Rogan promoted the conspiracy theory that Epps was an “agent provocateur” for the feds, a baseless claim that has led to a defamation suit against Fox News.
Joe Rogan says….
ROFL. Who cares what Broprah has to say. He’s the irrelevance whisperer.
Wow, not a single comment here acknowledging the documented prolific use by the U.S. of agents provocateur to infiltrate and sabotage anti-establishment groups and protests. The only difference between the historic infiltration of environmental movements, civil rights/BLM, etc., and this is that this is right-wing. I’ll go ahead and say what all of you are too ignorant or cowardly to say:
Democrats are not your friend.
Republicans are not your friend.
If you’re sitting here like a 12-year-old generating your endorphins from a “Yeah! The enemy is so stupid and we’re the best!” mentality—and that’s most if not every single one of you—you’re doing it wrong and you’re making it worse. You’re the problem.
And Joe Rogan, in this case—not to diminish the culpability of Trump—is absolutely right, but you’re all too emotionally stunted to be able to admit it. Get off your infantile, misguided high horse. Standing up for liberal and progressive values is cool, but the current Democratic party does not stand up for those values. Perversely—and it blows mind to say this and to see so many people remain willfully blind to it—the Republican party is currently more liberal then the Democrats. It may only be because standing up against censorship happens to benefit them, but call a spade a spade. Stop being such a bunch of incredibly gullible fucks and look upon the rot growing at the highest echelons of our government. It’s not partisan, but its most insidious tactic is pretending to be.
Here’s a conciliatory piece of advice to follow, a general rule of thumb that nevertheless works out to be pretty much 100% accurate: everything that Democrats accuse Republicans of is true; AND, everything Republicans accuse Democrats of is true. It certainly is in this case. Trump did and said what he did, AND the FBI and CIA did what they’ve always done to advance the ruling party’s agenda for at least the last half a century. Hell, they fucking did it to Ukraine in 2014. It’s not contested information, just obscured history, which you’d know if you’d only paid attention to what they didn’t teach you in history class.
On an unrelated note I will say that it’s refreshing to be able to write a comment that will likely get buried a thousand feet deep and not give a fuck. Go ahead and do your worst, but I hope Lemmy can be a different place and that you’ll do your best to listen to a well-meaning alternative perspective (excuse the language).
I hate Rogan oh I hate Rogan so much
Much like John Oliver’s Truthiness, Joe Rogan does a caricature of skepticism. He does the Question Things part, but then gets dazzled by whatever answers are spicy, instead of the most reasonable or likely.
On a completely unrelated note, I wonder what Joe Rogan would sound like after a year of sobriety from all recreational drugs, and bullshit supplements.
Nothing at all. What I was trying to say was that Joe questions stuff, but that is the extent of his brand of skepticism. While on the surface, it may sound like (to his followers, possibly himself) he’s being a skeptic, his inability to accept a dull truth, in favor of fanciful claims means that he’s doing a caricature of skepticism.
It’s fake skepticism, and is a podcast/banter version of truthiness.
Colbert’s truthiness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
Joe Rogan is a cunt who straight up claimed that he knows for a fact “they put litterboxes in class rooms, because some kids feel like playing like cats”
even though in reality it was just put there so that in case of school shooting kids don’t have to pee on the floor.
then when called out on it, he just claimed “he was joking”