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Antifar posted...

You have to prioritize whether you care more about what people do with the power to govern over others, or what people do on GameFAQs.

That's the thing. I can only control what I feel and what my beliefs are, and in turn support the available candidates that most accurately reflect those beliefs.

But when you're told by random strangers that your belief structure is somehow wrong because you don't go far enough towards some arbitrary line that they established for themselves, then it makes me want to, in the nicest way possible, tell them to fuck right off.

mybbqrules posted...

Oh look, another chud is throwing out the old "the democrats are the real _________!" chestnut.

And yes, if you're not in the group that support equality for all, improved social services, a living wage, Medicare and college for all, etc, you do deserve hate.

But that's the thing, you not only have to support all of that, you have to support it 100%.

Like, if you say "I support free college for all, but only if those getting free college keep there grades up to a certain standards" you're labeled alt-right.

If you say "I'm pro-choice, but I think it's irresponsible that some people look at abortion as a form of birth control, and not a last available option" you get hate thrown your way.

If you're for improved social services, but want people to prove they're actively trying to better themselves with those services, you're labeled someone who hates the poor.

As someone who considers themselves a bleeding hear liberal, some liberals are becoming unbearable.

Deutschenlied posted...

He has dangerous, hateful people on his show, and not to shit on everything they have to say.

That's all that needs to be known until he stops doing that.

And when people don't want to hear that, he'll stop having them on.

That's how entertainment works. For whatever reason, what he's doing now is having people listen to him in the millions.

To say this stand-up comedian turn podcaster has some sort of public responsibility, as opposed to taking personal responsibility by not listening to his show, nor supporting the platform he's on, is just burying your head so no one can point the finger at you.

There's a reason why the Ben Shapiro and Crenshaw episodes get the most downloads and listens, and it isn't because they support Shapiro and Crenshaw, it's because they want to hear what they say so they can complain about it.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

My guess is based on everyone here saying things in Joe Rogan video topics, just for me to click on the video and see that all their posts have nothing to do with what Joe Rogan actually talked about and they refused to get insight from the actual video

That usually how it works. Most just go from Topic Title to comments section without ever reading/watching the actual content.

Deutschenlied posted...

So you'd be cool if the biggest YouTube streamer filled their content with hour-long conversations on the positives of white supremacy? They wouldn't have responsibility because they need to fill air to make their living and it's not their problem if their millions of subs started believing white supremacy is ok?

Here's the thing, if it was that quick of a turn, they wouldn't still have millions of subscribers, as many would stop watching their stream.

It would be career suicide.

I follow about a dozen streams on YouTube. If any of them became this alt-right "white power" streaming channel, I'd instantly unsubscribe.

People listen to what they want to hear. No one is waking up a conservative cook because they listen to too much Joe Rogan. If anything, they're already a conservative cook and just use Rogan to assure themselves that how they think is correct. Just like many liberals get all their news from The Daily Show.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

It's not hard to understand he's not a dedicated representative of any political party. Because he'll talk shit about all of them as soon as they do something he doesn't agree with. That's actually the respectable part of his character. It's just people don't see that because they see any opinion that's not shared with their own as blindly following someone else. They want him to blindly follow the same one they do instead.

God Damn 100% THIS.

Rogan's job is to create content. It's the audience's job to consume that content, or choose not to.

I chose not to, so I really don't give a crap if Rogan is an uneducated fool who is easily manipulated and gives conservative cooks a platform.

COVxy posted...

What they think, and I cannot stress this enough, doesn't matter. They are bad actors. It's not an opinion. It's what they do.

But the thing is, and I'm not saying they're right, but there's people out there that 100% believe that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, AOC, and everyone else "on the left" are nothing but bad actors.

CyricZ posted...

Oh he has a box.

Not a single person on this planet is that interesting and I think he realizes this. He's gone to the point of filling time with literally anything because I think he realizes he doesn't really have anything to say.

