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Of course, not Tomi Lahren though...

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[–] Saltblue -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hey he has some good old episodes, I listen to them when I need white noise

[–] TurtleJoe 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are plenty of other podcasts with great episodes that don't platform Nazis.

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[–] chakan2 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was a solid joke...sorry for the downvotes.

[–] Saltblue 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chakan2 2 points 1 year ago

In a lot of ways this place is worse than Reddit. This is one of them.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have to confess that I don't really know who Joe Rogan is, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A lot of hippies are now into Q-anon and shit. It's really sad.

[–] scottywh 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AnUnusualRelic 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] macrocephalic -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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