If you even followed the news a little bit during the 2024 election season, you would know that one theme of said election (in the USA) was young men “going right,” I.e. identifying with guys like Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson — who are at this point state media, because their party is in power, even though they constantly call themselves “independent” — and some confusion apparently resulted from why exactly young men were identifying with a guy who has been married a bunch of times, might be a rapist, is definitely a serial cheater, etc. It felt a little odd.
This is not really that complicated of a discussion, and yet at the same time it’s a massively complicated discussion. I can give you some of the 35,000-foot stuff quickly, though:
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