Castle Magus

A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.

So, basically, like pretty much everything else Elon Musk has been involved with, Grokipedia is worthless shit.

"Hi. In today's episode, we talk about the killing of Charlie Kirk, the right-wing response, and if it's still possible for anyone to 'practice politics the right way.'"

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1:33:37 long. Whew.

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Fuck, god, shit, well... unrelated to any of the above... be warned: sudden Warmbo jumpscare at the ass-fucking end of the video. Man, how I loathe Warmbo. Warmbo has X-Pac Heat with me.

"Hi. Labor journalist Kim Kelly joins Katy, Cody, and Jonathan to talk about the mass shooting in Minneapolis, the leadership purge at the CDC, the attempted purge at the Federal Reserve, and of course, Cracker Barrel."

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To start with, some stuff about coal miners and about how Trump actually hates them as much as anyone else (or, perhaps more accurately, is just as indifferent to them as he is to anyone not named Donald Trump, anyway), while simultaneously lying about how much he loves them, because lying is a thing that Trump just does a lot.

As for the recent shooting... it would be far more surprising if RWNJs didn't use this particular shooting to ramp up anti-trans hate, so... of course they're doing that. The apparent fact that this person was trans should be the very least of anyone's concerns, considering all the other rancid dogshit allegedly associated with this person. But no, we don't hear about that. All we hear is that they were trans, which means all trans people are evil and must be (further) vilified. *weary goddamn sigh*

Strange how, when it's a cis and/or white and/or male and/or RWNJ person who does a mass shooting, as is actually the case far more often than not, we don't hear them ramping up anti-cis/white/male/RWNJ hate. Go fucking figure.

(And again, if "God" "saved" Trump in Butler, "He" did so only to have Trump available for [re]infliction upon the country a few months later, because Trump is nothing if not a [vaguely] human-shaped natural disaster.)

As for all the other stuff, re: the CDC and the Fed... *shrug* ...just typical Trump """""administration""""" disastrous bullshit. Bullshit that needs to stop or be stopped, but there's not a damn thing that most of us can do about it until after Trump is gone, at the very earliest.

And I could not really care less about Cracker Barrel. If they want to change their logo and then change it back again just because a bunch of whingey fuckheads (including Trump) whinged about it, then blah de fucking blah.

"Online safety laws keep ordinary people from expressing themselves, while companies like xAI cause real harm."

"But but but... that one South Park episode with the obviously fake AI Donald Trump with the googly eyed micropenis, though. It's totally the same thing. That makes it okay to create deepfakes of women, amirite?"

"Hi. Today we're looking at right-wing lies. But not the banner headline, 'They’re Eating The Dogs'-type lies, but the under-the-radar, insidious lies told by chuds like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Matt Walsh, and Elon Musk."

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But... there are so many. And this video is only an hour long?

"...either stupid or a liar..." I mean, to be fair, they can be both. Stupid people can believe that other people are also stupid enough to believe their lies, after all. And in too many cases, those stupid people are actually right about all the other stupid people who do indeed believe their lies.

"Hi. In today's episode of EVEN MORE NEWS, Katy, Cody and Jonathan dig into the very obvious lies Trump has told about the war in Iran and the scale of human tragedy already unfolding in the region. They also discuss the weekend's large protests, political violence, and Trump's very sad birthday parade."

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God, how I wish some other country could/would "force regime change" on the United States right now. ——¬_——¬

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and everyone still willingly propping up his decrepit ass, as usual.

I don't have a "joe rogan" tag... hmm... not sure if even this 1:18:01 episode of Some More News that is explicitly about Joe Rogan is enough for me to bother creating a "joe rogan" tag. I mean, sure I could just plop "joe rogan" down there in the tags list and then have a "joe rogan" tag for the future, in the unlikely off-chance that I ever mention him again, but he's absolutely not worth the effort of finding and back-tagging the very rare few posts from the past in which I may have mentioned the asshat. Eh... okay, I guess I'll throw a new "joe rogan" tag on this post, for what tiny bit that is worth (even just to me, let alone anyone else).

Also, disclaimer: I have never seen anything of Joe Rogan's show myself, other than a few short clips here and there over the years of him saying stupid shit.

Anyway, on with watching the video at 2x playback speed...

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...all right, not even five minutes in, and there's some transphobia. Off to a good start.

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Side bar: "Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans"

Wow. So, basically, a man came into a women's bathroom at a Walmart to harass and threaten a cisgender woman, who worked at that Walmart, because he wrongly, stupidly thought she was transgender merely because she happened to be tall, and then the woman was fired from her job at that Walmart after she reported the incident. (Ostensibly because she rEpOrTeD iT tO tHe WrOnG tYpE oF mAnAgEr... what the actual fuck ...so, then, why was the manager she did report it to not also fired for not reporting it up the chain to the, supposedly, "correct" type of manager? Probably because said manager wasn't a tall woman who "looked trans.")

