AUSTIN, TX - Following comments on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where multi-millionaire podcaster Joe Rogan blamed Ukrainian defence for "causing World War III", the podcast phenom clarified that he was not echoing Kremlin propaganda, but is in fact truly this fucking braindead.
  • Orbituary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    377·
    14 hours ago

    At around the beginning of the pandemic he started to switch. At the start of the pandemic - March 2020, he had a virologist on that convinced me covid-19 wasn’t just another SARS or MERS that was going to fall flat.

    Rogan began his spiral into deplorability after that. Inconvenience outweighed reality for him.

    Prior to then, I’d say he had a great mix of all guests from politics to science, hunting and fighting, comedy and entertainment… He was a good interviewer then because he’d ask good questions, shut up, and let them talk. Moreover, he’d ask questions common people might ask a preeminent physicist or politician, getting from them answers accessible to most people.

    I stopped listening to his shit back then. Now, he’s a big toe. He has a self serving agenda. He’s a MAGA Republican asset, which makes him a Russian one by proxy if not directly.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      61·
      8 hours ago

      He was a good interviewer then because he’d ask good questions, shut up, and let them talk.

      And there was no time pressure on his podcast. The episodes took as long as they took, so no need for people who aren’t good at sound bites to figure out how to explain something complicated in a fast and simple way.

      But, even back pre-COVID, pre-Spotify, he was a dangerous idiot. Like, he’d have Alex Jones on, and the guy would spew vast quantities of dangerous misinformation, and Rogan would fact check him on one little thing and that moment would go viral. Meanwhile, Alex Jones gets platformed and most of his BS goes unchallenged.

      He had maybe 3-4 good years when his podcast changed from having the same MMA fighters / comedians on again and again every year, to having new people every week, to when it went full-on right wing. In 2012/13 it was still an MMA / comedy podcast featuring mostly the same people every week. Then he had Neil Degrasse Tyson, Dana White, Dan Carlin, David Lee Roth, Douglas Rushkoff. In 2017 he had Alex Jones for the first time. But, by then he was already platforming woowoo people pushing “supplements”, and right-wing assholes like Stephen Crowder and Gavin McInnes.

      • Orbituary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        9 hours ago

        Good christ, I wasn’t talking about now. I was talking about the old days. If you had payed attention to the words I wrote, you would have seen that.

        I was reactive because there wasn’t indication of context in the reply. I’ve apologized but I won’t delete my old comment so people don’t guess.