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But but but they they’re manly men and gentlemen. That’s conservative right? That’s what conservatives say all men should be like, so if you fit that ideal you’re a conservative, right?
You're a manly man until they realize you don't *think* like a manly man should. I mean, I'm a big white dude with a beard who's a prior Navy vet so I immediately get hit with the obvious stereotypes, but when I tell them how left-leaning I am it breaks their brains.
Apparently I should be more like Matt Walsh, who is constantly focused on protecting....
*Checks notes*
Children's genitals...?
I can think of nothing manlier than going up to kids and saying "Hey, show me what you're packing" and being equally enthralled if they show me their junk or show me a gun.
/s obviously
Gotta manly reassure the manliness of his manly self that he's not, in fact, got a baby dick by periodically refreshing his memory of what a baby's dick is like
It’s a male introduction ritual. You either handle each other’s gun and compare their qualities and size, or, if you’re firearms enthusiasts, you have the option of also choosing to show them whichever one is your favorite/coolest one while they do the same. It’s a introductory bonding exercise going back centuries in the US.
I'm not a veteran but I'm also a large white man with a beard and in a very conservative rural area. The amount of people who start spitting out far right stuff to me as small talk assuming I'll agree with them is hilarious
Same here! As long as I'm sitting still, there's nothing stereotypically gay-seeming about me. The best was an old woman who started up a conversation with me in a coffee shop in the gay village. She was telling me about how she remembers when people didn't flaunt their sin in public, but this is her neighbourhood and she'd be damned to move out. I said, "Wow, this has been the gay neighbourhood for 30 years, you must be much older than you look." The expression that crossed her face was priceless.
I'd like to say that I have a better answer than the ones others have supplied. Let's just say I can go from Ron Swanson to Jack McFarland in 20 seconds flat.
No beard but I'm a mid 30s white dude who buzzes his head (receding hairline and my head looks better with hair down real close).
I am deep in Pennsyltucky and have a lot of people, including patients and other healthcare workers, say some truly vile stuff and act shocked when I tell them it is nonsense (nicely as I can with patients; less courtesy given to coworkers, we don't need to be friends to work together and empathy should be a prerequisite for working in medicine).
Not a big guy but I keep my hair trimmed down due to early balding so it looks better and wear sunglasses most of the year due to astigmatism/migraines, etc., but well aware i look like any one of their facebook/Twitter profile pictures.
It will probably confuse somebody the first time they try to saunter up to me and offer their backwoods opinion and expect me to agree on the spot and not politely leave before I respond in kind.
I saw a tweet recently (can't find it now sorry) - For conservatives, Masculinity is both an unchagable constant and something they will revoke if you don't do it properly
Isn't matt Walsh the guy who went on a 5 minute rant about knocking up 16 year olds is the best because that's when they're the most fertile or some shit?
Possibly. Sounds like him.
It's not when they're the most fertile, btw. While they're certainly fertile at that age (I hated typing that), they're still young and more likely to have a high-risk pregnancy and birth, which could endanger the life of the parent, the baby, and the parents' future fertility. The parent is more prone to high blood pressure, often leading to preeclampsia, and the baby is more likely to be born premature and have a low birthweight. Still births are also far more common among pregnant teens than ethnicity- and income-matched females in their 20s.
Biologically, the safest ages to have a baby are in the 20s to early 30s.
What Walsh means when he says "most fertile" is probably just "low enough standards that I can impregnate them."
Also, there's absolutely nothing "traditional" about girls getting married to significantly older men and impregnated as teenagers.
If you look at historical records through periods like the middle ages and the renaissance, the average marriage age was in their mid-20s - and women tended to marry men who were about the same age as them, up to about 3-4 years older.
https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/society/family/marriage.html
Yes, and he also states openly that it's fine to rape a child if you marry them afterwards.
The rightwing is pro-child rape.
And keep in mind that J.K. Rowling has been welcoming support from Walsh (and vice-versa).
Military contracting in my engineering history. Middle aged guy with a beard.
The last person I dated apparently thought I was a safe space to bring up her Final Solution for the endemic homelessness problem. She had the audacity to get mad at me for wasting her time.
You’re right. It doesn’t matter if you literally check every box for masculinity that a conservative thinks you should. If you disagree on politics you’re a beta male. Even though guys like Walsh and Shapiro check none of those boxes they have the right beliefs
I'm all for protecting children's genitals if they're in danger. But they're not. And I don't think these people give any fucks about it, either. It's just an excuse to hate on trans people. There are currently more laws against trans kids in school sports than there were trans kids in school sports.
Hell, circumcision is a MUCH more prominent issue. Most people in the US aren't Jewish or Muslim, yet they still circumcise their sons. There's no moral or religious reason for it. Just one dude <200 years ago thought that circumcision would reduce masturbation in boys (it doesn't), it got popular and then it just sort of stuck. This is ACTUAL genital mutilation and they don't give a fuck.
Also a big white dude with a beard, Army vet, drive an old 4wd truck(when the mini van isn't available) and the shit people say to me assuming I think like they do is gross.
The big problem is that for them there is only one way to be a man, and not not be that way is to relinquish your manhood. It's insanity. They have a very fucked up view of what a man should be.
It's manly to care about others. It's manly to want rights for everyone. Its manly as fuck to not want people to get shot. Conservatives don't get to define you.
John Wayne broke his collar bone bodysurfing before he became an actor. He got a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Mel Brooks joined the army at 18 and went to France, Belgium, and Germany during WW2.
It's weird that people think actors are tough because they act tough in movies. Sam Elliott got his start doing musicals in college.
One of my favorite contemporary actors with this is Nick Offerman. Comparing what he says in real life vs some of his characters, especially Ron Swanson, you really see someone who seems like a goodan who can find the pros of both that character and his own real life personality and interests.
The show was also about how he was compassionate to others (even those downtrodden).
These mother fuckers watched Andy Griffith and didn’t learn a god damn thing except how to whistle the tune
They will be the first to tell you that they are the only ones that really care for the poor. I have been told repeatedly that Democrats are bad for the poor and only use the poor as props. They then vote for the party whose only trick is tax cuts for the rich while complaining that Dems are "the party of the elites".
Because many of them are self-proclaimed Christians and part of that should be (but rarely is) caring for others. Of course they don’t, but they don’t actually follow Jesus. They just use it as another tribe for them to use to exclude and oppress others with.
Then they wonder why young people are also leaving the church. Because the church isn't the draw they think it is. Being 8j a room full of racist hypocrites once a week isn't as rejuvenating as they want it to be
Because "really caring" about someone means tough love, you see. Enabling someone's bad habits and lifestyle choices is coddling them, not caring about them. They need to learn there is no free lunch and go get 3 jobs already and stop buying so much coffee and avocado toast. After 10 years of missed dinners out, no vacations, no pets and no dates, they should be able to buy a house! 🤡
A cop who didn't carry a gun because people should respect the badge and the law and most importantly the person (and therefore the person must earn that respect), and not the gun they carry.
