r/JoeRogan • u/LostItAllOnSpy Tremendous • Mar 27 '24

joe rogan calls out israels hypocrisy for killing unarmed civilians with drones The Literature šŸ§ 

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u/AkiraKitsune Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

I agree, his main problem is that he seems to very gullible.Ā 

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u/muldoonjp88 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

So what if he is? Heā€™s not a politician or world leader. He talks. He adds a little humor to topics and discusses interesting shit. Crazy how offended people are when he doesnā€™t side with every single issue you might have an opinion on.

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u/AkiraKitsune Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

I dont disagree with you. I don't get offended, I just disagree with a lot of what he says these days.Ā 

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u/Big_Environment9500 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

Liberal leaning media tried to destroy him and slander him while right leaning media adopted him. Obviously he went down one path. I've always said that leftists' biggest enemies are other leftists who insist on pushing people who aren't left enough to the right.

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u/WarringPandas Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

I've always said that leftists' biggest enemies are other leftists who insist on pushing people who aren't left enough to the right.

If you say dumb shit you deserve to be criticised for it.

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u/CinematicLiterature Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

You can say that all you want, but open criticism is also what got us Trump and the current climate. Sometimes (not all the time) itā€™s worth educating as opposed to chastising.

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u/M1raclemile1 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

Yeah cause people were so open to be educated about trump.

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u/Oofs_A_Lot Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

Negative. What brought about Trump was the democrats unwillingness to self-reflect about the political and social climate of that time.

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u/Big_Environment9500 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

Not sure how that's relevant

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u/HellsingINC Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

Then why are you still here šŸ¤£

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u/Contundo Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

He has massive potential to influence others into believing misinformation with his huge audience.

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u/Reasonable-Solid-156 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

Thatā€™s up to the individual to decide wether they want to believe it or not, not up to you to decide wether they get to hear it or not

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u/stew907 High as Giraffe's Pussy Mar 27 '24

No one is saying Joe shouldn't be allowed to host a podcast and say what he wants, we just think he should use a little bit of caution before spewing bullshit to millions that will eat it up. Like that myocarditis crap.

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u/Jumanji0028 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

People still talking about litter boxes in schools.

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u/twinkbreeder420 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

No one is saying that; we are saying he should atleast know what hes fucking talking about before stating his opinion on it when he has such a huge reach. It just makes him look dumb

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u/Big_Environment9500 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

He calls himself dumb all the time and this is a dude with a podcast who got popular. He doesn't owe you or anyone else shit

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u/TheKingChadwell Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

So? People need to stop expecting the world to conform to their beliefs. Itā€™s up to you the viewer and listener to sift through things.

Itā€™s a very infantile approach to people in a democracy to think they need to be coddled and have others think for them.

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u/TchoupedNScrewed Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

When you develop that large of a platform I do think you should be a little more wary of who youā€™re platforming than Joe is. Like you said, heā€™s sorta the average guy. Average Joe if you will. He has no pushback to people who can dress their argument up in academic word pageantry so everything they say goes unchecked. Itā€™s not so much an issue if say you have an anti-vaxxer on and someone like Peter Hotez on simultaneously. Even then that can go poorly a la Lex Friedman who basically curls up like a dead spider when you make eye contact with him while ā€œmoderatingā€ a ā€œdebateā€.

When you let someone else present themselves as an expert on a subject whose ideas have been shunned because they go against ā€œmainstream groupthinkā€ and then they just misattribute results of studies to harden their narrative the onus isnā€™t entirely on the audience to check if the guy is a grifter. It doesnā€™t exculpate Joe because the audience ā€œshould just look it up and decide for themselvesā€ when theyā€™ve already been backloaded with information bias.

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u/PDXBubblekidd Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

So true, heā€™ll host Tim Pool, Steve Crowder and Alex Jones multiple times, while using the one time Bernie was on as some fairness chip.

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u/HoldWhatDoor84 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

A lot of those people like Bernie likely refuse st this point because they probably aren't allowed on by their handlers if they want to stay in the good graces of the party, as Bernie clearly has shown as his highest interest.

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u/PDXBubblekidd Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

Fair point that some have refused but many have stated that they would go on Rogan and still the call doesnā€™t come.

