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[–] 148 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 20 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My favorite part about those years is that we didn't have to care what Joe Rogan thought.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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...

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