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This is not my personal opinion, I know Gen Z men who voted for Harris. But the voter demographics really speak for themselves, and maybe now people will look at the radicalization of young men as a serious (but solvable) issue.

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[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I blame social media and algorithms. My teen son for the longest time was leaning further and further right due to the content he was getting served on YouTube. He was making disparaging comments about women and how stupid they are. My wife and I who lean left had to sit down and have a talk with him about what he was saying and videos that he was getting served by YouTube (that popular red pill girl, I can't remember her name and andrew tate among other red pill stuff). He's a pretty smart kid, once we showed him data and articles that directly proved all the things he was watching wrong, he started to come around. He's been careful to believe things that he sees or hears on the internet more now. Occasionally, he'll bring things to us that we have to double take and fact check to see if it's wrong.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

that popular red pill girl

brett cooper? I literally got it on my recommended yesterday and holy shit people are braindead

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 points 2 hours ago

I had to go digging. It's Pearl or something.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

You mean fem shapiro.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Because the democrats haven't made a serious appeal to them in a decade. We need to turn bell hooks into actionable political messaging.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca -4 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

How do you β€œappeal” to future domestic terrorists when they believe it's their calling to tear down everything good in society?

I'm not trying to be sarcastic or dramatic, but they are drawn to Trump because he embodies all the horrible things they aspire to become.

How can a political party that speaks of equality and justice even possibly make a connection with them? It sounds nice, but how would it happen without making your current base feel like you only want to help the worst behaved?

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 26 minutes ago

Offer them a life that's better than the one leading them down that path. It's the same way any terrorism is dealt with if you want it to actually have an effect.

[–] Femcowboy@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Because they're being indoctrinated by Kick streamers like I was by YouTubers in 2015. It's so disappointing to see the same shit that ruined me for years ruin them.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 43 points 6 hours ago

Alienation caused by economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

Fascists have a message for them, the liberals don't because they are committed to the current economic and political system

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 20 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

the Democrats will just pander to this by getting an endorsement in 2028 from Andrew Tate.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Lmao there won't be elections in 2028.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 hours ago

My friend, do not speak this into existence 😭

[–] josefo@leminal.space 13 points 7 hours ago

it's either being that or a concubine, gen z was the after millennial hope that died

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