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    7 months 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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    7 months ago

    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.

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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

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

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    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.

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    Why does anyone give a shit about what dumb dumb Rogan thinks? A white dude with a microphone.

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      Because he has the ear of a lot of young men who disagree with us. He’s a douche and an idiot, I dislike him and I lose respect for someone when they say they’re a fan of his. But, a lot of the young right wing men who can be shown reason love him and trust what he has to say.

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        He doesn’t just command the ear of conservative males, he commands the attention of America’s largest and most valuable asset and resource, the very thing Trump’s administration is farming and fleecing right now, and hoping they don’t piss off, Liberal Americans.

        Most people don’t care about politics. Most people don’t care about social issues. If we really internalized this sad fact, we could make a lot better strategies for actually getting better politics and social systems. We keep trying to beat our heads against the same wall thinking “Americans SHOULD care about this!” and lecturing and “educating” people and trying to reinforce our very best politics and values, and ending up losing more and more ground to fascists with dumb, simple messaging and easy-to-digest emotional validation.

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      People like him helped Trump win.

      People like him are the only people Trump supporters might listen to.

      If you ever hope to sway a few Trump supporters, this is the only sort of way to do it. Give them an out, give them a way to say “well we didn’t know it would be like this”. To the extent it was always obvious that they should have known it would be like this, just swallow it, smile and nod at their change in support.

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      Because he commands America’s most powerful asset and our last remaining check-and-balance system, which is tuned-out American liberals who get their news from AM radio or starlink while driving to work a couple times a week. This demographic is MOST Americans, and I would absolutely love if more leftists and progressives with a few brain cells actually read the 2024 exit polling to understand how bad our problem is.

      We should care DEEPLY about what Rogan is telling his audience, not Rogan himself. He’s a mouthpiece for a capital system that wants stability, and if that’s what it takes to end or even slow down this plunge into North Korean-style geopolitics, we need to fucking support it and stop lecturing and hand-wringing about who’s saying it.

      Seriously, we have to support good things. Good things are good.

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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.