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Travis's avatar

Which Gen Z voters are streaming Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan then? Cuz from what I've seen of the youngs--and take this with a large grain of anecdotal salt--a lot of the young men are going MAGA (not all, just a lot) and just about all of the women are going Biden. More on that here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-gender-gap-young-men-women-dont-agree-politics-2024-1

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Phillip Murphy's avatar

I think you and I are mostly saying the same thing, with one exception.

You’re right that the Gen Z Joe Rogan/incel jackoffs crowd is very MAGA. And I have very little doubt that these polls are capturing those ppl. Where I pause, is that they’re nowhere close to representative of the Gen Z cohort. So I think the pills are over-sampling for the Rogan ppl.

I don’t think that group is representative of Gen Z or even Gen Z men, for that matter…any more than Rush Limbaugh’s ditto heads were representative of Gen X/Gen Jones men.

Rogan’s crowd is, frankly, a bunch of the Information economy’s losers, coupled with a handful of college grads who fall somewhere into either the gamer or low manager class. They’re the modern day version of that dude in Waiting who touts is Associate’s degree.

But the Gen Z men who are gainfully employed and married…yeah they don’t want their daughters living in the United States of Gilead. And they see the Matt Walshes of the world for the loser panderers and grifters that they are.

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Travis's avatar

“They’re the modern day version of that dude in Waiting who touts is Associate’s degree.” This was a great reference lol

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