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VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

This Rapping Preacher Is Selling Bleach to Parents Trying to ‘Treat’ Autism in Kids

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This Rapping Preacher Is Selling Bleach to Parents Trying to ‘Treat’ Autism in Kids

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VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Joe Salant, an evangelical pastor and rapper, is the new spokesman for Safrax, which makes bleach tablets that are popular with those who belief ingesting the industrial cleaner can cure a range of ailments.
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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    An evangelical pastor who briefly shot to fame in 2015 for recording a rap song in support of Sen. Ted Cruz is now selling industrial-strength bleach tablets to parents and has admitted that many of his customers are using the product to treat autism in their children.

    And somehow this sentence took a turn for the worse after the phrase “rap song in support of Ted Cruz.”

  • LilDestructiveSheep@lemmy.world
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    How can people be allowed to do something like this. I just cannot… cheesus Christ.

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      In civilised countries they can’t. It would be highly illegal.

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        It’s illegal here too. There are two assholes from Florida currently sitting in prison for selling Bleach as a COVID cure.

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        Idk, everyone should be allowed to sell bleach enemas for children. In a normal world no one should ve dumb enough to buy it.

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          We live in a “normal” world. And people are dumb as fuck.

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          Uh, there’s elderly, neurodivergent, and those struggling with addiction out there. This isn’t the wild west, you aren’t entitled to whatever you can scam off people, no matter the damages…

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          I would support the bleach enemas for self-use, but the poor children of these dumb fucks wouldn’t have a say in what happens to them, so we need to protect them from their parents.

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          Should we sell sulfuric acid for children too?

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      They won’t be going forward.

      The founders of this bullshit were recently found guilty in a criminal suit for selling bleach as a Covid and autism cure.

      I’m surprised this idiot is still doing it, considering that. He’s likely to catch criminal charges, too.

      e: guilty verdict came in fast, too.

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    So they’re trying to kill autistic kids now…

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      They’ve been doing this for a while now. I remember reading stories about moms in Facebook groups sharing photos of “parasites” they thought they were removing from their children by forcing them to drink bleach…

      Pretty sure it was actually the lining of their esophagus/something similarly bad that should be inside not outside the body.

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        I believe you’re talking about them shedding their intestinal linings and thinking they were getting rid of “worms.”

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          That’s horrifying

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        Very common trick, it’s not just done with autism, but many cleansing products have you puke up something to make it look like it actually is doing its job. But most of the time it is just stomach lining

    • OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one
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      Are we doing an Aktion T4 now?

      On that note, why – when most of modern conservatism has so many direct parallels in the Third Reich – do they call our side the fascists?

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        do they call our side the fascists?

        Been that way for a long while now.

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      …kill…cure…it’s all good.

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    “An evangelical pastor who briefly shot to fame in 2015 for recording a rap song in support of Sen. Ted Cruz“

    Okay, I’ve read enough.

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    Maybe he should practice what he preaches.

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      I agree totally and I think that people like this are really the best examples of that phrase “there is no hate quite like Christian love.”

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    Boy howdy, someone sure did hit The Randomizer ™ to come up with this chucklefuck.

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    He can join the Florida assholes that were selling Bleach to cure COVID in prison.

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    Vaccine gave autism to my kid, pretty sure bleach on the other hand should do the job

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      I mean. Technically it will. You will never have any disease or beneficial condition for that matter.

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    Maybe he should drink some, to prove that it’s safe.

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    Have the Save The Children WWG1WGA people ever gone after these bleach freaks? I assume no because it’d probably be friendly fire for their side

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      They don’t care about child molesters, they care about who they can accuse of being child molesters.

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    Call Myles Power. More fucking MMS-style bullshit.

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    The only rapping christian precher I’m willing to listen to

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      As an ex-coCer, no god-fearing red-blooded member of the one true church would use an instrumental track in a sing-along.

      Or capitalize “church” in this context.

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      Good God… the cringe lol

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    His bars are fucking whack. Where’s my dude Jim Colerick?

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