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Are you getting fit for the revolution? | It's Been A Minute
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21:34Now PlayingSo-called "swoletariats" are exercising for the resistance.
There’s a lot of fitness content in conservative manosphere circles that’s not new but now, there are also fitness influencers who call themselves the “swoletariat.” That’s a combination of the word “swole,” meaning buff, and “proletariat,” meaning the working class the swoletariat are people whose fitness regimens connect to leftist politics. NPR's Life Kit producer Margaret Cirino () shares her reporting with Brittany on the history of leftist fitness and why she’s seeing the swoletariat picking up steam on social media.
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