• Gnubyte@lemdit.com
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    1 year ago

    Idk man I think there’s reasons why personalities like Andrew Tate get attention. There’s young men that relate to him.

    Not saying I agree but just pointing out people should be mindful that there’s probably an equal and opposite force for every blue voting area or trend in the US.

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      1 year ago

      Idk man I think there’s reasons why personalities like Andrew Tate get attention. There’s young men that relate to him.

      Yes, they’re called incels.

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      1 year ago

      I think there’s reasons why personalities like Andrew Tate get attention.

      They buy the attention with donations from conservative superPACs and think tanks and russian money. Its called propaganda.

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        1 year ago

        I’m certainly willing to hear that and entertain the prospect but I’d consider it banter otherwise. Tate has a documented pyramid scheme that incentivizes young people to sell some product and sign up that he profits from.

        As far as the classic ideals of what a man is and Tate pushing that, my point was that I think there is a demographic of young men 13-30 that hear his messaging and use it as a place of rationalizing far right leaning conservative views. I’d even go as far as it’s young impressionable men that are hearing it maybe during their college days - that would otherwise be swing voters.

        I got a buddy that works in construction for example that loves Tate but votes blue. However a lot of views Tate has align with Trump or DeSantis campaign points. If you want to correlate that with Russia given Trump’s relationship with Putin, I’d buy that.