Many a person has been criticized for not listening to enough JRE to "get it". I can't imagine you consider yourself exempt from that.

I very well may suffer from not listen to him enough (or at all) to truly understand what all the hate is for, because on the surface, it just sounds like a lot of people hate the show because he gives a platform to a lot of people that don't like. Because whenever I look through the lists of guests he has, I see many left leaning celebrities and politicians.

That's why I really didn't want to go all-in on defending his show, as I really would be coming from a place of ignorance.

Turbam posted...

Actual image of bigblu89

Pretty close. I have a goatee though, and don't wear glasses.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

My issue is less about Rogan's personal beliefs and more so how he frames leftist talking points and conservative talking points as equally valid and respectable. That's really the problem with all "enlightened centrists".

Like no matter what way you slice it, we should not be taking the opinions of someone like Ben Shapiro seriously, and Joe Rogan's platform implies that we should.

The guy has, like, 3 hours of radio to fill every day, and if he were to just shit on every right-wing and left-wing whack job he gives a platform to, no one would ever go on his show. It would just be 3 hours of him talking to the same dozen stand up comics over and over again.

So for every Ben Shapiro or flat earther he gives a platform to, he also gives a platform to the lady that says it's a sexual violation of a baby's rights if you try to change their diaper without their permission, or some other whack that has supposedly been abducted by aliens a dozen times.

If people can't use their own critical thinking when it comes to listening to people like Rogan, or Stern back in the day, then the issue is with themselves, not with the content creator.

This is all coming from someone that knows Rogan from nothing other than the work he did with the UFC. I don't listen to his show, and the only clips I've ever seen is 5-10 seconds if someone posts them on my FB, Twitter, or IG feed before I can scroll past it.

People hate Rogan simply because he's (probably) loudest person out there that doesn't neatly fit into the conservative or liberal box everyone want to put everyone in.

Everyone conveniently ignores the dozens and dozens of liberal and FAR LEFT individuals he also gives a platform to, because all the keyboard Karens have a "You're either 100% with us, or you're the enemy for even LOOKING at the other side of the fence."

I was just told yesterday on Twitter that I'm basically a conservative because my stance on abortion is that it should be 100% legal, but also shouldn't be abused.

Crimson_Corsair posted...

If these are the options... status quo it is.

For real.

Palin and Gabbard are too out there for me to even begin to consider.

AOC doesn't have the experience.

Harris is around just becasue she checked the right boxes.

And Hillary's time was 16 years ago when she couldn't beat out Obama in the primaries. We even gave her a 2nd shot in what was seemingly a layup, and she still bricked it.

Spurner posted...

Carla Gugino? Man, Ive been in love with her since I first saw her in some stupid Pauly Shore movie.

Dont you besmirch Son-In-Law!

Antifar posted...

As someone whose parents recently had a flight delayed 5 hours and then canceled, I think the Secretary of Transportation has a lot going for him.

There were mass pilot retirements the last 18 months, and close to zero hires.

Thats not really on Pete.

Honestly, not sure.

I thankfully haven't really directly interacted with any police officers in quite some time.

Haven't been pulled over in well over 10 years. I hardly ever go out to a place where there's a large police presence. And whenever I go into NYC, where there IS a large police presence, I'm usually just walking past them on my way to whatever I'm doing.

legendary_zell posted...

I don't see what type of successful attack Mayo Pete could possibly launch on Joe. They represent the same type of politics and the only circumstances where a careerist like him would risk gunning for the big guy is one in which the administration has completely collapsed and Pete would presumably be tainted by that as a cabinet official.

The best he can do is a "youth movement" to.....do the exact same things. But younger.

That's basically it.

He can also give the illusion that he'll pull the party slightly more left because he's gay and will fight for LGBTQ+ rights more that the "stuffy old guy stuck in the 70's" would.

I'm somewhere in between 2 and 3.

