Screwthehole
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- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
Now do fox and MSNBC!
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
Counterpoint - you’re cherry picking. He also invites left wing guests and gives them the same opportunity to speak.
He has a vast audience because a more centrist view of things appeals to a huge # of people. Your description of his audience is reductive and close minded. Yep, there are people who fit that description. And there are going to be others who fit every other description you can write down, too. Why? Because hundreds of millions of people listen.
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
You’ll see him try to criticize Biden but Maher doesn’t let him, because he just keeps going back to how much worse trump is. While probably correct, Rogan just wanted to dump on the prez without talking about trump, and Maher can’t seen to do that.
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
The most recent viral moment I can remember is the Bill Maher episode from Sept 2
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
Bigot is a strong word for him. I guess if you are pro-trans athletes in sports you would find him that way, but I can’t really think of other issues where he expresses close minded views? Fucking guy learns and changes his mind when presented with evidence, which is a huge reason I can listen to him. Even if some of the subjects and guests are kinda fucked up or dull or misinformed.
Like, tulsi gabbard last week reading a thing from the UN and totally either misunderstanding it, or worse, twisting it into saying something it 100% wasn’t. And Rogan was just kinda like “I dunno maybe” as he’s not very confrontational, very often.
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
His recent viral moment discussing Biden was about how he’s no longer lucid, and shouldn’t be let to run for a second term. His guest was trying to say how much worse trump was, but Rogan doesn’t really think either ought to be president in 2024.
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
I enjoy Rogan. I hear shit I should know without the msm slant.
Some of his guests are batshit crazy, but I think he just gives a platform to everybody. You know, free speech is also freedom to disagree. But censorship isn’t good, and he’s not about that.
From time to time his guests say some ridiculous shit though. I’d say I agree with maybe 40% of the content, disagree with 40%, and am neutral or uneducated on the 20% in the middle. It’ll spur me in to read / listen to other topics and expand my knowledge base so I can form an opinion.
There’s a load of shit brought up on Rogan you might otherwise have not know, because the media is a stilted propaganda machine.
- Comment on What are some alternatives to bars that stay open late for folks that don't drink alcohol? 1 year ago:
We have a sandwich shop that runs 24 hrs from Tuesday morning until Saturday night. I’ve picked up late night supper there and seen people playing cards, etc and just generally hanging out for long stretches.
When I was younger my buddies and I went to a 24 hr diner and played magic into the wee hrs, occasionally leaving only when the earliest breakfast crowd started to roll in.
- Comment on We won’t fix inflation while economists stay in denial about its causes 1 year ago:
Government spend much money. Much money come from tax and borrowing. Let’s pretend there’s $100 in the economy. Gov’t takes 10% in tax. They spend $10, and the rest of the people share $90.
When next year comes, the economy grew to $110 and the government Collect $11 in tax, but actually decide to spend $20. Meaning they borrowed $9.
Year 3, economy grows to $150. Government gets $15 in tax, everyone feels “richer”, but government has to borrow to pay the $9 on last year, plus whatever new spending this year. Let’s say gov’t now owes $50.
So the next year! They create inflation and everyone has lots of money but can’t afford shit. Maybe economy balloons to stupidity like $500. Government takes $50, and pays off their debt. Or could.
In in this way, over time, inflation helps reduce the massive debt load incurred by governments because $1 is a lot easier to get in 2023 than it was in 2019.
- Comment on A real tweet from Walter Koenig yesterday. Anyone planning on seeing him at GalaxyCon? 1 year ago:
Mr Bester
- Comment on 'Young people are hustlers': Gen Z 'willing to do what they need to' to make ends meet 1 year ago:
Gotta contribute something, somewhere. But there should be no full time job that doesn’t pay someone enough to pay rent and eat and have a little pocket money.
Can’t free load, but can’t need 2 jobs just to buy groceries either.
It’s time to end compounding profits
- Comment on 'Incorporated' was a tv show with a cyberpunk world from the perspective of a corpo 1 year ago:
I recall thinking it was just ok, with some very cool visuals (like what you see in the picture OP posted, with a fake pretty scene hiding the slums behind it).
- Comment on "Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos. 1 year ago:
But then everything everywhere would look the same - whatever random picture it uses for Blackrock
- Comment on How Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism 1 year ago:
I just read the whole thing and didn’t hit one… Weird
- Comment on A community for the discussion of Hardcore Punk! 1 year ago:
Will there be more pictures like this? Or is it just mostly about punk music (which isn’t my jam)?
- Comment on Why you might not want to use whatsapp anymore 1 year ago:
The article isn’t very, uh, articulate in its reasoning. Nothing here is an actual real life problem it’s all just what-ifs, and 2 billion people aren’t going to quit using it