• @200fifty
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    256 months ago

    Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19, de Carvalho — known as Olavo — praised Brazil’s military dictatorship, claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses, preached that tolerance for homosexuality was “incompatible” with democracy, and had an office in Virginia decorated with portraits of Confederate generals.

    Wait, run that second one by me again

      • @gerikson
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        116 months ago

        JFC every day I learn something terrible

        • David GerardOPMA
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          116 months ago

          the real basilisk was the sneers we met along the way

        • deborah
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          106 months ago

          tbf most of your problem is hanging around here.

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      86 months ago

      The third one is the one that baffles me. The first is fash shit as is the fourth, and the second is bonkers but it’s chain mail style bonkers, but the third, these are unrelated issues. It’s like saying that letting people be left handed is incompatible with having clean running water

      • deborah
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        55 months ago

        I mean …

        No, I don’t know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God.

        – allegedly, President George H. W. Bush (though he denied he said it)