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since the questions are likely to keep coming, glenn on chapo did cover a bit of recent brazilian history and it sounded pretty accurate to me. You should listen to this if you want to know more. https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/336-neom-2049-feat-glenn-greenwald-72919
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Aug 20, 2019 19:51
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I recall reading the Economist some years ago saying that PT was flirting with State Capitalism (Chinese style).
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Aug 20, 2019 19:52
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nerdz posted:since the questions are likely to keep coming, glenn on chapo did cover a bit of recent brazilian history and it sounded pretty accurate to me. You should listen to this if you want to know more. I already listened to that episode. I love both Chapo and Glenn. Even though Glenn can be divisive around these parts.
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Aug 20, 2019 19:53
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Interesting letter to the doj asking about doj involvement with lava jato http://dearcolleague.us/2019/08/clo...ties-in-brazil/
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Aug 21, 2019 00:27
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punk rebel ecks posted:I already listened to that episode. I love both Chapo and Glenn. Even though Glenn can be divisive around these parts. Listen to this one also because oh boy Glenn fucks some things hard over there. "Oh, Brazilians not liking Corruption is actually a generation gap" is kind of galaxy brained given how the Brazilian Army operated and all. I get the feeling there's a bit of a gag order going on between Portugal and Brazil because LITERALLY NO PORTUGUESE PAPER is covering the fires. I mean they're happily dancing around the Haddad arrest and reporting the accusations in face value, but... no peep about the fires? Fires that even Vox and BBC are acknowledging? Kunster has issued a correction as of 00:52 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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Aug 21, 2019 00:49
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It's not new, really. Just like the Itaipu scandal has barely scratched the written media and television not at all. They'll report the president running his mouth because that's stuff everyone does and no one cares, but actual scandals with teeth get buried or only mentioned briefly and then never followed up on. Globo and the rest are all too aware that shaking up the regime too much right now would boost the opposition, and they'll gladly let the country burn to the ground before that happens. It would be different if they had a neoliberal centrist in the mold of Aecio or FHC rising to be able to pick up the pieces and become the Great Moderate Savior, but they don't, so that's that.
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Aug 21, 2019 01:33
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English media is running pieces on how Bolso runs his mouth about poop but nothing about how he's putting cronies in charge of every government agency that is capable of investigating him and his family's corruption and ties with the paramilitary gangs
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Aug 21, 2019 01:50
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punk rebel ecks posted:I recall reading the Economist some years ago saying that PT was flirting with State Capitalism (Chinese style).
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Aug 21, 2019 01:50
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Sephyr posted:It's not new, really. Just like the Itaipu scandal has barely scratched the written media and television not at all. They'll report the president running his mouth because that's stuff everyone does and no one cares, but actual scandals with teeth get buried or only mentioned briefly and then never followed up on. Oh I'm aware, it's just way more overt than usual.
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Aug 21, 2019 02:01
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get that OUT of my face posted:oooo, look at you, you read The Economist I hate The Economist. I read it during my naive college years.
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Aug 21, 2019 02:55
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punk rebel ecks posted:Then why aren't they winning elections? Who gives a poo poo about Car Wash scandals. Taking this on a global scale: Why are ultra-nationalists winning elections in a shitton of countries in the last couple of years? It's part of a clear trend... Local scale: the worker's party was completely mauled, the last worker's party president got impeached* and the most popular party person is in prison**. So yeah, no surprise they have no momentum for winning any elections now (and probably ever again). Also keep in mind that in this last election the total voting population was around the same as the one before, but the number of null/blank/absent votes almost DOUBLED. This totally decided the election in favor of Bolsonaro, the only candidate with some kind of political momentum (even if it originally came from a fringe minority) *for flimsy reasons **also for flimsy reasons
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Aug 21, 2019 03:51
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That sucks. Is there any hope for the Brazilian Left now?
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Aug 21, 2019 04:03
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Aug 21, 2019 04:07
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gently caress.
