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Olavo de Carvalho, the Richmond Virginia-based probable US asset, hack journalist, fake mystic, and philosopher king of Brazil's far-right, is dead... Carvalho's intellectual snake oil did untold damage to Brazil's social fabric, and underpinned Bolsonaro's ascent to power. pic.twitter.com/G8CgkmZbDH— Brasil Wire (@BrasilWire) January 25, 2022

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Here's some more info for those who are blissfully unaware of the existence of this unbelievable piece of garbage: https://www.brasilwire.com/olavo-de-carvalho-the-guru-of-death/

Olavo de Carvalho, the self-styled philosopher, said yesterday in a video that the coronavirus (which has already infected more than 300 thousand people and killed more than 15 thousand people around the world in a few months) ”does not exist” and that it has “not killed anyone, anywhere in the world”.

Bolsonaro’s guru, the guy who runs the anti-vaccine campaign among Brazilians, the guy who already said that “Herod did good to the children of his time by killing them because he prevented them from sinning”, the guy who said that the Portuguese never set foot in Africa and only blacks are to blame for everything they have suffered, the guy who believes Pepsi is made of aborted fetuses, the guy who preaches hatred for Muslim refugees, the guy who supported the murder of children by the American army in Iraq, the guy who only feels manly carrying a gun, and has a hobby of murdering bears in American forests, now recommends that people leave home (except for him, of course, who lives confined in his cave in the interior of Virginia, no he has friends there, doesn’t even speak English and buys everything online, according to himself).

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Sounds like he was Brazil's own :jordan-eboy-peterson: .

    • Sicko [any]
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      2 years ago

      He's more like alex jones though he wasnt as entertaining, also he lived in Virginia since 2005 :thinkin-lenin:

    • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      JP is too civil and has a somewhat convincing academic affectation, he acts much more like a professor, whereas Olavo was simply a "old man rants at the sky" style raving lunatic, who somehow was seen as an intellectual by the far-right. The other poster is right, he was more of an Alex Jones kind of guy. Think Alex Jones, but old and grumpy.

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        It's the Anchorman 2 punchline. "Why don't we just tell people the news they WANT to hear?" "Say that again." "Why don't we just tell people the news they WANT to hear?"