• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Yeah it’s cathartic and all, but these people will lash out hard if/when he loses. I think we need to be taking this very seriously.

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        Meh, I’m armed to the teeth, I’m not worried. This is one of the reasons I heavily support the 2nd…no cop or military is coming to protect me. They’ll come with a toe tag at best.

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    “He’s the only one who makes sense to me”

    Ahahaha! Oh wait, you’re serious, let me laugh even harder.

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      It’s a very telling sign of having brain worms, when the official candidate of brain worms that polls at 4% is “the only one who makes sense”. Joe should probably have his brain scanned, and stop eating raw meat he shot himself… but the worms won’t let him.

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    But RFK (In that leaked phone call) said his plan was to drop put and endorse Trump right before the election.

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    Rogan playing 4D hopscotch with this endorsement.

    Or something, idk. What a fucking knuckle dragger.

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      No, but don’t you understand that the media and elites are trying to control us and constantly interjecting their political opinion into everything. 😡

      Even though the only party that has voted in Hollywood elites and the ultra wealthy is…. A mystery.

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    Can anyone explain what those endorsements are for? Is it literally just people that garner clout for a living saying “Hey I would vote for this one” or do they have actual consequences. If the former, why would anyone care?

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      People listen to other people’s opinions. You don’t care about joe rogans opinion, so his endorsement means nothing. Other people do listen to him and will take his endorsement into consideration. “I agree with what Rogan says alot, he’s probably more well informed than me, so if he says someone is worth the vote, well then I don’t have to think about it myself and can trust him”

      It’s newsworthy when a public figure throws their endorsement around, you just don’t care about the news

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      It is just a public statement of support. There are only consequences to the extent that people care about/respect the opinion and judgment of the person giving the endorsement.

      In this case, it’s valuable to RFK Jr in so far as individuals listening to Joe Rogan either think Joe has good insights into who should be president, or just want to be like him and will vote the way they think he will vote

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    Bizarre. I thought RFK Jr was being bank rolled by a repub to split the vote on the dem side. Last poll has him at 6% in Michigan. Remember, split votes gave MI to Trump in 2016, assuming the Stein and Harambe votes would’ve been Hillary instead.

    RFK is a conspiracy nut too. Strange guy. I’ve never listened to Rogan. But if this splits the vote the other way, great.

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      To be fair, if my uncle and dad were murdered by the CIA I’d be a conspiracy nut too. Although Republicans will probably regret elevating him now, as he seems to be peeling off more people off Trump than democrats.

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        He’s not peeling any democrats off. Only libertarians and conservative conspiracy theorists. Aka Rogan fans. The idea that dems would just vote for a Kennedy is exactly the kind of strategy I expect from trump and his ilk.

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          I agree for the most part, but he’s also influential to dudebros, who could also be convinced to vote blue for drug legalization.

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            The problem being those dude bros are too caught up in toxic masculinity and inceldom to ever be able to vote for a dem.

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          I thought the idea was that his policies on the environment and affordable home ownership look good to liberal voters at first glance.

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      assuming the Stein and Harambe votes would’ve been Hillary instead.

      Ah, yes, because Stein and Harambe had very similar platforms to Hillary.

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        Maybe, maybe not. Had a couple friends who were Tulsi fans when she was running that went full bore irate at the two part system after Hillary was selected. Bernie people as well. Felt the DNC forced Hillary down our throats and then went and voted Stein out of spite. Or didn’t vote. Moderates who didn’t want either didn’t vote.

        I don’t think it had anything to do with platform, more spite than anything.

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      The whole thing read to me like a Seinfeld episode - Kramer accidentally kills a whale off the coast of New York, and with the show having made dozens of Kennedy references, hearing of a Kennedy dumping a bear in Central Park would fit right in.

      So this doesn’t feel even like an own to anyone, more like a parody, a comedy. And in the context of it actually happening 1. in the setting of probably the most famous one, 2. with a character from the exact family they’ve referenced many times over and 3. with the same type of bizarre things happening to wildlife one of which has been one of the most famous episodes.

      To me, as a lib, it feels like the best Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm episode that’s never been written.

      Edit: Now that I think about it, the story even came out because he told it to Roseanne Barr, writer of most popular sitcom just prior to Seinfeld, notwithstanding her interminable slide, with her just staring at him incredulously throughout, the whole thing feeling like a Curb Your Enthusiasm scene. Honestly, at this point Larry David is definitely thinking to himself that he could never have written anything this Larry David.

      Edit 2: I completely forgot that his, Larry David’s, wife in Curb Your Enthusiasm is RFK Jr.'s actual wife.