the thing about a guy like joe rogan is that his style of podcast — endless, full of banter — is a friendship substitute for people. completely orthogonal to politics, fans who think he’s been hard done may rally emotionally around him as if standing up for a personal friend.
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Yes, and a key part of that is that the anti-system stuff is refracted thru his “oh, that’s interesting” persona. He’s letting the crackpots do the hard pushing, he’s just an everyman “learning” along with his audience.
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It is interesting how deeply he believes the anti-vax stuff though. He’s not approaching that issue with an open mind. He’s fully in the tank for the cranks
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People forget Oprah’s appeal to middle class women during the 90s, and her platforming all sorts of cranks who damaged America (Dr Oz, Dr Phil, etc).
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