A new study on Gen Z men revealed that Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson are among the most trusted influencers.
It also found that 52% of UK men believe a "strongman" leader is needed to improve the country. Meanwhile, this article highlights how the right has been incredibly successful at indoctrinating young men into their ideology.
Why the hell is right-wing content so much more effective at gaining support? And why do left-wing influencers consistently fail to do the same? I’ll tell you why: we decided that social issues should take precedence over everything else, and by so doing have thrown all nuance out the window in the process.
The left—and I don’t want to hear Marxists bitching about how progressives “aren’t really leftists” because this kind of in-fighting is part of the fucking problem—needs to radically rethink its approach. Right now, the priority isn’t pushing our agenda. It’s stopping the worldwide fascist takeover.
And yes, this might mean abandoning identity politics entirely, as it is largely responsible for driving people away from the left and toward right-wing populism.
We need left-wing influencers who can effectively use populist tactics. We need less extremism from the progressive left, because in our obsession with social issues, we’ve lost the plot. We need to refocus on the economic needs of the people and stop alienating those who would otherwise support us.
The clock is ticking. Germany's elections are coming up, and Elon Musk has already shown support for the AfD—the most far-right party in Europe. If we don’t correct course now, we’ll soon be living in a world where fascism dominates and equality is a pipe-dream.
We HAD left wing Joe Rogan. His name was Joe Rogan. The man was a lefty. He voted for Obama twice. He endorsed Bernie.
The (farther than me) left "cancelled" him because he had guests on his show that they didn't like. I'm not going to get into that whole side conversation, but the left shunned him because they didn't like that he was seeing what other peoples (people they deemed evil or whatever) opinions were.
If you go back and watch his earlier episodes it's crazy how much he changed to today. Once he was "cancelled" and the left kept going after him you can notice him start sliding away from his original position on the left. Then covid happened and his brain broke or whatever and now you've got full right wing Joe.
The transition started slowly at first around ~2018-2019 I would say. Then in 2020 it fell off a cliff.
It wouldn't be so bad if they would accept an apology or allow for people to have done bad things in the past and learn from them and then cease to do them in the future.
The problem is is that even when people go, "Oh, hey, I have made a mistake. I will apologize for that and then rectify my behavior", you still have people crawling out of the woodworks to dunk on them and get their Clout points for dragging them for making a mistake.
By the time a few years has passed and the person has been recognized as having actually changed their ways and not making that mistake anymore, their time in the limelight has faded and their people will no longer follow them, because they have found somebody new who seems to be perfect right now to congregate with instead.
The Right, as a whole, are a terrible group of people with virtually no redeeming qualities at all.
If you are right wing, I will not mourn your death.
But the one thing the right has that the left does not is the ability to stick with somebody even when they have flaws.
No matter how wonderful and powerful you as an individual are, you'll never win out against the group.
Yeah I think saying things like "If you are right wing, I will not mourn your death" or mocking that Trump supporter that was hit by the bullet intended for Trump might also be part of the far left issues.
It's easy to demonize someone who you don't even see as human.
Not a fan of that behavior.
If you don't like hearing things like that, don't be right-wing.
Sure, you can say that you personally don't support the terrible things that the right wing is doing, but then if you vote right wing, you are supporting them and therefore you are culpable for their crimes.
Come up with a different party or something.
This is not the vibe buddy
...do you even hear yourself?
Just proving your point, smh.
No wonder leftists are constantly infighting, some percent seemingly just refusing to understand what being principled means
It's honestly alarming how devoid of reason and compassion these people who scream about love and acceptance can be at times.
I know it's not everyone on the left but the far left is legitimately concerning to listen to.
Anybody on the right has my full encouragement and approval to become a better person while they are still alive, but once they die, their ability to reform dies with them.
If you die on the wrong side of history, how can you be redeemed?
Why should I mourn the evil dead when the living has to live with what the evil did?
This is the exact shit I'm talking about. The left likes to play this morality politics. You bring on a right-wing guest, now you're the devil and irredeemable in their eyes. It's just bullshit! Cancel culture was literally invented and is most associated with the left.
Don't lump all the left in there. The far left may have abandoned all the moderate lefts, but we moderate left people still exist.