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  1. It's a video demonstrating how not to appeal to Gen Z men, and it just so happened to also include bad takes on deregulation. No need to watch the full discussion, but I didn't want to be accused of clipping him out of context either. There already are grassroots personalities who are left-of-center that have charisma and a willingness to hit the class-based policy points that drove the success of the 2016 and 2020 Bernie campaigns, but because the algorithms are massively biased against them and because Democratic leadership is captured by moneyed interests the only podcasts and streamers they boost are neoliberal elites such as Ezra Klein that are totally off-putting to the people the party now claims to want to win back. But in true DNC fashion they're going to focus group it to death
  2. That's a whole other thread entirely, but I will say that using Austin is an example of good governance didn't land for me. San Francisco is a 7 mile strip of landfill that's literally surrounded by water. The engineering and design required to build something there is going to be very different from what it takes to build something in Central Texas. Blaming regulations for California being expensive is just lazy and misleading to say nothing of being suspiciously aligned with the output of right wing think tanks. As long as Democrats are approaching this post mortem with the mindset that certain answers are unacceptable and certain enemies are off-limits, the perception will be they aren't serious about winning or doing anything differently. Nothing will fundamentally change, so nobody will be "won back"
  3. I personally fuck with academics, even the ones I disagree with, but I recognize that I'm very much outside the mainstream. There's just no way the average Theo Von fan would listen to someone like him for hours. Goes back to the stupid George W Bush era "beer test"
  4. Smug academic assholes like Ezra Klein are a major part of the problem. Watch here as he deflects blame from those economic and social elites. Some of my favorite YouTube comments:
  5. You're not wrong, actually. Podcasts and aesthetics alone will not fix the problems the Dems have. It's not just "messaging." The sales pitch is bad, but the product also is bad. Bernie on the Schulz podcast is focused mostly on the party's bullshit priorities and failure to offer anything to the working class. Kamala's "opportunity economy" maybe was the closest they came to scrounging something together for them (side note: who's the ad-wizard who came up with that pile of dogshit idea?). As with most neoliberal ideas, it was a wonky, means-tested, boring and hard-to-follow solution. So I agree with Bernie that the Dems absolutely must change their priorities. That will go a long way toward fixing the product. The discussion we've been having about Joe Rogan and Asmongold isn't about the party's product, though. It's about how the party's ideas are marketed. We totally abandoned the culture war because we prematurely claimed victory the moment a black man got elected president, and we're paying the price for that. So the marketing strategy should not take strong demographics for granted, and it should not turn its nose up at long-form, unscripted conversational formats that have a lot of influence over Gen Z men. I really hated how scripted everything Kamala said and did on the campaign trail felt. They really thought a 45 minute softball interview with "Call Me Daddy" (or whatever the fuck it's called) has the same effect as going on Theo Von? Not even close. We desperately needed a candidate who knew how to have a normal conversation with normal people. Tim Walz had that skill in spades. You don't build a reputation as a great teacher without knowing how to read and control a room of unpredictable people. Even Beto O'Rourke has a tendency to steer normal conversations into a stump speech, which Boomers and Gen X and even Millennials totally adore, but it just doesn't land with Gen Z. I see a lot of the same quirks with Pete Buttigieg. I respect them for being willing to speak up in hostile territory, but after a while the attendees feel like they're being talked at instead of hung out with. JD Vance is worse when it comes to taking fair questions and unnaturally launching into talking points, so don't get me wrong it's not a uniquely Democratic tendency. We just need people who remember how to act normal and connect with normal people.
  6. Those were only illustrative examples, and as much as I wish I could take credit for it the sad truth is there are morons who are still advising democrats to adopt a "conservative lite" strategy, which is how Gavin Newsom starts a podcast in which he agrees with everything Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon say. So unfortunately there are overpaid Tom Herman-caliber frauds who hear "meet young men where they are" and conclude that Dems should pander to that offensive caricature overgeneralization of Joe Rogan's audience.
  7. This language is too imprecise for me to know whether I agree. I can agree if "where they are" refers to online media, podcast formats, or shared interests such as martial arts, comedy, and self-improvement. But if "where they are" means treating women like shit, validating eugenicist "race realist" theories, or equating wealth with intelligence, then we should not "meet" anyone there. There's a crucial difference between abstaining from the culture wars (losing strategy) and surrendering in the culture wars (just as bad as losing). Participate. Fight. Win.
  8. The clot was preventing muscle growth. League definitely fucked.
  9. An epic clapback
  10. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-19/scott-adams-metastatic-prostate-cancer-joe-biden-dilbert
  11. This never happens in real life conversations with friends and family. It might not even be good enough to be said by a pink haired feminist character on a failed Adam Carolla exclusive Daily Wire Plus cartoon series.
  12. The strategy of ceding online spaces entirely is a massive failure. Speak everywhere the opposition is speaking and you'll see how quickly the polling numbers on the issues shift back to something resembling sanity. You can't save the people who take their political cues from sex traffickers and WoW streamers who live in squalor, but you can at least stop the bleeding.
  13. Some of you don't understand what MacGuffins are. It really doesn't matter what marginalized groups say or do, the resentful faction will always find something to complain about and like Charlie Brown with his football, liberals and moderates keep falling for this prank. The problem is not trans people, or immigrants, or minorities. It never has been. Please stop taking conservatives at their word. They will never have your best interests in mind. They want you to lose as much as possible so they can continue looting us.
  14. Someone should have ordered them to come down, right? I don't blame the sailors for following orders, but I blame the people responsible for their safety for neglecting that responsibility.
  15. I'm not an admiralty guru but if the captain knew the vessel wasn't under his control why the fuck didn't he and his crew warn the people up on the masts?
  16. What a shame they forced him to campaign when he should have been resting and enjoying his family.
  17. unheard of in Oklahoma
  18. I doubt this, actually. It's not the same people watching today that were watching before he'd left OTK.
  19. Asmon is not "on the take" if what you mean is something like Tim Pool being too dumb to realize he's getting paid by Russians. But he does know there's a built-in audience for reactionary politics, and he needs that audience to stay relevant and for whatever income he has to continue. Nobody in his racist-ass audience was ever "gettable" by the democrats. Like it or not, that's a dipshit crowd. Rogan's too, although it didn't used to be.
  20. Okay none of that disproves Gourmand's point about the community he built by calling Palestinians "inferior" and supporting mass deportations. If you can understand how Joe Rogan fell off, there's nothing besides cognitive dissonance and copium stopping you from seeing Asmongold for what he's become.
  21. He has taken a very hard right turn and is now officially considered a politics streamer, which is no longer eligible to be monetized on Twitch.
  22. Love to see NBA players get Rec Center'd
  23. This has all the hallmarks of "spotlight too big for them" but maybe OKC will settle down and make it competitive.
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