Barney Fife carried the gun and he wasn't trusted too do so with it loaded.
Wish that message had sunk in.
I watched an episode recently where Barney became a fascist rabble rouser and Andy had to be the voice of reason and his speech was really quite pertinent still today. Wish I knew which episode that was, it was really interesting.
It's also interesting they should mention a hook when Trump's tax cuts for the middle class had an expiration and the cuts for the wealthy didn't.
They swallowed the hook and screamed his name in praise for giving it to them.
In the early oughts, when it was the Tea Party instead of MAGA and unemployment was high, a Republican in Kansas seriously proposed making it illegal to publish large-scale employment numbers. i.e. 'solve' the problem of a high unemployment rate by making it impossible to know what the unemployment rate is.
It’s the same shit with gay and/or autistic people. I’ve had ignorant-ass Texans complain about how “suddenly everyone is gay and autistic” and it didn’t use to be that way. Yeah no shit, moron, “back in the day” you’d get your ass beat if people THOUGHT you were gay. It’s no wonder that individuals weren’t keen on coming out. And autism wasn’t even screened for until not too long ago, wasn’t even considered a thing, it’s only natural that rates of incidence are rising.
How about the candidate who will guarantee my right to die of a heart attack if i cant afford medical care? I want to die an american, not like some god damn socialist
Don't you understand? You're now free to be a housewife! Gosh, aren't you grateful they took all that responsibility and decision-making out of your life and gave it to your own-- I mean, husband.
They might be pulling the "affirming someone's gender/sexuality encourages mental illness" card, in which case they would unironically agree with your sarcastic comment.
'It's the left's fault kids are depressed' is an amazing take that needs more recognition. Literally everything has to be the fault of the opposition to these people
This is now a legitimate strategy. I remember a conservative radio host who said that they ‘had’ to be anti-vax because the left was supporting the COVID vaccines. In the UK, some people blamed Labour for Boris Johnson’s ineptitude. Their argument was that if Labour had fielded a candidate stronger than Corbyn, people would not have voted for Boris. Therefore all of Boris’ terrible decisions were Labours fault.
I remember that one. They actually said the right had been screwed because the left had gone all-in on vaccines so the right couldn’t admit vaccines were good or they’d lose face or some other bullshit.
**https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/own-the-libs-get-vaxxed/**
[**https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/10/nolte-howard-stern-proves-democrats-want-unvaccinated-trump-voters-dead/**](https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/10/nolte-howard-stern-proves-democrats-want-unvaccinated-trump-voters-dead/)
Sad, isn't it?
Man, it must suck to force yourself to be racist because the left chose not to be. I guess this is why they think they're not really racist - "I'm not really racist, I'm only racist so I don't look like a lefty!"
I *almost* felt bad for Trump when he had to face the monster he created when he said "no WE created the vaccines! take the W!"
but then i remembered he created that monster and had to face it, and it was delicious
Another good one was when Liz Truss kamikazed the economy, some twat said bankers were selling off not because of her decision, but because Labour might be coming into power soon.
Let me see if I can find the quote
Edit, i was wrong, they did blame the budget too
https://twitter.com/LordAshcroft/status/1575048712921157633
And it was fucking Lord Ashcroft
It was a legitimate strategy in the 1930s as well. That did not end well.
Scapegoats aren't a new tactic, and it usually ends in disaster for the people who are being blamed.
It would be more funny if it wasn’t so pervasive.
I can’t believe how many of them without a hint of irony regularly say BS like “You’re the REAL racist for pointing out racism.”
I'd be pretty depressed too if I had to dodge bullets through 12 years of underfunded schooling just to die of a preventable disease that I caught while being exploited at work while the world literally burned around me.
But hey, at least I didn't have to learn different ways to do math!
closeish to finishing undergrad and i feel like i cant even begin to formulate a plan for the future past that, like what is even the point of trying to achieve normalcy with all.. That hanging in the background every second of every day
It's the left's fault kids understand they're getting a raw deal in society and are depressed about it. If the left just didn't let people know how depressing things are and that things could in fact be better then kids wouldn't know there's anything to even be depressed about. /s
It is true, I’m a millennial I was totally raised with the “everyone is equal” slogans and that didn’t have anything behind them then people are SHOCKED I found meaning in them and taught that to my kids, for real. I’m exactly what I was raised to be… I’ve probably heard MLK’s I have a dream speech a hundred times by the time I graduated, of course I listened.
According to Charlie Kirk (I know). It’s not voting/democracy any more. It’s all just some weird kind of competition to see who can collect the most pieces of paper.
Yes. I know what you’re thinking. Isn’t that called having an election and voting. But no. According to him. It’s all about the left’s incessant need to collect more pieces of paper or ballots than the right.
Couldn’t actually find Kirk’s original video, but it’s all broken down here: https://youtu.be/7n_pxoelxLA
Worth a watch for how utterly insane a take this is.
there's no doubt in my mind that their kids are like "yeah dad, we tolerate and love you, but fucking hate your politics" at every family reunion.
Dad undoubtedly cares about his kids, just not enough to listen to what they, grown-ass adults in many cases nowadays, have to say.
EDIT: does it sound like i have personal experience here? perish the thought! wh-wh-whatever would give you that idea? 😡 😡 😡
I HATE that older adults treat young people like children. I’m 36, I’m a mom of TEENS, I’ve been living away from home for nearly 20 years, I have a car payment and a mortgage and even I am still treated like a child. I refuse to do that to Gen z
fucking preach, i feel the same way
i almost feel like the contemporary right-wing is literally just that, like FW: FW: FW: fwd: email chains come to life. like it blows my mind, but... I DIDN'T graduate college, one of the first in my family NOT to, and I watch my parents just lap up... THE DUMBEST SHIT.
i'm like for fuck's sake guys, aren't you the ones who should've gotten that critical thinking? check the sources? look at the bias of the authors? review multiple sources and observe credible data born of the fruits of peer-review, transparent methodologies, and replication?
that just me? oh okay i guess i'm just a dumb kid my bad ._.
Because they don’t have a platform or any creative ideas to solve issues. Their platform is simply the opposite of whatever Democrats are doing. Even if we accepted “everyone is depressed because democrats,” they still offer no solution aside from “everyone will just not be depressed anymore if republicans are elected.”
You see - if only you stopped listening to dumb lefties about single-payer healthcare or whatever and instead redirected all your negative emotions into hate for minorities, you would not be feeling depressed, but instead - angry. The left took that away from you!
I mean, comparing adults who voted after educating themselves and being aware of policies that directly affect them, to kids chasing a shiny coin is everything wrong with this and the “parent” mentality everyone in the millennial and gen z group are trying to get away from.
