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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wonder how long he would think this if everyone just started introducing him as "The Retard, Joe Rogan." I'd bet the very millisecond it started to affect him personally, he'd be changing his tune. These fucking ghouls don't want freedom of speech, they want the ability to police OUR speech.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't that how people already refer to him?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago

Divorced middle aged dad energy

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (6 children)

How about it's just in poor taste to use it and its use probably says more about the user than the target?

And, if you use it, just be prepared for someone to take exception to you using it and you might just trigger yourself an ass beating or some other adverse consequence. Kind of like playing with fire crackers or bullet ants. Maybe, just maybe, you can find a better way to insult someone that's a little more clever and incisive and makes you look like less of an ignorant asshole.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Personally I don't really care about these words getting used outside of hateful intent, except that their continued casual use leaves the door open for haters to use the words. I grew up with a bunch of aboriginals who used abbo, widely considered a slur in Australia. I don't use it anymore because it leaves the door open for haters to use the word. I will call some of my gay friends poof, another semi slur, but only in private. It's not about your intent when using the word, it's about the effect on society when the word gets used.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Was he really slammed though?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

As the saying goes:

Don't mock bacteria, it's the only culture some people have

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Come on

And slam

And welcome to the

JAM

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Roided out Roe Jogan has tiny testies🍒

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I hate this guy almost as much as Asmond Gold. Who I fear is much more insidious going after young impressionable “gamers”

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Asmond Gold sounds like the cheapest pack of cigarettes.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

The only way I'd be ok with Rogan using that term is if he publicly discloses the results of an IQ test and he got sub 70...

And even then, it would only be ok if he was self identifying as that label, not calling anyone he can't understand that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That's removed

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

So the steroids got to his last brain cells. Good for him.

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