Youngian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 11:42 am
Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 9:27 am
I can see the appeal of Reid - he's a classic showbizzy hard man, familiar from daytime TV/OK! magazine, been in a few trash films about Essex gangsters, sort of people GB News viewers consider a "proper lad".
Is there a correlation between anti-vaxers and mixed martial arts people? Joe Rogan is big on the sport as well. Are they versed in the ancient wisdoms of the Orient?
I think I'm coming strongly down on the side that Joe Rogan is, despite his repeated claims to be an idiot who knows nothing, a fucking idiot who knows nothing. He's on a path of least resistance, speaking to and for other idiots because it's just easier to ignore smart people than babbling lunatics. I don't think there's anything more coherent in his worldview than "if I press this button money comes out".
Given how much podcasting is pushed as a medium for niche interest and deeper takes on things, and it certainly can be, it does prove that the lowest common denominator is still where the money is
We regard capitalist journalism as an effective weapon in the hands of a well-informed, but utterly unscrupulous, enemy, rather than merely as an unbiased recorder of passing events.