It was pretty fucking funny tho
Tell me a funny covid disinformation joke.
The one about people taking COVID medical advice from the guy that used to make people eat donkey cum was pretty funny… and I say this as a person who still thinks people with COVID should wear masks.
It’s not a weird competition!
Everyone can be weird in their own way… just some should never be in charge of anything ever…
Using “weird” about a comedian actually risks the whole gambit IMO. You start calling everyone weird, maybe it’s just you who is the unusual person calling everyone who disagrees with you weird.
The whole point of the attack is that the weird people are not acceptable elected officials. Keep it to people who are trying to get elected.
Imo it isn’t great anyway. I’m fucking weird, and I’ve been working my whole life to turn “weird” into a good thing rather than something for 90s bullies to use to call you retarded (along with retarded itself). In 6mo “weird” is going to be synonymous with “nazi.” Austin TX is gonna have to change their slogan lol.
Austin TX is gonna have to change their slogan lol.
They strangled the slogan to death with copyright enforcement over a decade ago. Austin hasn’t been the tie-dye hippie blueberry in the tomato soup of Texas for a while. Its absolutely infested with techbro freaks and finance assholes now.
That’s all well and good, but it’s irrelevant if you understood that the crux of that particular joke is simply their slogan being “keep Austin weird.” Not only have I never been to Austin (stone cold steve or otherwise), I’ve never even been to Texas. The geopolitics or demographics involved therein are of little consequence, assuming they have not already changed their slogan.
Joe Rogan can fuck right off for all the reasons. But first let’s jam some dirty gym socks in his mouth to shut him the fuck up.
Can you reach that low though?
Roughly quoting Jay Mohr from his recent interview on Bobby Lee’s Tigerbelly podcast:
"How Joe Rogan became the arbiter of what is funny is beyond me… all the times Joe Rogan has made us laugh… "
Joe Rogan has gotta be one of the least funny “comedians” in the game at the moment. I wish his relevancy would’ve peaked with Fear Factor.
What’s funny is that I genuinely didn’t know he was a comedian until reading your post. I always knew him as some Alex Jones tier Podcaster.
Are you sure that weirdo won’t get off on that?
Don’t give this guy space Lemmy wtf.
But where else are they going to get ear pleasure? There’s so few options!
Remember when he used to present Fear Factor? He was alright at that, not a stand up though
Pretty low bar too 🤣
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We don’t need to care about him. Bad comedians with shitty world views are a dime a dozen. He’s famous because he communicates well and not because his ideas are worth attention or respect.
Actually he got famous for making people eat animal testicle for money, that’s what made him a household name.
That’s a gross oversimplification to serve your narrow view
No, actually.
You’re not too bright, hey?
This is funny honestly
Indeed, I enjoyed it thoroughly at your expense.
The downvote to upvote ratio says otherwise, but you are free to live in your little fantasy.
You mean the janitor from News Radio?
Who?
That’s always what I knew him as, I had no idea how fucking weird he was until years later
Imo, Joe Rogan is as dumb as shown in this thumbnail.
Idiots are fine and all, but people should definitely not be taking cues from them
Toxic meathead with a gigantic microphone. Worst fucking case scenario. Jamie, pull that up.
…is he closeted gay? Gays who know about closeted gays, please enlighten me.
Would it matter if he was?
People who spend time thinking about other people’s sexualities are thinking about it for some reason. Like, who does that?
Fuck Netflix. Stop subscribing to this shitty service, everyone.
Arrrr
I thought it was a bad comedy special but it’s just wild the amount of hate I’ve seen for him and it. Like we already knew he had no idea what he was talking about on Covid, he admits as such (standard “don’t listen to a comedian for that” take that he and Jon Stewart trot out all the time). You could see it as his surrender on the topic. People seem to be taking it more as a “he’s still talking about it.”
Both sides
The Jon Stewart thing? They’re the two most prominent political comedians.
Ok Adolf
It’s because he pushes BS information without looking into it. I mean look up his bit where they talk about the presidental acceptance speech not being live. He insisted it wasn’t done live and it’s proven by Bidens watch being wrong. They debunk him in second. That’s the problem with him. Things he says can be debunked easily but instead of doing any basic research he just pushes crazy ideas that he likes.
fyi using stemio is very easy
Rogan’s entire career was predicated on the normalisation of reactionary right-wing beliefs/prejudices. He was the motte to the bailey of the Thiels and Bannons, easing perfectly normal dudes along the path, one casual joke at the expense of minorities at a time. And for a while it worked, to the point where Spotify bet the company on him. And then, the word “weird” entered the discourse, and people realised that casual cruelty and obsessing about strangers’ genitals weren’t the time-honoured values of a silent majority.
It would suck to be holding Spotify shares right now.
What’s this about the word ‘weird’?
Are you sure about that timeline?
And then, the word “weird” entered the discourse, and people realised that casual cruelty and obsessing about strangers’ genitals weren’t the time-honoured values of a silent majority.