At 44, I don't go out of my way to tell people it's my birthday, nor really do any sort of celebration, other than maybe dinner out with my wife and kids, but I also don't dread the day like it's the worst day of the year.

It's usually just a day.

Because, for the most part:

Men are attracted to beautiful women, regardless of status.

Women are attracted to successful men, regardless of looks.

Chris Rock makes a great point in his latest stand-up.

If Beyonc wasn't "Beyonc" but still looked like she did, Jay-Z would be attracted to her, even if she worked at Burger King.

Same would not be true the other way around. If Jay-Z wasn't "Jay-Z" and was "Shawn Carter, line cook at Burger King", Beyonc wouldn't look twice at him.

18 years later, I guess I'm still in my starter house?

Turbam posted...

Are you the lone YUCK?

I am not. Love a girl with curves, regardless of height.

Looking at the results of this poll, along with the past polls, my conclusion is the average CE man has zero physical requirements when it comes to the opposite sex. They like it all.

WingsOfGood posted...

This is not a video, this was a live stream.

What you see in the op is just a clip.

During the stream chat told them about it and they freaked out and approached the guy who apparently overheard them talking about it and deleted the pictures. His phone was filled with porn.

Fair enough. My knowledge of this video is limited to what was in this thread, so I based my post off of that.

WingsOfGood posted...

why would someone stage this

why would someone allow themselves to be filmed committing a crime ?

I don't necessarily think it's fake, but:

1. People are willing to do literally anything to go viral.
2. This could've been a video to warn women to be aware of their surroundings, and to show how easily it can be done without them even noticing.

Crimson_Corsair posted...

It still amazes me to see people still unironically believe this.

"Frozen Wasteland" is a poor describer, but close to 47% of Alaska is uninhabited because of the weather, and only 160k of is 365 MILLION acres is inhabited by humans.

Calling it wasteland is a little rough, but when 1/20th of 1% of the land is unlivable by humans, it's not that far off.

Whichever one sings Freshman and Photograph

When was it down?

I think hes basically just a hamster on a wheel, doing whatever it takes to keep moving towards the goal of getting his family out from under the cartels thumb.

IMNOTRAGED posted...

I would bet that any sample of people a person has reasonable access to is going to be heavily biased by the local-ish culture. Like, you're gonna get drastically different results in NYC versus some mid sized city in Georgia.

no matter where you go, a majority of people dont give a shit about 90% of things people online are arguing about.

Messy, yes.

Dirty, no.

Like, if it's the day before laundry day, so there's some clothes on the floor instead of the bin, and the bed isn't made, it's on.

If I go to grab my shoes, and i see and old cereal bowl at the bottom of her closet with old, dried up food in it, then I'm out.

thronedfire2 posted...

yes because ignoring the Nazi shit in this country for the last 10-20 years has worked out great right?

not everyone ignores those memes. plenty of people really believe them. And plenty of people only find Dave's trans jokes funny because trans people existing is funny to them

OK. And an overwhelming majority of people ignore it.

Seriously. Go outside. Not online, actually out to the public and talk to real people.

Ask 100 random people what they felt about Dave Chapelle or Bill Burr's most recent stand up routines. I'll bet you $100 that at least 75 of them either never even heard of or haven't seen either special. And of the other 25, at least half have no opinion.

The internet is HUGE, but it's also a place where people pretend to care about A LOT of things they really don't give a shit about in real life, because it's easier to type out how mad you are about something, as opposed to actually doing something about it in real life.

thronedfire2 posted...

so if Nazis start calling themselves comedians do you think that should get a pass too?

That seems like an extreme take.

Plus, there are Nazi's out there making jokes and memes that they may find funny, but no one else does.

And you know what we do to combat that? We ignore it. Just like people should ignore whatever comic it is out there they consider offensive. If enough people do it, they will not longer have a platform to perform on.

It literally happens in comedy clubs all across the country. A comics material falls flat with an audience, and the club doesn't book them anymore.

