Media Whenever you feel compelled to mindlessly hate on Rogan

[AmonTobin]

Imagine you have a close friend like this. It wont take long until he lashes out on you with his alpha know it all behaviors. Gross.

Just listen to how he talks to her. Hes always been a piece of shit.

 

[Ares Black]

I only saw this fairly recently after he had already disappointed me, but it made me realize that he was never who I thought he was. Super pathetic behaviour.

 

[BigOlJeet]

People really overestimate the abilities of fighters lol they’re not unbreakable or unbeatable to the common man, there’s freaks out there that kill with bare hands that aren’t in MMA, look at fat guy in bar vs BJ for example.

 

[BigOlJeet]

There are 750 fighters in the UFC... but only 50 people on earth who could beat Rogan in a fight.

Billions of people on Earth and only 50 beat Rogan? The epitome of glaze.

 

[Söze Aldo]

 

[Iroh]

Exactly this. I successfully avoided taking the bait for a few days but eventually my jimmies got rustled and I started being an asshole

Hespect for the honesty, brosef.

This is the thing, for me anyway, since I cannot speak for anyone else.

I don't hate Joe Rogan, not really, although I do hate what he has become. I am very disappointed. I was never a JRE superfan, but not that long ago it was pretty close to non-partisan and had some very interesting guests. I thought Joe Rogan was basically a good guy who just liked talking about stuff.

You know he is still open to guests from basically any walk of life. It's just that certain people with certain political believes are less inclined to open themselves up to a long open, unscripted, conversation with Joe. The most high profile and recent one being Kamala.

As a long-time UFC fan I had mixed feelings about Rogan from the very beginning, but for the most part I liked him well enough. I remember him from a sitcom called NewsRadio, and I have since heard him call probably a thousand fights. More, probably.

In the last couple of years Joe has lost his way. I blame Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk, mostly, but it's ultimately on Joe himself. He sold his soul to become a propagandist for fascist oligarchs. I don't think he knows that's what he has done.

He has spent years spreading toxic misinformation and disinformation that have led to the current global crisis. I'm not saying it's Joe's fault that things have gotten this bad, but he played his part, and he continues to do so.

So, I can no longer in good conscience tolerate politically illiterate people claiming that hating him is mindless. If anything, it is mindful.

I don't think hating anyone is ever truly mindful, it can be very understandable though.

Also, calling them politically illiterate is probably exactly what those people who say it's mindless think about you.

Politics is not the same as hard science, it's a million times more subjective (and even hard science isn't as "hard" as many think it is), which means there are many different ways to read what is going on in a political sense. I think people often make the mistake thinking that people are "illiterate" just because they have a completely different way of reading things than they have, but those are not the same thing, IMO. But it's that mindset of labeling others that way that prevents people from having actual meaningful political discourse, trying to really understand where the other is coming from, hopefully find common ground and also finding out what is true and what is actual mis-, disinformation.

Obviously, there are certain things like laws and political processes that are a little more black and white and do require a certain amount of knowledge to make one literate, but even those are still often open to interpretation and debate among actual "scholars" who might even have made their professions out of dealing with these topics.

But you are right about empathy, sympathy, and compassion. And I am sincerely trying to be a better man, both on Sherdog and in real life

Again, hespect, bruh. I have noticed your attempts at improving yourself before. It's always commendable and we should always strive to better ourselves.

I don't bear @AstralPanda any ill will, and I will strive to be more reasonable and less pugnacious.