• DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com
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    4 days ago

    So what you’re saying he was always a moron, just was open minded and let his guests carry the conversation?

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          3 days ago

          No he doesn’t actually, he’s genuinely dumb. Covid broke his brain, and he retreated from the criticism into a right wing bubble and that’s now his entire worldview because it’s just one big echo chamber

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            3 days ago

            It cost a billion dollars to shut Alex Jones up. Did it maybe have something to do with Rogans $100m Spotify deal?

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            3 days ago

            Both can be true, it is always a mix of believing and pretending to with them. I listened to him advance arguments about prez’s lawsuits on media he knew were bs, and castigating environmental protesters with arguments he knows are not valid.

            But yeah I am sure he believes a lot of it, or starts to believe in the echo chamber even. These people have no fealty to reality, society, the republic that made them rich and protects their wealth. They believe in nothing outside of self interest, emulating people like the president.

            They do not even look at it like true or lie, good or bad, only if it helps them or not.

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      3 days ago

      I’ve heard it many times that Rogan is a ‘neutral interviewer’. So I listened to his old episode with Chuck Palahniuk. The writer of transgressive literature Chuck Palahniuk mentioned that he participated in some kinda normie book reading club, and thought of bringing up his writing in there, but realized it would be unfit. Whereupon ‘neutral interviewer’ Rogan began insisting that this is censorship, and kept repeating that this is censorship and asking Palahniuk to admit that it’s censorship until the transgressive literature author Chuck Palahniuk said ‘okay, it’s censorship’ just to get ‘neutral interviewer’ Joe Rogan to shut up.