• lennybird@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      wasn’t downplaying public health efforts

      Uh well… He campaigned relentlessly saying tobacco didn’t cause cancer (ah the sweet irony he died of lung cancer) and that seatbelts were a way for government to control you. So…

      You can trace a lot of modern maga movement to Limpballs. He had a massive following and turned a lot of people extremist. Watch the documentary The Brainwashing of my Dad.