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[–] [email protected] 183 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Credulous is the word.

Under the guise of objectivity he gives all fringe opinions equal significance.

Edit: here's a good explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZAQYI_hYp0

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm okay with skeptical and verifying but he doesn't challenge all his guests equally. I'm not saying he should be perfect, but there are some really far out ideas that need more questioning before I'm personally satisfied.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (6 children)

he is a cunt, literally lied about how he heard they are putting cat litter into classes so that kids eho identify as cats have somewhere to go, then when called out on it that it's bullshit he just said it's a joke or something.

the real reason litter was being put into classes was so that if a school shooting happens kids have somewhere to go and it doesn't go everywhere

it's covered in Some more News' Moral panic video

https://youtu.be/oAeKAJFrb0w

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the real reason litter was being put into classes was so that if a school shooting happens kids have somewhere to go and it doesn't go everywhere

Do Americans not realize how fucked up their country sounds to the rest of us when they do this kind of shit instead of controlling you-know-what?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

We absolutely do. Our country has been captured and held hostage by a small minority of selfish morons.

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

With his alt-right views, Joe Rogan has essentially become Rush Limbaugh with a traumatic brain injury.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I will also say it's 2023, some things are past even being sceptical about.

If you bring on a flatearther you aren't being sceptical, you're a moron.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

His show is entertainment first and foremost. That means glorifying stupid bullshit for the entertainment value of it.

Most hard science is boring. Most fringe theory thinking is dramatic and thrilling.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

He has some alt-right ideas and opinions too, he just hides it well. I've seen the mask slip.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard science can be the most wonderful things you ever heard about. You merely need someone to explains it right.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His mind's so open his brain fell out

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

I hope so, because the alternative is he knows what he's doing which would be truly fucked up.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you told Joe that Apple own a warehouse full of genetically altered chickens that actually laid iPhones he'd stare at you, slack-jawed and wonder why this hasn't been reported in the press. Just a fucking clown from his toes to his eyelashes.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The apotheosis of what a dumb guy thinks a smart guy sounds like.

The manifested avatar of a crowd of drunk college kids having an uninformed debate.

The patron saint of mansplaining.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From my knowledge of them (which is sadly non-zero), I think Ben Shapiro fits the first description better.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my favorite Shabibo moment was when he had a "debate" with a famous Tory broadcaster in the UK and got dunked on so hard he called him a leftist. chefs-kiss

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Joe think you are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The problem with Rogan is that he doesn't have the knowledge or qualifications to push back against people spewing bullshit on his show, and so he ends up essentially making fringe, pseudo-scientific ideas seem equal to the mainstream expert consensus view.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

And the outspoken wrong on the show people are oftentimes cool and charismatic, so people trust them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

the problem with rogan is that he agrees with the worst people on his show. he doesn't push back because he doesn't want to. he peaked on news radio.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

I stopped listening to his podcasts when I realised he doesn't know the facts and spews what he believes are facts. I admire him to hold a conversation for as long as he does and keep it somewhat entertaining but beyond that it's nothing more than pseudo science.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of the best greentext explanations out there

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Nah they are wrong, Joe isn't a dumb guy, he's not doing what he's doing because he's some dumb meathead, he's doing it for money, fame, and to finally be part of the in-groups, which means power, he finally has a president(Trump) that accepts him and hob knobs with him.

Joe has always been a cynical self serving libertarian type, if you went back and listened or watched some of his old standup comedy you would get a better idea of how far Rogan has fallen, he's become a lot of what he hated. There was a time when people used to think that Joe would be the next George Carlin, now he's just a more palatable and successful Alex Jones.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You're reading way too much into it, his original stand up was never clever.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Haha holy shit, it's wild to even see Joe and George in the same sentance. It's like thinking maybe the PT Cruiser could be the spiritual successor to the 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 😂

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

This is good shit

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Casual racism about Eurasian people on 4chan? It's more likely than you think.

Eurasian nomads were quite technically advanced, which is why they spent centuries wrecking Europe.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just Horse Archers are very OP and it took the devs a long time to nerf em.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

No; he's just a credulous idiot.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That used to be true. He got sucked into the right wing echo chamber real though and he has getting worse as time goes on.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Every post that hits /all/ from this comm is either misogyny or casual racism like this.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's what I noticed about the 4chan-related subreddits, too. It's basically all 4chan has to offer. "haha, we're racist!" or equivalent.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Barbarian Khan

yes the culture that happens to adapt/improve/recruit tech, culture and people from all over the place is the ''barbarian''

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was always under the assumption that 'barbarian' was specifically the term Romans used to refer to any non Romans north of the empire?

Still, funny shitpost.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing this gift with us

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