"Are we the baddies?" ponders Gen-X's Rush Limbaugh copycat after decades of being a mouthpiece for Russian agitprop.
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Lol now he criticizes. Jfc dude
It was scary to do it before. In a post Renee world, it's much easier.
Heroes make the world better for everyone, even the evil people.
Joe Rogan is the gestapo’s voice. Joe Rogan is a piece is shit plus he is not funny.
I don't think he ever was. I never understood why people liked him. He always seemed like a poser to me. He wanted to be a cool guy, he wanted to be funny, he wanted to be a UFC fighter... I guess that kind of describes everyone in the "manosphere".
At one point he was actually kinda open minded and could raise an interesting discussion from time to time. Those days are loooooooong fucking gone. It's all just ego maintenance and propaganda now.
Admittedly I found him through his conversations with scientists I enjoyed listening to. Those days were good, they'd just have conversations about black holes and quantum physics. Then shit got absolutely out of hand and I never listened to him again.
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Going to be?
Joe Rogan, you have always been one of them, you fascist fuck. You helped create this and you will pay for your part in it.
and you will pay for your part in it.
I mean, here's hoping, but real accountability is a fucking unicorn nowadays.
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Thanks for ushering this in rogan
'Rogan said it was “very ugly to watch someone shoot a U.S. citizen, especially a woman, in the face.”'
It's very ugly to watch anyone shoot another person in the face.
FTFY, you scumbag
and roegan you and J peterson are russian mouth-pieces, was the one that whipped up people to do it.
Once again, the sucking void that is Joe Rogan's brain finally catches up with what everyone else already knows.
Maybe he'll realize one day that covid wasn't a hoax, and that Alex Jones is an insane lunatic.
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Say what you will about the guy, but I really hope he's sincere. He's an idiot, but an idiot with a huge audience. It would be better to have him on our side on this.
This isn't just Rogan. There's a lot of people feeling like this.
An absolutely fascinating polling number we're seeing now is that - even among Republican voters - people generally see Trump as doing badly on immigration. This is a massive shift from how he was perceived before the election, where immigration was where he polled the strongest IIRC. Actually seeing his immigration policies in action has actually soured right wing voters on them.
And the reason is simple; in their minds, they truly, genuinely did not vote for this. They voted to kick out all the "Bad" immigrants, not the sweet old lady who bakes amazing churros and the nice man who runs the drug store.
It's the Shirley Exception. They just assumed that the people they like would be exempt. Because they do not understand that you cannot build a machine for cruelty and then ask it to be kind.
The bad news is, these people vote. The good news is, these people represent a deep and serious fracture in Trump's support, and there is a very real opportunity here for many of them to finally figure out how fucked up their thinking has been all this time.
Genuinely, what you're seeing right now is individuals in an entire group go through their own individual chapel perilous moments: confronted with the reality of what their beliefs have brought to the world some will be horrified and reject those beliefs, yet some will double down and be sucked further into them.
For those that reject the beliefs it will be highly traumatic and isolating for them and, as hard as it will be because it feels like a misjustice, those who have always seen the orange cunt for what he is should bring them into our community to support them during this process of genuine repentance as there's now an avenue for these people to be deprogrammed from the cult of personality, gently educated to make them more politically aware, and help them find an active supportive role in the community so they feel some positive empowerment and hope that will act as a stalwart against the fear that MAGA had been poisoning their minds with.
For those who double down and reject what their own eyes and ears tell them are going to become even more dangerous as these ideas, thoughts, and beliefs they'll now guard even more closely as a part of their identity which could swallow things like self-preservation, which coupled with the sheer amount of anger and fear is a violent cocktail that Trump, the Billionaires, and foreign powers seek to put into destructive actions.
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I imagine their crisis of faith will be resolved as soon as there's a Democrat to vote against.
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There's no way he'll turn on the audience that made him filthy rich. Also, it's not the first time he's had a "revelation" about this shit, and nothing changed.
I hope so, too. But, I'm not holding my breath.
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If you ever think Rogan will he on "our side" then you're just as delusional as he is. Rogan knows exactly what he is doing. To call himself an idiot before saying something extreme is not only a shitty attempt at plausible deniability, but harmful to society's social contract.
Fuck Joe Rogan and his HGH gut chugging ass
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Yes, Joe. You always were. You are the villain in the story that made all of this possible.
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Imagine being so evil even your dumbest dick rider starts to question it.
Thanks to the efforts of Joe Rogan, yes
Gosh, Joe. Is Trump bad? Does he want to do bad things? Was voting for him bad? Does that make you bad?
Don't worry about it, buddy. You were still right to tell everyone you supported him and would vote for him and that you wanted him to hold you in his big strong pudding-arms while you fell asleep. You were right to support him on air with your millions of idiot listeners. It's ok, pal. Just let everyone know that you don't approve of this latest bad stuff and then it's not your fault. There you go, guy.
"I voted for Mr. Hitler because he'd be good for the economy, but I didn't go in for all that Jew-killing stuff. You can't blame that on me." --German Citizen, 1946
and only conservatives are surprised.
Give it a few days Joe will switch his opinion on it.
"I'm trying to find the guy responsible !"
Fuck this "but I am not a fascist, only enabled them, I'm not like those!!!" asshole
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When is Joe going to stop talking about and admonishing the collective and actually make it personally reflective? Even Schulz actually reflects on his personal error, but Joe cannot risk alienating his audience who supported it, or still do. He has to appear like the 'cool guy just asking questions', not the 'brainless idiot who got out of his depth and enabled fascism'. He can't stand the hit to his self image as a great judge of authenticity/bullshit (truly the most discrepant self image in media). So he adopts the standard comedian rhetorical trick used to build rapport: He talks in the passive, 'are we really that type of people' voice. It is an influencer mindset, obsessed with audience.
These guys are total frauds. They completely sold out, assuming they had principles before. They never shut up about Hopf's "hard times create strong men", because they clearly think these are the hard times and they are the strong MMA tough men, but there's no way life is hard for these pampered-ass multimillionaires living in their mansions, and if you took all that away we'd find out they're as soft as baby shit.
He created this. Let’s not forget that propagandist who supported the Nazis and helped bring them to power got more severe punishment during nuremberg than some gestapo.
"I endorsed the new Hitler, I just didn't think he would be as bad as the original Hitler. I didn't think he would also kill white people."
I don't have high hopes that this will be anything more than a blip for him. Trump's platitudes will be more than enough to reign in most of his base, and only a few that actually wake up.
At the same time, it's not that this doesn't help. The majority will turn against Trump eventually and the sooner the better. The question is whether they'll do anything about it before he's gone, and whether they won't just follow the next king loyally.
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You think he's starting to worry about his own future?
Every time I ever hear about him he seems to be doing more and more brain dead things. I'm coming to the realisation that he's just really goddamn dumb.
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