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    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

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      Tired: bragging about how you always knew the true face of evil because you’re just more tuned in than other folks.

      Wired: Sharing valuable, documented, normie news stories about how crypto is tied into crime and grossness at every level.

      Inspired: Mocking an extreme-fasting, psychedelic-chugging weirdo for giving millions to a fascist fan of a dead guy who believed there’s aborted fetal material in pepsi and who was an AIDS and Covid denier who died of, shock, Covid.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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    btw, congrats to BI on another immaculate totally-not-nazi dox, which has many totally-not-nazis from bitcoinland up in arms. Why, anyone who spends their time being extremely into batshit insane Nazis and writing about how they think their social network needs Nazis could be doxxed - anyone!

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    Nostr (without Zaps) is a cool technology but everyone around it has very interesting ideas. I may be biased because I liked the predecessor tech, Secure Scuttlebutt before that sunk into the depths.