The annoying thing is, it's not just the dumbest person from high school. It's people who seem normal, until anything political is brought up.
I'm old, is political just slang for biggotry and woke just slang for empathy? I can't keep up with modern language.
I always heard people talking about how many of their Facebook friends lost their minds with the Qanon stuff, but that wasn't my experience at all, everyone I still saw by that point was pretty reasonable. I started talking to one of my friends from high school about it and it turns out that the handful of people in our friend group that did start posting Qanon and Christofascist nonsense were also the same people who unfriended me back in 2012 after I came out as trans. It was pretty great, actually.
I'm from the south, I literally have 50% or more of my highschool blocked from shit they said from 2018 to 2020, then I stopped using Facebook
I saw one podcast with Rogan years ago and thought, "wow, this guy really listens to the people he has on, the guest has interesting things to say and it's intriguing to watch." Then I saw more. He saw the same light all these bastards see, the conservative base full of money and completely devoid of any sense or rational. I don't know if I can truly blame these people for taking easy millions, but it's also pretty hard to definitively say which ones are just cons for the money and which ones are true believers of their own nonsense.
They're complete suckers. I too realized quickly Rogan was just another Alex Jones with different frosting.
The US warned people about being suckers in 1947: https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
Why does anyone keep in contact with the dumbest people they knew from high school? Why would you want to?
Even dumb people have friends.
It's just weird to see mold fester. Most people I have this association with are people I'm forced to interact with; eg., work, relatives.
Is Joe Rogan seriously on the same level as Qanon? He explicitly calls them out as crazy.
As far as fake progressives go, Tim Pool is unironically evil and infinitely worse. Even if he's genuinely giving his opinion, he's so far down the rabbit hole of insanity that it's irrelevant.
