I know of someone who says they listen to Joe Rogan podcasts (political I assume) but I don’t know what this means or what the connotations are. Both this person and I live in east asia.

  • iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.worldEnglish
    831·
    10 months ago

    I immediately assume that once someone brings up Joe Rogan they are easily susceptible to authoritarian propaganda and should be avoided.

    Rogan brings on guests who argue in bad faith for topics which they are unqualified to comment upon. They provide no evidence and Joe immediately agrees with whatever random bullshit they spew out. Doing this creates the image of credibility (big podcast man agreed with psycho, maybe I should agree with psycho), and since perception is reality that image has value.

    • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
      62·
      10 months ago

      I immediately assume that once someone brings up Joe Rogan they are easily susceptible to authoritarian propaganda and should be avoided.

      What if they’re just talking about his previous acting career?

      • redballooon@lemm.ee
        13·
        10 months ago

        That’s entertaining, and for frequent listeners it lowers the threshold of disbelief. Because obviously Joe has some areas or guests of true expertise. How to distinguish that from bullshit? He talks about all of these things in the exact same mannerisms.

          • joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca
            6·
            10 months ago

            Basically even if someone it talking about the previous acting career, which on the surface should seem credible. It’s really hard to properly judge if the person actually is creditable because of how often Joe will interview uncredible people and spin them as creditable.

            Basically Joe’s creditability has be harmed so it’s hard to trust anything or anyone he talks to at face value

            • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
              1·
              10 months ago

              You know, I once tried to explain to someone on reddit that Joe Rogan wasn’t always bald and there is evidence of this when he was on Newsradio and he had a full head of hair back then.

              Idiot on reddit just kept arguing that he was always bald and didn’t even care that video evidence was being posted because it was more important to hate Rogan than to accept factual evidence of something so incredibly minimal on the scale of things.

              Like why would it be important if he was bald or not? And why would hating him be more important than something being a fact?

              Anyway, I asked cause I love Newsradio but often can’t talk about it because people will either figure out that Joe Rogan was on there, or they already know and then think I’m a psychotic alt right idiot.

              All because I watch a show that existed before that guy was ever doing a podcast.

      • Leviathan@lemmy.world
        7·
        10 months ago

        I immediately assume that once someone brings up Joe Rogan’s previous acting career they are easily susceptible to bad acting and worse comedy and should be avoided.