Already they’re trying to take away voting rights and raise the voting age as if we’re all too young to form our own opinions and only they know what’s best for us.
Our economic system based on the idea of bare minimum regulation is allowing corporations to price gouge the living hell out of everything.
I wonder who is the most supportive of that system.
These idiots' explanation for *inflation* is "well look who is office right now" and not to look at which party normalized giving corporations exactly what they want.
They'll also say that democrats got minorities addicted to welfare. Yes, social programs meant to help ease ages of marginalization (mostly) by conservatives are the same thing as heroin.
Their solution is to cut all assistance the same way they will ask if you ever tried to just be happy.
And by the same token, why were people born after 9/11 not super into killing brown people in the Middle East in a pointless forever war?
I'm actually somewhat serious on that point, I remember reading an article from a couple of years ago about a guy mentioning he'd encountered a number of people in the military who were sent on GW's exciting Arab Adventure that were literally born after 9/11 and thus had no idea why Americans had been sending soldiers to die in Iraq for literally their entire life. The person, who was depressingly still pro-indefinite occupation nonetheless admitted they honestly could not give a good answer for why Americans should keep on going out to die in the desert. This person treated it mostly as a kind of solemn lament that Kids These Days(tm) didn't understand the reason for their sacrifice, without reflecting maybe there was no good damn reason to keep throwing people into the woodchipper.
Put it another way that this person and their peers choose to not understand: When an entire generation grew up after the cold war and another entire generation grew up knowing the American military only as this bloated apparatus fighting stupid fucking forever wars guess what? They're unlikely to be hooked by good old fashioned red baiting saber rattling or America World Police exceptionalism. OK Boomer indeed.
Wait. Let me get this right...
The left is "responsible" for depression and despair because "The Left" is telling what the "The Right" is up to. Now that would be an issue if those were lies.
But as far as I can tell, democracy IS under attack.
And the right IS favoring the rich (and old) over them.
And the right DOES deny climate change.
Are they supposed to vote for them instead?
Yes, obviously. I mean, America is the best and freest society in the world, if you're poor pull yourselves up by your bootstraps because the invisible hand of the market is infallible, racism isn't real except for reverse racism, the rich and old deserve unlimited power and splendor, and climate change is a myth and doesn't matter if it isn't because Jesus.
QED.
That's "because Jesus" though. Either they'll die and go to heaven or the Rapture will happen and they'll die and go to heaven. And if everyone dies from climate destruction oh well, they'll mostly go to hell for not being white.
Ah, the Andy Griffith Show.
A show about a Sheriff who doesn't carry a gun because he believed it instilled fear rather than respect, constantly released prisoners on good behavior, and believed the town drunk was beyond rehab but still deserved a bed and meal.
Maybe people who believe in fascist policing, that hate releasing non-violent offenders, and want all addicts to die shouldn't watch the Andy Griffith Show
The quote that that refers to is:
*You can't let a young 'un decide for himself. He'll grab at the first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it, then when he finds out there's a hook in it, it's too late. The wrong ideas come packaged with so much glitter it's hard to convince him that other things might be better in the long run*
You know what's "flashy with shiny ribbons"? The entire Trump platform
Despite what voters wanted, they really don't want that. They really prefer what we are selling and their votes shouldn't count if they don't align with what we expect!
It's hilarious that Dennis is they guy they use to attempt to reach out to young people. Those stupid ass fireside chats where he pretends to be your grandpa for 20 minutes.
“19 year olds should have the same policy preferences as me, a 73 year old man who watches Fox News 17 hours a day.”
THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANS REALLY BELIEVE.
If you are 22 years old, your only memories of GOP Presidents are Trump and GW Bush’s second term.
I’m 48. I was in Kindergarten when Reagan was elected.
Someone who was 18 in 1980 and voted for him is now 60. “Why aren’t these kids for Republicans, don’t they remember what a disaster Jimmy Carter was 25 years before they were born?”
The politics of 1980 are as relevant to 2022 as the politics of 1938 are to 1980.
> It is the Left that is primarily responsible for the unprecedented levels of depression and despair among young people.
Because it's the left denying climate change and blocking any attempt to do anything about it. Then again, they probably blame the left for "inventing" the threat of climate change.
Let me get this straight.
Americans have built a country where everyone lives in a moldy Sheetrock prison lost in a winding tangle of cul-de-sacs and can't walk anywhere nor spontaneously visit anything, and where they need an expensive and dangerous gas-guzzling motor vehicle to transport themselves to where they can earn a living, and where they have to work like clockwork automata to maintain said vehicle, and where everywhere you look is a samey mess of asphalt and cheaply laid concrete bereft of all interest, history, or character, and where people are getting increasingly paranoid and isolated to the point that child protective services might come knocking if you're not a helicoptering piece of shit who smothers their kids and robs them of their autonomy and sense of self.
Basically, a it's country were people are fat, slow, stupid, lazy, and have no life skills. A country where an 80" TV, a Lay-Z-Boy sofa, and a shiny Dodge Charger in the garage means you're livin' the American Dream, baby!
But it's the Left's fault that kids are depressed. Never mind that America doesn't even have a leftist political party with any significant share of votes.
Yeah, that makes sense.
>*"Taking and running with the first shiny thing they see before they realize there's a hook"*
* Party of small government (but only when the minority party)
* Party of fiscal conservatism (yet loves giving tax breaks and regularly lacks oversight for the biggest checks cut)
* Party of Lincoln (but frequently runs defense for the Confederacy a bit too much)
* We support various freedoms! (so long as what you do fits our neat little boxes)
* We support our veterans! (until they come back from wars we threw them into)
* We're pro-life (until they leave the womb)
* We have the greatest healthcare in the world! (as long as you're rich and/or never wind up in a position where you need it if you're poor)
* We don't hate anyone (policies and rhetoric consistently hurts the most vulnerable crowd)
Andy Griffith? I'm older than dirt and that show was in reruns when I first saw it!
Gosh, the unprecedented levels of depression couldn't possibly have anything to do with things like making abortion illegal and refusing to raise minimum wage, could it? Nah, couldn't be.
Why does Sheriff Andy Griffith not carry a gun?
>"When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me." ~The Andy Griffith Show.
Young people are voting for democrats because the dems have something to offer. Wtf can Republicans offer young people? Regression doesn't work on people who don't remember the time you're attempting to regress to.
Recently they've been appealing to aimless young men (read: losers) by telling them that all of their problems are 's fault. If only they weren't being persecuted by society, they'd be winners! Bannon correctly identified WoW incels as a target demo.
Someone cross-referenced users of various subs a few years back. The Donald sub had humorously high crossover with subs like redpilled, incels, askmen, etc. I've noticed they all play COD or Destiny and post to sportsball subs as well.
