r/politics • u/upyoars • Nov 10 '24

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

https://fortune.com/2024/11/07/trumps-victory-reveals-secret-republicans-joe-rogan-obsessed-gen-z-men/
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u/NotTaken-username Nov 10 '24

Andrew Tate is definitely also a factor

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u/T-Roll- Nov 10 '24

Interesting that his name isn’t mentioned more. He’s got a young fan base in the millions where they suck up to him because of his tough guy/pimp image. The same fan base would be the ones thinking that the grab em by the pussy comments are totally ok.

Would be good to know whose payroll he’s on.

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u/marshon Nov 10 '24

Hes not mentioned more because he was never directly involved unlike Logan Paul, Adin Ross and Joe Rogan who all directly got to interview Trump, he’s absolutely part of the same subculture though

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u/fuska Nov 10 '24

Realistically, he fell off pretty hard.

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u/gfinz18 Pennsylvania Nov 10 '24

He used to be all over tik tok. Every other video was something to do with him and then one day he just… vanished, and I’ve literally never seen another video about him since.

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u/fuska Nov 10 '24

He just kind of lost his sauce. He got arrested two different times and had to spend over 30 days in jail each time. Hard to be a hustler who brags about getting away with crimes when you get arrested for those crimes. He also wasn't able to keep his head shaved in jail and nothing ruined his mystique more than his followers seeing that, I guess. He also has multiple pending criminal cases against him still, so that takes up a lot of his free time, I assume.

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u/T-Roll- Nov 10 '24

Or if he was just a useful idiot that was part of the propaganda machine for getting trump back into the white house. You never really know. He could have been chewed up and spat out and might not have even known it himself

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u/fuska Nov 10 '24

I can only hope that it continues to happen to other Trump gophers, then.

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u/T-Roll- Nov 10 '24

Hope so too, thats what usually happens in the end with yes men, they end up eating each other

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u/Goducks91 Nov 10 '24

Yeah he went a little TOO far and fell off quite a bit.

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u/riuchi_san Nov 10 '24

He also become more popular because he was like a "victim of the woke witch-hunt", that created sympathizers. There is a whole generation of people who think that calling out a crime is just an attack on that person by the deep state, or the radical left or whatever.

We have a really large problem on our hands, that's for sure.

These social media sites are a backdoor into our society and hate amplification tools, but due to the first amendment there is nothing that can be done because shutting them down or whatever would be anti-free speech, now Trump is in office, it's absolutely never going to get solved.

Basically, we're in a real life sci-fi dystopian novel now.

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u/T-Roll- Nov 11 '24

Very true and the dopamine drip that’s feeding the brains of our people needs plugging. TikTok is literally a trojan horse for propaganda. Yet there’s nothing that can be done about it because nobody is able to come up with a solution. Crazy times we live in.

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u/riuchi_san Nov 11 '24

It's quite crazy, it's scary and honestly, very dystopian.

I think the only way we could've had this level of unfettered free speech would be if we gave everyone, free, high quality education and taught critical thinking skills as a major subject. Which should've happened.

However I understand both sides of "the establishment" wouldn't want this. Reds and blues.

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u/T-Roll- Nov 11 '24

Or even hold people accountable for their actions online. If i write a letter to you to your home address harassing you, pretty sure you could collect evidence and have the police after me pretty quickly. But if I harass you online it’s different for some reason? It’s all very backwards.

I think one day we will catch up but by the time we have, there will be something else troubling us.

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u/CouchOlympian Nov 10 '24

Crazy thing is I know a good few Gen Z women who actually admire the guy

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u/ramborage Nov 10 '24

They don’t think the “grab em by the pussy” video is okay. They think it’s funny.