Trump’s victory reveals secret Republicans: Joe Rogan-obsessed Gen Z men

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1. Andrew Tate is definitely also a factor

2. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a secret.

3. The future is fucked if a significant portion of the population considers those people to be credible forums for information.

   Like that bald guy literally falls for any ridicilous statements, and their “fact check” is like whatever the first paragraph on a google search might say

4. My cousin is GenZ, he works shift work, he gets a lot of overtime, he thinks Trump just gave him a loophole to not pay taxes.

5. Rogan, Barstool, and Elon buying Twitter really fucked the future generation. Too many of them thinking they can be millionaires day trading also adds to this.

6. “Secret”?

   You mean, “We haven’t been listening”? There have been a lot of folk trying to point out their existence for a decade, and it didn’t start with Joe Rogan.

7. Not surprising. Clear your search history, go on youtube or twitter and check out some video game content. Then review what recommendations the algorithm feeds you. You’re going to start seeing manosphere shit and complaints about “wokeness” in games. GenZ and like gen alpha are gonna be fucked.

8. Trump got the incel vote. No surprise.

9. Gen Z man here. It’s no secret. Kids in my high school would joke about the immigrants working at fast food restaurants and how they would work for practically nothing doing jobs anyone could hate. It’s fucked up out there.

10. I grew up in the 2000s and early 2010s. Generationally it seems like millennials and the oldest gen Z were an anomaly in the way they vote. I remember when being conservative meant you were weird and it gave off homeschooled Christian vibes. In a bad way.

11. There was a post this week on Ask Reddit about what scares folks for the near future. The most common answers were gen z not: knowing how to read, not knowing how to use a computer and having no critical thinking skills. Teachers said their students can’t even figure out who the protagonist is in stories. Which helps make sense of the Rogan manosphere obsession.

12. I’m sure they’ll LOVE the porn ban

13. It’s a well known pipeline.

14. At one time I thought media literacy was the main issue of the US. Now I know it was just literacy, full stop.

15. If you look at exit polls for 2020 and 2024, Harris did better with old people. She did roughly equally as well with whites as Biden did. Where she dropped was minorities. Where she dropped was the associates and under for education. Where she dropped was with 100k and under households. She did better with 100k+ households. She did better with bachelor+ degrees. This election wasn’t white people. This election wasn’t the elderly. This election was decided by manipulation and propaganda. All those YouTube shorts, Podcasters, etc. spreading misinformation is what cost Harris this race. Ofc, Trump only wants to attack ‘fake news’ mainstream media. Mainstream media is primarily consumed by 45+ year olds (people she did better with). If you are on the left, blame TikTok. Blame Twitter. Blame podcasters. Blame independent media. Go watch right leaning independent media vs left. Right will NEVER admit their side does anything wrong. On the left? They try to hard to appear credible. They admit fault. They try to be realists. Being real isn’t what attracts those lower educated and socioeconomic people. What attracts them is emotion. They feed off emotion. They are more in-line with their natural instincts. List goes on and on. Just an L by the left from a psychological and sociological perspective.

16. This was only a “secret” to the large mass of older people who paid no attention to what younger people were actually doing or saying beyond “tiktok dances and skibidi something”. It’s not like these guys were *quiet* about it. It was exactly the opposite. At best the Democrats saw what these guys were saying and assumed that they wouldn’t actually go to the polls.

    That said, I’m not sure that the Democrats could have crafted a message that would actually resonate with these guys even if they tried. The whole message of Rogan, Tate, Shapiro, Peterson, etc, etc is that all the problems are someone else’s fault and if you persecute those others then your life will improve. You can’t out-message someone who’s willing to lie and promise easy answers without doing exactly the same thing.

17. Gen Z is not as smart as they think they are.

    Which is sad.

18. Let’s be honest. Right wing ideology has infiltrated all
    Social media and some of the major podcasts.

19. The few Elon Musk fans I know are Trump supporters.
    Elon feeds them propaganda content created by right-wing media every day and they believe it since “Musk is a genius and he can’t be wrong”.

20. Who had “democracy falls with help from the janitor from ‘News Radio'” on their 2024 bingo card?

21. Any Gen Z man still on their parents’ insurance? Better hope the ACA isn’t repealed.

22. A kid I work with told me he lived better under trump. He was 15 when Trump took office…

23. Oh my God shut up.

    He got the same number of votes that he did in 2020. Stop acting like he got some new big deal demographic or something. Democrats didn’t vote. That’s it and that’s all.

24. Can we stop with the gen z will save us shit now. They’re literally the worst generation yet and this election confirmed this.

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