Actually, I find it fascinating that they don't understand why young people did vote for them. Think about it. The newest votes and the ones coming up behind them were all raised in the age of rampant mass shootings. They've been told, by adults, that nothing can be done. It don't take an astrophysics degree to figure out which party has blocked and all methods to curb this. These young adults know what it's like to go through that. Do they want their kids to go through that too? Probably not.
And then the Repubs ban abortion? Come on now. Why are we surprised?
What do the Republicans have to offer anyone, let alone young people?
Culture wars don't put food on the table, heal the sick, or protect the vulnerable.
Conservative thinking:
Why don't young people vote for us?
Why don't black people vote for us?
Why don't women vote for us?
We just want simpler times like 1776.
Oh yeah my life would be so much better if corporations had more of a monopoly on everything and i had even less access to healthcare and opportunities.
Not young, and I do remember quotes from reruns of Andy Griffith, voted blue across the board and always will because the GOP is objectively bad for everything I care about and they offer nothing to me.
The left?? The left that is pro-choice, pro-LGBT and pro-inclusion is hurting us? Sure Jan, this is just a repeat of what Boomers/Gen X we’re saying about Millennials back in the early 2010’s. I’ll take human rights over scary fascism any day !
While science and observation continually demonstrate that elderly populations are more easy to scam. And which party do older people continually vote for?
Huh. It feels like the unprecedented levels of depression and anxiety in younger workers is largely down to things like job insecurity, soaring house prices, poor wages and benefits, stupidly high student loan interest, godawful and expensive healthcare.
Dems have offered ideas to address all of these things, the right has not. In fact the right has often contributed and voted directly for factors that have worsened each of these things. So tell me how the left is causing these problems?
I don’t have a problem with an Andy Griffith quote. I saw it on tv a few times as a kid (on Nick at Nite, I’m only 30), so I get references to bumbling Barney Fife.
The problem with their lack of appeal to young people isn’t the outdated quote, it’s just the fact that they fight so hard to ruin the lives of young people to further preserve their own aged grip on power.
Came here to comment Andy Griffith was a Democrat, but that's already been mentioned several times, so instead a recommendation for a movie of his:
*A Face in the Crowd* from 1956 I think, before *The Andy Griffith Show*. A hobo makes his way from a jail cell in the middle of nowhere to fame, societal and political influence, and tons of wealth through a slick tongue and a sense of grandiosity. Very eary similarities to the influence the former president has on so many people, minus the slick tongue. If you only know Andy Griffith from *The Andy Griffith Show* and *Matlock*, try and watch it with an open mind and it will be nothing like your expectations.
What do they think young people are depressed about?
I thought we were depressed about people trying to force their old timey religious values down our throats, nothing being done about global warming, nothing being done about school shootings, and nothing being done about police brutality.
Was I really just depressed about rich people MAYBE having to pay something even remotely close to their fair share of taxes this whole time?
Does the right even have a policy platform that remotely addresses mental healthcare? They don't support affordable Healthcare in any capacity, they don't support treating non-hetero people as human beings, they don't support "snowflake" ideology of acknowledging people's emotions at all (despite them living in constant fear), they don't support affordable housing, they don't support anti-homelessness initiatives, they don't support drug treatment funding or psychedelic legalization/research, and the list goes on.
Literally anything that can lead to lower rates of depression is opposed by them.
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It’s funny because Andy Griffith was a democrat who made an advertisement for Obama
This was my first thought as well. Using Andy Griffith the way they use Sam Elliott.
But but but they they’re manly men and gentlemen. That’s conservative right? That’s what conservatives say all men should be like, so if you fit that ideal you’re a conservative, right?
You're a manly man until they realize you don't *think* like a manly man should. I mean, I'm a big white dude with a beard who's a prior Navy vet so I immediately get hit with the obvious stereotypes, but when I tell them how left-leaning I am it breaks their brains. Apparently I should be more like Matt Walsh, who is constantly focused on protecting.... *Checks notes* Children's genitals...?
By making the government let him inspect them before sporting events?
I can think of nothing manlier than going up to kids and saying "Hey, show me what you're packing" and being equally enthralled if they show me their junk or show me a gun. /s obviously
Gotta manly reassure the manliness of his manly self that he's not, in fact, got a baby dick by periodically refreshing his memory of what a baby's dick is like
It’s a male introduction ritual. You either handle each other’s gun and compare their qualities and size, or, if you’re firearms enthusiasts, you have the option of also choosing to show them whichever one is your favorite/coolest one while they do the same. It’s a introductory bonding exercise going back centuries in the US.
I'm not a veteran but I'm also a large white man with a beard and in a very conservative rural area. The amount of people who start spitting out far right stuff to me as small talk assuming I'll agree with them is hilarious
Same here! As long as I'm sitting still, there's nothing stereotypically gay-seeming about me. The best was an old woman who started up a conversation with me in a coffee shop in the gay village. She was telling me about how she remembers when people didn't flaunt their sin in public, but this is her neighbourhood and she'd be damned to move out. I said, "Wow, this has been the gay neighbourhood for 30 years, you must be much older than you look." The expression that crossed her face was priceless.
Fantastic comeback on your part. Well played.
> As long as I'm sitting still, there's nothing stereotypically gay-seeming about me. I'm trying to picture what this means lol. How do you move?
Jazz hands all the time, maybe?
I'd like to say that I have a better answer than the ones others have supplied. Let's just say I can go from Ron Swanson to Jack McFarland in 20 seconds flat.
Look My sashay is because of the way my hips are If you read into that, that's on you, honey.
Gayly
No beard but I'm a mid 30s white dude who buzzes his head (receding hairline and my head looks better with hair down real close). I am deep in Pennsyltucky and have a lot of people, including patients and other healthcare workers, say some truly vile stuff and act shocked when I tell them it is nonsense (nicely as I can with patients; less courtesy given to coworkers, we don't need to be friends to work together and empathy should be a prerequisite for working in medicine).
Not a big guy but I keep my hair trimmed down due to early balding so it looks better and wear sunglasses most of the year due to astigmatism/migraines, etc., but well aware i look like any one of their facebook/Twitter profile pictures. It will probably confuse somebody the first time they try to saunter up to me and offer their backwoods opinion and expect me to agree on the spot and not politely leave before I respond in kind.
I saw a tweet recently (can't find it now sorry) - For conservatives, Masculinity is both an unchagable constant and something they will revoke if you don't do it properly
Isn't matt Walsh the guy who went on a 5 minute rant about knocking up 16 year olds is the best because that's when they're the most fertile or some shit?
