s0ykaf [he/him]

fucking climate change or fucking ricardo nunes

in a way, i think we can see it as a type of tailism

that last part is so true lmao

when these evangelical leaders were reaching their peak, back in late 00’s/early 10’s, the PT decided to support rather than to fight them, in the hopes that they would get electoral support (which they even did, for a time; but like any reactionary opportunist, those leaders soon turned their back on the party)

there’s a bunch of bureaucratic stuff to do before it becomes blocked, but once it does you can probably still use nitter (or even use a vpn, though you might be fined for 50k in that case)

tbh, all elon had to do was to appoint some legal representative for brazilian operations. this is literally just him throwing a tantrum and not wanting to be coerced

moraes has ordered twitter to be shut down

i know that lib would do the same to communists, but since that cursed website is a den of nazi fucks i’m actually pretty happy about it

gonna be harder to see how my ex is doing though… but it’s all for the best lmao

prompt: unhinged cowlick hair cracker

lula did have 10 million more votes from catholics, whereas bolsonaro was up by 14 million with evangelicals

but it’s a tricky stat: the most catholic regions in the country are the south and northeast, and while the first one voted firmly for the right, the second basically pushed lula to his win, with crazy percentages like over 76% of the votes in piauí

so, two catholic regions voting in completely different ways. my take is that it’s not really that catholics support lula, as much as northeasterners do (for very material, concrete reasons - historically the poorest region in the country, but whose conditions improved massively under lula I and II), and they just happen to be very catholic

Maybe it’s that we made the Internet so full of disinformation that everyone is just automatically refusing to listen to others, maybe we have created a social group that just assumes they are more educated than everyone else cause they read some stuff in the internet.

i’ve always thought the decline of capitalism, or even just the accumulation of its downturns, had the consequence of people trusting authorities less than they used to, and that scientists just get thrown in the same bag (“people who mess with this convoluted stuff as if they know what they’re doing and just keep making my life worse”)

i hate everything here, from the ridiculous price to the guy treating a degree like a simple matter of value exchange

it’s like even the pursuit of knowledge has become just a tool to help or hinder your survival under capitalism and i really fucking hate it

“a degree is like a car” no it fucking isn’t??

So not only can you save lots of budget in the military, but it also reduces the harm that a well-funded and organised military can be to the “internal enemy”, which is usually poor, indigenous, black or otherwise marginalised people. (Usually with the cover of “combatting drug trafficking”)

while that’s true, the military is also the only institution that, if co-opted, could be used in a theoretical situation against local police, which is usually armed to the teeth in countries where drug trafficking is serious enough

when bolsonaro had his pathetic military parade, with tanks fuming like old chevettes (to the point where it became a meme), i was only happy until i remembered how our local police are pretty much brownshirts bearing automatic rifles

i wonder if that keeps researchers from developing economies from becoming impactful, because $3k is like 15 months of a minimum wage in brazilian reais, and more than entire month’s wages for 99.9% of our professors

edit: for the humanities this seems especially bad, it kind of makes it sure that western social thought remains dominant since only you guys can actually pay for it

The multi millionaire friedrich engels is a communist?

Hahaha…

i wish i could live in a place that is like that all year long (and isn’t in terf island or some other 1st world shithole)

And therein lies the problem, you and a lot of people like you, genuinely can’t differentiate life and politics

the problem is precisely that for us politics has a practical effect on our daily lives. we have to worry about it, and talk about it, because if we simply let things go we get absolutely fucked

good for you that your current condition makes you immune to even moderate sways in the political environment. that is not the case for millions of people, even the majority of them

a liberal is anyone who believes in the tenets of liberalism, mainly those active in a bourgeois democracy

contemporary socdems believe in those, they’re libs too

i think what he means is that the “developer” has the power because he “develops” the games and without him the games can’t be “developed”

it’s a silly way of mistaking a role for the individual that fulfills it. the role is necessary… not that particular individual

but it’s not like they had a gun on their head.

they do have a metaphorical gun in the form of bills that need to be paid…

oops fixed it

It’s irrelevant because it doesn’t absolve your behavior.

there is nothing to absolve

and she’s not “making an excuse”, she’s giving you an explanation for our very fine, flawless behavior

i think most people here are just apathetic towards it, yea

as for smaller, more involved groups, you have the english-speaking libs and the middle class which are just nyt-brained to the core (on every single issue, so you can guess their opinions), and the communists and PT libs (with opinions that are pretty close to ours: “war is bad, putin is shit, and we should stay away from the whole thing, but hopefully the end result of this one is a weaker, and not a stronger, american/nato empire”)