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nah his MOST ideologically aligned audience is made up of actual zealots. my dad was literally screaming at me, “he’s got the most popular show in the world! he’s a big deal!” because i said i didn’t think joe was a smart guy the other night.
the context was, of course, vaccine skepticism. he’s really just diet alex jones, but since he’s popular i guess there’s no issue there?
i’m so tired y’all.
Yeah I don’t even know why I wrote that. I think I mean something more like general audiences that are likely to find more points in common with the opinions on the show than points they’d object to.
People who don’t view themselves as political? Not sure.
A large swath of people will think you’re overreacting if you say something like “Joe Rogan is putting a friendly face on disastrous misinformation for millions of trusting listeners all over the world.” or its much milder cousin “This guy has uncritically nodded along to a lot of bullshit his friends have said on air, I can’t listen to this anymore, I think it’s weird that you still do.”
Nothing says free thinker like having very particular opinions on irrelevant US current events from across the planet that just so happen to line up with one of the most famous corporate mouthpieces since Oprah.
i’m so consistently bummed out that duncan trussell loves him so much, but i’m pretty sure they were friends a while before he really started down this road.
like fuck, i’ve got some shitty friends. and i would probably also call em out a lot less if they were giving me an enormous fucking platform to just dick around with for funsies.
he’s lowkey on my shitlist until he makes midnight gospel season 2 happen tho. i refuse to believe there isn’t a SINGLE streamer interested. pitch it to chick-fil-a or something, c’mon!
really? the impact to your media consumption patterns and preferences is the biggest problem you have here?
seriously?
oof.