Yeah I don’t even know why I wrote that. I think I mean something more like general audiences that are likely to find more points in common with the opinions on the show than points they’d object to.

People who don’t view themselves as political? Not sure.

A large swath of people will think you’re overreacting if you say something like “Joe Rogan is putting a friendly face on disastrous misinformation for millions of trusting listeners all over the world.” or its much milder cousin “This guy has uncritically nodded along to a lot of bullshit his friends have said on air, I can’t listen to this anymore, I think it’s weird that you still do.”

Nothing says free thinker like having very particular opinions on irrelevant US current events from across the planet that just so happen to line up with one of the most famous corporate mouthpieces since Oprah.

I’ve been thinking on this a lot. It’s genuinely amazing and deeply disturbing how innocuous he seems to people who aren’t aware of what he actually is.

I think he’s been able to market himself to his most ideologically aligned audience as a smaller deal than he really is, despite having the highest-possible profile guests on his show.

For better or for worse this man and his show will be studied for years to come. As someone who was an occasional listener back before the mask-off phase I have so many thoughts on the guy.

Netizen evokes more a proactive, community kind of approach to online discourse . Internaute for me conjures up some kind of implicit story of exploration, being a little guy zooming around a giant galaxy of web pages.

It’s not the same but I definitely see the appeal of netizen especially as we try to claw back some of our digital spaces and culture from companies that are legally obligated to exploit it all for a share price bump.

I haven’t been paying too much attention to most of the writing specifically in this community. I just skim All like I used to skim my Reddit home feed.

I don’t know how much carries over in terms of federation between awful and db0. But “references, touchstones and more” sounds like something I’d like to catch up on. I’m aware of the search engine being discussed in your linked thread, and I’m aware of some other initiatives, but I really feel like I’m on the outside of that community looking in.

I’ve always been hesitant about just straight up linking it. Given it’s on Mataroa it’s not like it’s monetizable (deliberate choice). Maybe I’m too averse to what might come off as self-promotion. In the age of everything being “content”, I don’t know, I almost have a desire to never share anything.

Thanks for the kind words. Since you’ve mentioned digging, I’ve now made sure to include a link to a friend’s blog (a much more interesting and talented writer than I am), in case anyone does more digging. That’s how the internet should work right?

Thanks for sharing the start to your journey. Some regional forums I was on, while virtually dead, are still online. For now at least.

All of our trains in Lebanon have been ripped out in the 60s and 70s so we can siphon our money more efficiently to the patron class by buying cars and gas through their companies. Granted cars make sense for the topography but trains should have stayed in operation, especially for freight.

Not sure how recent some of these data points are, unless it just describes the law for some of these if less data is available