It all goes back to that line from the Howard Stern movie.

The average radio listener listens for 18 minutes. The average Howard Stern fan listens for, are you ready for this, an hour and 20 minutes . . . Answer most commonly given? I want to see what hell say next.
As for those who loathed Stern: The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day . . . Most common answer? I want to see what hell say next.

People aren't happy unless they're mad.

whitelytning posted...

Ahhh, I think very few men care. USWNT gets viewers during the WC because they usually do well but no one cares about them outside of that. Their WC qualifier numbers are terrible and the women's league is a joke.

Its like the WNBA. Its the same sport but with slower and less skilled players. Its not as enjoyable to watch.

I see the USWNT like I see most Olympic sports.

People REALLY care for 2 weeks every 4 years, because it gives them a minute to puff their chests out when the US does well, then promptly forget about the sport after the 2 weeks is up.

Gymnastics, Track & Field, Women's Soccer, etc.

All "Must See TV" fr 3 weeks every 4 years, but otherwise forgotten sports.

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My bad, I said "guy" as a general term. Meant no harm.

You then have to look at those people, not at Bill. How people interpret his jokes aren't up to him, as a vast majority of them see them just as jokes.

Pauly Walnuts
James Caan
now Paul Sorvino

Bad month to be a gangster.

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I think you're looking WAY TOO far into a 5 minute comedy bit that was made for haha purposes.

Sounds like you're more of a Seinfeld "What's the deal with Ovaltine? Why is it called Ovaltine if the jar is round? Why isn't it called Round-tine?" kinda guy.

pinky0926 posted...

I think what I love most about Bill is that he takes shots at everyone, indiscriminately. Somehow this rant never comes across as misogynistic, just real.

Some of the best "Current Event" comics are the ones that do nothing other then hold a mirror up to the audience and talk about how ridiculous they are acting when it comes to certain issues.

For example, in Chris Rocks most recent standup, he talks about how the big difference between Men and Women when it comes to relationships is how Women value success over looks, whereas Men value looks over success.

And the example he gave was Jay-Z and Beyonce.

While Beyonce is wildly successful in her own right, she's also a beautiful woman. And is she was working in Burger King, Jay-Z would still find her attractive.

But if Beyonce was still Beyonce, but Jay-Z was the one working in Burger King, NO CHANCE.

Figures. I went to the show 2 days before this one.

Chris Rock absolutely KILLED his set. He was filming it for his next Netflix special.

Can't wait to watch it to see if it was just as good the 2nd time around.

I thought American Beauty doesn't exist anymore because Kevin Spacey was in it and he was cancelled.

Like, all the DVDs just disappear, right? That's how cancelling works?

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

a random crackhead on the street could approach Joe Rogan and spout a bunch of nonsense at him and he would be like "hmm, that's interesting! let's invite this guy to my podcast to share his knowledge!"

Man, you guys would've HATED the guests Howard Stern had on his show back in the 90's before he went so far left.

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He didn't say he didn't care about women's sports, as he sites Serena Williams as one of the greatest athletes out there, male or female.

The point he was making is that it's hypocritical for women to complain that female athletes aren't getting paid the same as their male counterparts, without recognizing that their male counterparts generate 50x more money than the female sports do. WNBA being the prime example.

The joke was basically to tell the people complaining to put their money where their mouths are. If you notice, no one every brings up tennis when they talk about wage equality in sports. Main reason, female tennis is just as exciting at men's tennis, and the ratings and revenue show that.

Females make up 3 of the top 10 highest paid tennis players of 2021. Why? Because female tennis is just as exciting, gets just as high ratings as the men, and the female athletes generate just as much revenue from their sponsors as their male counterparts.

Want more people to show up, so you can generate more money to pay your athletes more? Put out a more exciting product that people want to watch on a consistent basis.

If you feel the date went well, I would think a simple "Hey, had a great time tonight, we should do that again sometime soon." and wait for a response.

