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Whether he knew this or not, he is partly responsible for the fact that it is happening. Either he was absurdly negligent and didn’t notice that this was one of the major promises of the Trump campaign, or he did know and wants some plausible deniability to say “Oh, sure, I voted for Trump and convinced millions of others to do so as well, but I’m still a basically decent human being who doesn’t like seeing jackbooted thugs violently hauling people away into vans! I wanted this to happen in a nice and not terrifying way!”

Neither says anything good about him.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 103 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Cody Johnson made a good point when Rogan said "I thought they were going after criminals first"

The very fact that Rogan still said "first" means he already understood someone was gonna be next

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

These people's views are not hard to follow, even if they can't follow it themselves. There was never any confusion about the end goal, but people like him NEVER ONCE considered the path to that goal. Because they are STUPID. That's really it. Low intelligence people who just don't care to learn anything.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think it's deeper than that...

Sure, some maga really believes what Trump says, but an absolute shit ton of his voters think "both sides lie".

So in their heads, trump was never going to get all the gang members and criminals out, so everything next just wasn't assumed to get to happen.

And you can't fault them really, like, we went from "trump never tells the truth" to "why didn't you believe trump" so fast people are breaking necks left and right.

The important focus should be on the good stuff the hateful people want, because it's the same shit the rest of us want.

Give them an authentic progressive president that will really try to deliver on campaign promises and all voters will start taking what a candidate says seriously against. When it's assumed all politicians lie, we'll keep electing people like trump.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

we went from “trump never tells the truth” to “why didn’t you believe trump” so fast people are breaking necks left and right.

I think its more that he says so much shit, you can't take any of his words at face value, which isn't the same as everything is a lie.

If he says something that sounds positive to people other than himself, its probably a lie. If he says something that sounds horrible, its probably him telling the truth by accident.

Following this heuristic, this sort of violence was exactly the sort of thing he should have been believed on. edit: formatting

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Until money is removed from politics, it is not just a bad idea, but physically dangerous to your person to assume that any politician is telling the truth without deep knowledge about that politician's backers and history.

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 70 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can we stop elevating Joe Rogan's presence?

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Joe isn't some enigma. He didnt want to lose his listener base. He has an easy job of gym, then talking about shit. That's all he does and makes millions. If no one tunes in, he won't make anymore money.

His base is what 90% MAGA? Maybe some non-maga will listen to select scientists or interesting humans he has on. Otherwise...its all MAGA.

He can't go against that or his loses his meal ticket. Comedy isn't his strong suit anymore, organizing comedy clubs is a skill set he has. No way he goes against the grain.

Joe will go where his base goes. If they start to turn on Trump. He will turn.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

He can't go against that or his loses his meal ticket.

He's already extremely wealthy

Comedy isn't his strong suit anymore,

Was it ever? I thought he was just the Fear Factor guy.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The thing about extremely rich people: it's never enough.
They have to be richer and more influential.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

There are always more things to buy.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 11 points 4 days ago

They won't turn. And if they did, he'd be there claiming he was against it all the time, people just misunderstood him.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago

It used to be more diverse but then he sold his soul to Spotify for 100m and moved to Texas.

[–] thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Because Joe Rogan is another dumb-ass former reality TV "star"

Hey now, he was also inexplicably on News Radio with a cast much more talented than him.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago

Who created his own drug induced reality distortion field.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Careful there. You're badmouthin president #49 😅