• @ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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      I mean that’s beautifully put……

      But unfortunately it’s simpler than that. It’s the story of a reasonable man that achieved beyond his dreams and then flipped sides because of money and status.

      “Suddenly I have an opinion on the capital gains tax.” Type of stuff.

      • Flying Squid
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        11 year ago

        Was he a ‘reasonable man’ before or after he decided the moon landings were fake?

  • Jo Miran
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    I’m fifty. Joe Rogan is fifty six. Even though I was young in the eighties, by 1992 I had already lost six people I knew to AIDS. Joe, being six years older than I, would have witnessed peak AIDS apocalypse as an older teen. He was even from New Jersey, not some suburb in the midwest. He would have seen some shit. All he has to do is remember, but he chooses willful ignorance.

  • Flying Squid
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    Rogan is such a shit. I can’t wait for his endorsement of Trump. You know that asshole’s endorsement is coming. And he’ll do it while talking about how old Biden is and ignoring the fact that Trump is only four years younger. Because he’s a fucking idiot.

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    Did anyone listen to the conversation…? Because what Vice is claiming is not at all what was talked about. They are chopping up the 20 minute conversation on said topic and creating a completely different conversation.

    Bret was saying the drug scene did not help people who had AIDS, as it helped ruin the immune system for people who had an immune disease.

    They brought Fauci up (the subject of RFK’S book) because of Fauci pushing AZT, which literally killed thousands

    • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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      This is my default assumption on all slander articles like this. I stopped listening to JRE when he went Spotify exclusive so I can’t comment on anything recent, but having listened to every single podcast episode from probably equally controversial podcaster Sam Harris, it’s quite hilarious to compare the actual content of the podcast to what these articles are saying.

      Most of the people critizising ones like Joe Rogan here have never listened a single episode of their shows. While there’s plenty of legitimate reasons to critizise for aswell, most of the stuff I hear are bad faith misrepresentations and quotes out of context.

  • Gazumi
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    01 year ago

    Free speech vs causing catastrophic harms. From the perspective of deaths caused, why is this different to firing shots into a crowd?