Maybe it’s that we made the Internet so full of disinformation that everyone is just automatically refusing to listen to others, maybe we have created a social group that just assumes they are more educated than everyone else cause they read some stuff in the internet.

i’ve always thought the decline of capitalism, or even just the accumulation of its downturns, had the consequence of people trusting authorities less than they used to, and that scientists just get thrown in the same bag (“people who mess with this convoluted stuff as if they know what they’re doing and just keep making my life worse”)

So not only can you save lots of budget in the military, but it also reduces the harm that a well-funded and organised military can be to the “internal enemy”, which is usually poor, indigenous, black or otherwise marginalised people. (Usually with the cover of “combatting drug trafficking”)

while that’s true, the military is also the only institution that, if co-opted, could be used in a theoretical situation against local police, which is usually armed to the teeth in countries where drug trafficking is serious enough

when bolsonaro had his pathetic military parade, with tanks fuming like old chevettes (to the point where it became a meme), i was only happy until i remembered how our local police are pretty much brownshirts bearing automatic rifles

i wonder if that keeps researchers from developing economies from becoming impactful, because $3k is like 15 months of a minimum wage in brazilian reais, and more than entire month’s wages for 99.9% of our professors

edit: for the humanities this seems especially bad, it kind of makes it sure that western social thought remains dominant since only you guys can actually pay for it

The multi millionaire friedrich engels is a communist?

Hahaha…

i wish i could live in a place that is like that all year long (and isn’t in terf island or some other 1st world shithole)

And therein lies the problem, you and a lot of people like you, genuinely can’t differentiate life and politics

the problem is precisely that for us politics has a practical effect on our daily lives. we have to worry about it, and talk about it, because if we simply let things go we get absolutely fucked

good for you that your current condition makes you immune to even moderate sways in the political environment. that is not the case for millions of people, even the majority of them

a liberal is anyone who believes in the tenets of liberalism, mainly those active in a bourgeois democracy

contemporary socdems believe in those, they’re libs too

i think what he means is that the “developer” has the power because he “develops” the games and without him the games can’t be “developed”

it’s a silly way of mistaking a role for the individual that fulfills it. the role is necessary… not that particular individual

but it’s not like they had a gun on their head.

they do have a metaphorical gun in the form of bills that need to be paid…

oops fixed it

It’s irrelevant because it doesn’t absolve your behavior.

there is nothing to absolve

and she’s not “making an excuse”, she’s giving you an explanation for our very fine, flawless behavior

i think most people here are just apathetic towards it, yea

as for smaller, more involved groups, you have the english-speaking libs and the middle class which are just nyt-brained to the core (on every single issue, so you can guess their opinions), and the communists and PT libs (with opinions that are pretty close to ours: “war is bad, putin is shit, and we should stay away from the whole thing, but hopefully the end result of this one is a weaker, and not a stronger, american/nato empire”)

Most countries are assisting Ukraine where they can.

lmao here i am living in a 200 million people country where nobody gives a single fuck about ukraine

even more political groups and discussions rarely involve ukraine except when lula decides to own zelensky in some way, no one here cares about nato’s proxy war

why is it that every ukkkraine shill acts like history started in february 2022

a lot of those bannings were pre-2022

i admire the willingness to spell it out lol but that other guy has big reddit debatebro energy and i don’t think it can go anywhere

IQ is bullshit in the sense that as a measurement of cognitive abilities it doesn’t really work, but that doesn’t mean the only factor influencing intelligence is social upbringing either

i mean, say what you will, but i could have the most supportive environment on earth and i’m pretty sure i wouldn’t ever be the second coming of messi (or michael jordan for you gringos), same should go for newton, knorozov or whoever

you can’t agree with the comment above you and agree with your comment also.

of course i can; if i couldn’t, i wouldn’t, but i did it, which is proof that i can do it

politics for liberals are just a big reality show

some forms of autocracy can be more evil than some forms of capitalism is the worst sin.

where i live a family of people born among the poorest 10% would take an average of nine generations to reach the middle class. nine. even ignoring the generational part, that’s about 20 million people condemned, by birth, to a life of deep poverty, lacking even the most basic goods such as food and housing. and we’re officially considered a “middle income” country.

all, and i mean all AES states solved this problem either completely or nearly so by giving people decent jobs, education, health care and housing

so yea it’s impossible for me to not find you people absolutely ridiculous when you talk shit about said states just because they “arrested too many citizens” or didn’t allow enough fucking free speech. you can rip my fucking tongue off if it means i don’t have to see my people getting fucked on a daily basis

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i understand it feels bad to have your beliefs questioned, but that’s not brigading, it’s simply how these websites work