Eh, we’ll see. I remember a lot of people thinking “#MeToo” was going to put a hard stop to sexual harassment in the workplace. And, for a brief moment, it did look like our social norms and criminal justice system would maybe do the right thing. But then the reactionaries got even more reactionary. Now we’re debating whether rape victims should bleed out on a hospital floor during an ectopic pregnancy while doctors huddle around fearful of losing their licenses if they try to provide treatment.
Joe Rogan isn’t going away. If anything, his fascist dogwhistling seems to be bringing in more and more rabid dogs to his cult community in Austin, TX. My home state has never felt more fucked than it does today. Old enough to remember when “Keep Austin Weird” was charming. Not so much anymore.
I would bet that just like with “woke”, the right is going to take “weird” and use it. It’s what they do. They are the masters of projection, and love name calling. They’re shameless, too, so if you call them something, they just take it and turn it around. I am positive if this “weird” name calling campaign catches on, it will just become another right wing buzzword.
They’ll have a harder time appropriating “weird” and making it work as a self-label for their normative, dominance-oriented ideology. They’re quite happy with being seen as fearsome hordes, barbarians at the gates, deplorables even, but they need to be seen to be representing the silent majority, and pushing back against a diversity imposed from above by (((those people))). “weird” punctures that and appropriating it whilst maintaining the rhetoric about purifying American society and purging it of liberal degeneracy would be one hell of a jiu-jitsu move.
“Yes I’m weird, and I should be. Jesus didn’t tell us to be of the world, he only told us to be in the world. We don’t conform to that world, and we never will. Don’t hide your light under that bushel, but stand against the darkness that threatens to creep in. Stand against the devil and his minions. Stand against transexuals, leftists, and the woke mob. Stand against the abortionists, the evolutionists, and the false god of science. And when you do, every brother and sister here will stand with you. And all God’s people say-” [crowd] ‘Amen!’.
A preview of things to come. Please excuse me while I go rinse my brain out.
They’d first need to make “weird” an exclusionary term referring only to their particular weirdness, and nobody else. Foreign cultures, obscure hobbies, unusual sexual kinks, religious cults, psychedelic countercurrents and so on don’t get to be “weird” unless they’re part of the conservative counterrevolution. Which would require effectively stripping the word of its meaning. And then, a short time later, somebody would point out that they’re no closer to the great American norm they profess to defend than all these this that used to be called weird.
Also, “in the world but not of the world” may work for initiates into the cult, but is no good for convincing swing voters that one represents the Silent Majority. Fundamentalists need to couch their dogma (no pun intended) in rationalisations that sound like something a normal person who’s not a cultist might believe.
imho you have a lot more to deal with vis-a-vis greg abbot and the GOP menstrual militia. Rogan’s a clown who’s gonna die shitting on the toilet. He has influence, but guys, Texas, for fuck’s fucking sake, look around at the dystopia you’ve built for women, Rogan doesn’t rate on the scale of Abbot and Ken “CAN’T INDICT ME” Paxton. You have much bigger, much worse, more pressing problems.
Like Ercot lol.
Rogan’s a fuckwit. You’ve got real problems.
And musk!
Rogan’s a clown who’s gonna die shitting on the toilet. He has influence, but guys, Texas, for fuck’s fucking sake, look around at the dystopia you’ve built for women
Rogan is a vector for the hysteria that makes Abbott popular. Right wing media does a great job of creating scapegoats and bogeymen that distract from material reality.
A guy who has been pivotal in mainstreaming anti-Trans fear mongering, hatred and fear of feminists and foreigners, and this fight club fascism is a big part of what makes conservative policy electorally viable.
A guy who has been pivotal in mainstreaming anti-Trans fear mongering, hatred and fear of feminists and foreigners, and this fight club fascism is a big part of what makes conservative policy electorally viable.
YES, but the dipshit (rogan) isn’t driving the bus. Abbot and Paxton are just as transphobic as Rogan, but your state ELECTS THEM TO DRIVE THE BUS. RIGHT OVER THE BODIES OF THOSE LGBTQ FOLK AND WOMEN.
Sorry there’s nothing you can say to equate them in my book - you have much larger problems than Joe fuckwit Rogan
YES, but the dipshit (rogan) isn’t driving the bus. Abbot and Paxton are
No, Bob Perry, Jeff Yass, Reed Hastings, and Miriam Adelson are in the drivers’ seat. Abbott’s just a different kind of piece on the board.
your state ELECTS THEM TO DRIVE THE BUS
My state’s elections are a fucking joke. If you take the results at face value, you probably have a great time listening to Joe Rogan.
Happens every fucking election cycle. Total mystery why it plagues black voting districts so consistently.
y’all need to dig up Ann
eRichards, reanimate her corpse and let her loose on the lot of them.YO how can anyone here downvote Ann Richards she was a pistol, goddamn
outspoken feminist FORMER TEACHER democrat TEXAS GOV
y’all need to learn your history
Guess who makes people elect the bus drivers - Rogan, Fox News, etc.
Yet another reason to cancel spotify and netflix. These fucks pollute the streams with their fascist supporting garbage, I don’t want my $ to go to that garbage.
I mean sure but at the end of the chain the actual problem is the people. Unless we cut out the cancer at the root, everything else is just doctoring on the symptoms, kid.
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Times like this, I really miss George Carlin.
