• LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Rogan is a Nazi sympathizer and collaborator. Of course it will be hard for him to say anything against the man right now. Plus, with Rogan, it’s always a possibility that he’s just so stupid that he doesn’t realize how far he’s already gone and how much he’s been manipulated.

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        2 hours ago

        Nah, I don’t think so. I don’t buy the whole “he’s just stupid” rhetoric. I was a fan of Rogan when he was still endorsing Sanders, and the dude is well read and often times asks intelligent questions.

        I think he’s aware of what he’s doing. I think that he’s taking/has taken money from these people, and has decided to side with the elites as a result.

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          Stupid may not be the right word. I used to listen to his podcast occasionally, and he’s certainly… What’s the right term? “slow witted”?

          Like, he seems like he has trouble keeping up. Maybe it’s the weed he’s smoking.

          He also doesn’t completely lack introspection, but his introspection seems unbelievably shallow. He’s basically just afraid that other people might judge him not to be manly. He’s scared of not being seen as manly, which is ironically pathetic and weak. But he’s demonstrated it repeatedly.

          So, these things together might work to the same end of having him… and I’m going to use maybe the wrong word again… be so stupid that he doesn’t realize how much of a Nazi he’s become. He talks with anybody, and the bad actors he talks to lead him around by the nose, and he lacks the tools to analyze how that has affected him.

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            Yeah I do think it is partly having guys like Ben Shapiro on that are smart enough to plant ideas in his head. I listened to a lot of those ones and was always annoyed when Shapiro or Owens would say something stupid and he’d be like “thats a good point” or whatever. But he also used to tell them off about climate change.

            I don’t think Jordan Peterson or Steven Crowder were smart enough to influence him though. You could tell he thought they were idiots.