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[–] MermaidsGarden@lemmy.world 244 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Joe Rogan is the living embodiment of being so open minded that your brains fall out.

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

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[–] Liz@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I, too, have an opinion on the capital gains tax. It should be taxed at the same rate as income. We can let them keep the exception on the first half million in profit because I'm feeling nice today.

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s actually higher in many scenarios.

What needs to be taxed like income is loans against the stocks

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or a simple .01 cent financial transaction tax. Absolutely no effect on the average person, a huge way to raise revenue from bankers and stock traders.

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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 140 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We all just lived through covid. It's not that hard to imagine someone denying the existence of a global plague that effects people they know.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

We are all living through global climate change, and the collapse of late stage capitalism, etc. These and their I'll are selling copium to the masses of folks who can't face reality and choose to live in fantasy.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Even those of us in the Midwest knew enough about AIDS by the 90s to understand this is just utter bullshit. I'm from Indiana, which is where Ryan White was born and died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White

And if AIDS was caused by poppers, then Ryan White would not have died.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

He has repeatedly talked about how frightening it was to live thru the AIDS epidemic and seeing people drop left and right

[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My favorite part about those years is that we didn't have to care what Joe Rogan thought.

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Oh, he remembers, it's just he doesn't give a fuck. All he wants is attention, because that's how he makes cash.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Joe Rogan: What dumb people think smart people are like.

Aka, The Big Bang theory for bros.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He has a head filled with ground beef and he looks like a thumb.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 28 points 1 year ago

That's insulting to both ground beef and thumbs, but I'll allow it because it's accurate.

[–] Velonie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's got beef brain 1000006110

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

he was around during trump, he endorses the same things as trump, the same candidates as trump, with a few exceptions in both, and says "nah bro, I'm just thinking for myself and outside the mainstream"

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I fully expect Rogan to endorse RFK Jr.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish this idiot would have a stroke and die in his sleep.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Rogan or Weinstein?

"Yes"

[–] cumcum69@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

With all the red meat he eats it's probably coming

[–] dharwin@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone should tell those babies born with AIDS to stop taking poppers.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What are you talking about, the mother takes the poppers and then the baby reaches into her gut and eats a few. Bam AIDS! We need fetus D.A.R.E programs now.

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago
[–] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

They don’t care if what they are spouting is true or not. They just want a platform to make money off the gullible. It’s all about having a platform and making $$$.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm torn between "free speech!" and "this should be illegal".

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There have always been limits. You can't shout fire in a crowded theatre.

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[–] sepi@piefed.social 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If he can't eat it, fuck it or shoot it, he can't understand it

I'm pretty sure he doesn't understand those either.

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[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

How is this not illegal in the US ? Someone needs to sue this idiot

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

AiDS Denialism is a thing?

[–] Gazumi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The American conception of freedom of speech is all about personal rights, with no thought to personal responsibility. The reason freedom of speech is important is precisely because it's consequential. The idea of using free speech (a precious right) responsibly, if it ever existed, is gone now .

[–] Flumpkin@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The reason and justification for free speech is also about preventing tyranny and holding people accountable and allowing unusual dissenting voices to be heard.

But a few now own all the means of communication, control and shape the speech and have practically become the government. There is no freedom of speech if so much of it is controlled and so much noise is blasted. Speech has become a commodity and if it's free it's worthless.

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[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago

I can decide to turn off nonsense podcasts. I can't decide not to get shot if someone is shooting at me.

A better metaphor might be screaming "that guy's got a gun" in a crowded theatre. I might be able to ignore it, but lots of people are going to believe it and act accordingly, and their reaction is probably not going to be good for anyone.

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[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Jamie, pull that up

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