• Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      I refuse to watch bill maher but if I had to bet money on what the video is, I suspect the text beneath bill maher in the screen shot is sarcastic, and he’s making the smuglord left-punching point that we should be thankful for the voyeuristic capitalist philanthrope and his exploitative shenanigans, and that criticism of said shenanigans is fun-hating hysteria.

      EDIT: I watched 3 seconds of the video, and yes, that is exactly what bill maher is doing.

      “when i give money to the poor they call me a saint. when I ask why they are poor they call me a communist” - i forget who

      • RedDawn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        Hélder Pessoa Câmara[a] OFS (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He was declared a Servant of God in 2015

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      Yeah, people don’t seem to grasp that we aren’t mad that he’s helping people, it’s that he’s doing a crap job of helping people and getting rich off of it the whole time

      Also his snacks are terrible, despite being easy to shoplift