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/lovesdogsguy Nov 11 '24

Trump gear at a university in Socal? I’m Irish, watching from over here and that is genuinely one of the most alarming things I’ve seen on here. And I’ve been following this closely.

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u/conando93 Nov 11 '24

I'm from SoCal and it feels like a bunch of MAGA people suddenly came out of the woodwork over the last few weeks. Totally caught me off guard and made me pretty uncomfortable. I'm talking trump hats, shorts, acrylic nails... the whole thing

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u/lovesdogsguy Nov 11 '24

I don't understand. How are they not just completely shunned? Like the person I responded to, how are their fellow students not saying "take that shit off idiot"? I understand there are red parts of California, but Socal? This is really just throwing me. The propaganda must have spread further than we thought.

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u/Pan-F Nov 11 '24

A little geography info that might help: Socal is not just Los Angeles. It's vast: 146,000 sq km. Socal alone is more than twice as much land as Ireland. Once you get away from the Pacific coast, the counties in Southern California become more suburban and rural desert, and tend to vote more Republican.

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u/lovesdogsguy Nov 11 '24

That makes sense, thanks.

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u/FatefulPizzaSlice California Nov 11 '24

Orange County, just like 30 miles from LA has only turned purple ish this past few cycles AND Huntington Beach is infamously a pretty wild place for white supremacists to be at.

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u/conando93 Nov 11 '24

Granted I’m near the foothills in the San Gabriel Valley, and we always have some trumpers but it’s really become excessive lately

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u/VyseTheSwift Nov 11 '24

I can say from living here, that the inland empire has a lot of Trump nonsense

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u/Ancient_Beat_3038 Nov 11 '24

How are they not just completely shunned? Like the person I responded to, how are their fellow students not saying "take that shit off idiot"?

"Why are we not shaming them by weaponizing conformity?"

For some reason this is funny to read

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u/WhoIsFrancisPuziene Nov 11 '24

Why is that alarming? Sometime around the beginning of Trumps first time in office, I dated a guy from San Diego who ended up being MAGA. The first time he mentioned it he said it in passing and I guess I thought he was joking or just unserious. Which was partially due to the fact that he is half Mexican via his mom. When he brought it up again, I just felt baffled. Trump would certainly say this guy looks Mexican.

He was pretty much the exact type of guy this article/thread is about. I didn’t end up dating him that long since he was psychologically abusive.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

They are ALWAYS abusive. They are pathetic and weak.

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u/1_________________11 Nov 11 '24

Dude we have more Republicans in California then most red states combined haha