These people aren’t going to respond to debate. The only thing that is going to get through to them is mockery and social consequences.
First of all, I never disrespect anyone who is starting on a fitness journey. If someone is out of shape and is looking to fix that, then that’s great. Here is why I make a giant exception when it comes to this goofball Zorhan Mamdani. In case you’re out of the loop, this guy who I’m told might be the next mayor of NYC went viral for failing to bench 135, a feat that most teenage boys can do.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/08/24/mamdani-bench-press-follies-n2193157
Let me take a step back and explain how the real world works, and then tie that in to why we need to make fun of people like Mamdani. I don’t mean why we need to debate with ideas. I mean why we need to mock people like him.
The world works because of physically fit men with guns. The world doesn’t work because of lawsuits or courts or laws or even Twitter mobs. All that is just a suggestion. The world works because of physical force. If you don’t believe me, consider that all the completely unconstitutional COVID edicts would basically be a letter to Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy if it wasn’t for physically fit men with guns enforcing those edicts, meaning the police. Credit to Michael Malice for coming up with that statement.
But here’s the thing. They hate the police, but they also need the police in order for their world view to operate. They hate physically fit men with guns, but at the same time, they need them in order to arrest people for “hate speech” in the UK or to shut down small businesses when apparently mass riots are okay.
They need physically fit men with guns because they are decidedly not physically fit or capable of any physical force of their own. They are reliant on people who they hate. Their men cannot even bench 135, something most teenage boys in a high school weight room can do.
The only thing that these people are going to respond to is mockery. We need to make fun of them. They are pathetic and should be talked to as such. Only social consequences and social exclusion is going to have an impact on them. Alexandr Solzehitsyn wrote about this decades ago in the Soviet Union with the Samizdat movement, a system of mockery against the Soviets. We learned it worked with COVID! Mockery and social exclusion of COVID hysterics eventually led to the tyranny falling apart.
I say this to emphasize that these people will not respond to debate. Debates work when you have two parties engaging in good faith. The left is not engaging in good faith. They do not want debate or even free speech. It’s a waste of time to engage in more of those debates or sending chubby Steven Crowder to yet another college campus to get yelled at by weirdos. I don’t know if that’s some kind of kink of his, getting heckled by college kids, but it’s weird and also not moving the needle.
The one thing that upper middle class strivers and LinkedIn Americans fear is social exclusion. This is why I think Murray Hill Guy’s viral post about canceling a date with the girl who was excited about Mamdani went so viral. It’s exactly the kind of energy that we need more of.
Look, we’re long past the era of debating all the usual stuff like if taxes should be slightly up or slightly down. If you want to yell about Israel and Palestine…have fun. The Middle East has been at war for centuries. Big deal. Debate that one all day. But we’re at a point where the “debate”, if you can even call it that, is whether or not we should do irreversible sex change operations on underage kids who cannot provide any kind of informed consent, and by the way, we’ll try to get you fired from your job if you disagree.
We’re at a point where the debate is, we should tolerate violent criminals stabbing to death Ukrainian women who apparently are safer in a literal war zone than a Charlotte public transit train, because “all cities are like that.” No, all cities are not like that.
These people need to be mocked and excluded. They can afford to look evil, but they cannot afford to look un-cool. Making these extreme views socially unpalatable is the only way that they are going to get the message.
The best, though, are physically fit guys with guns who AREN'T working for any segments of government enforcement.