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

improper comparison (why aren’t we comparing Haiti and Cuba instead of the US and Cuba?)

this has buggered me so much since the first time i ever heard that comparison

it’s especially bad when it’s someone from the 3rd world spouting that bullshit. “people are leaving cuba to go to the US!!” yea bitch but more people are leaving our country for america too and ours is a fucking capitalist one

maybe that, coupled with the recent re-opening of investigations on the military (over disappearances during the dictatorship), could help us get rid of these comprador assholes in the long term because by god do i hate our military

the other time they had a similarly good result was with that other piece of shit neolib we all know, and blair might have been even worse than starner in some way or another

brits really are just hopelessly thick

it’s funny because what they’re calling productivity is actually just production: they’re literally increasing hours rather than increasing product per hour (which is productivity, and also the only way to be more sustainable, even under capitalism)

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

Also, Bukele’s idea of putting a bunch of people in a mega-prison can’t last forever.

supposedly, it’s a short-term measure that is going to be followed by social policies

to be fair, it would be impossible to effectively apply any kind of social policy in their previous situation. if it was a left-wing government, i would support the crackdown, lumpens can be dangerous as fuck. the problem with it coming from the right is that i don’t trust them to do the necessary social policies, and it’s gonna end up the same it was, just with different people

also, what worries me is other latin american leaders wanting to do the same. el salvador’s situation was uniquely bad, few places in the continent have anything remotely similar. for instance, it would be ridiculous to defend that kind of crackdown in brazil

i think they’re just losing market share… germany has been getting screwed for years now, starting way before the energy issues

aside from the possible instances of relief (eg random years of a slight recovery within a long term trend of decline), this economic shift feels almost unavoidable

unless the west goes to war or some shit

So you’re saying there is no power imbalance of similar scale in socialist or communist societies?

of similar scale? there absolutely isn’t, especially when you get off your own head and realize your country (meaning the main tool of your dominant classes) doesn’t exist in isolation. and the fact you’re talking about “socialist or communist” societies really shows you have no idea what you’re talking about, despite all your unwarranted certainty

I don’t know why I still bother. That site achieves the unthinkable: it is way fucking worse than Twitter.

i’m pretty sure half of reddit users aren’t even real people, or at least not real people expressing real opinions

if you go out in the streets there’s no way you’d find that level or frequency of anti-palestine rhetoric. i mean, fuck, how many pro-israel protests have you seen and how many people were in those compared to pro-palestine ones?

“everything was so great in the 90s” says the guy who never paid attention to a 90s hip hop song in his life

i’m saying an ability to shoot down nukes is part of a larger equation of deterrents that makes the actual, effective use of nukes unlikely by israel in the near future

As far as we know, Israeli nukes are not integrated with the US.

nuclear missiles can be shot down mate, especially when the land which they’re sent from is so small

and after yom kippur, when as far as we know the US was unaware that israel wanted to use nukes, or even that they had them, i’m sure they got their CIA plants on the ground watching

nukes are serious shit, really nobody wants them to be used