Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.
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wrote on 27 Mar 2025, 16:03 last edited by
Turns out, the left is selling nothing Gen Z is buying. That's a shame.
Link to videoBlaming the messenger this time is reasonable, as Robbie here does. He blames the socially repulsive messengers of leftist ideology. I guess it's only possible to evolve into that level of mainstream repulsiveness, if you're incubated in some kind of protected bubble. Like maybe they used to have credible weapons of social shaming over any little political difference, and now, those weapons are rendered less and less effective due to cultural shifts. When bullies get weak, they get run over.
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wrote on 27 Mar 2025, 16:05 last edited by
Nothing a few reasonable messengers can't fix, though. Maybe. They'll have to divest themselves of the miserably neurotic educated white female contingent. Good luck with that.
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 12:36 last edited by jon-nyc
This is in line with one of Paul Graham’s themes from that excellent essay. Young folks never align themselves with the prigs. In days gone by you had the freedom loving hippies on the left vs the buttoned up republicans with their church lady wives on the right. For the youth vote, no contest.
Now the ‘church ladies’ (think SNL and Gilda Radner) are the language police and Halloween costume police on the left.
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This is in line with one of Paul Graham’s themes from that excellent essay. Young folks never align themselves with the prigs. In days gone by you had the freedom loving hippies on the left vs the buttoned up republicans with their church lady wives on the right. For the youth vote, no contest.
Now the ‘church ladies’ (think SNL and Gilda Radner) are the language police and Halloween costume police on the left.
wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 13:59 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.:
This is in line with one of Paul Graham’s themes from that excellent essay. Young folks never align themselves with the prigs.
Not only Paul Graham, I've been saying that here for years. That the cultural conservatives are on the left. That the psychological phenotype of the middle aged educated progressive white women, is that of the church ladies of the past.
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 14:29 last edited by jon-nyc
Yeah that the woke women are the new church ladies is often noted. The psychology behind it is unchanged likely for eons but first showed up in politics in the prohibition movement. (Not earlier as they had no political power).
Fewer have commented on how young people find that naturally repellant.
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 14:33 last edited by
Notice the last Tampon Tim rally/town hall... I didn't see anybody 30-ish or below in the crowd shots.
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Yeah that the woke women are the new church ladies is often noted. The psychology behind it is unchanged likely for eons but first showed up in politics in the prohibition movement. (Not earlier as they had no political power).
Fewer have commented on how young people find that naturally repellant.
wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 14:48 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.:
Yeah that the woke women are the new church ladies is often noted.
I doubt that. But I was saying it before it was often noted, in any case.
I've also noted that young people find it repulsive. It would be a rare thing for you to come across a cultural insight in your twitter feed, that I haven't already had. You should read more of my posts, they are pretty awesome.
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 14:51 last edited by
You might not be as original as you believe. You are rather new to the subject of politics.
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You might not be as original as you believe. You are rather new to the subject of politics.
wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 14:59 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.:
You might not be as original as you believe. You are rather new to the subject of politics.
Your collection of insights from your twitter feed is difficult to compete with, but I've been noticing and pondering culture since before the internet. Since before I knew that culture was the primary thing to think about, if you wanted to understand anything about humans.
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 16:21 last edited by
This is so hot
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This is so hot
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 17:09 last edited by jon-nyc
Horace 1.0 pondered human nature (lizard brain anyone???).
It was my posts, and only my posts, and nobody else’s posts, that got you thinking about culture.
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Horace 1.0 pondered human nature (lizard brain anyone???).
It was my posts, and only my posts, and nobody else’s posts, that got you thinking about culture.
wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 17:19 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.:
Horace 1.0 pondered human nature (lizard brain anyone???).
It was my posts, and only my posts, and nobody else’s posts, that got you thinking about culture.
I'm sure that's your truth. Actually, I'm sure you're trolling, and you expect this bit of absurdity to bother me (to indulge your sadism, as trolls do). But careful not to betray some narcissism in the trolling attempt. Jon 1.0 hid that better, though the sadism and contempt for others was always obvious. Midwits gonna mid, and they can't hide forever.
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 17:22 last edited by jon-nyc
Was there really a Jon 1.0? Or did the two versions of Horace view Jon differently? Did Jon really go from the master of practical wisdom to the paper-thin midwit? Or is that just the story you told yourself?
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Was there really a Jon 1.0? Or did the two versions of Horace view Jon differently? Did Jon really go from the master of practical wisdom to the paper-thin midwit? Or is that just the story you told yourself?
wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 17:24 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.:
Was there really a Jon 1.0? Or did the two versions of Horace view Jon differently? Did Jon really go from the master of practical wisdom to the paper-thin midwit? Or is that just the story you tell yourself?
You're functionally intelligent, I've never taken that away from you. Even from the surface level of understanding you may have for my posts, I've never taken that away from you. The "master of practical wisdom" framing is your own, or, more accurately, the story you tell yourself.
But of course I do reserve the right to change my opinions of people over time, as we all do.
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@jon-nyc said in Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.:
Was there really a Jon 1.0? Or did the two versions of Horace view Jon differently? Did Jon really go from the master of practical wisdom to the paper-thin midwit? Or is that just the story you tell yourself?
You're functionally intelligent, I've never taken that away from you. Even from the surface level of understanding you may have for my posts, I've never taken that away from you. The "master of practical wisdom" framing is your own, or, more accurately, the story you tell yourself.
But of course I do reserve the right to change my opinions of people over time, as we all do.
wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 17:36 last edited by jon-nyc@Horace said in Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.:
The "master of practical wisdom" framing is
your own, or, more accurately, the story you tell yourselfa direct quote of Horace 1.0. -
@Horace said in Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.:
The "master of practical wisdom" framing is
your own, or, more accurately, the story you tell yourselfa direct quote of Horace 1.0.wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 17:53 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.:
@Horace said in Gen Z? More like Gen Trump.:
The "master of practical wisdom" framing is
your own, or, more accurately, the story you tell yourselfa direct quote of Horace 1.0.If you say so.
