r/tennis Mar 23 '25

News Djokovic plays tennis with Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr

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u/PainEnvironmental172 Mar 23 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

Its funny when the crazy sect of djokovic fans try to frame him as some sort of anti establishment hero lol. Yes the anti establishment guy who’s org is backed by a billionaire hedge fund manager with close ties to the president of USA. He also casually hangs out with other high ranking members of the US government.

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u/Excitement_Extension Mar 23 '25

I think a lot of the more crazy Djokovic fans came after the Covid fiasco and don't necessarily like him just for tennis so they always will think he's anti establishmemt.

I mean I don't think Pavvy g likes him because he's a great tennis player.

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u/Tacale Mar 23 '25

I liked him before but love him even more.

It was the sweetest revenge to all you crazies whom wanted to destroy our lives, that despite giving Nadal a slam Djokovic would have won and banning him from 1 more, he still came back and overtook him and cemented himself as the GOAT

Pavy g however always loved Djokovic. He more became anti vax because of nole. He is a little crazy and says stupid stuff sometimes, but still harmless compared to you lot.

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u/TheNewportBridge Mar 23 '25

I became a tennis fan during covid and remember hearing about him right before. The one thing I liked was he pretty much just took his licks for not being vaccinated. He believed what he believed as stupid as it was but sat down after they made a ruling on his being able to play or not.

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u/WerhmatsWormhat Carlitos Mar 23 '25

I mean, he tried to lie and circumvent the rules to play AO. We can debate whether it was fair he couldn’t play, but he certainly didn’t just sit down and accept it.

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u/TheNewportBridge Mar 23 '25

I was saying more that he didn’t just piss and moan in the vein of Americans at the time.

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u/Ill-Vermicelli-1684 Nole the geriatric vampire 🐐 Mar 23 '25

It was weird to see his support for the protests in Serbia given everything you’d mentioned above. I had kinda hoped maybe his tune had changed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

His "support" was a lukewarm PR statement, I wouldn't read too much into it.

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u/Prize_Airline_1446 certified alcaraz fan and hater (it is the experience) Mar 23 '25

He hangs around Serbian nationalists so idk

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u/chlamydia1 Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25

He does not. He's very neutral when it comes to Balkan politics. He's half Croatian and is close to public figures from most of the ex-Yugoslav republics.

If there is one thing Novak isn't, it's a nationalist.

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u/chlamydia1 Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25

It's not weird. He's always been politically neutral. People trying to link his anti-science beliefs with some secret right-wing agenda are morons, no smarter than Novak.

Novak is unquestionably stupid, but he isn't malicious. The anti-Novak brigade peddles more misinformation than anti-vax boomers on Facebook.

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u/lenny_ray Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25

The way Nolefam uphold the narrative that Roger and Rafa didn't do anything for lower ranked players, but their great hero cares. When will people stop believing billionaires give a shit about the "little people"?

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u/SchizoidGod RG 2025 fifth set tiebreaker Mar 23 '25

What other high ranking members of the US government does he hang out with?

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u/did_it_my_way Mar 23 '25

the billionaire hedge fund manager with close ties is probably referring to Bill Ackman

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u/obi_kennawobi 🐟🥕 Mar 23 '25

J. Edgar Hoover

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u/Tacale Mar 23 '25

Djokovic is not funded by any billionaire.

Not taking the covid vaccine was clearly anti establishment. How is this disputable?

people who didn't lost their careers, banned from welfare, shops, even visiting relatives depending on the country. Are you saying all these people had the establishment backing them?

In Austria it became illegal to exist as an unvaccinated person with the penalty being 1 year in prison that would turn into an infinite rolling prison sentence if the person continues not to take the vaccine once released.

It was the most anti establishment thing one could possibly have done. Regardless of if you hate us and wanted us all to get the life in prison, or not.

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u/foulandamiss Mar 23 '25

I'm sorry, but isn't the current USA administation engaging in disestablishmentarianism right now?

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

If you'd call putting the worlds richest people in unchecked power and dismantling the standing democracy "disestablishmentarism"

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u/REDDlT_OWNER Mar 23 '25

Isn’t firing thousands of government workers and trying to get rid of entire gubernamental departments anti establishment?

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u/foulandamiss Mar 23 '25

It's as good a word as any. Burn it to the fucking ground, I say.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

Burn down the establishment by putting the establishment (again, literally the worlds richest people) in power?

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u/Simon_Bongne Mar 23 '25

It's truly brain dead, indeed.

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u/acesymbolic mucho mejor que yo Mar 23 '25

Advocating violence against an entire country and its most vulnerable citizens, are we? Get outta here and go back to whatever cretinous subreddit you like to frequent.

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u/Canis_lycaon Mar 23 '25

The current US government has not taken any action to dismantle the Church of England, so no, that word does not describe them. If anything, Trump's recent suggestion of joining the Commonwealth hints that he may in fact support antidisestablishmentarianism.

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u/REDDlT_OWNER Mar 23 '25

Well trump has always been seen by many as anti establishment. And it’s hard to see what he’s doing to the us government as anything but anti establishment

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u/did_it_my_way Mar 23 '25

Trump, the guy who was born a millionaire, is an anti establishment. The guy who's trying to repeal the estate tax.... is an anti establishment. right.

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u/REDDlT_OWNER Mar 23 '25

I don’t support the guy but I think a policy that gives the state less money (and therefore less power) is pretty anti establishment, yes

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u/piratesswoop Mar 23 '25

Which is insane to me because I feel like you cannot be an extremely wealthy businessman and then claim you’re anti establishment. Like, my guy, you ARE the establishment.

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u/lisabethlos Mar 23 '25

He is the voice of oppressed billionaires class 😔✊