[teknofobi]

Joe Rogan leans left in the same way someone that starts their sentences with “I’m not rasist, but …” aren’t racists. It’s just a rhetorical device to convince you that they don’t believe in labels, and then they immediately use their actions and words to demonstrate that they fit the textbook description of the label.

> They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.

[platz]

so if someone is left but isnt as left as you then they arent left, right?

would you consider biden left?

[evol262]

By the standards of most of the world, no, he's firmly right wing, along with basically every other politician in the US.

By US standards, he's a moderate. So no, still not left. And that's why he got elected.

[manigandham]

It's the labels that are the problem, used by unreasonable people to create even more division. Most do not identify with a single side across all issues, or even all facets of a single issue.