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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 55 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

Voting at polling sites in mostly black and brown communities was mired in a series of election administration missteps. The county’s wait time reporting system showed incorrect wait times that pushed voters to crowded locations. With voters unable to reroute once polls closed, voting moved frustratingly slow because of an insufficient number of voting machines to serve the hundreds of voters lined up at polling sites.

Happens every fucking election cycle. Total mystery why it plagues black voting districts so consistently.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

y'all need to dig up Ann~~e~~ Richards, reanimate her corpse and let her loose on the lot of them.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] suction@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Guess who makes people elect the bus drivers - Rogan, Fox News, etc.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] suction@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ah youth... it's funny that you think the root is these twats and not the actual fucks who have been driving tx gov into the ground for 20+ years.

cute, sparky, really fucking cute.

[–] suction@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Son, who do you think put the tx gov into power? Aliens?

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Son,

Child, call me son one more time and I'm gonna show you who's your daddy.

who do you think put the tx gov into power? Aliens?

stupid fucking texans. like you apparently

[–] suction@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Hey junior, so you almost figured it out. Who do we need to remove from this planet to end evil governments? Huh? You got it! The people who vote for them!

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] suction@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Are you sure about that timeline?

[–] iLL_Behaviour@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

What’s this about the word ‘weird’?