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I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Petr posted:

LGBT support is going down among the young for the first time since the 80s.

Source?

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I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

The young are gay as gently caress from all the data I’ve seen—they’re queer, depressed, pissed, and less white than ever. Sounds like a good People’s Army to me.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

even the Gen Z nazis are gay

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy
gen z is also pretty nonwhite. demographic arguments do NOT guarantee inevitable progressivism but it sure seems like a decent bulwark against fascism

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
If Cateline Jenner is any indication the trans are just raring to go fash if they’d have them

Tbf that’s true of just about any group the fash would mass grave if Candace Owen, Ben Shapiro, Lauren Chen, and Peter thiel are any indication

I also don’t actually believe statement one so don’t @ me

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

your average zoomer processes the mildly racist influencers they follow on the same level as something like reality tv. i dont think anyone actually takes pewdiepie very seriously

Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

Farm Frenzy posted:

your average zoomer processes the mildly racist influencers they follow on the same level as something like reality tv. i dont think anyone actually takes pewdiepie very seriously

Nobody took the nazis on 4chan seriously until they started winning elections

Petr
Oct 3, 2000

I can't get a decent link to the study itself on mobile, but here's an article
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1503758001

Also, lol at people thinking that a generation of poor people steeped in anti-capitalist but shallow political understanding can't be a breeding ground for fash. It's not guaranteed, but nobody on the left is doing the kind of intentional outreach like the far right is.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Feldegast42 posted:

Nobody took the nazis on 4chan seriously until they started winning elections

no they haven't lmao stop buying their own propoganda

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Feldegast42 posted:

Nobody took the nazis on 4chan seriously until they started winning elections

4chan has never won an election. A mass shooting on the other hand

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Agean90 posted:

no they haven't lmao stop buying their own propoganda

but... meme magic

pookel
Oct 27, 2011

Ultra Carp

Alan Smithee posted:

woman named Chen: "when the fash come for the immigrants I'll be one of the good ones"
Looking at her avatar, it's more like "when the fash come for immigrants I'm sure my husband will get a pass for being married to a white lady"

frajaq
Jan 30, 2009

#acolyte GM of 2014


yeah 4chan and other chans have no influence at all better ignore them forever

breadshaped
Apr 1, 2010


Soiled Meat

Farm Frenzy posted:

your average zoomer processes the mildly racist influencers they follow on the same level as something like reality tv. i dont think anyone actually takes pewdiepie very seriously

I imagine that's the result of growing up in the post-information age where you are so saturated with data and material that reality is entirely subjective.

You know what rarely if ever get polled for zoomers? "Do you believe the future will make life more or less positive?" I think the only time I saw this being done is in Austria, where the vast majority of under 24s who answered "less positive" are supporters of right-wing populism. When you've grown up spending too much time online, lonely and extremely alienated, you will easily latch onto whatever populist ideology gives you a sense that the status quo can change. You have loving white supremacist mass shooters railing against corporations for fucks sake. I'm worried that the populist left will fail to captivate these people, it's the only way to stop the populist right.

I have never had a positive future for life if things remain the same and when I stopped being apolitical at the end of my teens, I latched onto a populist egalitarianist identity. This is the polling where the top is "positive view of future life", middle is "negative view of future life" and bottom is "things will be the same". Almost 70% of under 24s who think negatively about future life support right-wing parties.

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

Southpaugh posted:

who the gently caress started this gen z are gonna be nazis poo poo? Seriously the dumbest thing in this thread for a long time. Gen Z are the people alive right now who are going to be the most affected by climate change and its going to be up to them to put a loving bullet in the oil execs, while we look over the tops of our phones and tweet about it.

right now they're currently the impressionable teens who get easily caught up in dumb stuff. The other generations already did that and already have plenty of nazis so its nothing for them to brag about, and its not like adults aren't vulnerable to religious mania, bigotry, fascism, fast-talking, conspiracies, all that nuttery...

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

frajaq posted:

yeah 4chan and other chans have no influence at all better ignore them forever

yeah, what they've managed to do was done with much of the internet opposed to them & negative public scrutiny. Things would be a lot different if everyone stopped and just let the chans steer the development of popular culture.

