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Everything after "essentially" is you being very presumptuous about what I believe and I didn't sign up to defend the version of me made of straw.

boffinAudio 5y ago
"presumptuous" straw man? >he is mainstream and provably wrong most of the times he opens his mouth I mean, this is your stated opinion. But he's not mainstream or we'd be seeing his show on the televisions in the airport - instead he's only available on special platforms that have to be sought out .. and your opinion that he is wrong most of the time is also specious. But lets assume that both of these points of view are 'true': now that it is okay to start cancelling 'mainstream shows' because of the disinformation they spread, do you support the winding down of CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and the New York Times - who have each been found guilty of spreading disinformation multiple times in their history? The issue is, at what point is 'your side' more informative than 'the other side'? When it becomes mainstream? When it has the approval of known, entrenched establishment entities who stand to profit a great deal from their disinformation campaigns (as is the case with CNN/MSNBC/etc.)? Mostly, I just want to understand why cancelling mainstream shows should stop at Joe Rogan, in your mind. I'd LOVE to see CNN and Rachel Maddow - and Tucker Carlson, too - get cancelled in my lifetime over their quite clearly profit-motivated propaganda activities .. so if that is the inevitable end result of the "Cancel Joe Rogan Movement", then - sorry Joe - I'm in.
- sascha_sl 5y ago
  Stop. I'm not even in the US. I give very few shits about what you think I think is good or bad journalism, or what political pundits I'd defend. Takes my words as they are and please, shut up.
- bradlys 5y ago
  Mainstream for millennials and gen z - maybe even gen X. He’s probably not mainstream for boomers. Because your definition of mainstream is incredibly narrow. In the age of the Internet, mostly boomers and some gen X are watching TV. I don’t watch what’s on any tv anywhere. I haven’t used TV in the traditional sense in over a decade and that’s very common in my demographic. To me - those “news” networks spread as much disinformation as Joe Rogan does. (Which is to say - a lot and practically all the time)

boffinAudio 5y ago

"presumptuous" straw man? >he is mainstream and provably wrong most of the times he opens his mouth I mean, this is your stated opinion. But he's not mainstream or we'd be seeing his show on the televisions in the airport - instead he's only available on special platforms that have to be sought out .. and your opinion that he is wrong most of the time is also specious. But lets assume that both of these points of view are 'true': now that it is okay to start cancelling 'mainstream shows' because of the disinformation they spread, do you support the winding down of CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and the New York Times - who have each been found guilty of spreading disinformation multiple times in their history? The issue is, at what point is 'your side' more informative than 'the other side'? When it becomes mainstream? When it has the approval of known, entrenched establishment entities who stand to profit a great deal from their disinformation campaigns (as is the case with CNN/MSNBC/etc.)? Mostly, I just want to understand why cancelling mainstream shows should stop at Joe Rogan, in your mind. I'd LOVE to see CNN and Rachel Maddow - and Tucker Carlson, too - get cancelled in my lifetime over their quite clearly profit-motivated propaganda activities .. so if that is the inevitable end result of the "Cancel Joe Rogan Movement", then - sorry Joe - I'm in.

sascha_sl 5y ago
Stop. I'm not even in the US. I give very few shits about what you think I think is good or bad journalism, or what political pundits I'd defend. Takes my words as they are and please, shut up.
bradlys 5y ago
Mainstream for millennials and gen z - maybe even gen X. He’s probably not mainstream for boomers. Because your definition of mainstream is incredibly narrow. In the age of the Internet, mostly boomers and some gen X are watching TV. I don’t watch what’s on any tv anywhere. I haven’t used TV in the traditional sense in over a decade and that’s very common in my demographic. To me - those “news” networks spread as much disinformation as Joe Rogan does. (Which is to say - a lot and practically all the time)