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Friendly Humour posted:Ok so it's a series of increasingly more powerful people who get to veto and overrule anything people below them do without discussion or need for compromise? That doesn't really sound like something that's going to work without intensely personal ties of loyalty binding the hierarchy together, but I guess easy enough for me to speak. The governors can themselves be overruled by their own state legislatures and state judiciaries, as well as being able to be overruled by various federal level things. They also don't really have unlimited powers over smaller municipalities straight up, it's governed by various laws and such. They can also be removed from office via an impeachment proceeding. Now obviously when a particular government becomes really corrupt, the checks and balances and levels of mediated authority go out the window, but that's because the laws aren't being followed anymore
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Friendly Humour posted:Ok so it's a series of increasingly more powerful people who get to veto and overrule anything people below them do without discussion or need for compromise? That doesn't really sound like something that's going to work without intensely personal ties of loyalty binding the hierarchy together, but I guess easy enough for me to speak. I think it's a situation like you get in the US when e.g. the Republicans hold both Congress and Supreme Court majorities as well as the Presidency. For something like that to work out, you kind of depend on the majority being reasonable, non-corrupt and acting in good faith. When they're not, well  Friendly Humour posted:But yeah, stupid question. People do not ever rebel until they get hungry and bored, no point asking for more reasons. The local rebellions I know very little about seemed pretty interesting, but I don't understand why these movements don't try to link up and cooperate? Just poverty and the usual alienation of isolated communities? What was the shadow government thing about? Just the usual social democrats throwing up a hissy fit about corruption? Cheers and good night! Not really an expert, but the armed movements have typically been local and mostly care about local issues afaict. The shadow government thing came out of suspicions that the 2006 elections were stolen, following an extremely dirty/bitter campaign. In retrospect I think it looked a little like this US election year in that it fit a globalist establishment vs. anti-globalist anti-establishment narrative. Officially, the former won by a hair. I... have my own dumb opinions on this, but it's still controversial and really not worth relitigating here 
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Welp, guess which president has a shitly cropped official portrait now.
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Negrostrike posted:Welp, guess which president has a shitly cropped official portrait now. That's my president!! 
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Negrostrike posted:Welp, guess which president has a shitly cropped official portrait now.
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Negrostrike posted:Welp, guess which president has a shitly cropped official portrait now. The man has a really punchable face.
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In recent news: Chile decides to burn this motherfucker to the ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszXMocYnxA On the lighter side, the huge cloud of smoke drifting over Santiago and blotting out the sun might moderate the recent heat wave!
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wateroverfire posted:the huge cloud of smoke drifting over Santiago and blotting out the sun
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Temer decided to nominate Cunha's former defense attorney to the supreme court, where he will take over the Lava Jato case. I am sure he will be impartial and promote justice, as opposed to being just the partisan hack he's been his entire career.
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I prefer to watch the Trump dumpster fire because holy gently caress no country deserves the PMDB
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Transmetropolitan posted:I prefer to watch the Trump dumpster fire because holy gently caress no country deserves the PMDB At least Americans can believe Trump is just a phase, we're kinda stuck with those fucks for a while.
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To add further context to Joepinetree's post, Brasil is going through a wave of prison riots with dead well into the triple digits, police strikes that have some states literally on fire, flaring violence and protests... And the government's thinking is to give the guy who was at the whell for all of that, who said that his priority is to wipe marijuana off the contiment, a promotion to the most sensitive institution in the land. And funnily enough, no big marches of yellow-wearing patriots lately!
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Brazil : export-class corruption The Odebrecht case has spilt over latin america like an overflowing sub-imperialist toilet, but rest assured, this will probably be the end of it (not really)
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I call bullshit on that map, there's no way Mexico isn't at least on the 50-200 range.
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yeah lmao that map and venezuela somehow having less corruption than brazil, that map is bad
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Both of you realize that that map isn't a map of overall corruption, just odebrecht corruption?
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Let us adopt the Cuban model, free of corruption
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 The communist (carnival) bloc. i've been drinking hard since friday and the party keeps going till tuesday, i love my country, the rest of latin america and maybe the world should also have a week of complete debauchery every year
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bagual posted:
I'm kind of afraid for these people.
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Symbolic Butt posted:I'm kind of afraid for these people. It's probably gonna be fine, there's enough people to bash the eventual fash there. There was this bloc tho that started a Fora Temer chant and got barred from the street carnival yesterday.
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no idea how it is on other states, but in Rio "Fora Temer" chants are common in every major carnival block that i've been to. I aware of the bias, but i'm a middle class dude with friends in the arts/music/carnival scene, so these blocs are representative of what the RJ artistic people are thinking. No way there will be any police action to stop any kind of anti-government speech, unless people try to set the state senate on fire or something like that. Magrov fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Feb 26, 2017 |
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Did the samba school that included an ala about ranchers killing natives change their parade at all? I had read a story about but wasn't sure. Also I hope Globo didn't fix their livestream so you can't see it outside Brazil - I watched both nights last year 
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So hey, is it just me or did the meat scandal just destroyed brazilian meat reputation forever? lol
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What Brazilian meat reputation?
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bagual posted:
Pictured: dancing imbeciles.
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Well I still rather have that then Marcha da Famlia.
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When I think about groups that have historically brought ruin to Brazil I think about the communists who like to dance.
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:What Brazilian meat reputation? Everybody here always knew stuff like friboi meat was disgusting but idk, foreigners seemed to have a more romantic vision about brazilian meat in general.
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For me, it was the president being scared of g-g-g-ghooooosttss that earned me the most poo poo from foreign friends.
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:When I think about groups that have historically brought ruin to Brazil I think about the communists who like to dance. Communists brought ruin to every country they touched, so I'm sure that given the chance they'd do the same there.
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Non Serviam posted:Communists brought ruin to every country they touched, so I'm sure that given the chance they'd do the same there. Brazil has never needed communists to be ruined, and it's not going to start now.
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Hell yeah man, feudalism is still all the rage around these parts
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ZearothK posted:Brazil has never needed communists to be ruined, and it's not going to start now. Which reminds me. That graph about corruption is it just absolute numbers? Because isn't it obvious Brazil would have a larger amount than Uruguay or Guyana by that metric?
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Non Serviam posted:Communists brought ruin to every country they touched, so I'm sure that given the chance they'd do the same there. You're thinking of Stalinists. They're a very different bunch.
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Non Serviam posted:Which reminds me. That graph's actually about just Odebrecht's bribes over the continent, a massive construction and engineering company with deep ties into brazilian politics since the military dictatorship. They had a freaking structured, rationalized bribe department going on. That's brazilian administrative efficiency for you. Now if you want to see actual imbeciles dancing there's this video of the anti-Dilma people choreographing their dance. For some reason there's no more anti-corruption protests like this since her impeachment, which clearly means brazilian corruption has been completely eradicated just by ousting the only major center-left party from power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXbxvx1NNvw
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Messi is a pussy and FIFA needs video replay. Thanks for listening.
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People who want to understand Brazilian elites and the mutt complex have a good starting point in today's interview that the president of Andrade Gutierrez gave Folha. The first thing he talks about when explaining why he is disgusted by Dilma is her is "just look at her trying to speak French."
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joepinetree posted:People who want to understand Brazilian elites and the mutt complex have a good starting point in today's interview that the president of Andrade Gutierrez gave Folha. The first thing he talks about when explaining why he is disgusted by Dilma is her is "just look at her trying to speak French." I can see that being said from the mexican elite also. These guys are so disconnected from their country's reality like no other elite in any other region of the world.
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