these people are real. I was at a recruitment event once and everyone had to prepare a speech on literally any subject, to a group of mostly strangers, and one dude gave a speech on Pinochet. Fucking nuts, no one had any reaction except like, good job weirdo?

fwiw I gave mine on how Francis Scott Key was a horrible racist, and that if the author's not dead, then the US National Anthem is by a "benevolent" slave owner that basically founded Liberia.