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May 12, 2023·edited May 12, 2023

Scott, as a Zoomer (19) and as someone who is headed to college soon, you are for the most part on the money. From what I see, it is really young women who enforce wokeism and this garbage. Particularly, I find it's young women who identify as LGBT, or those who are on social media a lot. Most young men I find, are either apolitical or lean right from what I have also seen. Those who are religious like me, are often more right-wing to some degree (a lot of Catholic young men tend to be right-wing to some degree), though many from the DR to the mainstream nationalists overstate how based they are. Many young right-wing men tend to be further to the right than boomers, but not full-on groypers or anything. It is a racial thing, but it's actually a lot of Hispanic and Asian young men who tend to take on right-wing beliefs (not all, definitely a minority something like 35-65). I find that a lot of Zoomer men who express right-wing beliefs are not total outcasts or anything and do just fine socially. This could just be a thing where young men tend to like Andrew Tate, Fresh and Fit and a lot of manosphere content don't have a problem with having right-wing views (at least from what I have seen). Overall, zoomers are not a generation that's completely hopeless unlike millennials but we will have to see what happens.

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There's a difference in our age group with men politically, esp. college aged ones. White guys bantering with each other and using race/ sex for jokes (e.g. Andrew Tate) is common but very few have any concerns with excessive drug use nor do they vote. 99% will immediately cave if a potential girlfriend (most guys, even those who act like they aren't, are incredibly desperate for sex) or social superior (professor) puts them on the spot. This demographic does fine socially, but any who fall into the different category of those who actively oppose drug use, fast-life, etc. are largely ostracized outside niche friend groups. It will be interesting to see how the latter group evolves over time, unfortunately though until they comes to age their lives will comparably suck and many will give up their beliefs throughout college even if they are good people at heart (lots of high-school aged guys who were nominally conservative break in college).

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Good piece. The revocation of birthright citizenship has to be retroactive (to 1990 or something similar). The courts are going to rule that any revocation is unconstitutional. so we need to go whole hog bc there will be a Jackson-esque confrontation anyway

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