Thread by @ggreenwald

The claim that Joe Rogan -- a supporter of Bernie Sanders, an anti-imperialist, a crusader against factory farms, etc. -- is of the "far right" is the kind of stupidity in which liberals specialize: "let's try to expel the most influential media figure and insist he's our enemy."

https://twitter.com/annamerlan/status/1463516723559092231

Watch this brilliant @krystalball segment on the unspeakable stupidity of this tactic. Rational political movements try to *expand* the range of those who identify with them. The liberal-left so often looks for ways to expel as many people as possible:

Rogan has an audience of millions. You can't change that. The only choices you have: 1) engage with that huge audience to build common ground or 2) create a climate where nobody on the liberal-left can go there, ceding it all to the right. Those who *want to lose* chose (2).

Also, the only point of this @VICE article is to pressure corporate sponsors and Spotify to disassociate themselves with Rogan or force them to limit what he can say.

Again, note how often the priority of liberals -- especially "journalists"-- is to restrict the range of views.

Let us give thanks today that this dreary, repressive sector of the media devoted to homogenized thought, coerced conformity and abolition of dissent is dying, while platforms devoted to free thought, editorial independence, and diversity of opinion are thriving. 🙏

"Far right extremist" inviting the only self-identified "socialist" in the US Senate onto his show to speak to his millions of listeners, treating him with great civility and respect, then saying afterward he'd make a good President. So basically Hitler:

Hopefully -- for the safety of all of us -- @VICE will succeed in its noble crusade to pressure corporations and Spotify to disassociate themselves with this far-right extremist crypto-Nazi here:

Employees of corporate media outlets hate Joe Rogan for the same reason they hate Julian Assange so much they are happy he's imprisoned.

Nothing enrages them more than those who succeed more than they do without having to submit to the corporate structures that control them.

They tell themselves: "It's not fair! I was a good boy/girl. I played by all the rules. I went to journalism college, obeyed my editors, have the right ideology, yet nobody is interested and I can't produce anything of impact, while dirty inferiors like Assange & Rogan succeed."

This is the source of their fixation on deplatforming and censorship and pressuring corporations to withdraw: since the public has no interest in what they're doing and only trusts those they regard as inferiors, they want to *force* people to listen to them by silencing others.