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Santa Lucia's avatar

Based Zoomer here. Young men I know who are politically engaged are very far right. Everyone else is sports betting.

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Arm Day Enjoyer's avatar

Even the "bros" their political engagement is mostly about proving that theyre "in the know" But they ultimately just care about their fun

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Concerned Citizen's avatar

This sounds like a good summation of the whole "groyper" thing.

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Arm Day Enjoyer's avatar

yeah but they differ in their politics. also bros are just apathetic, groypers are straight doomers who consistently follow for more blackpill overdoses

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Santa Lucia's avatar

Groypers want to be told that all women hate you and are evil. It’s why I don’t watch AF

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Arm Day Enjoyer's avatar

A lot of that has to do with socioeconomic class and the crowd you hang around imho

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Arm Day Enjoyer's avatar

"These young people they like pat buchanan"-DJT

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Wolliver's avatar

Oftentimes, an engaged minority is more important than the majority. Look at Missouri in the Civil War, for instance. The state remained in the Union, and most of its population supported the Union. Most Missouri troops fought in the Union Army. But it’s remembered as an effectively Confederate state, because the small minority of radical Bushwhackers fought so ferociously that they left their mark on the region and tied down thousands of northern troops throughout the entire Transmississippian Theater. The popular consensus during and after the war was that Missouri was a fire-eating Southern stronghold, even if the Bushwhackers never numbered more than a few hundred fighters at a time. And the stereotype was warranted, because Union troops stationed in Missouri could always count on those few Bushwhacker guerrillas giving them a very hard time.

Even if, say, 10% of white Gen Z men in the United States have hard-right, nationalist, etc. views, that’s a significant enough minority to characterize the wider demographic and earn them a reputation as a bloc that engages in a certain way. And that small minority can push the Overton window and shepherd the majority if they are loud and persistent enough, as we’re starting to see happen now.

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Rowhouse's avatar

Republicans keep forgetting how huge the AI take over of human jobs issue is. I feel a socialist like Mamdani could win nation wide if the idea is corporations can cause 50 percent unemployment among the young. Whoever grabs the AI stealing high paying White collar jobs idea will do very very well in 2028.

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Skeptical1's avatar

If you watch any YouTube golf, you’ll see plenty of these FanDeul types (I call them Portnoy’s Barstoolers). They aren’t based at all. They use a lot of fad-speak and love their black sports and entertainment heroes. NPC normies all the way. Sigh.

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Arm Day Enjoyer's avatar

Can you give me some channels/names so I can see for myself

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Skeptical1's avatar

Bob Does Sports is the main one. There are others they collab with that are basically the same. Interestingly, there are the nominally Christian ones, too. But when they collaborate, the influence of the FanDueler types easily trumps the conservative aesthetic. Good Good, which is one of the biggest channels, features both of these archetypes. Over time, the Christian golfers have become more like the FanDuelers; it reveals just how difficult it is to resist the cultural norms (as well as the lure of money/fame) of our era.

Recently, Portnoy has started throwing his money into the YouTube golf space by hosting tournaments. It will only get worse now that he’s become one of the big money guys. It’s been intriguing to watch Elite Theory in action as YouTube golf has become more and more popular. You can’t help but notice that once big money locates a high potential consumer market, it invades the space and completely transforms it. It’s actually kind of gross. And really sad.

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Patrick Hunter's avatar

Most young men's political engagement begins and ends with Instagram reels memes.

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Concerned Citizen's avatar

This is clearly a DEMORALIZATION OP.

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Werner Heisenberg's avatar

Pareto distributed. 70% of zoomers are brain dead. The 30% that are with it are actually with it. And that’s all that matters.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Where the fuck do you get the idea that we boomers are libretardS? You children are rather stupid. Btw, when the shit hits the fan, you might look up some old fucking boomers to teach you how to kill. Fucking kids.

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Scott Greer's avatar

Uhhh... I don't think septuagenarians are going to save anyone if the shit hits the fan. But the good news for you is that it's unlikely shit hits the fan!

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Kat D's avatar
3hEdited

Some old men have short bursts of real power.

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PostPlandemicChronicles's avatar

The Croc wearing Broccoli head dudes have been almost completely subverted by foids. Funny article, and pretty accurate. GK Chesterton Catholic gym bro’s exist probably as much as the trad Wifejaks (none)😆. We regressed highly during the Barry Obummer administration and he damn near reset the USA back to Jim Crowe era racial strife. I’ll never forgive Obummer for that. Until Zoomers quit worshipping foids like the golden calf, they’ll be nowhere as Based as they need to be. Repeal the 19th and down with the gynocracy.

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Kat D's avatar

His existence in America was a result of immigration policy that started in 65 and grew larger with each decade. You could see that culminating in the mid 00’s when the demographic numbers came closer and closer to reaching parity and one can also observe that as our numbers have gone lower the anti white rhetoric has gone up. It would not have mattered it was always going to go this way.

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Carl's avatar
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You assume that the GOP is offering anything appealing to right wing young men. All they offer 10 months into Trump's term is debt slavery, immigration and support of Israel.

Trump on Laura Ingraham telling her he knows what is good for MAGA better than anyone and to cheer the 600k Chinese student visas. This stuff is insulting and a joke, of course people would rather vote for somebody like Mamdani (who currently has better anti-establishment credentials than 2025 Trump).

As the country devolves into ethnic conflict most young men will form a political bloc, it won't be the largest in the country, but it will contain most of the masculinity.

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DangerousVariant's avatar

"This is a generation that is barely majority white."

A bit of a buried lede, but otherwise well-reasoned summary of the fractious generations of post-American polity.

The young IME are the most fractured, reflecting the over-arching disparity of Who We Are as a former nation in both demographic and "political" (for lack of better phrase) orientation.

The Based Z mythology is a copium and self-license to do nothing particularly novel, beyond their own rabid economic self-interest, particularly for my comrades in GenX, who enjoy punching both up and down while doing pretty much the same things as they proclaim to despise of those bookends of olds and youngs, but of course with that sort of punk-rocker edgy detachment and late-in-life sleeve tats and touch-of-grey beards we do so well.

Not to bash Generation too-small-to-matter and too-white-to be the Future is a Brown Female, as we are products of our time like all the rest. Our defining moment, I pray, is near, as opposed to past. But if we did miss it, pity the X for the Zyklon historians and their commie sisters will savage us in the AI central ministry of records worse than the Boomers.

Unless they just memory hole us and Pearl Jam Ten, which would be a shame. It's such a great album.

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t100.9's avatar

All myth

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Sandro's avatar

I dont live in Virginia but even i would have voted for Spanberger.

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Kat D's avatar

What? Why? She portrays a complete bore

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WP's avatar

Young FanDuel Americans are natural slaves. They won’t really have a choice of their candidate they’ll have to chose between diverse Zohran types that allow some hedonism in exchange for wokeness or they’ll have to between based Trads. Theres going to be no 3rd option and it’s pretty clear they’ll go in the trad direction, especially once the millennials look like fools once they are out of their fertile window.

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Carl's avatar

At least we can rely on the sensitive young men vote!

I do see a lot of Zoomer men being non woke, but it would also be good to note or to see the stats. Of Zoomer men, how much does the nonehite percentage dilute the white percentage? Most Gen Z guys I see outside of church groups and political groups are just non political at all. Or they don’t show up to vote

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t100.9's avatar

Zoomers are faggots with a snitch culture that would make north Koreans blush. We should castrate the males and impregnate the women

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