And, of course, this fucking happened in goddamned Florida. That tracks.

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And now, onto the COVID disinformation part of the show...

Ah, and there's the racism... hmm, turns out Joe Rogan apparently had very different views back in 2019 or whenever, compared to now...? Gee, I wonder why? Oh, right, it's because of the Trump stuff.

And here comes the Trump-specific stuff (though that's really been an undercurrent of the entire video all along)... Joe Rogan before: "The morons had a king." Joe Rogan now: "He's real." Also, it does indeed seem really weird that Joe Rogan, who apparently hates everything to do with Jeffrey Epstein, had Donald Trump, someone who really appears to have been a close, personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein, as a guest on his show, and apparently never once mentioned Jeffrey Epstein. Go figure.

Joe Rogan didn't like Tim Walz, because Tim Walz was, supposedly, "a liar." Therefore, all in for Trump I guess????? The guy who has spouted literally multiple tens of thousands of documented lies over the past decade????? Okay, Joe Rogan. Okay.

Elon Musk? A genius? The smartest person alive? Okay, Joe Rogan. Okay.

Trump is "an outsider" and "anti-establishment" in the same way that GamerGate was "actually about ethics in video game journalism." Joe Rogan, by supporting Trump, is also no longer "anti-establishment," because Trump, like it or not, is the fucking, goddamned "establishment" now. Thanks, in part, to Joe Rogan, specifically.

Ah, and there comes the anti-abortion sentiment and the homophobia, too. Keep 'em comin', Joe. They're all just beach ball issues with no actual substance or value, amirite? *eye roll*

I'm on the tail end of Gen X, having been born in 1979 (Google/Wikipedia says Gen X was from "1965 to 1980"), and believe you me, I have absolutely not undergone a "right-wing turn." Maybe I'm just an aberration, though. *shrug*

Oh, and we're even getting just a smidge of antisemitism up in here (along with some Nazi propaganda/Hitler apologia), too. The hits just keep on comin', Joe.

So, in conclusion, while Joe Rogan isn't the absolutely worst grifter/con-man/right wing dumbshit that Some More News has done a video about, he's also obviously not the greatest dude in the world, either. I don't know... maybe Joe Rogan could be one of the rare few Trumpanzees that potentially could be shamed into changing his ways by being called a hypocrite, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that. In any case, this video has not convinced me to suddenly start watching the 6000+ hours of The Joe Rogan Experience or whatever the fuck.

(They didn't manage to get through this video without at least some dumb skits involving Katy and Warmbo. Short as they were, they were still present. *sigh*)

"Hi. Now that Trump is president... again... we're going to look at how he and his party are always focused on problems that aren't really problems (DEI, immigrants, and censorship) instead of problems that are (climate-enhanced wildfires, oligarchy, and actual censorship)."

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One of the comments under the video: "So is this sense of unreality what Germans circa 1933 felt?" I would say... maybe? Probably. The difference is that we should have goddamn known better, this time. Doubly so, given that we've already endured a hellish four years with Trump as the President of the United States of America before the current, likely way more hellish four years still to come of Trump as the President of the United States of America. It's not going to be great, and we're going to be trying to repair the damage caused by 2025-2029, for much, much longer than just those four years, like how we're still trying to repair the damage caused by 2017-2021 even now. Well, some of us are trying to repair the damage, anyway. Too many of us are actively, maliciously trying to cause the world to burn (both figuratively and literally).

So anyway, yeah, this is an almost hour long video pointing out all the finding out that's happening as a result of all the fucking around that happened in November 2024.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell with Donald Trump forever, as usual.

(Beware: Warmbo is in the video. Not a lot, but still... a little bit of Warmbo goes a very, very long way.)

"Hi. Today we're looking at AI-generated images, why they look like that, why fascists love them, and how corporations want to use them to cheapen the valuable work of creatives."

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Very small aside, I loathe everything about that "based" modern slang bullshit, so Cody mildly mocking it once and loosely associating it with alt-right incel MAGAt dildos in this video brought a vague quarter-smile to my face.

Yep. That was something I did almost two years ago now, after some fits and starts of doing it even earlier, then coming back, then leaving again, then coming back again. And now, I don't miss it at all and, in fact, I rarely even think about it, unless I happen to see an article someone has written about it like the above, or I see news things about some fresh hell being unleashed on the now renamed 卐 I mean X (no, I really mean 卐).

"If you’re still on it, I recommend you leave it too." Totally agree.