• @MermaidsGarden
    link
    262
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    Joe Rogan is the living embodiment of being so open minded that your brains fall out.

    • @ArbiterXero
      link
      914 months ago

      I mean that’s beautifully put……

      But unfortunately it’s simpler than that. It’s the story of a reasonable man that achieved beyond his dreams and then flipped sides because of money and status.

      “Suddenly I have an opinion on the capital gains tax.” Type of stuff.

      • Flying Squid
        link
        144 months ago

        Was he a ‘reasonable man’ before or after he decided the moon landings were fake?

        • @ArbiterXero
          link
          -74 months ago

          Many reasonable people believe all sorts of nutty shit.

          Until it becomes actively harmful, I don’t care much.

          • Flying Squid
            link
            154 months ago

            I’m not seeing how you can be both reasonable and believe there is a vast government and scientific conspiracy to cover up multiple fake moon landings. Sort of seems like a one or the other thing to me.

            • @ArbiterXero
              link
              -44 months ago

              Maybe you need to get out more 😝

              I don’t personally believe in it, but I also don’t care if you do.

              • Flying Squid
                link
                84 months ago

                It’s not about what you personally care about, it’s about what you are defining as a reasonable person. It does explain why so many people think Trump is a very stable genius though.

                • @[email protected]
                  link
                  fedilink
                  94 months ago

                  I suspect he means reasonable as in “a normal decent person you could be good neighbors or colleagues with” not a reasonable person as in “a person endowed with the faculty of reason”.

      • Liz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        104 months ago

        I, too, have an opinion on the capital gains tax. It should be taxed at the same rate as income. We can let them keep the exception on the first half million in profit because I’m feeling nice today.

        • @ArbiterXero
          link
          114 months ago

          It’s actually higher in many scenarios.

          What needs to be taxed like income is loans against the stocks

          • Flying Squid
            link
            64 months ago

            Or a simple .01 cent financial transaction tax. Absolutely no effect on the average person, a huge way to raise revenue from bankers and stock traders.

            • @ArbiterXero
              link
              14 months ago

              Agreed, or just a minimum amount of time that stocks can be owned to kill the high-frequency traders.

          • Liz
            link
            fedilink
            English
            14 months ago

            Oh yeah that’s right. I forgot about Buy, Borrow, Die.

            I agree, though I’d have to do something thinking about the exact right way to implement a tax on that kind of behavior.

          • @Illuminostro
            link
            -24 months ago

            Tax idle stock while you’re at it. 1% per share, per current price, per quarter.

      • @LemmyIsFantastic
        link
        -64 months ago

        You guys invent the most imaginative stories. You could even be a guest on Rogan it is so interesting!

        • @ArbiterXero
          link
          64 months ago

          Ok, I’ll bite, you don’t believe he’s changed?

          Or you think he’s still very reasonable?

          Make your case

          • @LemmyIsFantastic
            link
            -8
            edit-2
            4 months ago

            He’s become more defiant at people screaming for him to change for sure. And he’s hardened his stance on progressives trying to live out others lives. But not in the sense that I’m reading from you and others. He’s not becoming new gop cheerleader or corporate mascot (outside the actual ads of course) or flipped as you call it. Fuck he was never on your side before COVID and everyone flipped their shit. He had on all sorts of people.

            As for question 2, no he was never reasonable, he’s a fucking moron.

            He’s just an idiot, he doesn’t like to be told what to do, and he’s now going to let the Internet screaming at him change what he does. It’s not done plot. He’s just an idiot and progressives have gone full crazy on him.

            • @ArbiterXero
              link
              64 months ago

              My side? lol you’re assuming a lot, you don’t know my side, you just know the I think rogan is an asshat.

              He’s got a big platform and he’s allowing the promotion of some fairly harmful content…… that in itself seems like a problem, no?

              I definitely believe that he just “doesn’t like to be told what to do”, that’s entirely his vibe.

              I’m curious what you mean by “progressives trying to live out other peoples lives”

      • RuBisCO
        link
        fedilink
        34 months ago

        This is a 9 minute beat poem about a conversation with a podcaster.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          34 months ago

          In an airy studio, mics standing proud and tall,A host with a voice smooth as a vinyl’s call. Across the table, there sits a guest, Eyes bright, ready to contest.

          The host begins, “Welcome, listeners, to our weekly dive, Where thoughts and ideas vividly come alive. Today’s guest, someone quite unique, Brings perspectives some might seek.”

          And there she was, her aura all aglow, Storm, not her name, but what she seemed to sow. With every word, a challenge, a fight, Against the conventional, the known, the right…