Joe Rogan will be skipping an upcoming UFC fight because he has zero interest in Canada's "terrible" government, declaring he'd rather go to Russia.
  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    How much exactly do you think Joe Rogan knows about the government of Canada? Pretty sure it’s around fuck all. He’s just a propagandist for the fascist regime at this point.

    • grte@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Whatever Fox News tells him about Canada is what he “knows” about Canada.

    • WheelerSelanne@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Most of it will come from Jordan Peterson with his twisted, drug addled take. I think it goes back to his News Radio days from Dave Foley’s horror stories about his divorce however many decades ago that was. You just know Rogan’s wife is locked into an iron clad contract. Don’t nobody mess with Joe’s roll.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Peterson brain damage was from getting a coma in RUSsia because he wasn’t man enough to go through benzo withdrawals the healthy way.

      • el_muerte@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Definitely got it from Peterson. Rogan has called Canada “communist” and claimed that people are being imprisoned here for posting criticism of “wokeness” on the Internet. Both of those claims echo Peterson’s idiocy, but the second one in particular is pretty much guaranteed to be straight from his mouth as it’s the exact “compelled speech” bullshit that earned him much of his early notoriety and, as far as I know, hasn’t really picked up traction with other alt-reich talking heads.

    • AnarchoDakosaurus@toast.ooo
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      3 months ago

      Joe Rogan became convinced Trudeau was a dictator because of COVID restrictions.

      Like they say aboht him, knowledge a mile wide, and only an inch deep. He has been defending women beaters, rapists and anti intellectualism before he became an actual tool of the new regime.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      What’s crazy is how outright pro-Trump pilled the Canadian right was until about three months ago when Trump took office. You had the Conservative party outright bragging about being Pro-Trump, Trudeau floundering in the polls because of his criticisms of the Trump leadership team, and big oil-exporting states absolutely glowing at the prospect of a climate denialist government joining hands with them in the next election.

      Then Trump took office and started threatening sanctions, he started accusing Canadians of exporting fentanyl, and he started making vague threats aimed at Canadian territory. Public sentiment turned on a dime. The Conservative Party crashed in the polls. Trudeau’s liberals surged. Canadian media and politics turned incredibly hostile towards anyone Trump affiliated.

      And now guys like Rogan are just catching strays for being Trump adjacent. He doesn’t know anything about Canada. He just knows his (increasingly former) Canadian base is suddenly calling him all the slurs they’d historically reserved for his left-wing guests.

      • tehWrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I recall shortly back a lot of us Canadians talked about leaving the monarch, but we seem to have gotten over that in a hurry also. 😉

        People’s opinions change very quick now.

        • FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          I think it’s just the propaganda machine being efficient. All the major social media platforms are owned by billionaires (except blue sky but not sure there’s nearly as many users compared to twit/meta/reddit) and they’re manipulated to push the interests of the elites.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Do you just automatically get owned by Russia once you hit a certain level of fame/wealth/influence?

    Or is this just like those people wearing ear bandages to emulate their Dear Leader?

      • HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth
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        3 months ago

        I also assume that russia as make it a art to get blackmail on powerfull people “just in case” and you don’t become rich without a lot of skeleton

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 months ago

          All they need to do is just fund people to create the blackmail, conservatives and greedy people are the easiest people to manipulate

  • AnarchoDakosaurus@toast.ooo
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    3 months ago

    Yes please. Go and try and take your Ketamine and shitty industrial supplements in Russia. Our kennels are full we don’t need any more stinkin dogs coming here.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I see joe had a call telling him to align with the colonialist project of his fascist friend. So disappointing, I really thought he was a super smart guy with nuance position on complex subject but he might be a spineless douche in the end. /s the last sentence.

    BTW, fuck the ufc real deep in the ass.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I left Spotify because they promoted this turd’s podcast on their platform. I joined Deezer since. I’m also uploading my old MP3 collection to FunkWhale and will probably resume dowloading music the old fashion way.

    I’m thankful I grew up with 90’s-00’s internet lol

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Stop listening to entertainers, actors and performers masquerading as intellectuals, journalists and philosophers

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      He’s no different than Terence Howard that doesn’t believe in zero or that 1x1=2. Fake intellectual than Rogan had on apparently.

        • lobut@lemmy.ca
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          3 months ago

          lol, that’s a bad “or” …

          to everyone else reading I meant he:

          • doesn’t believe in zero
          • believes 1x1=2

          thanks :)

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Your looking for the word pseudointellectuals, Jordan Peterson, Shapiro, Rogan, musk even.

          • Arkouda@lemmy.ca
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            3 months ago

            You aren’t wrong, but it doesn’t mean what you are doing is right.

            If you want something dirty done don’t pussy foot around it and do it yourself.

            • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              I think if times were shaping up to be different, I would completely agree with you.

              However, it seems like the US is gearing up to start a global conflict the likes of which we haven’t seen for almost 100 years. There is slim opportunity, now, to maybe stop it. Or at least buy whom I would consider to be the allies of a free, open, and democratic society time to prepare a bit further.

              What this means to me is to not worry so much about how others choose to gate keep or endorse whatever it is you have to offer. To me it means all options are on the table, including flipping the table over. If all you can do is a little, do a little. If what you can do is much more, then do much more. But the gatekeeping, the “Why are you doing X, you should be doing Y” from people who are doing neither…

              I know how these things shape up, in my limited and poor experience. It takes a village. It takes many parts.