• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    All the BRICS have. Brazil just stands out, because its not a country we’ve flagged as “Evil Enemy Run By Inhuman Savages”.

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      4 months ago

      It also helps that unlike the R and the C in BRICS, they aren’t imperialists threatening and/or invading their neighbours. Brazil is a good world citizen.

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        Brazil is a good world citizen.

        Uhhh, did you forget that Brazil was being run by a fascist war criminal just a short while ago?

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          So were lots of countries. At least they learned from their mistake, unlike the US.

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            At least they learned from their mistake, unlike the US.

            If Brazil had learned from it’s mistake it WOULDN’T HAVE ALLOWED A FASCIST INTO POWER, genius.

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              I meant it in the “fool me once” sense. Americans went for a second helping at the trough of fascism.

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                Americans went for a second helping at the trough of fascism.

                The US has been pro-fascist long, long before Mussolini gave it a name.

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          And now it isn’t, that’s democracy, baby

          I fully agree that Bolsonaro was a straight up demon, but I also agree with the idea that - currently - the administration of Brazil is probably about as good an example of a good world citizen as it gets

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            And now it isn’t, that’s democracy,

            Abso-fucking-lutely not. Fascists would NEVER be able to gain power in a truly democratic society. No ifs, ands or butts.

            Fascists are funded into power (and into existence) by CAPITALISTS - adherents to an ideology that is violently incompatible with anything that can be called democratic with a straight face.

            Brazil is not a democratic society. It is a (so-called) “liberal democracy” - something that can be more accurately described as 95% capitalism with some fake democracy substitute thrown in as a legitimising measure.

            That is THE WHOLE POINT of liberalism.

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                Save it for the next fascist your (supposedly) “democratic” system siccs on you, liberal.

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                  You’re pinning for a system that prevents fascism, but it doesn’t exist. You prevent it through other sociological structures. The method for selecting power can’t do what you want it to do.

                  But by all means, keep trying to bait people online, I’m sure that helps you somehow.

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                    a system that prevents fascism, but it doesn’t exist.

                    Who brainwashed you into thinking that? The liberals who always come up with a 1001 excuses to keep fascism around, perhaps?

                    You prevent it through other sociological structures.

                    And what “sociological structures” would these be, pray tell?

                    The method for selecting power can’t do what you want it to do.

                    Oh we cannot democratically decide what power should do or how it should be distributed, eh?

                    Why am I not surprised that your TRUE ideology turns out to be as anti-democratic as the status quo you are shilling for?

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        As long as it keeps censoring its citizens, everthing fine! 🙄

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              The old system of using fact-checking agencies was biased, and the content they deemed false had its reach negatively impacted. They were literally the arbiters of truth, and their actions silenced their political opponents’ voices. The new system of Community Notes is superior because it requires approval from people with diverse political alignments to show a fact-check to everyone.

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                Because remember you need a Nazi and a tankie to agree with facts in order for it to be the real truth.

                Sometimes reality doesn’t align with political views. Doesn’t mean it’s not facts

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                  So you’re set to automatically complain unless the fact-check aligns perfectly with your worldview?

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                  you need a Nazi and a tankie to agree

                  I thought you just believed the opposite of whatever your political adversaries believed, because they were always lying

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        It’s so disappointing. India has a massive tech service industry and could’ve been a force for good, but the government loves their censorship and authoritarianism too much.

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          The limited view I have into the CEO culture there seems even more toxic than America’s.

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      because its not a country we’ve flagged as “Evil Enemy Run By Inhuman Savages”.

      Unless the subject is Amazon deforestation, in which case we have to stop these inhuman savages from destroying this global patrimony (mine). Please don’t ask who’s buying the cattle and soy being grown there or running the mining companies or where I got all this fertile land.