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by misiti3780 176 days ago
why am i being downvoted lol ?
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Because you mentioned Rogan and especially Shapiro without distancing yourself from them. Good for you and let the knee-jerk downvoters knee-jerk themselves to oblivion.
Just because you listen to them doesn't mean you agree with everything they say -- I listen to Ezra Klein too and read Slow Boring, even though I disagree with almost everything they publish.
Of course not, it would be strange to agree with everything anyone says. I listen to Shapiro and his Daily Wire brethern even though I hardly agree with everything they say and consider most of them to be far too eager with the God hammer - Shapiro is one of the better ones in that respect, probably because Judaism doesn't proselytise - mostly because I want to get their perspective as a counterweight to the mostly 'progressive' news media. If I agreed with everything they or the 'progressive' media said I would not need to listen to or read what they produce because I already agree.

As to the downvoted list I agree with some - Friedman, Rogan, Shapiro - but I just can't listen to Sam Harris any more due to his extreme TDS and his inability to recognise when he has been wrong on something - the SARS2 unpleasantness being an example of such. He was an interesting part of the 'intellectual dark web' which was a much-needed counter to the mentioned 'progressive' narrative pushed by the media but he went off the rails first when Trump became president for the first time and later when SARS2 hit. For news I'd add the Spiked podcast and the Brendan O'Neill show for some UK perspective, Aron Flam's 'Dekonstruktiv Kritik' (in Swedish) as a counter to the 'progressive' Swedish state broadcasters Sveriges TV and Sveriges Radio (they call themselves 'independent' but that is a flagrant lie) and the 'progressive' print/web media. Listen to and read both those 'progressive' outlets as well as some of the mentioned counterparts to gain a wider perspective on what actually happens in the world.

I basically feel the same way about Sam Harris also. I said "everything" but I probably turn off half of them at this point. I like when he interviews authors, I have found a lot of good books from his interviews. I'm atheist I naturally seem to agree with almost all his religious takes but the minute he starts talking about Trump it's a broken record.

Ill check out the other names. Thanks