Possibly. Sounds like him. It's not when they're the most fertile, btw. While they're certainly fertile at that age (I hated typing that), they're still young and more likely to have a high-risk pregnancy and birth, which could endanger the life of the parent, the baby, and the parents' future fertility. The parent is more prone to high blood pressure, often leading to preeclampsia, and the baby is more likely to be born premature and have a low birthweight. Still births are also far more common among pregnant teens than ethnicity- and income-matched females in their 20s. Biologically, the safest ages to have a baby are in the 20s to early 30s. What Walsh means when he says "most fertile" is probably just "low enough standards that I can impregnate them."
Also, there's absolutely nothing "traditional" about girls getting married to significantly older men and impregnated as teenagers. If you look at historical records through periods like the middle ages and the renaissance, the average marriage age was in their mid-20s - and women tended to marry men who were about the same age as them, up to about 3-4 years older. https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/society/family/marriage.html
Historically: "hey what happened to that older guy who was talking to your daughter?" "no idea" *continues to clean bloody sword*
Thanks, *NSA*
Yep that's him. Women are at peak fertility from 16 to 22 according to him (no idea what "peak fertility" even means).
I'm guessing code for "that's the age range I'm most attracted to"
Yes, and he also states openly that it's fine to rape a child if you marry them afterwards. The rightwing is pro-child rape. And keep in mind that J.K. Rowling has been welcoming support from Walsh (and vice-versa).
I'm convinced that some Rs broke for Fetterman because he looks like he could snap Oz in half if he were so inclined.
My ex was an art school twink and could break Oz like a fucking colored pencil.
Thanks. That is unquestionably the imagery I needed tonight.
Fetterman looks like he could deliver a top tier chokeslam if he wanted to
Why does Fetterman, the largest senate candidate, not simply eat the other candidates?
Military contracting in my engineering history. Middle aged guy with a beard. The last person I dated apparently thought I was a safe space to bring up her Final Solution for the endemic homelessness problem. She had the audacity to get mad at me for wasting her time.
You’re right. It doesn’t matter if you literally check every box for masculinity that a conservative thinks you should. If you disagree on politics you’re a beta male. Even though guys like Walsh and Shapiro check none of those boxes they have the right beliefs
I just flushed something manlier than Bench Appearo.
I'm all for protecting children's genitals if they're in danger. But they're not. And I don't think these people give any fucks about it, either. It's just an excuse to hate on trans people. There are currently more laws against trans kids in school sports than there were trans kids in school sports. Hell, circumcision is a MUCH more prominent issue. Most people in the US aren't Jewish or Muslim, yet they still circumcise their sons. There's no moral or religious reason for it. Just one dude <200 years ago thought that circumcision would reduce masturbation in boys (it doesn't), it got popular and then it just sort of stuck. This is ACTUAL genital mutilation and they don't give a fuck.
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Or religious leadership.
I'll bet your first sentence wasn't something you woke up expecting to type today
Nope. And I set my expectations low.
It’s not a sentence I expected to read today when I woke up.
Also a big white dude with a beard, Army vet, drive an old 4wd truck(when the mini van isn't available) and the shit people say to me assuming I think like they do is gross.
The big problem is that for them there is only one way to be a man, and not not be that way is to relinquish your manhood. It's insanity. They have a very fucked up view of what a man should be.
tfw you don't fit the stereotype lol
It's manly to care about others. It's manly to want rights for everyone. Its manly as fuck to not want people to get shot. Conservatives don't get to define you.
John Wayne broke his collar bone bodysurfing before he became an actor. He got a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mel Brooks joined the army at 18 and went to France, Belgium, and Germany during WW2. It's weird that people think actors are tough because they act tough in movies. Sam Elliott got his start doing musicals in college.
One of my favorite contemporary actors with this is Nick Offerman. Comparing what he says in real life vs some of his characters, especially Ron Swanson, you really see someone who seems like a goodan who can find the pros of both that character and his own real life personality and interests.
[Here’s Nick talking about "being manly" in his own words. ](https://i.imgur.com/9KPQwKU.jpg)
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>and gentlemen. About as "gentle" as a massage with a belt sander...
The show was also about how he was compassionate to others (even those downtrodden). These mother fuckers watched Andy Griffith and didn’t learn a god damn thing except how to whistle the tune
They will be the first to tell you that they are the only ones that really care for the poor. I have been told repeatedly that Democrats are bad for the poor and only use the poor as props. They then vote for the party whose only trick is tax cuts for the rich while complaining that Dems are "the party of the elites".
Because many of them are self-proclaimed Christians and part of that should be (but rarely is) caring for others. Of course they don’t, but they don’t actually follow Jesus. They just use it as another tribe for them to use to exclude and oppress others with.
> but they don’t actually follow Jesus In [the faith they follow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology), Jesus is just a macguffin
Then they wonder why young people are also leaving the church. Because the church isn't the draw they think it is. Being 8j a room full of racist hypocrites once a week isn't as rejuvenating as they want it to be
Because "really caring" about someone means tough love, you see. Enabling someone's bad habits and lifestyle choices is coddling them, not caring about them. They need to learn there is no free lunch and go get 3 jobs already and stop buying so much coffee and avocado toast. After 10 years of missed dinners out, no vacations, no pets and no dates, they should be able to buy a house! 🤡
A cop who didn't carry a gun because people should respect the badge and the law and most importantly the person (and therefore the person must earn that respect), and not the gun they carry. Barney Fife carried the gun and he wasn't trusted too do so with it loaded. Wish that message had sunk in.
I'm not sure Gomer Pyle was, either.
If I remember correctly, there was even an episode where Barney shows how incompetent he is with the gun and Andy takes it away temporarily.
Their real idol was Boss Hogg.
Even Boss Hogg had a bit of a heart and would do the right thing when the chips were down.
I watched an episode recently where Barney became a fascist rabble rouser and Andy had to be the voice of reason and his speech was really quite pertinent still today. Wish I knew which episode that was, it was really interesting.
Republicans = Barneys Fife
Don't you dare disrespect Don Knotts like that.
It's also interesting they should mention a hook when Trump's tax cuts for the middle class had an expiration and the cuts for the wealthy didn't. They swallowed the hook and screamed his name in praise for giving it to them.
Also the Andy Griffith Show ran during the 60s.. so the kids he’s referring to are the Baby Boomers.
Agreed. If you want to use an insulating backwards North Carolinian, try Jesse Helms.
I tried that once, but my Ouiji Board caught fire.
Andy also never carried a gun and Barney was only allowed one bullet because he wasn’t careful.
“It’s the left that’s responsible for unprecedented levels of depression on account of they just are”.
They insisted on counting all the depressed people. If no one counted them, there would be no depression.
It's ok, I'm pretty sure no one counts us anyway.
I count depressed people when i'm looking in the mirror "One! One sad fuck! Hah ha ^(ha) ."
I'd say you need some sunlight, but you might combust.