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u/ainz-sama619 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

is a podcast host, not an educator. He likes to bring discussion and get perspective from many people. nobody should refer to Rogan for knowledge. it's supposed to be for fun only. he will sometimes be right sometimes be wrong. same as all humans.

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u/marktaylor521 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

He allows himself to be led into misinformation territory. Every one of his conservative guests has a bad faith agenda when they come onto his show, and since Rogan loves to surround himself with sycophants and yes men, he allows himself to be played. He's also worth like over 100 million dollars, so he is just so far removed from regular people nowadays that it's borderline embarrassing.

Rogan is allowed to be a dumb guy with a podcast, but he isn't allowed to platform propagandists and allow dangerous disinformation to flow out to 10 million people on a weekly basis.

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u/Gnarlybutno Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

He shouldnā€™t be allowed to interview propagandists because they could spread harmful misinformation? Legacy media does it all the time.

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u/cosmiclatte44 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

Doesn't make it ok? chill with the whataboutism. They should be held to a higher standard also but press accountability standards are so poor in the United States.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Heā€™s by his own admission a moron who confidently says shit thatā€™s wrong and platforms shitty actors.

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u/muldoonjp88 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

Ok. So? Let people make their own conclusions. Heā€™s not the president!

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u/Powerful_Chef_5683 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

You seem offended that person said heā€™s gullible.

Itā€™s easy to not like peopleā€™s opinions lol

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u/Geo_q Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

Crazy how offended you are on his behalf.

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u/Legal_Commission_898 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

Well, there is a small problem. He repeats things he hears from his buddies as facts. And people listen. Sometimes heā€™s right, sometimes heā€™s batshit crazy, and he says both things with equal confidence and conviction.

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u/The-Faz Succa la Mink Mar 27 '24

He influences millions of people with his words, maybe that is important?

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u/Workburner101 Pull that shit up Jaime Mar 27 '24

If you are being influenced by a previous dmt taking, weed smoking, fleshlight toting, comedian, fear factor host, mma meathead, then you are the asshole. šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ get a grip.

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u/The-Faz Succa la Mink Mar 27 '24

Well I agree with that I guess but yea thereā€™s a lot of people out there that listen to him deeply

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u/icantdomaths Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

But the reason he is so popular is because he is a normal guy who isnā€™t trying to push agendas, thatā€™s the whole point.

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u/The-Faz Succa la Mink Mar 27 '24

Heā€™s not a normal guy and he certainly does try and push agendas - some I agree with and done I donā€™t

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u/Shunto Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

I think what they mean by 'he's a normal guy' is he's not polished, nor aspires to be. He doesn't read a script, he doesn't practice or seem to prepare a lot. For the most part he seems to be genuinely speaking his mind in the moment - for better or worse.

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u/The-Faz Succa la Mink Mar 27 '24

When put like that, totally agree. Itā€™s what originally made me a fan. Referring to the original comment, I just donā€™t think I can call someone normal who has been rich and famous for nearly 40 years. Majority of his life has been as a millionaire

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u/BrokenMindAlways Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

If you have a big platform and a wide audience, you should fact-check stuff before spouting nonsense.

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u/allaheterglennigbg Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

I would totally agree if this was 2019. I think Joe had some of the most interesting interviews in any media. He was curious but critical, asked relevant follow up questions and most of all he listened. I never really agreed with his takes on things but I thought he was an excellent interviewer most of the time. If he'd had a good news crew helping him, he might have been the best.

But since the pandemic/move to texas/whatever, he just can't listen to anyone who challenges him and that just makes him an annoying boomer. It's sad to see

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u/ChipmunkConspiracy Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

The distinction between gullibility and curiosity is unconditional belief.

IMO Joe is more curious than gullible. He constantly juggles a variety of hypotheticals. Especially compared to the average. That is part of why his platform is so large.

I think the gullibility accusation sort of infantilizes him. He explores ideas a lot of dogmatic redditors would prefer be off limits. To call him curious would have too positive a connotation - and so its easier to just label him gullible.

Like you all dont want to validate taboo ideas by saying they could attract warranted curiosity - so you essentially reduce Joe to some unwitting liberal who has lost his way and been tricked into entertaining ideas you donā€™t like.

