Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” law cost the country as much a $1.6 billion in its first year

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Thank you, US evangelicals! You again managed to fuck another entire country up

WTF, Uganda? Could you maybe be a bit more chill?

Oh dear. I suppose it would be too much to ask for the evangelicals to be a bit more chill?

These evangelicals should maybe die in a fire. They are the root of a severe problem that only leads to this shit. Hateful awful people that have no concept of empathy or shame.

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Priorities.

Also, what's a bit funny to me is they used the excuse of "homosexuality is a form of western colonialism", but they're taking notes directly from western far-right playbook here.

Bigotry is literally due to western colonialism in many places in the first place. How many instances of what used to be a cultures version of queer people were erased and demonized by colonizing nations in history?

A lot of cultures used to have third genders and even might have thought highly of them, having them be shamans or other prestigious positions

In Christo-fascist Uganda, da poopoo eat you

I shouldnt be laughing about this horrible issue but god damn it i fucking forgot about that video lmao

That people are so hell bent on spending more money to do the worst* possible things rather than just doing the right things in 2024 blows my mind.

This is the core philosophy of social conservatism. They don't want to fix problems, they want to give you someone else to blame and stoke up your anger while telling you they will punish those people.

How?

Open for Business identified eight key areas in which the AHA has impacted Uganda’s economy, including international aid, foreign direct investment, tourism and national reputation, public health, national productivity, policing and legal costs, human capital and talent flight, and trade relations.