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    4 days ago

    “Are we the baddies?” ponders Gen-X’s Rush Limbaugh copycat after decades of being a mouthpiece for Russian agitprop.

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      There’s no skirting the fact that Rogan’s platform directly benefited voter turnout for the pedo nazis. If he’s oblivious to his contribution, he’s an idiot. If he’s aware of his contribution, he’s a pedo nazi/sympathizer.

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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.

  • MunkyNutts@lemmy.world
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    But he prefaced this with some real nationalist, replacement theory bullshit.

    2:39:43 And I think there’s there’s a balance to be achieved. I just don’t know how it gets done because I I see both perspectives. I see the perspective of the people that say, "Hey, there was an illegal program moving people in here to get votes, moving people in here to get congressional seats, and we’ve got to change that. We’ve got to take those people that got in and send them back to where they came from or do something because if we don’t, they’re going to keep doing it if they get in office again in 2028 and it’s going to accelerate. and you’re you’re you’re going to have to take away some of the damage that’s been done to a true democratic system because you’ve kind of hijacked it and they kind of have. And then I can also see the point of view of the people that say, “Yeah, but you don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be US citizens that just don’t have their papers on them. Are we really going to be the the Gestapo? Where’s your papers? Is that what we’ve come to?” So, it’s it’s more complicated than I think people want to admit. You know, people want to look at this as a black and white issue. You know, if you’re a compassionate person or if you’re a pragmatic person and I don’t think that’s true. I think it’s both.

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    I mean he’s no Soley responsible for this but he is partially. He’s show has been pushing the right wing agenda.

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    ‘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

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    I believe in someone redeeming themselves…

    But this is a grift post. At least it might do the tiniest bit of good. People who already listen to him are lost regardless so no amount of damage can come out of him but he has a lot of potential to start doing something positive for this world. Even if he sprinkles it here and there.

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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.

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    He doesn’t get a pass on his past, but if it moves the needle on his followers, good. Better this than even more bootlicking. It’s a crisis/war right now. Accounting can happen after.

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    Once again, the sucking void that is Joe Rogan’s brain finally catches up with what everyone else already knows.