Tyson is a weird dude. Has a tattoo of Mao and says he admires him, has read his little red book. Has a tattoo of Che Guevara, read about communism while he was in prison and said he was a Marxist. No idea what he actually took away from any of that or if it played any part in his life aside from "I admire these dudes because they got shit done", but he also never turns down a paycheck. Honestly, no idea what this dude's actual ideals are other than 
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he does stuff for money basically regardless of his beliefs. he did a charity event for IDF or Israel or whatever and he threw his fight with whatever Paul brother (all fights vs pro or ex pro fighters are fixed btw), both to make money. When accused of throwing the fight Tyson said something like "we are all dust", which basically means it doesn't matter.
I don't consider myself a Tyson/Paul truther, but yeah, there was a split second there in the first round where he looked like he was going to lay into him. Maybe not Iron Mike style, but some distant metallic cousin, like ruthenium or maybe vanadium, which would still have been more than enough to rock Jake's shit.
My first instinct would be to say it's a case of Eldridge Cleaver ("Hardline" Marxist swerving rightward, selling out) but Tyson might earnestly believe this shit (money helps warping minds of course) while still believing he is part of the Real Movement. Which still isn't great.
Ridiculous amounts of money and clocking in at the CTE factory for years probably doesn't help you have a coherent ideology.
I would sell out too tbh. And likely for less money.
Probably wouldn't beat my wife and rape someone like he has though.
This is the Bite than Wins.
Mike Tyson
the Bite
Are they joking?
It's fully intentional.
Yeah, I thought so, but is this really the angle they want to take for their marketing? "Hey remember when our new spokesman bit a guy's ear off? Make America Healthy Again!"
See I think the people who think MAHA is cool, think that shit is cool too. Maybe I'm wrong.
You're probably right.
Mike Tyson himself literally uses this in marketing his THC gummies, they're called Mike Bites and they're in the shape of little ears with a bite taken out of them
He joked about it after the Jake Paul "exhibition" "fight" too
Is the "real food" human flesh? Is this promoting cannibalism?
the brain damaged supporting the brain wormed
I saw a CTE ad.
i guess ears are mostly protein yeah
Was gonna say, that's the first thing to came to mind. Weird choice.
But of iron in the blood too. Why do you think they call him Iron Mike?
He could have done Soviet propaganda ads with an elderly Khrushchev where he bites into an ear of corn, but here we are 
is anyone asking for mike tysons opinion on anything outside of boxing?
That RFK picture is probably the most cliche dystopian "big brother" image I think I've ever seen done in real life. He looks like he's on a poster in a dystopian society where they control the population with drugs in the food or something.
Knowing RFK he actually got that tattoo for real