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Alan Smithee posted:

If Cateline Jenner is any indication the trans are just raring to go fash if they’d have them

Tbf that’s true of just about any group the fash would mass grave if Candace Owen, Ben Shapiro, Lauren Chen, and Peter thiel are any indication

I also don’t actually believe statement one so don’t @ me

Way back in 1941, Dorothy Thompson noted in her essay Who Goes Nazi? that outgroup exclusions, even explicitly exerminationist ones, don't really prevent people attracted to fascism from going fascist.

quote:

It is preposterous to think that they are divided by any racial characteristics. Germans may be more susceptible to Nazism than most people, but I doubt it. Jews are barred out, but it is an arbitrary ruling. I know lots of Jews who are born Nazis and many others who would heil Hitler tomorrow morning if given a chance. There are Jews who have repudiated their own ancestors in order to become “Honorary Aryans and Nazis”; there are full-blooded Jews who have enthusiastically entered Hitler’s secret service. Nazism has nothing to do with race and nationality. It appeals to a certain type of mind.

I've seen nothing to suggest the equivalent isn't as true today as it was then.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Plus always remember good old class interest. Yeah this guy is saying they should be locked in a mental institution and electrocuted, but on the other hand lower taxes.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

there's a trend here in texas i've noticed where chud trade dude pickups will have a decal of a wind turbine on the rear windshield because of how big wind power is here (west texas), but there's a silhouette of a stripper dancing on it like it's a stripper pole. not making GBS threads you.

renewables: not just for coastal sissies

it's not the genderless green future, more like the chuds materially benefitting and then restructuring the superstructural ideology around the thing

turbine powered stripper gundams

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

this question is for Elizabeth Warren. professor warren, do you think the astonishing power of DMT and other nootropics means they have a place in our schools? should we be giving fifth graders dmt to help them unlock the potential of their pineal glands?

this question is for kamala harris. did your cops ever have to arrest a gorilla? do you think they would even be able to? what do you think would happen if you tried to arrest a gorilla and throw it in jail

these are way better questions than the boring loaded kind, I bet Harris didn't come prepared to talk about how she'd order a gorilla subdued, would be really great in revealing their character and how they actually think

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Epic High Five posted:

these are way better questions than the boring loaded kind, I bet Harris didn't come prepared to talk about how she'd order a gorilla subdued, would be really great in revealing their character and how they actually think

Oh come on, there's no way she hasn't dedicated at least some time to thinking about the preferred way to subdue/incarcerate every living thing on this planet at one point or another.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
we make a big deal about minorities going fash against their own self-interest but really if fascism did take over and start eliminating its enemies, even the straight white gamer boys would find a place on the list at some point, because fascism will never solve their problems and the only solution fascism has for problems is violence directed by the powerful against the powerless

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Fascism is the solution for a society that can't tackle its own contradictions. It doesn't matter if the proponents of fascism may themselves be facing a firing squad, because all they really care about is making all the problems go away to satisfy their own aesthetic indulgences.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Southpaugh posted:

who the gently caress started this gen z are gonna be nazis poo poo?

It's nazi meme magic and should be treated with as withering a contempt as one treats Kek.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Captain_Maclaine posted:

Oh come on, there's no way she hasn't dedicated at least some time to thinking about the preferred way to subdue/incarcerate every living thing on this planet at one point or another.

honestly, a quick and thorough answer that addresses all variables would be the funniest possible response, though it'd turn Rogan into an instant Kamala stan

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Pornographic Memory posted:

we make a big deal about minorities going fash against their own self-interest but really if fascism did take over and start eliminating its enemies, even the straight white gamer boys would find a place on the list at some point, because fascism will never solve their problems and the only solution fascism has for problems is violence directed by the powerful against the powerless

This in part is why, buried in the details of Generalplan Ost, the Nazis intended to expel, rather than wholly exterminate, the slavic population of Eastern Europe and the USSR out beyond the Urals. They needed there to always be an enemy population out beyond the frontier against whom they could wage periodic wars, both because they thought war was good and toughened up society, and also as a safety valve to release the tensions baked in to their inherently self-destructive social order.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Alan Smithee posted:

