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Re:Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular? by mistermann on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:30PM (#20760037)
Aaron Mate had a pretty funny take on the interesting contrast in curiosity and skepticism between media coverage of the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory versus the Epstein story:

https://youtu.be/pXqSTOUwMPg?t=55

It's honestly shocking how much you can learn about what's really going on in the world from watching literal comedians compared to "trustworthy" "journalists". The news is such obvious theater, I suppose the boiled frog theory probably explains how we got to this point with almost no one noticing.

Re:Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular? by chrisco255 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:42PM (#20760868)
Jimmy Dore has been calling it out for years. And I think it's interesting, because he's a pretty progressive person, very left leaning, but he was able to see through the partisanship, which I give him a lot of props for. That doesn't seem easy for people to do these days.