@NietszcheanLib@youngwerther123 It’s coming, and quickly. “Anti-data center” is the predominant viewpoint on normie social media, and it’s pushed everywhere. Young conservatives will soon find themselves on the same side of this issue as the left.
@ArtemisConsort Oklahoma is an interesting place. Cheap, massive McMansions everywhere, and I mean everywhere, even compared to the not-so-dissimilar place I’m from.
Then you go into OKC, and there’ll be a gated neighborhood with million dollar homes two blocks from a trap house.
Not dissing OK
Any talk of “ICE hype edits losing the election” is a twitter-siloed misread of the media normal people consume and care about. They irritated leftists on here, and that’s about the extent of it. The truth is that the GOP hasn’t adapted to the slopcannon era of shortform political content, not that it’s gone too far. The DNC did adapt, and it won. Right now, 90% of the things Dems and normies believe about “politics” are just not true, in a way that has never been the case before. Epstein eating babies with Trump, etc. Only a few years ago, the “piss tape” and “Russiagate” took intense national media coverage to develop as mass psychoses, and even then only really weathered discreditation among low-info olds. Now, the vast majority of things you hear from “apolitical normies” are some sort of schizophrenic lie derived from a momentary partisan event 6 months ago — something you, reader, forgot about a week after it happened because you mostly consume news on here.
The GOP lost among its base because of the war, gas prices, bad PR, take your pick. But if we’re talking about media strategy, it lost swing normies that it won in ‘24 because it has consistently failed to adapt to the meta of Lindsay Clancy-style TikTok parallel-reality construction. Funnily enough, this media environment — the total death of “legacy media” and “trusted experts,” supplanted by a decentralized online hive — is the exact thing many on the Right have wished for for many years. It happened… now what? As of now, nothing: hysteria is a commodity you can buy, but Republicans aren’t investing. They seemed to have missed the part of epistemic collapse where the “validity” of ideas is totally meaningless, replaced only by their ability to gain attention as a directional signal.
Trump wins nationally because he is a gravity well for media attention, a unique talent; but the GOP without him as the candidate is totally excluded from the infostream, seemingly by their own choice. Everybody laughed at the DNC buying catamites like Harry Sisson back in 2023, but that’s just part of the game now — botfarming new stock characters into the popular mind in order to run participatory ARG-style media events designed solely to drive turnout. These things don’t happen by accident, they cost money and require learned acumen.
Obviously this is only one small part of the electoral environment, but it’s one that very few people seem to be talking about. Epstein hysteria, the Cornell 7, Nolan Wells, etc. probably drove Dem enthusiasm in as big a way as Iran drove GOP unenthusiasm, and it’s an angle where the GOP seems uninterested in competing.
@Teddyroos99@patriot_ye24@JohnDoyle I assumed you were a Fuentes type; I didn’t realize DeSantis truthers were still around. Good guy, great politician, I’m a huge fan, but not sure he would’ve even beaten Harris.
I’m not a gambling man, but I took positions today on Paxton, Husted, Rs holding the Senate, and then both Iowans (Hinson & Lahn).
I don’t like gambling at all, but when they’re selling dollars for 30 cents…
"The GOP victory on Tuesday will break the democrats. A lot of people will be so despondent they'll stop paying attention to politics. No riots, no protest, just tears followed by lethargy."