Always depends the levels they’re at. JP and Rogan are generally the start of the rabbit hole for a lot these type of people.
I’m friends with people of various political dispositions but as people have said it really depends on how far they’ve gone
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There’s a lot of manipulation via the media these days. It isn’t always the manipulated persons fault. Thankfully I’ve not lost any friends over this kind of stuff. It is possible to fall down the rabbit hole of specific algorithms.
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It depends for me. I am friends with people who have varying political viewpoints, some I agree with all the way and others I do not. It’s a part of life and definitely something I learned to deal with (better) now I’m a bit older. Mainly getting used to not going into full blown arguments back when we were in’t office, although I will still call someone out for being out of line if they go into something more ‘extreme’.
But when someone is almost detached from reality and forces the points into conversation where it isn’t needed or whatever, that’s when I start to question being friends with them.
I have this with an old school friend of mine. He’s a good, clever person but the past few years he’s really gone down this JP/Rogan wormhole. At one point he even started dropping some Tommy Robinson references into our conversations which was a red flag. Thankfully he seems to have left that behind, so I’m hoping it didn’t quite catch on with him.
But he’s still got some views which I think are worrying. The problem is that he seems to get his news entirely from Reddit and I also think as a gamer he’s getting fed a lot of stuff via YouTube. And it’s almost always right leaning edging into far right territory.
The weird thing is that I’ve met a lot of his uni mates over the years and none of them seem to hold similar views.
My only advice is instead of being combatative to the things he says in the moment, to instead just talk about the stuff you believe in on a positive light whenever you get the chance. So it doesn’t become you versus him, it’s more just you’re exposing him to other viewpoints
Where can I get a Dadlands tee? Hook me up
Follow him on insta and order a tee when he’s taking orders. He’s just done a load of new hoodies and shirts and may have some left
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Who is ‘him’? Sorry, slow on the uptake
The Dadlands account, I’m guessing and you’ll see when they have new stock in.
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Russ, Mr Dadlands
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Stood next to Stewart Lee last night, wanted to saying something but nah, left it.
Last thing he needs on a night out is some fawning goon.
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Saw him in a petrol station buying snacks after a show that i saw him at:
Deacon: Great show this evening Stuart.
Stuart: ah thanks, much appreciated.
and that was it. I could have died and gone to heaven lol.
My mate I was with went to see him on his own he’s that much of a fan and we still both bottled it.
Me too! I went on my own and feeling awkward as fuck standing in the foyer i realised that there was a few other ‘billy no mates’ lol.
Strangest part was leaving the venue and having no one to talk about the show with.
When i told my wife that i bumped into him at the petrol station the indifference from her was heart breaking.
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I really don’t get Stewart Lee and it makes me really worried that I might be stupid, because every time I explain why to someone who loves him, they always say “that’s exactly the point!” But I still don’t get what the point is.
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I always preferred when he was with Richard Herring, playing the serious to Herring’s more silly.
Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard not Judy were mint!
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IAMRODHULL!
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I once told an ex I would rather watch Peter Kay than Stuart Lee and I’m pretty sure she considered ending things on the spot.
Stand by it though, he takes forever to get to the punchline and when he does it’s inevitably disappointing
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Jesus H Christ.
I love Stewart Lee but hate his fawning fans who leave comments along the lines of ‘These days you get thrown in jail for saying your English’ or ‘Morrissey has left himself go’ under every Guardian article or Facebook link he appears in.
