Tag: GEN Z

Ocasio-Cortez ‘predicts’ end of the world in 12 years, cue Twitter mockery

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While she intended to express a sense of urgency, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez’s declaration of impending apocalypse and puzzling comparison between climate change and WWII mostly incited confusion and laughter online.

Shortly before launching the first assault in the war against global warming (eating ice-cream with comedian Stephen Colbert), the 29-year-old lawmaker made her apocalyptic prediction. She announced that the end is nigh in her interview with journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates on Monday night at a forum honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change’,” the doomsaying congresswoman revealed in her rather distinctive oratorical tone.

To prevent the coming end-times, she called millennials and members of Gen-Z into battle with her inspiring words: “And, like, this is the war – this is our World War II.”

Twitter users responded with levels of mockery scaled to the congresswoman’s wildly hyperbolic warning.

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Others were baffled by Ocasio-Cortez’s historical analogy, or imagined a war against an ecological phenomenon a bit too literally.

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But some commenters even saw the bright side of the apocalyptic proclamation.

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Mockery aside, Ocasio-Cortez’s seemingly oddly specific number is sourced in a report released by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in October last year. Well not quite predicting the end of the world, the report did suggest dire consequences in a dozen years if serious action is not taken to fight global warming.

The freshman lawmaker doubled down on her statements on Twitter, emphasizing that climate change is an “existential threat” and chalking up criticism to generational differences.

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However, more than one Twitter user noticed that Ocasio-Cortez’s words were rather reminiscent of the dire warnings issued by Al Gore, ironically almost exactly 12 years ago. Gore was slightly more pessimistic when he predicted a global emergency within ten years in his 2006 film “An inconvenient truth”; his climate-catastrophe is currently about 3 years overdue.

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Just in case her predictions do turn out to have some basis in reality, a new website has launched featuring a convenient timer to help us plan our few remaining years.

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Half Of Young Americans Believe U.S. Is Not ‘Greatest’ Country, Think U.S. Is Racist, Sexist, Survey Finds

By Joseph Curl

To hear former president Barack Obama tell it, America isn’t that exceptional (“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism,” he said shortly after moving into the White House).

And to Obama, America is pretty racist (just this month Obama said “we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues.”) What’s more, the mainstream media has been painting President Trump as an avowed racist since before he took office.

So it should come as no surprise that the young people of today don’t think America is the “greatest” country, but they do think the nation is racist.

In a survey of 1,078 Americans, conducted by polling firm YouGov and sponsored by the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG), finds that younger Americans (under 38 years old – Gen Z and Millennials), also think America is sexist. Some 46% of those polled don’t agree that “America is the greatest country in the world,” half (50%) think the U.S. is sexist, 49% say the country is racist and 47% say America’s future should be driven by socialism over capitalism.

Among the survey’s other findings:

– 38% of younger Americans do not agree that “America has a history that we should be proud of”

– One in eight (14%) of millennials agree that “America was never a great country and it never will be”

– 46% of younger Americans agree that “America is more racist than other countries”

– 84% of Americans do not know the specific rights enumerated in the First Amendment

– 19% of millennials believe that the American flag is “a sign of intolerance and hatred”

– 44% of younger Americans believe Barack Obama had a “bigger impact” on America than George Washington

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“We suspected that we would find decreasing numbers of Americans well-versed in our nation’s most important principles and young people less patriotic than the generations that came before, but we were totally unprepared for what our national survey reveals: an epidemic of anti-Americanism. said Nick Adams, Founder of FLAG.

“That half of millennials and Gen Z believe that the country in which they live is both ‘racist’ and ‘sexist’ shows that we have a major fraction of an entire generation that has been indoctrinated by teachers starting in grade school that America is what’s wrong with the world,” Adams said.

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