Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

Re:Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence by nradov on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:24PM (#28307233)

If you give a monkey a machine gun, and the monkey shoots someone, we don't blame the monkey.

Society has always had court jesters who poke fun at authority. If you take health and epidemiology advice from a comedian then that's on you.

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Re:Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence by CydeWeys on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:41PM (#28307453)

That metaphor doesn't work though because Joe Rogan is a person, not a monkey. Give a person a machine gun and if they shoot someone you do blame them.

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Re:Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence by colinmhayes on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:04PM (#28307715)

Joe Rogan is the one giving the gun is your scenario, so you're claiming we should blame him?

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Re:Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence by aaronbrethorst on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:28PM (#28307278)

If you take health and epidemiology advice from a comedian then that's on you

And every person you infect.

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Re:Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence by ds206 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:38PM (#28307407)

And every person you don't infect?

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