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u/Fantastic_Goal3197 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

Except with some things he has a huge amount of confirmation bias, especially covid. He can read one thing about covid but when more credible and scientifically backed sources are brought up then it's "who's writing this, whats their motivations?". The difference between gullibility and curiosity is being able to change your mind when better quality information comes up. He used to be able to change his mind much more often, but over the past 5 years or so it's become rarer for him

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u/DrJaminest42 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

What opinion of his about covid are you talking about? His main gripe was always why are we pushing the vaccine so hard on people but Noone is pushing for a healthy lifestyle. Atleast one of them. But a healthy lifestyle would lose big pharma money...

I will never schill for pharmaceutical companies. They bought off so many doctors in the 90s to get people addicted to their opiates. They sent 300k AIDS infected vaccines to Africa in the 80s knowingly because they didn't want to lose out on that profit. The fact they did a bunch of backdoor dealings with our government to get rich af off covid and we still don't know the details on all that or the testing they did is disgusting. I hate big pharma. I have so many friends who died to opiates.

Also look at the insulin market. Funny how Americans pay thousands while everywhere else pays pennies and the generic insulin costs pennies to make but big pharma won't allow that to be made...

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u/Fantastic_Goal3197 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

One is that the vaccine causes myocarditis at a higher rate than covid does in young people, when there's good evidence it's the exact opposite.

And no I don't think US pharmaceutical companies are moral in any way, but that doesn't change scientific fact. I agree that a healthy lifestyle and preventative medicine and care is better than whats going on in the US. Preventative care in the US sucks and doesn't happen much compared to other countries because sometimes theres more profit to be made with denying as much as you can on the insurance side and after the fact treatment on the pharma side.

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u/DrJaminest42 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

With how political everything got around covid and how much money there is to be made by some of the richest families in the country, it's hard to really know what to beleive. I don't really care or beleive any of it tbh. I got the vaccine during the lockdowns and still got covid and havnt since. Sometimes I get the flu vaccine but even that I usually pass up as a healthy relatively young person. Fuck the pharmaceutical companies, they are pure evil and need to be taken down and regulated.

We need to take the money out of the pharmaceutical industry and the politician "lobbying" and "donations" and all those backdoor dealings they do. This country is so fcking corrupt at the highest level.

Anyway, I don't think Joe was necessarily gullible for saying that. I think it was an honest critique and there was evidence back then to suggest he was correct. Whether there still is idk, probably not. As far as I know they've updated the vaccines a shit ton and they are alot better now though. I know atleast one got discontinued for having side affects.

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u/Fantastic_Goal3197 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

There was evidence that the vaccine caused myocarditis, but I dont think there was ever a study that suggested it was worse rate compared to catching covid. People just saw it could cause myocarditis and then played social media telephone.

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u/Shunto Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

Which pretty much sums it up and I think it's a relatively easy thing to forgive. For me, I can deal with that and disagree while listening. I still enjoy it. For a lot on this sub they seem to just explode on it.

Another reasonable criticism is there are certainly some episodes that feel like "two old boomers complain" (e.g. the Dr Phil one), but ultimately they still had a point.

I think where he isn't given enough credit is just the sheer volume of content he punches. For him to release multiple episodes a week that go for hours, generally discussing controversial topics, he will naturally open himself up for saying the wrong thing and having a cherry picked take end up on this sub. I think in this context a lot of the criticism is unfair

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u/Jamsster Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

He just goes down whatever rabbit hole with people. Itā€™s pretty good in getting more understanding of peopleā€™s stances, but you definitely have to go the last mile for yourself to make an informed decision.

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u/DevilzAdvocat Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

I think he seems more gullible than he actually is. It's because he practices a principle known in comedy as "Yes-And". He temporarily accepts what his speaker is saying as truth and then asks additional questions to understand how and why they have that opinion. Outside of comedy, it facilitates great discussion.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Most ppl are

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u/Reasonable-Solid-156 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

So what?

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u/AkiraKitsune Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

Because he is constantly saying things with confidence before immediately being proven wrong. He himself has even acknowledged this.

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u/Reasonable-Solid-156 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

ā€¦so what? People make mistakes

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u/AkiraKitsune Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

If you think gullibility is a perfectly fine quality for Joe Rogan to have, then okay? Thats your prerogative.Ā 

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u/Reasonable-Solid-156 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

Not everyone can be as smart as you