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      Rogan is what happens when the barbarian doesn’t have a miniature giant space hamster to whisper common sense into his ear.

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      This gives him too much credit.

      A barbarian khan would legitimately be trying to understand how the world works. Yes, sometimes he has a scientist on and he’s forced to learn things. But, other times he has a guest on so that that guest can promote their terrible worldview – see RFK Jr.

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      Jr: Talks about how he picked up a dead bear to “harvest” it, left it in the back of his car for presumably hours, then dumped it in Central Park as a “joke” when he had to go to the airport

      JoRo: That’s a man I can get behind

      How does anybody take either of these people remotely seriously?

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        This is what all manly men do. (After overdosing on human growth hormones, testosterone, parasitic worms.) Hunt! Kill! Eat! Fuck (this bear, I’m tired, let’s put the rotting carcass in the park).

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      Last I checked, Joe loves eating tons of weird meat, hunting and cooking a bunch himself. I’m just saying, this may be the great brain worm uprising we were warned about.

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    I can’t wait for the tide to turn against Joe Rogan and he becomes another has-been. He’s done way too much damage on a lot of important issues.

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      I don’t understand how more people don’t see this. It drives me insane. “Did you watch the interview with Joe Rog-” “NO!!!”

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        He was interesting before the Spotify integration. When he had stoners on and just talked about aliens and shit. But then it got really weird with his hatred for California and all that arc.

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          I think the rot really set in before the Spotify stuff. I’ve never used Spotify, so anything exclusive to that platform is something I miss. I occasionally listened to his stuff before the Spotify deal, but I’d stopped listening long enough before that change that it didn’t change anything for me.

          What seemed to change for me is that originally he really was just asking questions. He admitted that he was uninformed and he asked his guests questions on what they claimed to be experts about. Often his guests were real experts, but sometimes it was a conspiracy theorist. When it was a conspiracy theorist, often they looked dumb when Rogan asked a pretty basic question and the answer was ridiculous.

          But, over time he went from honestly asking questions to “just asking questions”. Like, he had his mind made up and was instead trying to push some kind of ideology.

          What made it especially bad is that his Spotify Exclusivity deal started around the same time as the Pandemic, and if he’s not an anti-vax nutjob, he’s at least nutjob adjacent.

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          My personal opinion, he hasn’t been interesting since Fear Factor, and he wasn’t even the interesting part

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        Maybe, but maybe it’s worth telling the magats who can’t be saved to watch, they could possibly listen to the guy who covered people in magats for a living and not vote for Project Orange

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          I don’t know that Rogan is turning people off of Trump. I don’t know his personal stance because I pay zero attention to the man, but the kind of people he gives a platform to, and his own theories, I don’t think anyone would be better off after listening to him

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      He just admitted to leaving a bear cub carcass in Central Park with a bike on it in a scene like the bike hit and killed the bear cub. He had the bear cub in his car so he could skin (and I think eat it) but had to go to a diner and the next logical thing was leave the corpse in a park.

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        And a man who was only prevented by a red-eye flight from eating a roadkill bear he picked up in the morning and left undressed in his car all day is very much the type of person at high risk for brainworms.

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      He’s also got a worm in his brain.

      That’s not a joke. It’s real, and it ate part of his frontal lobe, and it’s still in there, and it’s necrotic at this point.

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      He ran an anti mmr campaign in the American Samoas, resulting in him indirectly killing 85 children. He also drove his second wife to suicide due to his sex addiction.

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        RFK Jr doesn’t have a sex addiction, he’s just an asshole (and rapist), as proven when moved that dead wife out of her burial spot.

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      You have no idea. There’s genuinely too much crazy stuff to cover in a comment. Worth looking into purely for entertainment value.

      I recommend starting with the recent dead bear story or the brain worm thing.

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      Spoiler candidates are mostly bad news for Democrats, but I can’t imagine many people who would be swayed by a Joe Rogan endorsement would have voted (D} anyway.

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          Didn’t trump have a talk with brainworms like a month back? I vaguely remember that a poll showed rfk stealing more from Trump.

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        That’s why this move is weird to me. I assume Rogan would want Trump to win much more than Harris, but endorsing RFK Jr does nothing but convince his listeners (who are largely Trump voters) to peel off from Trump. The conservative ploy with RFK is not going to work out how they want it to.

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    Thank god Joe is too stupid to understand endorsing RFK will work against Trump.

    I welcome his endorsement and hope he has RFK on his show 10 times before the election.

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        Nah, Rogan can’t stop eating and RFK was eating roadkill to satiate his worm. The telepathic brainworms don’t eat the brains. They take them over. Stick their tendrils in deeply. Synaptic activity looks like a Christmas tree. Builds quite the appetite.

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      Whoaaa whoa now, I like that game. Let’s not compare the two. The Mind Flayers at least LIKE brains instead of totally lacking them.

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        What game, singular? You’re not saying you think that BG3 is the game to spawn illithid as a concept, right?

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          It’s times like this where I legitimately wonder if I read things correctly.

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            Eh, y’all can suck on your own downvotes. 🤣 D&D is not a “game” in and of itself; though one could describe “playing a game of D&D”, that would be a fairly awkward/unusual way to phrase it. BG3 is, without question, the single most famous permutation of this IP (and the corollary “illithid”/“mind flayer”) to date. Thafuq else could you mean, son? 🤌🏽

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    I think it says a lot that this doesn’t really move the needle about my opinion of either of them at this point…

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    He’s straight up just a contrarian at this point. He wants to be “different,” by not choosing one of the “mainstream” candidates.

    It’s also probably a calculated move, financially, as he doesn’t want to alienate the people who make up half his audience by endorsing Kamala or Trump. Probably more than half if he endorsed the former.

    Typical bourgeois attitude, putting your own financial needs (that are already met 1,000x over) above literally the survival of the Republic.

    They’re not even nihilists, because they worship at the alter of capital.

    It’s gross.

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          Can you imagine someone doing a (pretty fucking easy) job for something like 4 to 5 orders of magnitude more money then the average American, and then still making your politics about paying less taxes.

          They’re the worst people on the planet, and he’s particularly bad due to his massive platform and young fans.

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          Who you’re voting for is a protected bit of information. Nobody can force you to say who you voted for legally.

          This was a move for $$$. morally that is fucked. Glad you’re here to sway opinions on the bald fuckwit.

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    Brain worms and bear cruelty are hot button issues for Joe Rogan, apparently. Is anyone really surprised the nutjob would pick the nutjob candidate?

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    I wonder if Joe’s use of deworming medication makes him feel like he and RFK Jr. are kindred numbnuts.