Credulous is the word.
Under the guise of objectivity he gives all fringe opinions equal significance.
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I'm okay with skeptical and verifying but he doesn't challenge all his guests equally. I'm not saying he should be perfect, but there are some really far out ideas that need more questioning before I'm personally satisfied.
His show is entertainment first and foremost. That means glorifying stupid bullshit for the entertainment value of it.
Most hard science is boring. Most fringe theory thinking is dramatic and thrilling.
Hard science can be the most wonderful things you ever heard about. You merely need someone to explains it right.
Optimizing for truth sometimes creates something entertaining, but only by coincidence. I suppose you can say that the truth is entertaining specifically because it is the truth, but crazy stuff claims to be the truth too. Only someone who already knows the difference is going to appreciate the former more than the latter.
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He is a moron
I hope so, because the alternative is he knows what he's doing which would be truly fucked up.
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The apotheosis of what a dumb guy thinks a smart guy sounds like.
The manifested avatar of a crowd of drunk college kids having an uninformed debate.
The patron saint of mansplaining.
From my knowledge of them (which is sadly non-zero), I think Ben Shapiro fits the first description better.
my favorite Shabibo moment was when he had a "debate" with a famous Tory broadcaster in the UK and got dunked on so hard he called him a leftist. 
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So basically he hasn't changed since he was on News Radio.
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If you told Joe that Apple own a warehouse full of genetically altered chickens that actually laid iPhones he'd stare at you, slack-jawed and wonder why this hasn't been reported in the press. Just a fucking clown from his toes to his eyelashes.
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No; he's just a credulous idiot.
This is good shit
One of the best greentext explanations out there
That used to be true. He got sucked into the right eing echo chamber real and though
The problem with Rogan is that he doesn't have the knowledge or qualifications to push back against people spewing bullshit on his show, and so he ends up essentially making fringe, pseudo-scientific ideas seem equal to the mainstream expert consensus view.
the problem with rogan is that he agrees with the worst people on his show. he doesn't push back because he doesn't want to. he peaked on news radio.
And the outspoken wrong on the show people are oftentimes cool and charismatic, so people trust them.
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Barbarian Khan
yes the culture that happens to adapt/improve/recruit tech, culture and people from all over the place is the ''barbarian''
I was always under the assumption that 'barbarian' was specifically the term Romans used to refer to any non Romans north of the empire?
Still, funny shitpost.
I had thought it was specifically Greeks dunking on Syrian/Arabian because their language sounded like they were just saying, "Bar bar bar."
Reading up a little more, it sounds more like it was their description of anyone who is not Greek.
That’s the historical root of the term, but “barbaric” and “barbarian” also have long histories as diminutive due to colonialism.
I stopped listening to his podcasts when I realised he doesn't know the facts and spews what he believes are facts. I admire him to hold a conversation for as long as he does and keep it somewhat entertaining but beyond that it's nothing more than pseudo science.
Thank you for sharing this gift with us
While I understand and respect the dunking in light of his detrimental effect on politics and sanity in general, I feel it's disingenuous to imply he's stupid. He's just smart enough to be dangerous
Dude has posited to guests on his podcast that he believes in forcing imprisoned people to be medical testing subjects.
Dude has no one who he really is.
Listening to the podcast "History of philosophy without any gaps" there's some philosophers, specially in middle age Arabic societies, that had the patronage of warlords, and would change patron for the new warlords who killed their previous one.
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