• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    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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      1 year 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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      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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      Oh, he remembers, it’s just he doesn’t give a fuck. All he wants is attention, because that’s how he makes cash.