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Johnny Harris did a "both sides" dive into Joe a month ago and I unsubbed after watching that garbage. He just kinda breezes over shit and ends up being like "he just intellectually curious." Fuck right off with that shit. I remember years ago when that jungle spice smoking thumb of a man had Andy Ngo on and a friend of mine was trying to defend him asking if its "ok for people to attack a journalist." The friend didn't really know the context outside of the vague framework they supplied, but we argued for like 20 minutes. Even after I showed him who Ngo really was and what he was all about, it seemed impossible to break the perception he'd been given that Ngo was a victim.
Rogan is a misinformation gateway that primes people for the bigger scam down the line, whilst washing it's hands of any responsibility. He disarms people with a "curious" persona and the majority of his content just being empty mental calories to be consumed. It's like a viral carrier that dulls peoples mental immunity against right wing propaganda by surrounding it in a 100 layers of DMT vision stories. Personally feel like it makes him one of the bigger dangers for people getting put into the pilled pipeline.
When did they say or imply this?
You said you argued with your friend about Ngo being attacked but not being the victim. Come on, it's not like your comment was 100 pages long.
When was NGO attacked and by who?
I’m googling his name and not finding anything.
He liked to hide in antifa crowds and they'd catch him and yell and him and pour food on him. One time he got punched and had a milkshake poured on him. Some MAGA cop got interviewed and said that he'd heard about people in other places putting cement in milkshakes. That was the time he's referring to. He and right wing media made up a bunch of exaggerated bullshit lies to make that whiney baby into a martyr.
Yeah I just saw articles about Ngo charging and suing people but everything being found to be baseless accusations.
Understandable why the right wingers would like him.
https://deadline.com/2023/08/andy-ngo-journalist-author-wins-300k-in-alleged-assault-1235526808/
Thanks for the source.
So the two that showed up were found not liable and the three that didn’t were found liable?
How come in the article and headline it’s referred to as ‘alleged assault’?
You sound pretty angry for a pacifist.
Anger and violence are two different things bud.
I left reddit because all of the brain dead right wing trumper zombies that toe the line, only to find the left wing equivalents here. Fuck politics as a team sport. Literally no difference between either side other than the team color
Lmao bro are you SURE? Are you sure sure?
Well, one side talks about violence, and the other side both talks about and commits violence. Getting upset when leftists let off some steam and concluding that "both sides are the same" is a really smooth-brained take.
People who think that both sides are equal are routinely mocked for a reason.
I mean nobody should have thrown shit at Ngo but do I feel bad about it? Fuck no.
another enlightened centrist!
Get all the way fucked? Besides having a completely hypothetical conversation on my behalf, with me supposedly wishing violence on people (didn't, don't, but also fuck around and find out); you so completely fail to divine the reasoning to my words that its beyond laughable. He isn't a journalist. He's a propagandist. He isn't there to present the facts, he's there to produce a narrative.
He's a journalist in the same way James O'keefe is and FOX News* has to be news/entertainment. A perfect example was how he was fired by PSU Vanguard prior to his shadowing patriot prayer during a premeditated assault or getting hit with a milkshake. From his Wikipedia page
So yeah, in my opinion he doesn't deserve the same protections afforded to legitimate journalists. We can debate what journalist means in the internet age, but he ain't it. As to him getting hit with a milkshake, it was just a milkshake, and you reveal yourself when you felt the need to put that in quotations. Nobody shows up to a demonstration with quickcrete to mix into the nearest available milkshake. People just throw bottles, or rocks or bricks if they want to hit someone with something hard. If he was targeted for Christofascist affiliations, I'm not defending that violence, but that's also where fuck around and find out comes in. Also from his Wikipedia page:
Again, he's a propagandist that either got hit with a precision guided milkshake in a retribution shaking or more likely, randomly just got hit with a dessert like the clown he is. Violence begets violence, and approving or not this cycle will continue on until people more rational than us come to pass. You hold no benevolent middle ground here and instead of venting your misguided bullshit on internet people why don't you go pay someone to listen to this nonsensical garbage. Honk your red nose, get in that tiny clown car and fuck all the way off you brain rotted simp.