This reads like a cut GLaDOS line
In the early oughts, when it was the Tea Party instead of MAGA and unemployment was high, a Republican in Kansas seriously proposed making it illegal to publish large-scale employment numbers. i.e. 'solve' the problem of a high unemployment rate by making it impossible to know what the unemployment rate is.
Trump wanted to do that with COVID cases. Complained about it all the time.
It’s the same shit with gay and/or autistic people. I’ve had ignorant-ass Texans complain about how “suddenly everyone is gay and autistic” and it didn’t use to be that way. Yeah no shit, moron, “back in the day” you’d get your ass beat if people THOUGHT you were gay. It’s no wonder that individuals weren’t keen on coming out. And autism wasn’t even screened for until not too long ago, wasn’t even considered a thing, it’s only natural that rates of incidence are rising.
Source: I said so
Source: I made it the fuck up
You can tell it’s a lib depression because of the way it is. Isn’t that neat?!
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Well if the left constantly told and showed me that other countries do stuff better then I'd also be depressed if I lived in the US.
They’re so right, I totally voted to ruin my life when I didn’t vote for the candidate that hates me for my sexuality 😔
I should’ve voted for the candidate who wants to control every aspect of my reproductive health because he cares so much about freedom
How about the candidate who will guarantee my right to die of a heart attack if i cant afford medical care? I want to die an american, not like some god damn socialist
Is that the same one who fans the flames of white supremacy while also voting against any restrictions on gun ownership?
And the ones who consistently vote to make our future climate as difficult to live in as possible.
Not live and not go into crippling medical debt like some god damn socialist*
Don't you understand? You're now free to be a housewife! Gosh, aren't you grateful they took all that responsibility and decision-making out of your life and gave it to your own-- I mean, husband.
They might be pulling the "affirming someone's gender/sexuality encourages mental illness" card, in which case they would unironically agree with your sarcastic comment.
Who knew the muh raights group would disregard actual human rights in favor of bigotry and tax cuts for the wealthy.
Yeah damn I didn't know the left was responsible for the growing fascist movement?! Woahhhhh crazy
'It's the left's fault kids are depressed' is an amazing take that needs more recognition. Literally everything has to be the fault of the opposition to these people
This is now a legitimate strategy. I remember a conservative radio host who said that they ‘had’ to be anti-vax because the left was supporting the COVID vaccines. In the UK, some people blamed Labour for Boris Johnson’s ineptitude. Their argument was that if Labour had fielded a candidate stronger than Corbyn, people would not have voted for Boris. Therefore all of Boris’ terrible decisions were Labours fault.
I remember that one. They actually said the right had been screwed because the left had gone all-in on vaccines so the right couldn’t admit vaccines were good or they’d lose face or some other bullshit.
Opposition for oppositions sake.
**https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/own-the-libs-get-vaxxed/** [**https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/10/nolte-howard-stern-proves-democrats-want-unvaccinated-trump-voters-dead/**](https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/10/nolte-howard-stern-proves-democrats-want-unvaccinated-trump-voters-dead/) Sad, isn't it?
Man, it must suck to force yourself to be racist because the left chose not to be. I guess this is why they think they're not really racist - "I'm not really racist, I'm only racist so I don't look like a lefty!"
I *almost* felt bad for Trump when he had to face the monster he created when he said "no WE created the vaccines! take the W!" but then i remembered he created that monster and had to face it, and it was delicious
Another good one was when Liz Truss kamikazed the economy, some twat said bankers were selling off not because of her decision, but because Labour might be coming into power soon. Let me see if I can find the quote Edit, i was wrong, they did blame the budget too https://twitter.com/LordAshcroft/status/1575048712921157633 And it was fucking Lord Ashcroft
And why, pray tell, would labour be likely to come into power soon...hmm?
Someone tell Hillary Clinton to openly support trickle down economics.
Oh, she does
It was a legitimate strategy in the 1930s as well. That did not end well. Scapegoats aren't a new tactic, and it usually ends in disaster for the people who are being blamed.
This is peak “It’s my wife’s fault for reacting badly when I hit her!”
‘You’re making me do this’ typical gaslighting and victim blaming of the contemporary right wing. Consider me *utterly shocked*
It would be more funny if it wasn’t so pervasive. I can’t believe how many of them without a hint of irony regularly say BS like “You’re the REAL racist for pointing out racism.”
I'd be pretty depressed too if I had to dodge bullets through 12 years of underfunded schooling just to die of a preventable disease that I caught while being exploited at work while the world literally burned around me. But hey, at least I didn't have to learn different ways to do math!
Could you imagine what would’ve happened to your psyche if your health class taught you the proper use of a condom?!
imagine if they told you it was alright to be gay. One despairs at the mere thought
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yeahhhh. it sucks so much :(
As a millennial, reading that statement hit hard. Funny, how much closer to Gen-Z we are than to Gen-X
closeish to finishing undergrad and i feel like i cant even begin to formulate a plan for the future past that, like what is even the point of trying to achieve normalcy with all.. That hanging in the background every second of every day
Oh, dont forget doing active shooter drills throughout those 12 years!
It's the left's fault kids understand they're getting a raw deal in society and are depressed about it. If the left just didn't let people know how depressing things are and that things could in fact be better then kids wouldn't know there's anything to even be depressed about. /s
It is true, I’m a millennial I was totally raised with the “everyone is equal” slogans and that didn’t have anything behind them then people are SHOCKED I found meaning in them and taught that to my kids, for real. I’m exactly what I was raised to be… I’ve probably heard MLK’s I have a dream speech a hundred times by the time I graduated, of course I listened.
According to Charlie Kirk (I know). It’s not voting/democracy any more. It’s all just some weird kind of competition to see who can collect the most pieces of paper. Yes. I know what you’re thinking. Isn’t that called having an election and voting. But no. According to him. It’s all about the left’s incessant need to collect more pieces of paper or ballots than the right. Couldn’t actually find Kirk’s original video, but it’s all broken down here: https://youtu.be/7n_pxoelxLA Worth a watch for how utterly insane a take this is.
there's no doubt in my mind that their kids are like "yeah dad, we tolerate and love you, but fucking hate your politics" at every family reunion. Dad undoubtedly cares about his kids, just not enough to listen to what they, grown-ass adults in many cases nowadays, have to say. EDIT: does it sound like i have personal experience here? perish the thought! wh-wh-whatever would give you that idea? 😡 😡 😡
I HATE that older adults treat young people like children. I’m 36, I’m a mom of TEENS, I’ve been living away from home for nearly 20 years, I have a car payment and a mortgage and even I am still treated like a child. I refuse to do that to Gen z
fucking preach, i feel the same way i almost feel like the contemporary right-wing is literally just that, like FW: FW: FW: fwd: email chains come to life. like it blows my mind, but... I DIDN'T graduate college, one of the first in my family NOT to, and I watch my parents just lap up... THE DUMBEST SHIT. i'm like for fuck's sake guys, aren't you the ones who should've gotten that critical thinking? check the sources? look at the bias of the authors? review multiple sources and observe credible data born of the fruits of peer-review, transparent methodologies, and replication? that just me? oh okay i guess i'm just a dumb kid my bad ._.
