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On related news, their standards are pretty low, as a whooping 45% of Millenial and GenZ ~~woman~~ women would drop as low as having a partner that listens to "The Joe Rogan Experience".
I made it more clear.
You know, some just don't know what that potentially means, but the number who would be willing to do this again (after the definitve breakup or breakdown, which ever comes first) is way, way, way lower.
Hey he has some good old episodes, I listen to them when I need white noise
There are plenty of other podcasts with great episodes that don't platform Nazis.
Yeah and? That doesn't erase the fact that he had really interesting guests, in fact I love that aliens/DMT phase, even if the rest is straight up garbage.
There is no more nuance on the world? Are we are now living in a black and white world?
the "alien/DMT phase" was literally the conspiracy and Alt-right pipeline
Yeah, Joe Rogan describes himself as a liberal. He has guests who he thinks will be interesting, not who he agrees with. I understand the idea of wanting to know what makes those people tick.
There is still a great point to be made that he's giving awful people a large platform to spew hateful or wrong messages to millions of people, and while Rogan often plays devil's advocate, he doesn't do much to delegitimize people who don't deserve to be taken seriously.
Ultimately, I think that Rogan does more harm than good because he allows hateful and stupid people to influence his audience.
When the nazis start marching, no, there's no room for nuance. You squash them, grind them to dust, and do the same for all their supporters.
Hahahahahaha so tough, Nazis are running at this instant at your virtual threat.
Where are these nazis.... Im living the same as i always have.... Not really seeing any burning crosses around 🤔
Not a big news follower, are ya?
You wanna show me the news with rampant increae of nazism impacting daily life? Or just cry that people are saying words...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/neo-nazis-thriving-florida-ron-desantis-1234824505/
Hahahaha the FBI cosplaying Neo-Nazis doesnt mean Nazism is running rampant through the streets of America. Nice try tho
Ah fascists, so predictable. There are no real Nazis! Any evidence is fake! Probably planted by the Jews, too!
I mean, continue to live in fear then? Be afraid of the rise of Nazism and lose more of your freedoms trying to fight it.
I'm not afraid of people saying they believe a ludicrous ideology(Nazism). Ive never met a Nazi, laws aren't changed by Nazis, if i lived in Florida I'd move away.
Stop crying online its cringe af
Unless you lived in Germany in the 1930s.
"How could the Holocaust have happened??" While legitimate neo-nazis gain significant footholds in Western nations yet more than a few are willing to say 'Well they haven't told you who to hate, yet' (unironically). 'Well, we don't have any concentration camps,' ignoring that we detain and deprive significant rights from immigrants. 'Well, we're hardly a fasciest nation!', disregarding the fact that our prior and still popular president attempted at every point of legality to overthrow a democratic election.
That isn't even taking into consideration that an alarming number of people are willing to show up to protests and parades with NAZI FLAGS AND ARMBANDS. Anyone who pretends like there isn't alarming positive Nazi sentiment in America is dumb or complicit.
Well, that would be the KKK so it explains why you haven't noticed Nazis if that's what you're looking for.
You like using the word "nazi" too much there bud. I think you mean't to say "There are plenty of other podcasts with great episodes that don’t platform people I was programmed to hate and want cancelled."
Alex Jones is a white supremacist. He has had Jones on the podcasts, ergo platforming him. Therefore "Rogan platforms Nazis" is, pretty much, a true statement.
And no, I'm not programmed to dislike Jones, I've come to that opinion after listening to his unedited show for years. He uses the terminology, rhetoric, and arguments found in white supremacy talking points. Jones isn't going to out right say "I'm a Nazi" or etc. (unlike Kayne -- who he suspiciously didn't boot immediately alongside Nick Fuentes when they explicitly say that), because it's the third rail you can't touch and be a propagandist for the masses. Which is his aim.
That was a solid joke...sorry for the downvotes.
I was going to leave it at that but it seems internet warriors are incapable of understanding a joke just as their conservative counterparts are unable to understand satire... So it's just a bunch of morons in a different political spectrum, and I love to provoke morons.
In a lot of ways this place is worse than Reddit. This is one of them.
I have to confess that I don't really know who Joe Rogan is, sorry.
He was the electrician in the 90s sitcom NewsRadio. Then he told people to eat weird stuff for a while. Now he's just super into drugs and platforming right-wing nutjobs as far as I can tell.
But NewsRadio was pretty great.
OK. Never heard of NewsRadio. Sorry.
So as far as I'm concerned, he's yet another Internet lunatic with a following of cretins peddling the usual (I suppose)..
I sometimes wonder what the hippies would have made of the Internet. Would they have spread love through the fibre?
A lot of hippies are now into Q-anon and shit. It's really sad.
There's still plenty of people who were hippies in the 60s around and on the internet today... No need to wonder... Find one and ask them.
bro jogan?
Maybe.
I don't know how to put this, maybe it's just me, I know that nowadays it seems weird…
But if a link is a video, I just close it.
If it's text, I can parse it and get a feel for it because I've spent a lifetime browsing text.
You can't browse video.
You can't search video.
You can't have an overview of video.
Video plain sucks for almost everything.
Video is great for monetization.
Unless you can't read. Videos suck.
I can read.
Sorry about the rant. I'm really pissed off about the video everywhere trend. So, anyway, I don't watch videos.
A simple 'wrong' would've done just fine...
I'm not going to reply with videos, you sicko.
You right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCMxnS1438g
Tl;Dw
I don't go out of my way to listen to him, but some of his episodes with people like Neil Degrasse Tyson and Brian Cox come up in my YouTube feeds. As long as Rogan isn't talking then they're ok.
And that is exactly the problem. He did some episodes with reputable media figures/science communicators, so it seems to a naive listener, like these are just regular interviews. And then he has a bunch of weirdos that just spout conspiracies, bullshit and hate, but since it's in the exact same style as the interviews with reputable people, a naive listener might assume that the conspiracy nut is as trustworthy as all the other people. And that's dangerous.