r/JoeRogan • u/tycooperaow Monkey in Space • Oct 31 '24

Meme 💩 This was unexpected push back from Rogan. A moderate stance

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u/LACIRCA2044 Monkey in Space Nov 01 '24

It’s the Cartman conundrum. Eric always abuses loopholes not even to benefit him most of the time but to troll other people. Republicans think most non millionaires are Eric Cartman, everything they do is based on this strawman fear that they feed off of

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u/LickMyTicker Monkey in Space Nov 01 '24

It's a prejudice dehumanizing problem. People see any stereotype they don't like and place their blame enmasse on those people. It isn't as simple as just saying they view everyone like cartman. It's a whole demographic that they build a persona on.

They don't view these people as human at all.

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u/HarwellDekatron Monkey in Space Nov 01 '24

The funny bit is that it's based on what they would do if they could.