If Cateline Jenner is any indication the trans are just raring to go fash if they’d have them

Tbf that’s true of just about any group the fash would mass grave if Candace Owen, Ben Shapiro, Lauren Chen, and Peter thiel are any indication

I also don’t actually believe statement one so don’t @ me

There will always be people who react to marginalization by trying to be One of the Good Ones TM. There will always be people in power willing to embrace them until they can be disposed of discretely.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Feldegast42 posted:

Nobody took the nazis on 4chan seriously until they started winning elections

They didn't win elections. If 4chan didn't exist we'd be in the exact same situation. If you believe otherwise, log off until sanity has been restored

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


Captain_Maclaine posted:

Oh come on, there's no way she hasn't dedicated at least some time to thinking about the preferred way to subdue/incarcerate every living thing on this planet at one point or another.

justice league: tower of babel except it’s with all the presidential candidates discovering kamala harris’s secret plan to plant marijuana in their campaign buses and have them thrown in jail

breadshaped
Apr 1, 2010


Soiled Meat
pre-2016

4chan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"
elected republicans: "We must secure the existence of our people"

post-2016

4chan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"
elected republicans: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"

Doc Neutral
Jan 31, 2014
Tbh I'd be more worried about the military taking over than 1930s style fash propagated by terminally online chuds, not only because of trump supportes but also centrist libs who are not only engaging in the rehabilitation of the natsec sector and neocons but who also have a sick fascination with having the "troops" restore "order".

Also lay off that demographics is destiny poo poo, it's not useful politically because white supremacy can expanded to include hispanic whites to retain a majority and maybe even east asians.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

frajaq posted:

yeah 4chan and other chans have no influence at all better ignore them forever

the kind of people who they have influence over are too broken to help
the npc meme is the greatest instance of the chans telling on themselves since the virgin vs the chad
they're all weak-willed idiots who fall for the scam of the week, they're not scary they're pitiful

LordSaturn
Aug 12, 2007

sadly unfunny

4chan didn't elect the president, 4chan radicalized the mass shooters. get your head in the game

breadshaped
Apr 1, 2010


Soiled Meat
The point isn't that 4chan is influencing politics. The point is that we have reached a point where the things 4chan are saying are indistinguishable from the things elected politicians are saying.

Bullfrog
Nov 5, 2012

I mean if you really think about it, it makes no sense why Gen Z would be "more nazi" anyway, millennials had an absolutely hosed up childhood.

I remember terrible homophobia in middleschool, extreme religious bush fanaticism in elementary school, and the horrors of the internet throughout all those years.

I actually think things are somewhat better now than they were on a cultural level.

Bullfrog has issued a correction as of 17:34 on Aug 15, 2019

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Doc Neutral posted:

Tbh I'd be more worried about the military taking over than 1930s style fash propagated by terminally online chuds, not only because of trump supportes but also centrist libs who are not only engaging in the rehabilitation of the natsec sector and neocons but who also have a sick fascination with having the "troops" restore "order".

Also lay off that demographics is destiny poo poo, it's not useful politically because white supremacy can expanded to include hispanic whites to retain a majority and maybe even east asians.

Yeah the question is who's going to be on board with climate genocide regardless of what uniform its wearing

Doc Neutral
Jan 31, 2014

StashAugustine posted:

Yeah the question is who's going to be on board with climate genocide regardless of what uniform its wearing

Yeah, look at the way EU is supporting migrant camps in Libya where they most likely will end up either tortured, enslaved and/or dead. That's the future ladies and gentlemen.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

I'm already playing the game of guessing who at my Catholic church is going to be a full Malthusian in twenty years

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

StashAugustine posted:

I'm already playing the game of guessing who at my Catholic church is going to be a full Malthusian in twenty years

You starry-eyed optimist.

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Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

Doc Neutral posted:

Also lay off that demographics is destiny poo poo, it's not useful politically because white supremacy can expanded to include hispanic whites to retain a majority and maybe even east asians.

asians to some extent already get a pass bc of the model minority / anime wifu stuff. there is zero chance hispanics will be welcomed as white by american racists within a generation. like, c'mon.

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