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Typo posted:armed insurgencies and political violence have tended to accelerate the dive into dictatorships not really
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:armed insurgencies have failed and succeeded. in some cases they are the only option/the best option, or not a good option at all. americans are probably biased towards guns because we are insane, but the opposite idea that they are always futile or doomed is simply not true with even a basic examination of modern history. Things change. When was the last time a functioning and modern government was felled by an insurgency? Guerilla warfare becomes really dangerous when the enemy has drones and satellite imaging.
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Oct 30, 2018 17:47
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yeah idk what foreign power would help a brazil insurgency
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Oct 30, 2018 17:48
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china you’re loving useless
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Oct 30, 2018 17:48
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In Syria they did had a lot of foreign help and still Assad stands
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Oct 30, 2018 17:50
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fspades posted:Things change. When was the last time a functioning and modern government was felled by an insurgency? Guerilla warfare becomes really dangerous when the enemy has drones and satellite imaging. the taliban control vast swaths of Afghanistan despite decades of war against the most powerful and technologically advanced military in the world.
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Oct 30, 2018 17:51
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Elias_Maluco posted:In Syria they did had a lot of foreign help and still Assad stands Assad had more foreign help via Russia and Iran
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Oct 30, 2018 17:55
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Colombia has been fighting insurgents in the jungles for decades lol
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Oct 30, 2018 17:59
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Moridin920 posted:Colombia has been fighting insurgents in the jungles for decades lol Theyve pretty much won at this point right? Only reason there wasn't a treaty is the right thought it could get an even harder one
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Oct 30, 2018 18:01
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Bullfrog posted:Insurgencies most often succeed when funded by a foreign power and are much less successful when they aren't. That's the big secret of the 20th century
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Oct 30, 2018 18:02
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StashAugustine posted:Theyve pretty much won at this point right? Only reason there wasn't a treaty is the right thought it could get an even harder one Still though lol
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Oct 30, 2018 18:03
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Bullfrog posted:Insurgencies most often succeed when funded by a foreign power and are much less successful when they aren't. That's the big secret of the 20th century Ireland? Anyway here is a side lol; when you win a "civil war" : 
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Oct 30, 2018 18:04
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Bullfrog posted:Insurgencies most often succeed when funded by a foreign power and are much less successful when they aren't. That's the big secret of the 20th century except the reactionary governments often received vastly greater arms and funding from the United States than victorious leftist guerrillas and national liberation movements received from the soviets, and still lost.
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Oct 30, 2018 18:04
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Moridin920 posted:Ireland? that wasn't an insurgency though, that was a conventional civil war in which the communists started out controlling a significant percentage of the population/industry in which case yeah foreign support matters less
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Oct 30, 2018 18:06
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Typo posted:that wasn't an insurgency though, that was a conventional civil war in which the communists started out controlling a significant percentage of the population/industry Yes, I just thought it was funny.
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Oct 30, 2018 18:07
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THS posted:china you’re loving useless china isn't gonna help a brazilian insurgency lol xi and bolnosoro will shake hands and announce chinese aquisition of brazilian mining/logging rights for a gazillion dollars
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Oct 30, 2018 18:08
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:the taliban control vast swaths of Afghanistan despite decades of war against the most powerful and technologically advanced military in the world. That's why I said functioning. Afghanistan is a joke.
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Oct 30, 2018 18:24
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Typo posted:china isn't gonna help a brazilian insurgency lol Except he won on anti-chinese fear mongering and vehement anti-communism lol. He's far more likely to sell the amazon to jared kushner
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Oct 30, 2018 18:24
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Venom Snake posted:Except he won on anti-chinese fear mongering and vehement anti-communism lol. He's far more likely to sell the amazon to jared kushner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcQ92BC0WzI
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Oct 30, 2018 18:26
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Venom Snake posted:Except he won on anti-chinese fear mongering and vehement anti-communism lol. He's far more likely to sell the amazon to jared kushner He did but I very much doubt he is going to sour relations with our most important economic partner
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Oct 30, 2018 18:27
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Typo posted:china isn't gonna help a brazilian insurgency lol oh yeah i know. just pointing out there’s zero counterweight to the current hegemony
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Oct 30, 2018 18:28
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Elias_Maluco posted:He did but I very much doubt he is going to sour relations with our most important economic partner People said this about trump wrt tariffs and other economic poo poo. Logic never gets in the way of what dumbshit strongmen want.
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Oct 30, 2018 18:30
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My knowledge comes from basic internet searches, but my understanding is that Brazil's military is big and well funded, especially when compared to neighboring states. Is this correct? Is there any silver lining?
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Oct 30, 2018 18:37
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Frijolero posted:My knowledge comes from basic internet searches, but my understanding is that Brazil's military is big and well funded, especially when compared to neighboring states. Is this correct? Is there any silver lining? They haven't been engaged in a major war in quite a while and has only been used for internal suppression. Any war Brazil would wage would turn out like Yemen.
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Oct 30, 2018 18:59
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Frijolero posted:My knowledge comes from basic internet searches, but my understanding is that Brazil's military is big and well funded, especially when compared to neighboring states. Is this correct? Is there any silver lining?
