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YouTube removes video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jordan Peterson for vaccine misinformation

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Last I heard he was actually polling higher than DeSantis is among republicans. He's a Kennedy so that's going to get him so following alone. RFK Jr has actually done some incredible environmental law work that has earned him some fans. Anti-vax rhetoric was originally a hippie left-wing movement so he's got that going for him.

Personally, I think its just that people see "Jr." and assume he's a younger candidate than Biden. He's 70.

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"Debris field" found near Titanic in search for missing sub, U.S. Coast Guard says

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The thing is that if they cheap out on one area then you have to think "what else did they skimp on?" Like if they're that careless about what you can see you should be terrified of what you can't.

And it'd be one thing if we were all just laughing at some tech bro fulfilling his wacky dream and using some odd parts, its a totally different conversation now that we know the sub imploded. The guy probably cut every corner possible and if those people with him had said "hey, this sub uses shitty consumer grade parts, I'm out" they would be alive still.

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"We're shocked that Joe Rogan would do this" - people who watched Joe Rogan do this to everyone else

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There's definitely a divide in his fans. There are the old Opie & Anthony people who mostly just listened for comedy. The pandemic changed a lot, Rogan started with his vaccine stuff and that attracted a lot of MAGA types.

Comedy in general has taken a right-wing shift. During the COVID lockdowns touring comedians could only perform in areas that didn't have extreme restrictions, now comedians like Bill Burr and Tom Segura are incredibly popular with conservatives. I saw Bill a couple of years ago and he was making jokes about about conservatives and a large section of the crowd was unironically agreeing with his dumb caricatures.

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Military Base on Fire in Moscow Region

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Russia is a wild place. Its obviously huge and filled with many different ethic groups in isolated regions. There are 80+ "states"/ territories and they vary greatly in their association with the Federation. A soldier conscripted from Dagestan or Chechnya probably doesn't identify as a Russian first.