He hides the vindictiveness very, very well if so.
You might want to watch and then consider forming your own opinion. Just saying.
Iâve watched him before. no need to.
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He is very entertaining but a nut job nevertheless.
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Rogan has had Kanye, AJ, and Glenn Greenwald this week.
I do sincerely hope the fine employees of Spotify will eventually recover from this.
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He is most certainly entertaining.
Seems Rogan has had a lot of extremely mentally ill folks on recently. The amount of ego is a bit hard to stand when so highly concentrated.
Most in entertainment and/or the limelight seem mentally ill.
In the AJ podcast, rogan actually talks about this a bit when they get into the Borat movies. It comes up when explaining that the Borat guy is only looking for laffs and, like most Hollywood types, has no real concept of the reality shared among non-comic humans. Like most actors and comics, he doesnât âdoâ reality like we do. His is a nominal reality grounded only in his own career and the entertainment industry. Pretty similar to the point Gervais has been trying to make for the past couple years.
So yeah, can come off as mentally ill.
Not watched this yet.
Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) has something to say about AJ and other current realities.
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Who wrote that crap for him?
âDemocracies depend on shared truths, and autocracies depend on lies?â
And what is the relevance with Alex Jones and other ârealitiesâ
This guy is a disgusting hypocrite. His movies are funny, though. But if we listened to him, weâd never get to listen to him again.
As rogan notes in the AJ podcast, âhey, he just wants to work in Hollywood.â
Didnât he mention AJ in that little speech there.
Oh yes.
I skimmed through it so missed that part.
âBut as a Jew and an immigrantâŚâ
âI think of my friends who are transgender, immigrants and vulnerable minorities, and how their legitimacy was questioned on air.â
ââŚand for all those whose human rights are fragile, hoping that amplified hatred never becomes loud enough to drown our legitimacy.â
What a misguided virtue signalling twit. The writer portrays himself as political science major who is chalk full of tolerance for the other. Too bad he othered himself and espoused intolerance for viewpoints âtheyâ doesnât agree with. If you donât know what the crazies are saying, how would you know youâre not the odd one out?
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That was one of the worst opinion pieces Iâve ever read.
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Roganâs technique, Iâve noticed, is to gently push at peopleâs freaky ideas to draw them out and get them to elucidate exactly what they think, in detail. Itâs almost a Socratic dialog. I can recall one show where he was talking to a âthe moon landings are fakedâ guy. He managed to keep the conversation going by not explicitly agreeing or disagreeing with his nutjob views, but by using a âhmm, thatâs interestingâ approach. His aim, as far as I can tell, is just to put all sorts of outlier folk on display so that we can have a good look at them. In fact heâs the epitome of ânon-judgementalismâ, which is supposedly a good thing in our brave new world (unless you hold unapproved views, of course).
Of course he doesnât âchallenge their toxic viewsâ. Has anybody ever won an argument that way? If he did that, the guests would storm off in a huff and the Joe Rogan show would attract an increasingly smaller number of guests.
Still, give the writer a break. Heâs 19. He doesnât know shit, but he hasnât figured that out yet.
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Yeah. I remember chanting âFCUK THE BANKS!!â in front of the bank that lent me money to go to school. My excuse was that it was a rally organized by a skirt I was chasing. Fâing embarrassing in hindsight. I hope that young writer will have a moment later in life where he can relax.
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