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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry guys, this one's locked now. Y'all need to grow the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Joe Rogan identifies as a South Park character: offensive and two-dimensional

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

You see, the problem with that word is that people who want to keep it around really make me wanna use it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can all newspapers, when writing about Rogan, now use the term "Noted r-word, Joe Rogan..."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Can we just make Rogan the new R-word and stop saying it?

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

Oh, i love this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Shut up, you Rogan

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm not american and don't care about politics but I was watching a show the other day and when Rogan appeared as a guest I had to shut off after 5 minutes. This person is so annoying I couldn't stand. Don't know how you guys do it. I didn't even liked him in newsradio and I loved the show.

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

Once he had Alex Jones on his show peddling "clean coal" I stopped listening to him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

That's crazy. Anyway, have you tried DMT?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

They can describe themselves again. I suppose that could be considered cultural restoration?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How this fucking australopithecus became a thought leader, I will never understand.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

He's a morons idea of a clever person. That's how

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ironically, retard was originally a kinder word cooked up to describe people with lower intelligence, along with moron, idiot, cretin, and imbecile. Over time these became pejoratives. Just kind of interesting to see how language develops and terms intended to avoid offense over time turn into ones that offend people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, when you come up with a word to describe people that others consider less/worse than themselves, they will invariably end up using the word to describe them as an insult to others. This will happen no matter how mundane or non offensive you try to make the word.

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

This is the very nature of slurs, and more largely language in general, in the first place. It's not the signifier, it's the signified.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Retarded people are literally retarded. Hope this helps.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

Retarded is what you call your friends when they're being retarded

Michael Scott

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Of course retards like Rogan and Trump like that word.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How could this word even be removed. Unlike the N word it actually has legitimate uses. I didn't even know it was "bad" to say.

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

By not calling people that?

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

Yes agreed, I advanced or retard timing on an injector pump.

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

Wilfully ignorant.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, i never really stopped calling people like Rogan and Trump retarded... But calling it a great cultural victory, is just... Retarded.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Rogan really being a gay retard here

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Joe Rogan has really sold out to his mentally absent base. What a victory for them.

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