• ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip
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    going to be…? my brother in christ our ICE is the American Gestapo. I’m not some expert in them but I believe the match even gets down to hiring criminals and people who can’t pass tests of various kinds.

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    But he prefaced this with some real nationalist, replacement theory bullshit.

    2:39:43 And I think there’s there’s a balance to be achieved. I just don’t know how it gets done because I I see both perspectives. I see the perspective of the people that say, "Hey, there was an illegal program moving people in here to get votes, moving people in here to get congressional seats, and we’ve got to change that. We’ve got to take those people that got in and send them back to where they came from or do something because if we don’t, they’re going to keep doing it if they get in office again in 2028 and it’s going to accelerate. and you’re you’re you’re going to have to take away some of the damage that’s been done to a true democratic system because you’ve kind of hijacked it and they kind of have. And then I can also see the point of view of the people that say, “Yeah, but you don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be US citizens that just don’t have their papers on them. Are we really going to be the the Gestapo? Where’s your papers? Is that what we’ve come to?” So, it’s it’s more complicated than I think people want to admit. You know, people want to look at this as a black and white issue. You know, if you’re a compassionate person or if you’re a pragmatic person and I don’t think that’s true. I think it’s both.

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      So does the modern incarnation of the “great replacement theory” include dastardly Democrats “moving people” like Somali refugees into a relatively concentrated area (like one city or county or region), waiting for them to become citizens (multi year process if ever), and then leveraging that to take power through elections?

      I mean I think the explanation that makes more sense is grouping traumatized people with a shared heritage together probably makes them feel safer and accelerates true assimilation (bi directional to include America changing a bit). Coupled with this that become citizens through our legal naturalization process are… American citizens. But what do I know I’m probably not taking enough HGH and testosterone and ketamine

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      Where’s the evidence for this illegal program moving people to get votes?

      I know Fox News parrots this shit but is there any evidence for that?

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    I mean he’s no Soley responsible for this but he is partially. He’s show has been pushing the right wing agenda.

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    “Are we the baddies?” ponders Gen-X’s Rush Limbaugh copycat after decades of being a mouthpiece for Russian agitprop.

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      It was scary to do it before. In a post Renee world, it’s much easier.

      Heroes make the world better for everyone, even the evil people.

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    Joe Rogan is the gestapo’s voice. Joe Rogan is a piece is shit plus he is not funny.

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      I don’t think he ever was. I never understood why people liked him. He always seemed like a poser to me. He wanted to be a cool guy, he wanted to be funny, he wanted to be a UFC fighter… I guess that kind of describes everyone in the “manosphere”.

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        At one point he was actually kinda open minded and could raise an interesting discussion from time to time. Those days are loooooooong fucking gone. It’s all just ego maintenance and propaganda now.

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          Admittedly I found him through his conversations with scientists I enjoyed listening to. Those days were good, they’d just have conversations about black holes and quantum physics. Then shit got absolutely out of hand and I never listened to him again.

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            Yeah I think what’s missed is that there weren’t a lot of long form podcasts like that at the time. It was great to be able to hear someone like Sean Carroll come on and talk about Spacetime for 3 hours and then have Joe convince him to start his own podcast, which is still going and really dang good. Joe served as the interested but uninformed audience to just kind of keep the person talking. Not to defend what it’s become, but it wasn’t always like it is now

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              It’s too bad so many people found Joe Rogan more interesting than Stuff You Should Know, even though the latter started before Rogan. Josh and Chuck don’t have whacky guests, but they talk about the coolest topics.

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                talked*,

                after I saw that Terrance Howard one I think I lost some IQ points and all of my respect (what little was left) for Rogan.

                now there’s way better podcast like star talk or anything else.

                people figured out his formula, anyone left listening is on the bottom of the dev curve.

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        He’s relatable. He’s that guy that’s cool to chill with on the couch and talk about random shit. But he’ll chill with everyone from scammers to Nazis on that couch.

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      His early comedy was funny in the 1990s bro sort of way. His podcast was hysterical when it was just him smoking weed with redban. The joey diaz fleshlight commercials are still funny to me “they put a little clean shaven monkey in there”

      This was before the big money showed up to the podcast.

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        I tried listening to his podcast when it got big. It’s was boring as shit. I don’t know how people can listen to him talk for hours at a time.

        I can maybe listen to a curated version where they cut out 98% and only leave in the part where they actually say something interesting.

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    Going to be?

    Joe Rogan, you have always been one of them, you fascist fuck. You helped create this and you will pay for your part in it.