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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This sounds like a guy that sets himself on fire outside a courthouse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

You should know: this is in pretty poor taste

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Glad I never liked him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Who knew that a lifetime of concussions turns your brain to mush?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Anyone who gives any weight to the verbal vomit of a professional sports celebrity is already on the losing side in the war against Not Being A Fucking Moron.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If the US created it in the 1980s, how did a guy in the Congo catch it in 1959?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_early_HIV/AIDS_cases

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The US government also did time travel so that Obama could kill Kennedy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Effin knew it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

But Kennedy dying started a series of events that lead directly to Nixon, their second favorite boy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Don't give Aaron new ideas.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Concussions are serious problems

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Okay so how crazy of shit can come out of his mouth before his career is affected?? Yeah I know the answer... But shit, Kaepernick says some very true but uncomfortable things and gets the boot. Rogers spouts insanity and is handed another ball.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean... I don't know if you're an NFL fan or not but his stock isntly exactly high right now lol. He played like three snaps all season last season, is old for the game (for anyone not named "Tom Brady" anyway), and is wayyyy to much of a liability (and just to damn weird even if the crap he spouts WASNT dangerous) to do any kind of announcing or commenting.

Hes crap in the locker room, having barley talked to Zach Wilson, the kid he left to play his whole season on a doomed team (I guess Zach does owe him a bit though, I really disliked the kid now I give him some respect for stepping aside then stepping up best he could). His career won't be affected because random crap like this IS his career now. The jets have a contract, but there is no way Rodgers plays any meaningful football anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I honestly am not much of a fan anymore I used to watch it, but I just can't be bothered to anymore. I got so sick of the management doing the, there is nothing to see behind the curtain shit. Everyone/thing has there bad side but if you can't own it, I can't be bothered.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We couldn't possibly have landed on the moon The technology was far past us.

By the way we had access to biotechnology That's still 50 years out from being invented.

I love conspiracy theories...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Remember, if it doesn't make any sense, it's because THEY don't want it to make any sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You people are the drunkest, horniest person at the party. You will do literally anybody. Philosophically speaking.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Rodgers should just shut up and dribble.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This comment is insensitive to people with CTE and you should feel bad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The people downvoting this comment have CTE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This guy wears his own anal sphincter as a necktie. I'm not sure how anyone can hear anything he says.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Aids the disease is natural. The aids epidemic was made by the us government by refusing to follow best practices for an epidemic when it was killing undesirable citizens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It affected many countries. France in particular. Since they helped discover the virus in conjunction with the US. There are books written about this. Hell there is even a movie about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Didn't just affect the US though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but it killed more Americans than the viet cong so maybe our government should’ve acknowledged it as a problem before several years of it decimating our population

Also we were the first country to have an outbreak and we’re the medical research powerhouse of the industrial world, especially in the 1980s. But instead of that our president told his surgeon general not to acknowledge it. When asked about the disease killing homosexuals Ronald Reagan laughed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh absolutely. Governments around the world were happy to let it kill gay people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

And here in America it was a perk in their eyes when it started plaguing hetero black folks. They only started really caring when it hit a white child.

They used to celebrate our dead. And that’s why I have no shame celebrating the deaths of Limbaugh and Reagan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Before he died, Rock Hudson asked the Reagan’s for help getting access to experimental medical treatment. They had been friends. They essentially ghosted him after his diagnosis.

Reagan didn’t bother forming an investigation committee until 1987, and he literally appointed people like the head of fucking AMWAY to head it.

They didn’t design the virus to kill us, but they found it a happy development. Go back and watch Tammy Faye talking to an AIDS patient in the 80s - the fact that she said she was willing to be in the same room with him was a big deal (he came in through TV because he was too sick to be on set).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

They only started really caring when it hit a white child.

They didn't give a shit about that white child either for quite a while. Ryan White was treated like a pariah by basically all of Kokomo as if he was going to give the entire town AIDS. It was disgusting. People only started caring when it was really clear he was dying and they suddenly grew a conscience about it.

Not that this made them any less racist or homophobic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Fuck rush and ronald, I'm glad they are 6 feet under, the rest of the right wing shit stains too. A bane on humanity is what they are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Given his other stances, I’m surprised he isn’t claiming the anti-vaxx theory that it came from the polio vaccine.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Ya done messed up A. A. Ron!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I say that Aaron Rodgers is an idiot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And one of you are correct. (Hint: it's not Aaron Rodgers unless you're both correct(you aren't both correct))

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

US government.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

A very successful, aging NFL Quarterback. He hasn't played much the last couple of years due to injury and getting old. He's been outspoken about various far right and conspiracy theories while not playing by appearing on podcasts and radio shows.

A lot of people wish he would just shut up and retire at this point. But you know he's going to milk his platform as long as he can.

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