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The Democratic Party needs to really unleash everyone calling the GOP weird. Because they are just full of freaks like this guy. I'm pretty sure this guy was caught playing bum darts with another guy - him being gay is not the weird part here, it's him being so repressed about it and so weird about women.
Also, this guy sounds like Tobias Fuenke, without the charm.
I don't understand people that follow this guy? What's the appeal? Follow Nick and become a weird closeted freak and supposed virgin that says ridiculous things about sex and women (as well as Jews, and, well, just about everything else)?
Calling them weird was really effective. Then the Harris campaign managers told Tim Walz to stop doing it.
The center and left needs to reach out to the alienated, lonely, and disaffected young men. They are easy prey for right wing extremists.
For incels, Nick is the only one who gives them a sense of community and a comforting worldview where nothing is their fault.
I do like this idea; I don't know how that is done in a systemic way. I remember one point of Moore's Bowling for Columbine is that there seem to be a dwindling amount of "third places" and that civic engagement (fraternal orders and so on) has gone off a cliff - and Columbine was a decade before the smart phone.
I doubt things like civic engagement have gone up since.
Kind of amazing that the ‘there are no more third spaces’ cry has been going on for decades now completely unheeded.
It sure does seem there is evidence for a loneliness epidemic hitting many people and young men are especially susceptible and probably have less (positive) life skills to fall back on.
It explains people like Jordan Peterson, as well as Fuentes, I guess.
Also, they are pretty much the only people reaching out to them
There are already large incel groups forming "men's rights militias", congealing around charismatic content creators who use a potent mix of white nationalism, Sharia law, and identity politics.
They are the ones that alienated them in the first place. They chose identity politics and making white men the enemy instead of class struggle.