• manxu@piefed.social
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    12 hours ago

    He’s just mirroring what his user base is thinking. We might be giving him too much credit with changing people’s minds: he just says what his listeners want to hear.

    In 2024, it was all about how Trump was going to restore American men to greatness and power against the encroaching evil of criminal immigrants, feminists, and trans drag queens (???)

    Now the same American men have realized that’s a bad look and he’s just providing the excuse for why it was okay to support this stuff.

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      9 hours ago

      We might be giving him too much credit with changing people’s minds: he just says what his listeners want to hear.

      He tells it like it is

      That’s from 2016 btw

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      he just says what his listeners want to hear.

      This has literally always been his schtick. He also constantly agrees with everything his guest say even when they completely contradict each other.

      He’s got no actual opinions on anything and never has.

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        10 hours ago

        I don’t like Rogan much, but i listened to him pretty regularly long before he moved to Spotify, when he was slightly less of a grifting bullshiter…

        He absolutely does not just agree with his guests. He regularly used to tear into them over bullshit they spouted. Now is he still as principled after all this time? I wouldn’t be surprised to find out no he isn’t. But he USED to challenge guests pretty often at least.

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        10 hours ago

        Same with that Diary of a CEO guy, dude never goes deep in his interviews, never questions an outrageous or unsubstantiated claim of his guests. And this guy has become really popular as well. It’s like people even as a 3rd party listener don’t like to hear criticism or even just critical thinking from an interviewer.