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Open Veins was good but Galeano came as a cantankerous old man on Upside Down which made me roll my eyes a lot when reading it.TheImmigrant posted:"Argentina: a country of Italians who speak Spanish and think themselves British." "Not white".
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:Time to recover Uruguay! Banda Oriental belongs to Brasil.
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hoiyes posted:Any Brazgoons up for some wild speculation on the water crisis in São Paulo. As far as I can tell from the press, opinions seem to range from "It looks pretty bad now, but God is Brazilian and he'll send the rains. by the way have you heard about Petrobras?" to "Expect Mad Max-esque, post-apocalyptic scenes, as the Southern Hemisphere's largest city turns into a dustbowl and regular citizens who can't flee find themselves trapped in the middle of an urban war between heavily armed gangs and veritable armies of private security over the few remaining water sources." The South and Southeast can go eat poo poo for all that I care  Also there has been a huge backlash at Dilma here on Ceara after she cancelled the refinery to be built on Fortaleza. How the hell does she expect to get a successor if she reneges on everything she promised on the campaign?
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Feb 5, 2015 19:39
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A lot of people are now supporting Cid Gomes for president but while he was a trillion times more honest than every politician when he called out the congress, his 8 years as governor here in Ceará were pretty much ambiguous. Like while the interior areas were finally getting better quality education and healthcare, there were a lot of big 'white elephants' that left our state full with debt like buying new cars and uniforms for the police yet them not being able to actually diminish the atmosphere of fear and unease that crime brought to the capital and even some rural areas.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:42
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Sephyr posted:As a former Sao Paulo resident ( Now in Buenos Aires), Plutonis, could I ask for for a review of recent (year 2000 and on) review of Cearense politics? We get such little and filtered news from the Northeast, I rarely know what to believe. Good news, these elections Maranhão elected a PCdoB candidate for governor who is doing his best to dismantle the Sarney corruption machine. Also the Northeast as a whole has gotten a lot better in the last 12 years due to investment in local business and the new welfare programs getting a large portion of the population out that was historically marginalized into decent living conditions. Still hosed up that Dilma cancelled the refinery that was going to be built on Pecem but it was due to the whole Petrobras case so it can't be helped.
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Mar 24, 2015 13:45
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Cunha and Temer ruling the country is going to own so much. It's going to be like having Frank Underwood as president but somehow even worse.
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Mar 24, 2015 15:57
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Oh hell yeah what we need like now is american-style politics. Also the Media trying to prop up Cunha is hilarious because when people called him the Brazilian Frank Underwood he got more offended by the fact that Underwood was bisexual than an amoral murderer. Also it's pretty surreal to see the discourse I usually saw being used by Olavo de Carvalho fanboys, trolls and insane people on 55chan now seeping into the mainstream.
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Mar 30, 2015 16:08
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That's because there were almost no influent conservative philosophers and thinkers since the dictatorship. It was majorly a conflict between neoliberal and socialist thought in politics during the 90s and 00s, with social conservatism usually a thing relegated to the religious politicians.
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Apr 3, 2015 20:38
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I met a guy on Lisbon that argued that portuguese was a dialect of Galician whose name was changed to give credibility to the newly founded Kingdom of Portugal but then he started rambling about merging portuguese with spanish and make it a global language called Ecolingua and how Lula stole his idea for the University of the Lusophone Nations.
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Apr 3, 2015 22:41
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The bourgeoisie and foreigners buying havaianas for absurd prizes when until 15 years ago they were a staple of 1,99 stores and associated with poor people is amazing.
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Apr 4, 2015 02:37
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There's a chance the senate won't let the outsourcing bill pass and Dilma can veto it but I'm not too optimistic.
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Apr 10, 2015 03:26
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PerpetualSelf posted:Wait maybe I don't understand this properly. Does the law legalize outsourcing current brazilian jobs overseas or legalize brazilians to work as outsourcers? It lets companies outsource all jobs to smaller companies to go around labor laws.
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Apr 10, 2015 19:12
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tsa posted:No one is actually posting any evidence why it is bad though, just waving their hands and saying it is bad. Statiscally, "terceirized" jobs pay 25% less, are far less stable and have longer work journeys. It might actually create LESS jobs as longer journeys lets companies hire less people to do the same job, pay them in peanuts and give fewer or even no benefits at all.
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Apr 10, 2015 21:43
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lol the Chicken Leg parade barely has people here on my city. How big is it on São Paulo/Rio?