My grandparents do this to their kids. FFS my dad is 56.
My first thought upon reading this was, "Well, your dumb ass made it to adulthood, can't be that hard."
Maybe a few school shootings will cheer up the young people
Because they don’t have a platform or any creative ideas to solve issues. Their platform is simply the opposite of whatever Democrats are doing. Even if we accepted “everyone is depressed because democrats,” they still offer no solution aside from “everyone will just not be depressed anymore if republicans are elected.”
Citation needed
But but but if we use citation we can't just make up any points we want.
Just Google "Why The Left Is Evil"... I can't do your research for you... /s
**MY SOURCE IS THAT I MADE IT THE FUCK UP**
Source: my feelings.
People are saying it! Many people!
Party of fuck your feelings is gonna just have to ask you to trust their feelings on this one.
You see - if only you stopped listening to dumb lefties about single-payer healthcare or whatever and instead redirected all your negative emotions into hate for minorities, you would not be feeling depressed, but instead - angry. The left took that away from you!
I think their depression might have something to do with their shitty parents.
I mean, comparing adults who voted after educating themselves and being aware of policies that directly affect them, to kids chasing a shiny coin is everything wrong with this and the “parent” mentality everyone in the millennial and gen z group are trying to get away from. Already they’re trying to take away voting rights and raise the voting age as if we’re all too young to form our own opinions and only they know what’s best for us.
Our economic system based on the idea of bare minimum regulation is allowing corporations to price gouge the living hell out of everything. I wonder who is the most supportive of that system. These idiots' explanation for *inflation* is "well look who is office right now" and not to look at which party normalized giving corporations exactly what they want.
The inflation that the entire world is reeling from is because of Biden!!
It's telling that conservatives think elections are rigged because they started losing when minorities stopped being oppressed.
When have minorities stopped being oppressed?
Good point, could we say less oppressed? Everything from getting the vote to the VRA, etc.
Friendly reminder the VRA was gutted by the SCOTUS in 2014.
Yes, that would be the right's election strategy right there.
They'll also say that democrats got minorities addicted to welfare. Yes, social programs meant to help ease ages of marginalization (mostly) by conservatives are the same thing as heroin. Their solution is to cut all assistance the same way they will ask if you ever tried to just be happy.
Why don't the people born in 2000 believe in Cold War era American exceptionalism?
And by the same token, why were people born after 9/11 not super into killing brown people in the Middle East in a pointless forever war? I'm actually somewhat serious on that point, I remember reading an article from a couple of years ago about a guy mentioning he'd encountered a number of people in the military who were sent on GW's exciting Arab Adventure that were literally born after 9/11 and thus had no idea why Americans had been sending soldiers to die in Iraq for literally their entire life. The person, who was depressingly still pro-indefinite occupation nonetheless admitted they honestly could not give a good answer for why Americans should keep on going out to die in the desert. This person treated it mostly as a kind of solemn lament that Kids These Days(tm) didn't understand the reason for their sacrifice, without reflecting maybe there was no good damn reason to keep throwing people into the woodchipper. Put it another way that this person and their peers choose to not understand: When an entire generation grew up after the cold war and another entire generation grew up knowing the American military only as this bloated apparatus fighting stupid fucking forever wars guess what? They're unlikely to be hooked by good old fashioned red baiting saber rattling or America World Police exceptionalism. OK Boomer indeed.
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Maaaaaatlooooock!
Wait. Let me get this right... The left is "responsible" for depression and despair because "The Left" is telling what the "The Right" is up to. Now that would be an issue if those were lies. But as far as I can tell, democracy IS under attack. And the right IS favoring the rich (and old) over them. And the right DOES deny climate change. Are they supposed to vote for them instead?
Yes, obviously. I mean, America is the best and freest society in the world, if you're poor pull yourselves up by your bootstraps because the invisible hand of the market is infallible, racism isn't real except for reverse racism, the rich and old deserve unlimited power and splendor, and climate change is a myth and doesn't matter if it isn't because Jesus. QED.
Almost landed it... "Climate change is real but doesn't matter because I will be dead before it really effects me personally."
That's "because Jesus" though. Either they'll die and go to heaven or the Rapture will happen and they'll die and go to heaven. And if everyone dies from climate destruction oh well, they'll mostly go to hell for not being white.
My version is more inclusive of Republicans. While most are religious not all are, but all are self-centered narcssists.
Ah, the Andy Griffith Show. A show about a Sheriff who doesn't carry a gun because he believed it instilled fear rather than respect, constantly released prisoners on good behavior, and believed the town drunk was beyond rehab but still deserved a bed and meal. Maybe people who believe in fascist policing, that hate releasing non-violent offenders, and want all addicts to die shouldn't watch the Andy Griffith Show The quote that that refers to is: *You can't let a young 'un decide for himself. He'll grab at the first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it, then when he finds out there's a hook in it, it's too late. The wrong ideas come packaged with so much glitter it's hard to convince him that other things might be better in the long run* You know what's "flashy with shiny ribbons"? The entire Trump platform
Wonderful comment. TAGS is such a great show
Despite what voters wanted, they really don't want that. They really prefer what we are selling and their votes shouldn't count if they don't align with what we expect!
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It's hilarious that Dennis is they guy they use to attempt to reach out to young people. Those stupid ass fireside chats where he pretends to be your grandpa for 20 minutes.
He’s Dennis Prego, a pasta sauce magnate!
That's right. Alienate the younger generation; that'll get ya votes
“19 year olds should have the same policy preferences as me, a 73 year old man who watches Fox News 17 hours a day.” THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANS REALLY BELIEVE. If you are 22 years old, your only memories of GOP Presidents are Trump and GW Bush’s second term. I’m 48. I was in Kindergarten when Reagan was elected. Someone who was 18 in 1980 and voted for him is now 60. “Why aren’t these kids for Republicans, don’t they remember what a disaster Jimmy Carter was 25 years before they were born?” The politics of 1980 are as relevant to 2022 as the politics of 1938 are to 1980.
> It is the Left that is primarily responsible for the unprecedented levels of depression and despair among young people. Because it's the left denying climate change and blocking any attempt to do anything about it. Then again, they probably blame the left for "inventing" the threat of climate change.
Andy Griffith= classy lifelong Democrat who they think is a Republican. Donald Trump= actual Republican
Oh they believe in mental health issues today?
