re: Slate is trying to take down Joe Rogan (Update page 4)

There is so much insanity in that article it is hard to read but if you do a find and replace and replace every instance of Rogan with slate it would be funny to just republish the article like that to show the hypocrisy inherent and the importance of free speech

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if you don't agree with every fringe-left belief, you're right wing

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brilliant

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That is a bitter, jealous writer for the dying, old media.

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tone deaf as well

this kind of preachy pandering and gatekeeper behavior is a big reason why people have started tuning them out

and it doesn't help that he effectively calls those who tune out idiots beneath his medium/side

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brilliant

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that doesn't apply to just people who aren't progressives like Joe Rogan. that belief system has infected all of the DEM 2020 candidates

they're all FAR/frigne left b/c they can't show any chinks in the armor. it's either 100% or you're a fascist/mouthpiece/tolerant of the alt-right

the buzzwords in there are frightening

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centering institutions

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governing social norms

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the end of authority

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and then he follows it ups with this:

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Their goal is to convince the world’s least-informed people that they are actually the most-informed people,

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Reddit is a great example but Tim Pool (in his original episode) had a headshot on this when he talked about how journos use Twitter as the news aggrogater of the day and they all live in a constant bubble within Twitter that they never leave. it's how they not only get all their news but spread their news, making it all seem more accepted, legitimate, and of an insanely large scale

but yea, the independent podcast that has blown up the past 3-4 years that has random people of all sides is the problem

The left think that they can tell everyone what is good for them. It’s one reason they lost in 2016.

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More people probably listen to Rogan than read Slate

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And that’s why these articles exist. The last horse is finally crossing the finish line that Rogan actually has a larger audience than Colbert or Don Lemon and basically anyone in the establishment. In combination with YouTube, iTunes, and iHeartRadio Joe Rogan gets roughly 5 million listeners on average per podcast, and the big ones get over 30 million listeners.

The only reason they go after Rogan is he is not a part of the establishment and often entertains the non-establishment on his show. They are scarred shitless of this since even just 10 years ago the establishment controlled the narrative. Now they don’t, which is fricking awesome. There’s a reason why Joe is never invited onto these late night programs.

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oe Rogan
The fact that a lot of people subscribe to
Rogan does say something, but it doesn’t validate Rogan as a serious, honest commentator. It just further proves that P. T. Barnum was astute in observing that nobody goes broke under-estimating the intelligence
of the American public

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Guy just broadcasts conversations with people.

What an odd characterization.

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We are living in the dumbest period of modern American history, where our centering institutions have destabilized, our governing social norms seem unenforceable, and our fast-food restaurants routinely insult one another on Twitter. Into this breach have stepped myriad articulate charlatans, aggro-provocateurs, and other confident dullards who seek to capitalize on the end of authority by using the internet to proclaim their own truths. Their goal is to convince the world’s least-informed people that they are actually the most-informed people, and they are very good at their jobs.

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This paragraph is fricking terrifying. Let’s carefully dissect it:

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We are living in the dumbest period of modern American history

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Yeah, having long form conversations that require an attention span more than 4 fricking minutes is clearly the dumbest point in American history. Not you know, when Jim Crow was around, or the Japanese internment camps, or the time we had to fight a war to end slavery. We weren’t being dumb then at all.

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where our centering institutions have destabilized

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What’s a centering institution? Is it these SJW campuses that everyone hates? Or is it that CNN no longer gets to determine what the dialogue is? Further more why should we have a centering institution in a free society?

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our governing social norms seem unenforceable

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Governing social norms?!?! What fricking country do you live in? If you want that, move to Saudi fricking Arabia. I want a free society, but you want to put in laws that would destroy a free society and censor anyone that doesn’t agree with you 100%. You are a tyrannical count that needs to get the frick out of my country.

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and our fast-food restaurants routinely insult one another on Twitter.

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Ummm, so? What’s wrong with this when they’re already serving you food that in the long haul will kill you, and you as an American should have the right to do it.

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Into this breach have stepped myriad articulate charlatans, aggro-provocateurs, and other confident dullards who seek to capitalize on the end of authority by using the internet to proclaim their own truths.

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Their own truths? Lol. Maybe sometimes they are using inconvenient facts to uncover an actual truth you just don’t like as an intersectionalist communist weasel.

I also love how these idiots love authority but don’t find it ironic that they talk nothing but shite about “Orange Hitler”. You’d think that after Trump they’d step back from the authoritarianism, but being the actual “dullards” they are, of course they won’t learn and simply double down. They never imagine after Trump a Right Wing person would take that authority and do what they fear with it.

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Their goal is to convince the world’s least-informed people that they are actually the most-informed people, and they are very good at their jobs.

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Sure you’re not describing somewhere else. A “news network” that has Mr. (and I quote) “Remember, it is illegal to possess these stolen documents. It is different from the media. So everything you learn about this, you are learning from us.” But hey, I guess the guy who actually goes out there and tells you to think for yourself is the one trying to brainwash America.