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Was true in the early 2000s too.

A winning task for a future DoJ would be a crackdown on the existence of both frats and Young Republican clubs. It's all about the group chats.

It's basically a series of escalating bad possiblities I'm edgy! I have never experienced anything outside of my extremely narrow bubble I'm rich enough I think politics are optional I really, REALLY want the hatred You have no idea how much self hate I have, and I'm going to make it your problem.

Interestingly, I haven’t seen the local College Republicans tabling on campus since early/mid 2025. They used to do so fairly often. Wonder if they’re having trouble recruiting / retaining members.

im not sure if there are support groups to help rehabilitate you after such an experience, but there probably should be.

I don't want to detract from your point about Republican dipshittery but a real missed opportunity here to say "but then he got off on the ground floor and I kept.going to the parking levels"

This kid looks like a third generation alumni whose dad owns a couple yachts. That haircut and that sneering expression tell me all that I need to know.

It is literally in the job description. If you're a college Republican and the GOP National Committee finds a person WORSE than you, you get a call saying you better get your act together buddy.

b b b but theres a male loneliness epidemic...

and yet, none of them has ever made a great point

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I joined a literary and debating club when I was in grad school because it seemed an honor, even though one of my friends described it as "Young Republicans for God." This was in 1984. The seeds were there. Trump just cultivated them.

when I was in Uni, the local "conservative party" club was a bunch of commerce degree/business degree dorks in ill-fitting suits at a folding table in the hallway, & no one wanted to talk to them.

Why do they always have little boy haircuts

Kids in college this fall we're between 7 and 12 when Trumpism took hold of the world and then 12-17 as COVID further broke our collective brains.. All while social media took over our lives in the worst popular way. Not a great recipe..

The college Republicans at UMass in the Late 80s were just as virulently shitty as today. They played all the hits — affirmative action bake sale, Buckley-style big thought bigotry, tee-hee 4chan-style racist malignancy. They took their lead from the ones at Dartmouth — Dinesh and some other cocks.

The entire ideology exists to permit, excuse, and enable exploitation, abuse, and domination. No surprise it attracts fucking scum.

This guy just looks like the most stereotypical racist college Republican.

Even 25 years ago, when I was in college and a Republican (it took too long for me to shake off the evangelical chains, I sucked) the CR were obvious to me as racist edgelord pieces of shit.

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What do you mean? They've definitely glossed over Atlas Shrugged.

Never thought I'd miss the days of debating Republicans in school who were just greedy and didn't want their money to help society. Now they want to kill everyone while stealing all the money.

and they were bad in the 80's too, just all downhill since.

I think that it was visible with Charlie Kirk. His media training was so aimed at being liked by pundit and political operatives that it was basically impossible to find footage that makes him look good to normal people.

I was just gonna say, they used to be David Spade from PCU and now they're so bad they can't even be used in a comedic film

I think the preppy assholes were Nazis back then too. It was just unseemly for them to be blatant about it.

hard agree with this. when i was in school the college republicans sucked, but their big things were like bog-standard pro-flat-tax, anti-affirmative action, anti-abortion, iraq-deadenderism... now they seem to legitimately be proud little fascists who think they have savvy, grown-up ideas...

I told someone that Make America Great Again was also a Reagan slogan and got to watch their brain do a factory reset

Trump has been a force magnifier in his demolition of the overton window on bigotry.

We basically went from American Psycho to that one Nazi kid in Knives Out.

Interestingly I saw this same evolution in the political forum game world. The young trumpies really brought the out of character tone down to Hitler levels when it was merely assholes before

The people joining the GOP today are not Alex P. Keaton.

Do you still get Young Americans For Freedom? My spouse says they were the worst on his campus.

It’s so bad we keep getting those articles about R legislators hating their staff for being useless little bigots who are so bigoted it actively prevents them from getting literally anything done. And I gotta say, love that for them. Reap what you sow hours.

These are all guys who spent their formative teenage years bathing in post gamergate right wing manosphere mania and watching the rise of Trump and the fall of all pretense of civility in politics. These guys are just pure evil. Basically got Hitler youthed on social media.

It’s a blind spot that the electorate doesn’t recognize how these goons become staff and end up in the house eventually. It doesn’t get instantly better after Trump unless there is sustained rejection of this type.

In 2012 I thought Republicans were bad people, I did not think the party needed to be utterly destroyed and the earth salted beneath it in order for liberal democracy to survive

Yeah, the 90s college republicans on my campus were misogynistic frat boy assholes with a Rush Limbaugh fixation but frankly they in no way compared to the modern day white nationalists. They've definitely gotten grosser (but I want to stress they were pretty gross!)

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Also true of every Republican in 2026. Or ever, really.

The Worst Chuds You Know

This has been true for decades, but somehow they manage to get worse every year. Like in 2006 they were also the worst person I’d ever met at the time, but the worst person I’ve ever met in 2026 is just way worse than that.

Pretty sure that's an evergreen position regardless of year