• @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    25 days ago

    How much exactly do you think Joe Rogan knows about the government of Canada? Pretty sure it’s around fuck all. He’s just a propagandist for the fascist regime at this point.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      11725 days ago

      What’s crazy is how outright pro-Trump pilled the Canadian right was until about three months ago when Trump took office. You had the Conservative party outright bragging about being Pro-Trump, Trudeau floundering in the polls because of his criticisms of the Trump leadership team, and big oil-exporting states absolutely glowing at the prospect of a climate denialist government joining hands with them in the next election.

      Then Trump took office and started threatening sanctions, he started accusing Canadians of exporting fentanyl, and he started making vague threats aimed at Canadian territory. Public sentiment turned on a dime. The Conservative Party crashed in the polls. Trudeau’s liberals surged. Canadian media and politics turned incredibly hostile towards anyone Trump affiliated.

      And now guys like Rogan are just catching strays for being Trump adjacent. He doesn’t know anything about Canada. He just knows his (increasingly former) Canadian base is suddenly calling him all the slurs they’d historically reserved for his left-wing guests.

      • tehWrapper
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        1825 days ago

        I recall shortly back a lot of us Canadians talked about leaving the monarch, but we seem to have gotten over that in a hurry also. 😉

        People’s opinions change very quick now.

        • I think it’s just the propaganda machine being efficient. All the major social media platforms are owned by billionaires (except blue sky but not sure there’s nearly as many users compared to twit/meta/reddit) and they’re manipulated to push the interests of the elites.

    • @grte@lemmy.ca
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      25 days ago

      Whatever Fox News tells him about Canada is what he “knows” about Canada.

    • @WheelerSelanne@lemmy.ca
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      2325 days ago

      Most of it will come from Jordan Peterson with his twisted, drug addled take. I think it goes back to his News Radio days from Dave Foley’s horror stories about his divorce however many decades ago that was. You just know Rogan’s wife is locked into an iron clad contract. Don’t nobody mess with Joe’s roll.

      • @el_muerte@lemm.ee
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        2225 days ago

        Definitely got it from Peterson. Rogan has called Canada “communist” and claimed that people are being imprisoned here for posting criticism of “wokeness” on the Internet. Both of those claims echo Peterson’s idiocy, but the second one in particular is pretty much guaranteed to be straight from his mouth as it’s the exact “compelled speech” bullshit that earned him much of his early notoriety and, as far as I know, hasn’t really picked up traction with other alt-reich talking heads.

      • @RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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        325 days ago

        Foley got fucked hard in his divorce. Thankfully he ended up getting back together with that ex after his coma. He was out long enough to get over his alcoholism which was the driving factor in his dovorce.

      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        225 days ago

        Peterson brain damage was from getting a coma in RUSsia because he wasn’t man enough to go through benzo withdrawals the healthy way.

  • infectoid
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    8925 days ago

    Rogain is such a pussy. He’d never leave his basement to go to Russia.

          • @Arkouda@lemmy.ca
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            You aren’t wrong, but it doesn’t mean what you are doing is right.

            If you want something dirty done don’t pussy foot around it and do it yourself.

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              I think if times were shaping up to be different, I would completely agree with you.

              However, it seems like the US is gearing up to start a global conflict the likes of which we haven’t seen for almost 100 years. There is slim opportunity, now, to maybe stop it. Or at least buy whom I would consider to be the allies of a free, open, and democratic society time to prepare a bit further.

              What this means to me is to not worry so much about how others choose to gate keep or endorse whatever it is you have to offer. To me it means all options are on the table, including flipping the table over. If all you can do is a little, do a little. If what you can do is much more, then do much more. But the gatekeeping, the “Why are you doing X, you should be doing Y” from people who are doing neither…

              I know how these things shape up, in my limited and poor experience. It takes a village. It takes many parts.

    • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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      Please please go to russia… maybe they’ll send him to the front and he can compost with some sunflower seeds.

    • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m confident he knew he was going to be booed by the crowd if he did come. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t even his decision. UFC probably realized he’d be booed and that would look bad for their broadcast. They could well have informed him that he wasn’t coming, but allowed him to pretend it was his decision.

    • @some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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      525 days ago

      Please keep telling him we’re worse than Russia.

      (Isn’t “I’d rather go to Russia” still an admission that Russia’s not someplace he’d want to be? How will his handlers take this??)

  • @ragepaw@lemmy.ca
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    4125 days ago

    I’m wondering if his temporary work visa was denied, and he’s trying to spin it to look like it’s his idea.

    • Bakkoda
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      1925 days ago

      Or he’s just afraid to leave the bubble.

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      They both sit at work and pretend REALLY HARD to be badass. They should hit it off.