• Geetnerd@lemmy.world
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    Why do people listen to this idiot? His stance changes when the wind blows. The “wind” being a threat to his profit.

    I mean, I don’t think Rogan is “Evil,” or even little “e” evil, but for Pete’s sake, he’s just a meathead dudebro who has let fame and money go to his head. He should go back to just smoking weed and talking about aliens.

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      Recklessly endangering the health of an entire democratic system for short term monetary gain is definitely little e evil.

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          His entire job as an MMA commentator is to interview people who were recently concussed into a pulp. That’s about where he’s at — able to converse with people who are struggling to stay lucid enough to not get carried out on a stretcher. Something something DMT and gorillas, Jamie pull that up.

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            Funny that you mention that;

            He’s stated multiple times that when he knocked that other kid cold for a long, long time with the spinning back kick in that tournament, he decided then to stop, before he got major CTE.

            He stopped way too late.

            No offense to anyone with a traumatic brain injury. But most of them don’t host Nazis and other pieces of human garbage to influence legions of teenage boys.

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      The “wind” being a threat to his profit. I mean, I don’t think Rogan is “Evil,”

      That’s textbook Nazis. They were all for it until it wasn’t popular and a threat to their profit.

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      Unprincipled self-serving assholes ARE evil. If you spread dangerous words that end up motivating people into harming others, YOU are at fault.

      That is why we shouldn’t tolerate hateful talk towards innocent people, even when “he’s just joking!”, “she doesn’t really mean it!”. Enough little words together make an avalanche, and his words are not even little.

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      Some More News did an excellent segment on Rogan. One of the interesting things they noted is Rogan’s tendency to stay in opposition to the running political power. This checks out

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    He deserves all the flak, but we need to accept and encourage people who are changing their mind or we’re all fucked.

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      He isn’t changing his mind. This is part of his strategy and has always been so. This is to please the “but he also invites non-right wing guest” crowd. He is and will remain a right wing influencer who carries a large responsibility for the current situation with his right wing propaganda platform.

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        “I’m sorry. You all tried to tell me, and I didn’t listen. I was wrong”

        We can talk about forgiveness and acceptance when he gets to this point.

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      He is fine with cashing the checks, building his brand, and having people seek his approval. However, making fun of his height and calling him a nazi, that hurts guys.

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      No, I don’t think he’ll ever get that aware. He’s just following the trend to stay relevant.

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    joe 100% holds some not insignificant amount of blame for all this bs.

    he IS a monster, it IS to late for him.

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          tbf, there’s also a lot of immensely powerful corporations and political propagandists who invested heavily in Rogan over the years into him becoming a huge success.

          it wasn’t all organic popularity, media platforms, Spotify, advertisers and a whole slew of griftosphere talking heads made sure his brand of braindead ‘just a regular guy asking questions’ shtick was beamed directly into the brains of males age 25-50 who self identity as ‘independent thinkers’.

          it’s easy to manipulate marginally stupid/normal people when you know precisely what topics get them riled up and tuned in to your disinformation machine.

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    What a spineless two-faced coward. He constantly attempts to cover up his fascism by saying non-committal stuff like this.