• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I’m fifty. Joe Rogan is fifty six. Even though I was young in the eighties, by 1992 I had already lost six people I knew to AIDS. Joe, being six years older than I, would have witnessed peak AIDS apocalypse as an older teen. He was even from New Jersey, not some suburb in the midwest. He would have seen some shit. All he has to do is remember, but he chooses willful ignorance.

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      9 months ago

      We all just lived through covid. It’s not that hard to imagine someone denying the existence of a global plague that effects people they know.

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        9 months ago

        We are all living through global climate change, and the collapse of late stage capitalism, etc. These and their I’ll are selling copium to the masses of folks who can’t face reality and choose to live in fantasy.

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      9 months ago

      He has repeatedly talked about how frightening it was to live thru the AIDS epidemic and seeing people drop left and right

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          9 months ago

          Maybe not individually, but if you care about the subjects that he talks about at all, it’s good to at least keep an eye on what he’s telling his millions of listeners.

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      9 months ago

      Oh, he remembers, it’s just he doesn’t give a fuck. All he wants is attention, because that’s how he makes cash.

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      9 months ago

      Maybe he was lucky, I’m 46 and lost almost only old people through more or less old age. I feel really lucky about it. And I know people who lost people right and left, suicide, accidents, plane crashes…