Summary
Despite his conservative platform, Donald Trump made unexpected gains among Gen Z voters. Exit polls showed a shift, with young men favoring Trump by 2 points, a reversal from Biden’s previous lead.
Gen Z’s support for Trump may have been underestimated, as an Axios poll found nearly half of Gen Z voters lied about their vote, with young men more likely to support Trump quietly.
Trump connected with young men through appearances on popular podcasts and endorsements from social media influencers.
Disillusionment with the economy and frustration with the Democratic Party’s approach to working-class issues also drove some Gen Z voters to seek change, with Trump capitalizing on these sentiments.
Secret republicans?
Everyone I know who listens to Joe Rogan is clearly Republican if they aren’t stating it themselves.
With dumbass hot takes like “You don’t need vitamins. You just need to concentrate about the pump.”
Gotta keep em busy somehow voting stupidly and paying wild interest rates on their lifted trucks or they might start thinking for themselves
I genuinely think Rogan is diluted to think those things rather than think big picture and make nefarious recommendations. On the other hand though he does hock neutropic supplements, so it’s just confusing to put a label on him. He’s legit uneducated and just parrots smart statements sometimes.
He was friends with Alex Jones for years. He got the entertainment side of him without the crazy dangerous conspiracy theories. Just the normal ones. I don’t hate Rogan. I just don’t find him funny or entertaining anymore. But I also haven’t listened to him in years. Maybe it’s worse now.
I’ve been listening to Rogan since 2017ish and he has totally shifted rightward. I used to listen to every episode because it was usually either funny or informative. Now it’s preachy and just captured by right wing talking points that border on conspiracy theories. My takeaway is that he listens to his comedian friends instead of his more educated guests, which is a microcosm of America. His show is only as good as the guest and subject matter… Neil DeGrasse Tyson? Fantastic. Trump? Problematic. It just comes across that since he is now in the running to be a billionaire with good investing strategy, he is now switching his interests and views to match. If you recognize a guest, definitely listen, but skip over everything else.
My little sister actually dodged a date with one of these chucklefucks only a few days ago. I think they were supposed to meet on Friday for the first time, but she asked if they could meet this coming week because she was slightly freaking out about the implications of the election results… dude straight up admitted he was excited, and that he was a MAGA/MAHA (I had to look that up - apparently it’s “make America healthy again” (???)). Instablocked that fucker lmao.
I wonder how many start trying to hide their magabrain, their magagear, their media diet, etc…for the early part of dating.
If my experience is any indication, they won’t be able to keep their yap shut about it for long, and…welcome to getting ghosted, swiped left on, and just generally having a very, very long dry streak. :)
Any woman who’s terrified by the results needs to adopt South Korea’s 4Ds policy. Let’s see how these incels like an even smaller dating pool.
It will be hilarious to see republican men complaining about women staying abstinent as a direct result of their attacks on women’s rights.
There was a reason they dipped deep into social media and podcasts, Dems didn’t understand this.
Less public / archived spaces as well. Videogame lobbies were rampant with Trump / MAGA messaging in 2019. Not sure what its like now as I quit all online gaming. Anyone 14-17 during that period who are now of voting age has likely gotten a massive dose of right wing propaganda.
Oh, but she went on The View! So, she’s all set.
In other words: brainless morons let Rogan take a dump in their skull. It’s like the people that used to let Rush take a giant shit in their heads on the daily.
Remember how everyone was telling us how magical the next “generation” is? Yeah, I wasn’t really buying it, either. I fucking hate that Maher is right about this kind of thing, though.
Cmon, you gotta admit Tom Sawyer is a jam.
Young men have become more right wing for sure.
2 percent is not the wave they want it to be. Especially not with 10 million Democrats staying home.
…this was never a secret.
It sure was to the democratic party.
They underestimated the puppeteer who bought a social media for push hateful propaganda.
I think people also underestimate the amount of twitch streamers that are leaning right wing. Asmogold I think it the most popular one, but there are many others as well
But Lemmy told me Gen Z was going to save us all this election.
If only it was just Lemmy…I was being told by so many self-styled authorities that this generation had some kind of magical properties that no one that came before them has had, and just by virtue of “getting it” when it came to consuming things like social media (or something).
This is dumb. It’s always been dumb. The target demo is the target; they aren’t savvier than anyone else is that is a target. So when boomers were saying stupid shit about how Gen X “just gets it” when it comes to something like MTV, or the early days of the (privatized) 'net, that was just as stupid. MTV was a product and Gen X was the target demo, emphasis on target. The elitists quickly figured out a way to monetize the (privatized) 'net with some of the first target demo being boomers and Gen X.
It’s no different today. Without serious education in critical thinking, this stuff is only weaponized against the target demo, they don’t know shit about the new product any more than anyone else does.
But in the same breath they said that Democrats were right to ignore young people’s concerns because they don’t vote.
If they’re too insignificant to listen to, they’re too insignificant to blame.
I may slap the next person I hear say that. Fuck gen z soy boi beta cucks!
Lockdowns and distancing supposedly ended one of our flu strains but unfortunately stupidity never dies off.
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I don’t see any silver linings in any of this.
This was never a secret…
Nah, that was already known
