The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE)
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imo it was probably cuz trump won, evan was always a faggot politically, in fact nearly all these "special forces" are faggots. about the only one i can remember from jre was tim kennedy, he was like yea when obama was in, we had to count our bullets and be stingy, but when trump came in, he wanted to win and get out so we had nvgs up in our ass.
now evan can let go
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Lanx
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yea you learn that dre didn't produce shit and this ugly white guy is responsible for 90s-00 hiphop/rap while he casually says yea, i slayed paris hilton, then the next week kim came over too
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I wonder if Joe knows he's being taken for a ride by these silicon valley tech billionaires he keeps having on. That recent Andreeson one (like 3rd or 4th time he's been on) was pretty enraging. Joe is basically being a mouthpiece for some of the most anti consumer pro 1% talking points you'll hear outside of CNBC.
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Loser Araysar
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That's the most insane interpretation of those podcasts I ever heard.
I don't think they ever said anything "anti consumer". They're mostly libertarians and former Democrats
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Isn't sakkath in the woke commie club? Ignore the thrashing about as their ideology slips into irrelevance. The news keeps telling them that they lost because Joe Rogan, not their faggoty policies.
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Loser Araysar
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Pretty sure he is a leftist.
They hate anything that doesn't bend the knee to them.
Surprised he even listens to JRE since last month
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sakkath
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I'm willing to have a nuanced conversation about this if there's anyone who's actually interested in that kind of thing any more.
Marc Andreessen is a silicon valley venture capitalist. Many of the businesses he's invested in are in the fintech or crypto industry. What is fintech's wet dream? Doing away with cash, having every transaction be digital so that they can siphon 5% (or more) of every transaction in fees. What's (some of) the crypto industries wet dream? Government continues to ignore them while they commit various kinds of fraud.
The CFPB is their enemy because the CFPB's whole purpose is protecting consumers (ie people) from illegal activities in the finance industry. Illegal activities such as overcharging, charging for services not delivered, and DE-BANKING. Yes that's right, the CFPB fights AGAINST de-banking, which is an illegal practice.
Here's a recent press release about it: CFPB Finalizes Rule on Federal Oversight of Popular Digital Payment Apps to Protect Personal Data, Reduce Fraud, and Stop Illegal “Debanking” | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Here's an article about the CFPB fighting against wall street to try to stop banks from de-banking Christian activists. Debanking Realignment: CFPB to Protect Christian Free Speech
Here is a court filing (linked from the previous article), of the CFPB appealing a Texas court's decision, where the court had preveiously ruled in favour of Wall Street to allow Wall Street to continue the de-banking practice: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.216556/gov.uscourts.ca5.216556.46.0.pdf
But here's an example of why Andreessen really hates the CFPB. One of the financial services businesses he invested in was committing fraud / lying to its consumers / offering illegal high interest loans and as a result it was wound up by the CFPB, and the money the business stole from consumers was reclaimed and distributed back to the victims: CFPB to distribute nearly $40 million to consumers misled by fintech company LendUp Loans | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
So anyway, back to the podcast. In comes Andreessen to lobby to Joe's large audience about how bad the CFPB is, and to do so he lies repeatedly. He lies about what the CFPB is, what it was set up to do. He lies that CFPB is debanking right wing people (CFPB is trying to stop this practice). He lies that only right wing people get de-banked (it happens to people all over the political spectrum). He lies about who runs the CFPB. He's very smart about it of course and he presents his lies in a way he knows much of the audience will lap it up because people are always open to hearing about how their people are being oppressed.
Rogan was rightly taken aback about it and couldn't believe what Andreessen was telling him because Joe is a very sensible guy. I'm not sure he really realised how bare faced the lies were though.
And yes I'm a lefty, although that probably doesn't mean what you think it means.
