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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 104 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"Did you just invoke 'intellect' and 'Joe Rogan' in the same breath?"

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Joe Rogan is fairly intelligent compared to some of his guests

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 1 week ago

but then again, so is a bottle of lukewarm seltzer water.

[–] delirium@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Joe Rogan has the intellect of a snail.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

And yet, @flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz is correct - he's still more of an intellectual than some of his guests.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

that's an insult to both joe rogan and the snail.

joe isn't as quick as a snail, and joe's a lot more slimy.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 83 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I honestly don’t know. It would be completely justified if women flipped out more often.

I like her husband’s response, though.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait before you want "hysterical" women again please. Lots of doctors got their jollies off on "hysterical" women..

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The “hysterical paroxysm” thing is mostly a myth. The book that brought that idea to the popular imagination was mostly bullshit.

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[–] _____@lemm.ee 73 points 1 week ago (3 children)

doctors can have really shit opinions too

the real message is: every opinion must be scrutinized heavily, if it stands scrutiny maybe there's something there

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago (15 children)

It depends on what they're talking about. I'll listen to and generally heed a doctors medical opinion, for example. Their political opinion? Eh..

Joe Rogan, who has doesn't have expertise in anything comparable to a doctors expertise in medicine, no way I'm talking anything he says at face value.

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[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In my experience doctors can have some of the absolute worst opinions. Especially highly educated speciality doctors who have spent 1/3 of their life doing nothing but studying their very specific field. Lawyers too.

I work in IT and they can be some of the worst users to work with.

[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Honestly this is true of many smart people in specialized professions

Infamously software developers are fucking knuckle dragging morons about anything that has nothing to do with what they're good at, but they think they're god kings and think the world works like a computer

The only hallmark of intelligence I subscribe to is when someone just acknowledges they don't know everything and listen. Everyone else is doom spiraling into thought terminating patterns while thinking they're right

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Life is just a big design pattern. ☕︎☕︎

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

I like to make the distinction between competence and intelligence. There are some overlaps, but they are mostly distinct.

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[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Always remember: The vaccines cause autism bullshit was started by a fully licensed doctor.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A fully-licensed doctor who, if I remember correctly, had invested in a company developing an alternative to the existing vaccinations.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Literally killing people for money.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well he ain't a fully licensed doctor no more.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

One of the wisest things I've ever heard is "White people should be lucky that black people only want equality, revenge would be perfectly understandable at this point."

The more I learn about black history, as in the history of what white people have been doing to black people since the latter was dragged kicking and screaming to America, the more I appreciate the phrase. It's honestly some of the most horrific shit I've ever had the displeasure of learning.

And just to clarify. I'm not black, I'm a pale transchick from the 90's who's whiter than sour cream, I've seen Wayne's World 69,420 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Some people believe that they are taking just that, hence all the terror around Great Replacement theory, or the moral downfall of society because people aren't partaking of mass in purest Latin.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 22 points 1 week ago

When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Still doing it, even the Liberals who think they're anti-Racist, because huge levels of discrimination on the basis of wealth and very low social mobility are core to preserving the oppression of the descendants of people such as freed slaves and inflicting on them the constante suffering which is a live of poverty in a Capitalist system:

  • When released, the slaves were poor compared to the rest and, because of being poor they and their children had to live in worse places, were not part of the landowner class and did not have access to the same opportinities as the rest (all the while the active discrimination on the color of their skin continued, making things worse). Fast forward to the modern days and whilst direct discrimination on the color of their skin is a lot less than a mere 50 years ago, you still have lots of Afro-Americans living in ghettos, oppressed via their poverty and with their children having far fewer opportunities to improve their lot in life than the rest.

This is why the fight against Inequality must include fighting Wealth Inequality and Discrimination on the basis of Wealth: even if other kinds of inequality of treatment were magically eliminated tomorrow, Wealth Discrimination is by far the main mechanism of hurting those victims and their descendants (poor people live much more painful lives, from the quality of their dwellings and even the bed they sleep in, to that of their food and their personal safety, to the point that their Life Expectancy is a at least a decade less than rich people) and Wealth Inequality bakes in the past injustices (by denying the same opportunities to the descendants of those who are past victims of other kinds of discrimination, for example because poor neighbourhoods have worse schools and poored people don't have the same access to universities when those institutions are private and have high attendance fees and non-meritocratic components to their selection process).

In summary, people pushed down the Wealth scale (or never allowed to move up) by other kinds of Discrimination are inflicted pain and suffering via the mechanisms of Wealth Discrimination and their descendants are denied the same opportunities that others have to improve their lot in life by the very same mechanisms.

In practice American Liberals are a mix of hypocrites and useful idiots because, whilst claiming to be against discrimination, they refuse to address the biggest one, which is the main pathway for inflicting life-long suffering to the victims of other kinds of widespread discrimination and for transmitting that status of victim down the generations long after the original kind of discrimination has lessened or even dissapeared.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

And just to clarify. I’m not black, I’m a pale transchick from the 90’s who’s whiter than sour cream, I’ve seen Wayne’s World 69,420 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it.

I'm sorry ma'am, you're under arrest for excessive whiteness.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 62 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Joe Rogan, Shapiro, and j Peterson is what you called pseudo-intellectuals

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The problem with this world is that a lot of people enjoy EVERYTHING on a surface level.

I keep getting reminded of my "gamer" years when I played league of legends. When I started, I was clueless and bad. And I found a YouTube channel which made fun educational videos.

Initially I learned a lot but over time, I realized how bad the advice was at times, which changed my consumption of the content. At the end, the content didn't teach me anything and the suggestions of the creator seemed to be focused on messing with bad players and not actually playing good.

I started to watch better players and learned more from them.

To me, fans of these guys stopped at the first step. They want educational content but they don't actually want to learn and so don't actually think about the content and can't outgrow it.

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[–] abobla@lemm.ee 47 points 1 week ago
[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I personally resist the urge to kill by playing PvP games

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wish people would stop giving the Joe Rogans and Rush Limbaughs of the world more attention than they deserve. Debating whether they're right or wrong about anything just gives them more legitimacy than they deserve. They're a sideshow. They're hucksters waving their hands and making noise to make a buck.

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[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is a bit embarrassing maybe, but I have actually enjoyed listening to a couple of episodes of the Joe Rogan podcast. In the few episodes I have listened to he has been able to get some good conversations going.

One could easily and rightfully criticize him platforming a lot of his guests, but this is where it gets a bit tricky.

He gives a voice to people that has interesting things to say, that in some way contribute in society or contributes to a discussion, and people that are completely psychotic. The latter should not be platformed, both for their own good and society. Alex Jones was an example of that. Joe Rogan should have stopped that episode in its tracks, or not have aired it.

I stopped listening more as a sort of boycott, not because I could not find any sort of value in his episodes sometimes.

Edit: The reply is probably correct. Joe Rogan does tend to not be skeptical and does platform a lot of evil people as well. The people in his podcast rarely meets any real opposition from Joe.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He more often gives platforms to people who say nothing, and a whole lot of it that. He also tends to platform insane and downright evil people and lets them say whatever bullshit they want with zero questions, zero feedback, zero incredulity, thus making them look legitimate in the eyes of his followers.

He is a very dangerous man.

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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

"if €Gender would ..." - time to say: "No."

Sometimes I want an AI just to block every and all mentions of that American 'podcaster'.

Great comeback.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

Hmm I bet male accidental deaths decreased because of divorced

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