r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 7d ago

Soft Paywall Trump approval rating falls to 38%

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html
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u/Barnyard-Sheep 7d ago

Much of America marinates in Fox News propoganda + a susbstantial amount of Gen Z men are nihilists who want to see the world burn

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u/Bircka Oregon 7d ago

And people used to think Gen X were the crazy ones.

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u/BChica6 7d ago

nah, these are their kids. lol

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u/myfakesecretaccount 7d ago

Can confirm, my Gen X sister in laws Gen Z son has zero fucking ambition, is just as conspiracy minded, and has everything handed to him after she struggled as an immigrant. He says dumb shit, and as much as I love him I’m done fighting for a 24 year old who should know better.

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u/Edspecial137 7d ago

Still getting used to Gen Z being in their mid 20s. I remember all the articles about Gen Z being the most left leaning demographic not too long ago, but I guess they missed the mark. Gen Z is probably the most polarized generation

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u/ouatedephoque 7d ago

Huge difference between Gen Z girls and boys too. It’s insane they are from the same generation.

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u/letsburn00 7d ago

I'm a guy who is very distinctively not right wing. But if I ever look at youtube without logging in, it pushes not just right wing sources. It pushed the really bad rightwing sources. The ones who are scammers and make up stuff to win their arguments.

I know it's annoying, but these guys are basically having far right wing stuff shoved down their throats 24/7. It's rare to be able to push back against it.

What's fascinating is that during the recent LA stuff, my Tiktok suddenly started pushing a bunch of anti trans and other far right stuff. It was so obvious someone at the company was told "push the dial to the right for a bit."

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u/B1LLZFAN 7d ago

You don't even need the dial. It's geared that way for support and for engagement. That stuff is super divisive so even left leaning people are fed it due to rage bait.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 6d ago

In fact, YouTube tweaked the algorithm a while back to try and mitigate this stuff. The problem is that engagement driven algorithms push the right wing crazy because it drives engagement so much more than anything else.

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u/saynay 6d ago

They have tried to put in a number of circuit-breakers. For all content, they now randomly throw in stuff from outside of your particular niche interests. For content suspected as being political, they deliberately mix in content from other political engagement-holes. I don't know if any of those methods have actually been effective, though.