19 out of 20 cries of 'controlled opposition' sound like BS to me. It can tend to be the right's version of leftist purity spiralling. That said, I'm really starting to suspect this fucker is controlled opposition. If that's not the case then his Spotify contract must be absolute lopsided trash, for them to be able to constantly scribble all over his back catalogue with red pen. Remember his lies about how they didn't hide away his old shows with Alex Jones?
He's totally full of shit here too. His 'planet of the apes' story was a straight up racist joke. The point is it shouldn't matter. The guys he was telling the story to didn't care and he certainly has enough money now not to care. He's allowing this forced apology to torpedo any momentum created by the growth in public awareness from his covid content. That's 100% of the intent behind the cancel effort. It's very difficult to believe he's too stupid not to know this, even for someone who already believes he's stupid, as I do.
He doesn't need to be 100% in on the act and it depends how much you get for trashing his rep vs keeping him running in a controlled fashion. Malone and McCullough were doing interviews and talking to politicians long before they were talking to Rogan - now the fact that they talked to Rogan is the blackest mark on their rep, in the MSM. Same goes for anyone else whose appearance was vanished in these 70 deletions of toxic racist interviews. Same goes for the rep of dissident doctors like Vinay Prasad who weren't even on Rogan's show, just defended his points on social media. If you were running a pro-vaxx marketing campaign you might consider these outcomes to be well worth a $100m spend and Rogan's rep in the gutter.
Rogan is ultimately the one who validates the narrative by apologising or not. At a certain point you reach a level of stupidity or cowardice that is ethically indistinguishable from malice.
19 out of 20 cries of 'controlled opposition' sound like BS to me. It can tend to be the right's version of leftist purity spiralling. That said, I'm really starting to suspect this fucker is controlled opposition. If that's not the case then his Spotify contract must be absolute lopsided trash, for them to be able to constantly scribble all over his back catalogue with red pen. Remember his lies about how they didn't hide away his old shows with Alex Jones?
He's totally full of shit here too. His 'planet of the apes' story was a straight up racist joke. The point is it shouldn't matter. The guys he was telling the story to didn't care and he certainly has enough money now not to care. He's allowing this forced apology to torpedo any momentum created by the growth in public awareness from his covid content. That's 100% of the intent behind the cancel effort. It's very difficult to believe he's too stupid not to know this, even for someone who already believes he's stupid, as I do.
They wouldn't be taking him down if he was controlled opposition.
He doesn't need to be 100% in on the act and it depends how much you get for trashing his rep vs keeping him running in a controlled fashion. Malone and McCullough were doing interviews and talking to politicians long before they were talking to Rogan - now the fact that they talked to Rogan is the blackest mark on their rep, in the MSM. Same goes for anyone else whose appearance was vanished in these 70 deletions of toxic racist interviews. Same goes for the rep of dissident doctors like Vinay Prasad who weren't even on Rogan's show, just defended his points on social media. If you were running a pro-vaxx marketing campaign you might consider these outcomes to be well worth a $100m spend and Rogan's rep in the gutter.
Rogan is ultimately the one who validates the narrative by apologising or not. At a certain point you reach a level of stupidity or cowardice that is ethically indistinguishable from malice.