside their base.

[–] Telodzrum 5 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

The data doesn’t lie. People under 30 vote at embarrassingly lower rates than every other group.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

Can confirm. I am 30 and voted. My brother is 29 and claims to not vote.

[–] Ensign_Crab 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Do they vote for Democrats less than Republicans vote for Democrats? Because the party expends a fuckton of effort on trying to win over Republicans.

[–] Frigid 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

To put it in a way Lemmy would understand: who is it easier to convince to try out your favorite distro, an Ubuntu user or someone who's never used Linux?

[–] Ensign_Crab 1 points 17 minutes ago

And Democrats keep trying to win over hostile Windows users.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Because people under 30 never have anyone to represent them. And it's not a "oh they don't match my views 100% so I'm not gonna pick either" thing, for the average leftist we're lucky to get a choice between someone who represents us 0%, or 0.2%.

[–] Telodzrum 4 points 7 hours ago

Bullshit, quit providing post hoc justification for your own shitty behavior.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It will take a while for us to get past the inertia of Boomers who have been gaslighting everyone for decades.

[–] Ensign_Crab 2 points 11 hours ago

And centrists who don't want to listen to more progressive youngins.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Good to see, but in my country the trend is: Vote alt right because it's edgy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Nice, 2016 throwback vibes

[–] tired_n_bored 74 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Fuck. Gen Z should not "lean slightly toward Harris", Gen Z should be an overwhelming progressive and inclusive force.

Fuck Twitter and TikTok that fried men's brains with shit like Andrew Tate and similar things.

[–] JustARaccoon 10 points 13 hours ago

I mean Harris and "progressive and inclusive" aren't necessarily one and the same, from the sounds of it it's Harris that should be pushing more progressive, but in the context of this election I agree they should be voting for Harris

[–] nieminen 13 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I don't think you can blame Twitter and TikTok for that. People who like Tate's toxic masculinity incel garbage will find somewhere that feeds into their preferences.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago

I don't think this is necessarily true when talking about modern social media

[–] tired_n_bored 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well the following is my unscientific belief:

Social media algorithms are studied to make you see always the same kind of beliefs and everything opposing them is discouraged. They incentive inflammatory, divisive and hateful content in order to obtain more engagement, especially on Twitter.

If they used Mastodon or Lemmy, those people would be less tense.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

If they used Mastodon or Lemmy, those people would be less tense.

If they had more normies on it, maybe. But Lemmy seems to be composed primarily of the tensest people in the world to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Lemmy has some of the most obnoxious Dunning Kruger shit on any social media platform, especially when it comes to politics.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

TikTok I'd wait for evidence, but Elon absolutely boosted people like Tate

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

It's probably more that gen z voters are notorious for not responding to survey requests, and ignoring texts and phone calls from unknown numbers

[–] RangerJosie 17 points 21 hours ago

The kids are alright.

[–] Etterra 85 points 1 day ago

Let this be a lesson to everybody - don't marry a Republican.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

My parents would vote by absentee ballot. Dad would have them do it together at the table at the same time. If my mom wanted to vote differently, she'd never have been able to.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I was raised with the very strong belief that my vote was private, and I never had to tell anyone. I think it probably came from my father's own experiences as a hippie during the War in Vietnam, and voting differently than his conservative family...

Unfortunately, he's seemingly forgotten all of that in an angry pro-Trump haze, to the point where I'm convinced that he would do this to my mother now. If he had to. I think he's already got her conditioned to not have a political mind of her own. So no need.

Seems clear now that it was always just the typical boomer mantra of "me me me." The only reason he had any concept of being ostracized by family for voting a certain way, is because it happened to him. Now it doesn't matter because they all know he's a fucking nutter, so no need to hide it I guess.

In other words, if I were being raised by him right now, he'd be saying something completely different (and probably demanding to see my ballot). Just like every other value he instilled in me, then immediately ignored for the rest of his life.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That sounds illegal. Domestic Abuse AND Voter Intimidation

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes. Cops the the rescue.

They literally couldn't enact a fully passed bill preventing domestic abusers from owning guns because the police are full of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Hey, 60% of police have not been caught beating their wives!

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 103 points 1 day ago

My father use to send me into the voting booth with my mother to make sure she "remembered" who to vote for....no election officials ever stopped me from going in there and I was too young to understand that I was a spy. My father's not violent but I'm sure I wasn't the only child spy being used by men who were.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Gen Z supports trump."

[Citation Desperately Needed[

[–] leadore 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/breaking-down-gender-gap-gen-z-politics-desk-rcna177155 about the poll results they're referring to in the article. Gen Z has the biggest gender gap of all the age groups, with women for Harris by a 33 point margin, but the men about evenly split between Harris and Trump.

If you think about the new voters coming of voting age for this election, it's been 9 years since Trump rode down the escalator to kick off his campaign. So they were too young to hear about or pay attention to a lot the unsavory stuff about him back then, like the Access Hollywood tape. For some reason, many Gen Z men find him appealing, but not Gen Z women. For instance today I saw this video of two Gen Z young women hearing the Access Hollywood audio for the first time. You can see how horrified they are (as most normal people were back when it first came out).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago

I hope Gen Z shows up. I don't buy into poll results.

[–] bitchkat 39 points 1 day ago

I can't cancel my parents out because they're dead. But they actually got more liberal as they got older and they would have canceled my sister's Wisconsin trump vote.

[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 day ago (18 children)

We as a country need to mentally prepare ourselves to owe an absolutely massssssssssive debt of gratitude to The Women.

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