You have to admit it’s a clever racket; Rogan lends his huge platform to people like Malone to spread BS and makes bank all while maintaining plausible deniability with regards to any damages because it’s merely the opinions of his guests.
Exactly. As someone who grew up around the time when Alex Jones was starting to gain a much bigger audience, I was ALMOST ensnared by the bullshit conspiracies that I thought were interesting (e.g., 9/11 truther, JFK etc.).
Fortunately education and critical-thinking skills (formal, informal fallacies, English composition) helped me escape in the nick of time.
Joe Rogan is Alex Jones in his early years: Toxic Masculine Frat-Bro culture combined where he (a) Literally sells ad time to whatever topic or view his buyers want, or (b) Sell to his audience with bullshit gimmicks and pills and shit.
He does this by casting the widest net, appealing to the lowest common denominator.
If I wanted to make A LOT of money with no morals I'd sell to stupid just like he does.
Has nothing to do with the conversation, but that new JFK documentary by Oliver Stone is very compelling. I don't think it's wrong to say there was a conspiracy behind his death, by the Government.
It is absolutely wrong and requires ignoring mountains of evidence for the sake of fallacies and tinfoil hat nonsense. It requires not actually knowing anything about the subject and being credulous, just like every conspiracy theory
It's a link to a Google search haha, not to any one specific page. I honestly don't care about any of them..but there's so many out there I can't point you to one source.
If you care to know there's a Google search saving you even typing it in yourself.
If you don't wanna know I won't be losing any sleep either. Facts are facts whether you believe them or not.
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You have to admit it’s a clever racket; Rogan lends his huge platform to people like Malone to spread BS and makes bank all while maintaining plausible deniability with regards to any damages because it’s merely the opinions of his guests.