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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Joe Rogan, Shapiro, and j Peterson is what you called pseudo-intellectuals

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (17 children)

One of the wisest things I've ever heard is "White people should be lucky that black people only want equality, revenge would be perfectly understandable at this point."

The more I learn about black history, as in the history of what white people have been doing to black people since the latter was dragged kicking and screaming to America, the more I appreciate the phrase. It's honestly some of the most horrific shit I've ever had the displeasure of learning.

And just to clarify. I'm not black, I'm a pale transchick from the 90's who's whiter than sour cream, I've seen Wayne's World 69,420 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

And just to clarify. I’m not black, I’m a pale transchick from the 90’s who’s whiter than sour cream, I’ve seen Wayne’s World 69,420 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it.

I'm sorry ma'am, you're under arrest for excessive whiteness.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Some people believe that they are taking just that, hence all the terror around Great Replacement theory, or the moral downfall of society because people aren't partaking of mass in purest Latin.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe surprisingly for you, many women are not able to restrain themselves from killing.

With that said, whenever anyone overgeneralizes, I know immediately they're either willfully ignorant or just dumb, and any opinion they voice should simply be taken with a mountain of salt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The violent crime rant leaning overwhelmingly male says otherwise

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

No, that's flawed reasoning.

If someone says second hand smoke kills people, it doesn't make them wrong simply because someone points out that car accidents kill more people.

Both things can be true

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I dislike how the guy swooped in to save the day (again). I'm sure she was perfectly capable of ripping him a new one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Sometimes we have to swoop in because we don't want to see an absolute massacre, lol

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 days ago (3 children)

doctors can have really shit opinions too

the real message is: every opinion must be scrutinized heavily, if it stands scrutiny maybe there's something there

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It depends on what they're talking about. I'll listen to and generally heed a doctors medical opinion, for example. Their political opinion? Eh..

Joe Rogan, who has doesn't have expertise in anything comparable to a doctors expertise in medicine, no way I'm talking anything he says at face value.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Always remember: The vaccines cause autism bullshit was started by a fully licensed doctor.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well he ain't a fully licensed doctor no more.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A fully-licensed doctor who, if I remember correctly, had invested in a company developing an alternative to the existing vaccinations.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Literally killing people for money.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In my experience doctors can have some of the absolute worst opinions. Especially highly educated speciality doctors who have spent 1/3 of their life doing nothing but studying their very specific field. Lawyers too.

I work in IT and they can be some of the worst users to work with.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Honestly this is true of many smart people in specialized professions

Infamously software developers are fucking knuckle dragging morons about anything that has nothing to do with what they're good at, but they think they're god kings and think the world works like a computer

The only hallmark of intelligence I subscribe to is when someone just acknowledges they don't know everything and listen. Everyone else is doom spiraling into thought terminating patterns while thinking they're right

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I like to make the distinction between competence and intelligence. There are some overlaps, but they are mostly distinct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Life is just a big design pattern. ☕︎☕︎

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I wish people would stop giving the Joe Rogans and Rush Limbaughs of the world more attention than they deserve. Debating whether they're right or wrong about anything just gives them more legitimacy than they deserve. They're a sideshow. They're hucksters waving their hands and making noise to make a buck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

They're hucksters waving their hands and making noise to make a buck.

Yup.

They've learned that doing outrageous things and pissing people off makes the line go up and so they're going to keep doing that regardless of the consequences to discourse in society because it puts money in their pocket

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This is a bit embarrassing maybe, but I have actually enjoyed listening to a couple of episodes of the Joe Rogan podcast. In the few episodes I have listened to he has been able to get some good conversations going.

One could easily and rightfully criticize him platforming a lot of his guests, but this is where it gets a bit tricky.

He gives a voice to people that has interesting things to say, that in some way contribute in society or contributes to a discussion, and people that are completely psychotic. The latter should not be platformed, both for their own good and society. Alex Jones was an example of that. Joe Rogan should have stopped that episode in its tracks, or not have aired it.

I stopped listening more as a sort of boycott, not because I could not find any sort of value in his episodes sometimes.

Edit: The reply is probably correct. Joe Rogan does tend to not be skeptical and does platform a lot of evil people as well. The people in his podcast rarely meets any real opposition from Joe.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He more often gives platforms to people who say nothing, and a whole lot of it that. He also tends to platform insane and downright evil people and lets them say whatever bullshit they want with zero questions, zero feedback, zero incredulity, thus making them look legitimate in the eyes of his followers.

He is a very dangerous man.

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