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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 7

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Ezra Klein

      I kind of agree with this with proviso that "persuadable" basically means we're dealing (a few exceptions aside) with a mind like a sponge. You put the sponge in a tub of Bernie Sanders ideas, it absorbs those. You put the sponge in a bath with an anti-vaxxer, it absorbs thathttps://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1490741770027606018 …

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      Ezra KleinVerified account @ezraklein
      I'll loop this back to Rogan: I think he should've been treated as a target for persuasion, not punishment, going a ways back. (And many did this! Props here to @SanjayGuptaCNN, who tried exactly that recently, but Rogan was too angry at CNN to treat that conversation normally.)
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 7

      You can get Rogan's sponge like brain to absorb pro-vaxxing ideas. It's been done before. But after a while, the sponge will be squeezed out and new ideas will enter. So the underlying issue is that this sponge has millions of followers.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 7

      The tragedy of all this is that Rogan does have an audience that leans vax sceptical but is persuadable & they trust him. So in an ideal scenario, yes, persuading him and though him his audience would do an enormous good. But the reality of sponginess is likely to defeat this.

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        1. Pierre Dubois-Melvin‏ @PierreDuboisMe1 Feb 7
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          We're not talking BSE now are we? Kreutzfeld Yakoob?

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        1. kirk‏ @sankalots Feb 7
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          My take is if he caves they’ll just move on to the next jamoke to millionaireize

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        2. Noel‏ @noelblampied Feb 7
          Replying to @ildfluer @HeerJeet

          Most of the Rogan fans I know actually don't have opinions of their own, they mostly think what Joe or Jordan Peterson tell them to think.

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        1. Funky Bi Guy‏ @angryblackbiguy Feb 7
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Are yall serious? Joe Rogan is almost 50. He's not persaudable. His opinions are fully formed by this point. Rogan's young audience might be persaudable but Rogan certainly isn't. A decade of racism kinda shows he's not persaudable.

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        1. Leslea Mair‏ @Leslea_M Feb 7
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          The sponge has a little too much ego - even more than it used to - to tolerate challenge.

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        1. Sean Smith‏ @protanope Feb 7
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          Trump also notoriously was always said to be persuaded by last person speaking to him.

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        1. Tulsinator‏ @FOBBQUEENS Feb 8
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          Also his ego. Don't forget his ego. Once people make a significant amount of money, they think they are doing everything right.

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        1. Tempura Chimp‏ @Craven_Weedlick Feb 7
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          did you miss the video of him screaming at a highly educated woman on the topic under discussion and mocking her for having a vagina?

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