• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    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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      6 days ago

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

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        6 days ago

        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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          6 days ago

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

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            6 days ago

            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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      7 days ago

      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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        7 days ago

        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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            5 days ago

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

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              4 days ago

              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?