Marc Andreessen is a silicon valley venture capitalist. Many of the businesses he's invested in are in the fintech or crypto industry. What is fintech's wet dream? Doing away with cash, having every transaction be digital so that they can siphon 5% (or more) of every transaction in fees. What's (some of) the crypto industries wet dream? Government continues to ignore them while they commit various kinds of fraud.
The CFPB is their enemy because the CFPB's whole purpose is protecting consumers (ie people) from illegal activities in the finance industry. Illegal activities such as overcharging, charging for services not delivered, and DE-BANKING. Yes that's right, the CFPB fights AGAINST de-banking, which is an illegal practice.
Here's a recent press release about it: CFPB Finalizes Rule on Federal Oversight of Popular Digital Payment Apps to Protect Personal Data, Reduce Fraud, and Stop Illegal “Debanking” | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Here's an article about the CFPB fighting against wall street to try to stop banks from de-banking Christian activists. Debanking Realignment: CFPB to Protect Christian Free Speech
Here is a court filing (linked from the previous article), of the CFPB appealing a Texas court's decision, where the court had preveiously ruled in favour of Wall Street to allow Wall Street to continue the de-banking practice: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.216556/gov.uscourts.ca5.216556.46.0.pdf
But here's an example of why Andreessen really hates the CFPB. One of the financial services businesses he invested in was committing fraud / lying to its consumers / offering illegal high interest loans and as a result it was wound up by the CFPB, and the money the business stole from consumers was reclaimed and distributed back to the victims: CFPB to distribute nearly $40 million to consumers misled by fintech company LendUp Loans | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
So anyway, back to the podcast. In comes Andreessen to lobby to Joe's large audience about how bad the CFPB is, and to do so he lies repeatedly. He lies about what the CFPB is, what it was set up to do. He lies that CFPB is debanking right wing people (CFPB is trying to stop this practice). He lies that only right wing people get de-banked (it happens to people all over the political spectrum). He lies about who runs the CFPB. He's very smart about it of course and he presents his lies in a way he knows much of the audience will lap it up because people are always open to hearing about how their people are being oppressed.
Rogan was rightly taken aback about it and couldn't believe what Andreessen was telling him because Joe is a very sensible guy. I'm not sure he really realised how bare faced the lies were though.
And yes I'm a lefty, although that probably doesn't mean what you think it means.
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No such thing as a nuanced conversation with a leftist, if there was things wouldn’t be the way they are now.
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Loser Araysar
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Bro I spent several years working as a director in fintech in LA area (mini silicon valley).
What you're claiming is pure nonsense. No one gave a fuck about making cash obsolete or charging 5% on every transaction. Everyone just cared about making money anyways possible. Everyone was perfectly happy to get a shitty American dollar, devalued by decades of government fiscal mismanagement.
Andreessen doesn't care about pennies from Lendup Loans. He is worth $2-3B himself and his a16z VC fund is worth 40B. If you actually followed him, his thoughts on AI, little tech and his Techno Optimist manifesto from earlier this year you'd realize. This CPFB shit is complete nonsense, it's just another leftist agency to go after anyone who doesn't fellate the Dem party.
These guys thinking way bigger than some pathetic nickels from fintech startups and consumer squabbles that you assign to them. This is like thinking that Elon bought Twitter for the ad revenue.
I enjoyed reading this retro OWS rant though, been a long time since leftists been blaming the banks for anything, especially since they've been sucking off big corps openly for well over a decade.
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Cause the US 'left' is now as much in bed with big business as the right ever was.
I'm always good for an anti corpo rant - not just banks but pharma, military etc too. Usually not on this forum, I know it's not the place where that kind of thing is welcome any more.
But I'm still one of those old school lefties (probably because I'm old) that still thinks the left is about workers, consumers, is anti war, anti corruption etc. Maybe one day that kind of left will return.
Disagree with most of what you said and think you're spectacularly wrong, but I appreciate that you engaged on it.
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Loser Araysar
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Is there a US federal agency that you DONT like? You strike me as a guy who thinks it's always better to err on the side of more government