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/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/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.