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Aug 21, 2019 04:11
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get that OUT of my face posted:oooo, look at you, you read The Economist I remember an anecdote about someone having a conversation about a new book and realized that the other guy had it all wrong bc he hadn't read it just the review in the economist which also got it all wrong
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Aug 21, 2019 16:57
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There was a Comando Vermelho graffiti in one of the classrooms of the public school that I intern as a history teacher
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Aug 22, 2019 01:11
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Aug 22, 2019 01:28
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those loving NGO's, I swear to god
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Aug 22, 2019 15:09
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punk rebel ecks posted:I hate The Economist. I read it during my naive college years. but yeah it sucks rear end and that take is extremely in their wheelhouse
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Aug 22, 2019 15:24
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https://twitter.com/brazilianboomer/status/1164587004224561153
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Aug 22, 2019 18:30
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So they are going to build gambling cities where the rainforest once stood?
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Aug 22, 2019 18:40
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Why do Brazilians hate nature so much
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Aug 22, 2019 19:28
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maker posted:Why do Brazilians hate nature so much Mosquitos are annoying
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Aug 22, 2019 20:01
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maker posted:Why do Brazilians hate nature so much We take it for granted. There is a widely held belief that Europe and the US had to sacrifice their nature in order to industrialize and that environmental regulations are a means of preventing Brazil from likewise developing. Nevermind that 21st century economics have widely different resource demands than 19th century ones. That's the rationalization, but the reasons for the fires are ideological (it is a way to say "gently caress you" to an environmentalist strawman) and economic, but only for the ones setting the fires. A large part of the areas being burned belong to the union and/or are environmental reserves, and for the large landowners in that frontier that will literally be free real estate to expand their soy and pastures. I really doubt we'll get cheaper beef or soy from the increased supply, so this has zero benefits for the actual people of Brazil, and even if it did, the cost is not worth it.
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Aug 22, 2019 23:09
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Lol the Novo party is trying to distance themselves from Minister Salles
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Aug 22, 2019 23:31
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Aug 23, 2019 12:35
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pqp.. how do boomers get to this stage of brain rot?
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Aug 23, 2019 12:42
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Lmao https://twitter.com/rachelkennedy84/status/1164865780435099648?s=20
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Aug 23, 2019 14:09
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The french are also considering canceling the EU-Mercosur trade deal too. I can't wait for us to become 80s South Africa
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Aug 23, 2019 14:12
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Plutonis posted:The french are also considering canceling the EU-Mercosur trade deal too. I can't wait for us to become 80s South Africa Good.
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Aug 23, 2019 14:15
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Jair Bolsarano is the handsomest man on television
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Aug 23, 2019 14:30
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Bolsonaro seems cornered. I guess being a complete failtard internationally doesn't work well if you're not Trump?
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Aug 23, 2019 14:43
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Yeah, I guess they overestimated how much you can be odious and evil when you not the leader of a superpower
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Aug 23, 2019 14:49
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even apartheid SA had nukes to back up their failbrained macho settler colonialism
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Aug 23, 2019 14:51
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Plutonis posted:I can't wait for us to become 80s South Africa Haven't we already?
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Aug 23, 2019 15:06
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President Poopmouth is going to do a live national statement today. Place your bets! 1- Lukewarm hypocritical call for unity and support 2- Frothing counter saying that Europe wants the amazon for itself and it's all fake news 3- Rambling attempts to mix 1 and 2.
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Aug 23, 2019 18:51
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Portugal is probably one of the only states right now trying to defend Brazil over this. Oh boy!quote:O chefe do Executivo português manifestou a disponibilidade de apoio para enfrentar os incêndios e defendeu que “o Brasil precisa de solidariedade e não de sanções”. Em declarações aos meios de comunicação social, António Costa aconselhou também a não confundir o “drama que está a ser vivido neste momento na Amazónia” com o acordo entre a União Europeia e a Mercosul. Reading the OP-eds on this are going to read like those twitter threads on callout culture by people whom you can scroll down and see like a long discussion on how, actually, Eric Garner deserved to get it and I need like the operation from PI to forget the Portuguese Language.
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