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Apr 12, 2015 16:57
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PerpetualSelf posted:How the gently caress do you call for the impeachment of a president after just reelecting her? The same way you ask for a military coup barely 25 years after you left a military junta government.
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Apr 12, 2015 21:54
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Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan writer that wrote excellent book The Open Veins of Latin America passed away today of cancer. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/13/eduardo-galeano-open-veins-of-latin-america-writer-dies
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Apr 13, 2015 21:35
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Yggdrassil posted:Yeah, i know... at least he has a small chance in the city. I know it might be different down there but populism became a really overused word in Brazil, specially regarding welfare policies regarding the lower classes.
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Apr 28, 2015 14:36
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Argentina is chilly as hell why even turn on the AC at all
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Apr 28, 2015 17:29
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Peronism my rear end, this is just Mussolini's ideology with a wig.
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Apr 29, 2015 18:31
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Apparently 17 policemen refused to join the others when they started beating the poo poo out of the protesters and got arrested for that 
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Apr 29, 2015 23:13
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So apparently the right has accused Lula of confessing the Mensalão crimes to Pepe Mujica, except that Mujica went on record to deny it. How long until one of these guys gets hit with a calumny process?
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May 10, 2015 15:57
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PSDB voting to end presidential reelection on the Congress is amazing. loving incredible.
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May 30, 2015 00:21
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The possibility of Lula snatching another 8 years is real enough for them to try and put the genius back in the bottle but the sheer irony of it is perplexing considering the measures they took back on the FHC era.
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May 30, 2015 00:44
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He can still run yeah, but only for a single 4 year term.
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May 30, 2015 00:48
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Elias_Maluco posted:I wopuld not bet in Lula 2018 either, the anti-PT rage is getting stronger every day and Dilma's abysmal popularity can sink even him. Ehhh barely a hundred people went on the impeachment march this Wednesday and the whole thing has been losing steam since the terceirização and the teacher's strike debacles. Unless the media manages to find (or "find") a scandal that lasts more than a few weeks, Lula could still win due to his sheer popularity.
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May 30, 2015 01:06
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Ras Het posted:PT couldn't implement Full Communism and are now going for Full Sebastianism instead. One of my great-grandfathers was at Canudos so I'm ok with that.
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May 30, 2015 01:08
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Speaking of recession, where can I see the inflation numbers because holy poo poo the prices have been skyrocketing lately.
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May 30, 2015 15:44
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Romário (former footballer, now congressman) wants to investigate the CBF and there is a big chance this scandal might hit the Globo media empire since they were involved with some skeezy poo poo regarding WC transmission rights.
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May 30, 2015 20:21
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Época (the Globo mag) made it a side note on the cover while all the other mags made it the main story lmfao.
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Polidoro posted:Does Globo own (or is owned by) Traffic/FullPlay? J. Hawilla was their sports director in São Paulo for a few years and owns 50% of the broadcasting antennas that do transmit Globo channels to the same state. E: Haha Zico is considering running for FIFA.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSZu40swU8
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Jun 6, 2015 17:59
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Help my dad is yelling that the US is wanting to take down the Brazilian president to take ARE OIL
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Jun 30, 2015 16:50
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Didn't Peron had a huge loving beef with the Catholic Church though? IIRC during one of the Coups that took him down his supporters even torched churches.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:40
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How Hard Is It to Get Kicked Off Brazil's "Sin-Free" Facebook? How Hard Is It to Get Kicked Off Brazil's "Sin-Free" Facebook? How Hard Is It to Get Kicked Off Brazil's "Sin-Free" Facebook?
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Badger of Basra posted:How long until the Pentecostals take over your country? When Cunha decides to coup and go full Nehemiah Scudder so in at least 2 years
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You forgot Yu Yu Hakusho my man.
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Dias posted:Saint Seiya, DBZ, and on a lesser scale YYH (which I'll still defend as the best dub of all time) are popular as gently caress here in Brazil with my generation. A flor tem que ser de cerejeira...
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Jul 13, 2015 13:35
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Cunha is was with the government the same way Frank Underwood was with the government in House of Cards. It was pretty hilarious how his biggest gripe with being compared with that character was because Underwood was a bisexual because not even he can deny that both use the same methods.
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hoiyes posted:As all paulistanos know, Rio loving sucks. You guys took what, 20 years to clean the Tietê from being a death sludge river and now are trying to call out Rio? Also what's with the silence on the money spent on the Olympics? Did the Impeachment crap and the FIFA investigations stop the hand wringing about "Olympic level healthcare"?
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