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Oct 30, 2018 19:00
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His Purple Majesty posted:They haven't been engaged in a major war in quite a while and has only been used for internal suppression. Any war Brazil would wage would turn out like Yemen. if they go to war with Venezuela, then all the whites and bourgeois aspirationists will be an enthusiastic fifth column. so I wouldn’t be so sure that they’d definitely lose.
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Oct 30, 2018 19:03
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Frijolero posted:My knowledge comes from basic internet searches, but my understanding is that Brazil's military is big and well funded, especially when compared to neighboring states. Is this correct? Is there any silver lining? South America is poo poo tons of jungles and mountains and military engagements there would be a logistical nightmare.
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Oct 30, 2018 19:21
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A newly elected lawmaker from the party of Brazil’s ultra-rightwing president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, has launched a campaign to encourage students to denounce teachers who complain about his victory. In an interview with local radio, Campagnola said her phone had been running hot with denunciations. When one Facebook follower questioned the legality of filming in class, she warned: “Just behave properly and there is no reason to be scared, citizen.”
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Oct 30, 2018 19:23
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I really really really picked the wrong career choice lmfao
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Oct 30, 2018 19:25
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My family is full of teachers and professors, as are most of my friends (LGBT, also). This is the dumbest education policy conceivable, Jesus Christ. My dream was to be a professor in my home city of Belo Horizonte. I am never going back now. How are universities in Portugal, Portuguese goons (portugoons?)? I loved Portugal and speaking portuguese instead of this weird rear end language, I would happily live in a small town with an ok university anywhere in Portugal actually. spivak has issued a correction as of 19:42 on Oct 30, 2018 |
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Oct 30, 2018 19:32
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Plutonis posted:I really really really picked the wrong career choice lmfao just behave properly and there is no reason to be scared, citizen
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Oct 30, 2018 19:39
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spivak posted:My family is full of teachers and professors, as are most of my friends (LGBT, also). This is the dumbest education policy conceivable, Jesus Christ. There were inevitable budget cuts to education during the FMI years, but the situation is mostly stable if not particularly brilliant, as is most of portuguese economy and society. There's plenty of smaller universities outside of Lisbon and Porto, both state run and private. Besides, the classic university city is actually Coimbra, in the middle of the country, which has one of the world's oldest universities. Don't know what's the status of legal immigration at the moment because Portugal has put a stay on receiving requests from brazilians for the time being because they rightfully expect to be flooded with them after the Bolsonaro win. You can always move here and see how it goes, plenty of brazilians have come without any legal immigration status and managed to aquire it later on.
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Oct 30, 2018 19:51
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Thanks a lot. I am an European resident for the next two years, so I will apply for some positions there for sure in the near future.
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Oct 30, 2018 19:57
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Getting beaten and detained...to own the libs
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Oct 30, 2018 20:02
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Plutonis posted:A newly elected lawmaker from the party of Brazil’s ultra-rightwing president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, has launched a campaign to encourage students to denounce teachers who complain about his victory. https://twitter.com/strauss_real/status/1056707022119452672 And someone peeped that and is doing a donation drive for appears to be legal funds for the APAE (Parents of Students and Disabled Kids, I think that's the closest translation) there based on sending random horseshit to her. I think its done and the money was sent already. Kunster has issued a correction as of 20:15 on Oct 30, 2018 |
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Oct 30, 2018 20:12
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fspades posted:pardon me for asking but are you american? HardDiskD posted:i mean i could buy a gun and commit suicide via military police, but i dont think that will help anyone i meant in the sense that if that starts to occur, irrespective of your personal preferences, your ability to acquire firearms will get limited. ergo, you might not be able to buy guns later if we assume that violence is a possibility in brazil. and im finnish, and i wasn't joking when i said im ignorant
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Oct 30, 2018 20:14
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spivak posted:Thanks a lot. I am an European resident for the next two years, so I will apply for some positions there for sure in the near future. Do you have any european immigrant grandparents? This is purely anecdotal, but brazilian footballers use this as a way to fast track dual citizenship in Europe all the time in places like Italy, Portugal and Germany.
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Oct 30, 2018 20:29
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Max Awfuls posted:Do you have any european immigrant grandparents? This is purely anecdotal, but brazilian footballers use this as a way to fast track dual citizenship in Europe all the time in places like Italy, Portugal and Germany.
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Oct 30, 2018 21:12
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Max Awfuls posted:Do you have any european immigrant grandparents? This is purely anecdotal, but brazilian footballers use this as a way to fast track dual citizenship in Europe all the time in places like Italy, Portugal and Germany. From what I understand, if you are already living in one of the countries, even if just on a tourist visa, and then apply for citizenship while having and address there (even if its temporary), the process goes a lot faster then if you apply from the outside. It's something like a few months vs half a decade.
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Kurnugia posted:i meant in the sense that if that starts to occur, irrespective of your personal preferences, your ability to acquire firearms will get limited. ergo, you might not be able to buy guns later if we assume that violence is a possibility in brazil. Acquiring a legal weapon here is very expensive and very difficult, something that most people cannot afford. There's always the black market, but yikes.
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