Then maybe a few days later if you have a good idea for another date hit her up with something like "Hey, I was reading that ______ is happening this weekend. If you're not busy, I think it would be pretty cool if we can go check it out together.

Antifar posted...

This comparison doesn't work; Serena is every bit as overmatched by men as WNBA players.

The comparison works because she dominates her sport in a similar way that the men dominate their sport in basketball.

She plays an exciting style of powerful tennis that rivals her male counterparts in the same sport. Can she possibly compete head to head with the males? Maybe not. But she passes the "eye test" when it comes to what exciting tennis looks like.

There is NO female basketball player that can say that when you compare the WNBA to the NBA.

The women aren't dunking, scoring 120-130 points per game, routinely hitting 3 point shots from 5-10 feet beyond the 3-point line.

The NBA is just an exponentially more exciting game, whereas the entertainment factor between watching Serena vs watching Federer or Djokovic is A LOT closer.

Deutschenlied posted...

He's not completely wrong, but it's not right to blame it all on women.

Men shouldn't give a fuck about women's sports? Women give a fuck about men's sports. Why be sexist and say that men and women can't like each other's things? And are "men" really being punished here? I didn't know everyone with a penis was making money off US soccer. Didn't the USMNT have to sign off on this revenue split anyway?

Though no one watching women's sports is exactly why I laugh when weirdos pretend to care about them when a trans woman correctly demands to play with her fellow women.

Men like to watch people dominate their sport.

Theres a reason why Serena Williams, even when unranked, gets some of the highest ratings in all of tennis, male or female. She dominates the sport.

Theres no female out there that can dominate her male counterpart in basketball. The WNBA All Star team couldnt bean the 12 worst players in the NBA.

billcom6 posted...

Is 2,000 more than 400?

Are you seriously taking a stand up routine as fact?

cmon now, youre better than that

you also have to take into account the cost of a ticket.

When its $20 to get into a WNBA game, but on average quadruple that for the NBA, one league is generating much more money than the other.

Combine that with TV money, which is based on ratings and ad revenue, its just a simple fact that the NBA has a larger pie of money to divvy up between everyone than the WNBA does.

Proto_Spark posted...

How I met Your Mother was about meeting the kids mother and ended when they did so.

Though the nature of the show allowed them to stretch the whole adventure WAY out (and all kinds of crazy **** that ruined the show in the last few episodes)

It went pretty far beyond him just meeting the mom. Didn't it go all the way to the wedding and whatnot?

Quit my job.

Get to as many Mets games as my health allows me to.

Sell off as much of my sports and wrestling memorabilia, as to not burden my family in selling something they have no knowledge of, like my dad did with his coin collection.

Get my end of life affairs in order.

Spend as much time as possible with friends and family.

The whole night?

I can't just hit it and leave?

Either way, I'd probably do it if I were single, just to say I did it.

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

Wtf do people mean by this? What do you know now that's so important, lol
I assume you guys aren't talking about bitcoin or lotto numbers or something

For me personally, going into high school knowing that NOTHING you do in high school, other than your education, will mean anything the moment you leave that building.

Things like not being afraid of embarrassment when talking to girls, the stress that is the quest to always be "cool" or be liked by your peers.

I went into a public high school of 400+ people per grade as a graduate of a small private school where my graduating class was 23 kids. I knew maybe two dozen kids going into HS, half because they were friends with the kid that grew up next door to me, the other half because I played pee wee football with them.

My first two years were filled with me trying whatever it took to fit in. I wore a uniform at my old school, so fashion wasn't even a thought. So this concept of what you wore determining whether or not you were "cool" was a foreign concept to me.

The only saving grace was that I played football, so there was at least a small group of people I knew I fit in with.

And by the time I graduated, it turned out that none of it mattered, because other than a handful of people, the school was filled with 1200 kids I'd never talk to again.