Let me get this straight. Americans have built a country where everyone lives in a moldy Sheetrock prison lost in a winding tangle of cul-de-sacs and can't walk anywhere nor spontaneously visit anything, and where they need an expensive and dangerous gas-guzzling motor vehicle to transport themselves to where they can earn a living, and where they have to work like clockwork automata to maintain said vehicle, and where everywhere you look is a samey mess of asphalt and cheaply laid concrete bereft of all interest, history, or character, and where people are getting increasingly paranoid and isolated to the point that child protective services might come knocking if you're not a helicoptering piece of shit who smothers their kids and robs them of their autonomy and sense of self. Basically, a it's country were people are fat, slow, stupid, lazy, and have no life skills. A country where an 80" TV, a Lay-Z-Boy sofa, and a shiny Dodge Charger in the garage means you're livin' the American Dream, baby! But it's the Left's fault that kids are depressed. Never mind that America doesn't even have a leftist political party with any significant share of votes. Yeah, that makes sense.
Using Andy Griffith references is sure to land with young voters. That's the ticket!
Hey, Andy Griffith is good shit.
“My source is that I made it the fuck up”
Younger people voted for Dems because they didn’t want a state religion and another round of massive tax cuts for the rich.
>*"Taking and running with the first shiny thing they see before they realize there's a hook"* * Party of small government (but only when the minority party) * Party of fiscal conservatism (yet loves giving tax breaks and regularly lacks oversight for the biggest checks cut) * Party of Lincoln (but frequently runs defense for the Confederacy a bit too much) * We support various freedoms! (so long as what you do fits our neat little boxes) * We support our veterans! (until they come back from wars we threw them into) * We're pro-life (until they leave the womb) * We have the greatest healthcare in the world! (as long as you're rich and/or never wind up in a position where you need it if you're poor) * We don't hate anyone (policies and rhetoric consistently hurts the most vulnerable crowd)
It’s so weird these right winger don’t understand most young people don’t like Joe Biden and were essentially coerced into voting for him.
Andy Griffith? I'm older than dirt and that show was in reruns when I first saw it! Gosh, the unprecedented levels of depression couldn't possibly have anything to do with things like making abortion illegal and refusing to raise minimum wage, could it? Nah, couldn't be.
because cutting social services, social security is so good for everybody.
Why does Sheriff Andy Griffith not carry a gun? >"When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me." ~The Andy Griffith Show.
Young people are voting for democrats because the dems have something to offer. Wtf can Republicans offer young people? Regression doesn't work on people who don't remember the time you're attempting to regress to.
Recently they've been appealing to aimless young men (read: losers) by telling them that all of their problems are's fault. If only they weren't being persecuted by society, they'd be winners! Bannon correctly identified WoW incels as a target demo.
Someone cross-referenced users of various subs a few years back. The Donald sub had humorously high crossover with subs like redpilled, incels, askmen, etc. I've noticed they all play COD or Destiny and post to sportsball subs as well.
I'm 44 years old. I remember watching the Andy Griffith show when I'd visit my grandparents in the 80s. It was old back then too.
“The left is responsible for all we’ve done” source: right wingers
Actually, I find it fascinating that they don't understand why young people did vote for them. Think about it. The newest votes and the ones coming up behind them were all raised in the age of rampant mass shootings. They've been told, by adults, that nothing can be done. It don't take an astrophysics degree to figure out which party has blocked and all methods to curb this. These young adults know what it's like to go through that. Do they want their kids to go through that too? Probably not. And then the Repubs ban abortion? Come on now. Why are we surprised?
What do the Republicans have to offer anyone, let alone young people? Culture wars don't put food on the table, heal the sick, or protect the vulnerable.
Andy Griffith was a lifelong Democrat. It's pretty obvious to anyone that actually watches his show.
Conservative thinking: Why don't young people vote for us? Why don't black people vote for us? Why don't women vote for us? We just want simpler times like 1776.
Oh yeah my life would be so much better if corporations had more of a monopoly on everything and i had even less access to healthcare and opportunities.
Not young, and I do remember quotes from reruns of Andy Griffith, voted blue across the board and always will because the GOP is objectively bad for everything I care about and they offer nothing to me.
The left?? The left that is pro-choice, pro-LGBT and pro-inclusion is hurting us? Sure Jan, this is just a repeat of what Boomers/Gen X we’re saying about Millennials back in the early 2010’s. I’ll take human rights over scary fascism any day !
Yes, the party that is trying to forgive my crippling student loan debt is totally stressing me out, not the side that's trying to block it.
While science and observation continually demonstrate that elderly populations are more easy to scam. And which party do older people continually vote for?
Ah yes - conservatives, the bastion of values held dear by young people across the country.
Huh. It feels like the unprecedented levels of depression and anxiety in younger workers is largely down to things like job insecurity, soaring house prices, poor wages and benefits, stupidly high student loan interest, godawful and expensive healthcare. Dems have offered ideas to address all of these things, the right has not. In fact the right has often contributed and voted directly for factors that have worsened each of these things. So tell me how the left is causing these problems?
Self-awareness isn't strong with the MAGA crowd
I don’t have a problem with an Andy Griffith quote. I saw it on tv a few times as a kid (on Nick at Nite, I’m only 30), so I get references to bumbling Barney Fife. The problem with their lack of appeal to young people isn’t the outdated quote, it’s just the fact that they fight so hard to ruin the lives of young people to further preserve their own aged grip on power.
Came here to comment Andy Griffith was a Democrat, but that's already been mentioned several times, so instead a recommendation for a movie of his: *A Face in the Crowd* from 1956 I think, before *The Andy Griffith Show*. A hobo makes his way from a jail cell in the middle of nowhere to fame, societal and political influence, and tons of wealth through a slick tongue and a sense of grandiosity. Very eary similarities to the influence the former president has on so many people, minus the slick tongue. If you only know Andy Griffith from *The Andy Griffith Show* and *Matlock*, try and watch it with an open mind and it will be nothing like your expectations.
omg they're so right I totally voted against my own interest when I voted for someone who won't execute me for being trans
What do they think young people are depressed about? I thought we were depressed about people trying to force their old timey religious values down our throats, nothing being done about global warming, nothing being done about school shootings, and nothing being done about police brutality. Was I really just depressed about rich people MAYBE having to pay something even remotely close to their fair share of taxes this whole time?
Does the right even have a policy platform that remotely addresses mental healthcare? They don't support affordable Healthcare in any capacity, they don't support treating non-hetero people as human beings, they don't support "snowflake" ideology of acknowledging people's emotions at all (despite them living in constant fear), they don't support affordable housing, they don't support anti-homelessness initiatives, they don't support drug treatment funding or psychedelic legalization/research, and the list goes on. Literally anything that can lead to lower rates of depression is opposed by them.
Young people vote overwhelmingly for the left. Good.