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Spotify hosts Joe Rogan, so I'm having a hard time seeing how they're leftist. If they were activists, they would have left that money on the table and never signed a contract with Rogan in the first place. It seems to me that they follow the money like most companies.

what? why do people keep calling a person who endorsed Bernie Sanders right wing? can someone explain this to me?

If a trusted source (news) tells you Rogan is right wing and you don't hear anything to the contrary, it's easy to take that at face value and accept it. In fact based on human nature, a brain will actively resist anything to the contrary after hearing it enough times.

its crazy when they lie like this, it makes you wonder what other stuff they are lying about.

There was a contingent of what might be called libertarians who supported Bernie but then went hard for Trump and shifted rightward. It doesn't make much sense to me except that they're both nominally anti-establishment (in different ways of course).

You'll also note that I didn't actually call Rogan right wing, but it does seem that many/most of his listeners tilt right.

The point I was making is that it's highly unlikely that any leftist activist organization/company would support Rogan by platforming him, regardless of his actual beliefs (to me, it seems that he's just playing to an audience).

"to me, it seems that he's just playing to an audience"? what audience? if you actually listen to his podcast its plain random... because of him i learned about Bernie Sanders and introduced me to Kyle Kulinski and other left leaning people, so i never understood why he is considered right wing by the media and people on twitter, he brings up wanting universal health care and basic income all the time, that's very far from right wing

Dude Joe Rogan voted democrat.

Democrats aren't leftist though--they are largely conservative--and a lot of what Rogan espouses fits with modern right-associated narratives.

A little overly dramatic there, but if things keep escalating, this is what it could come down to.

Conservatives could not deny service for a personalized cake to a gay couple without unbelievable fights that they barely won at SCOTUS, but left-wing companies can deplatform as much as they want from their generic service if they don’t like your politics.

I don’t have to be conservative to say it’s extremely hypocritical.

The difference in political significance between a broadcasting platform and 10 million dollars vs a cake is a little hard to ignore.

No it's not and this harmful absolutist rhetoric casting it as a tribe vs tribe till extinction matter will only further exactrebate the problems we are seeing.

Most people are not angry idealougues hell bent on revolution most people are not white supermacists that hate all other races as inferior. Most people are decent people trying to make their way in the world for themselves and their families, the constant bombardment of fear and outrage from every side for the past several years is what got us to this place, digging further into this tribal hole of left vs right isn't going to get us out of it.

I'll be an absolutist against deplatforming and government overreach to the death. Wherever that lands me on the political spectrum over time, I don't care.

The CEO of every major US company is basically the same person. They came from the same background and went to the same schools. They have a stranglehold on the working class of America. They can deplatform you and de-bank you.

The working class will have a hard time withdrawing from a society that is designed to keep them in check. Parallel economy likely to pop up.

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