does anyone know what trump meant at 49:30 by saying the lights were largely turned off “due to a certain expertise that we have”? the fuck is that?

And obviously this isn’t exactly comforting news if you happen to be in this imperial backyard.

yes i’m really thankful lula is the president in brazil. we have a saying here that goes like “giving away your rings to keep your fingers”, and while this is usually lula’s biggest flaw it might become our biggest advantage. because, in reality, even if it would be more “honorable” to try and resist america’s invasion, we’d have zero chance of success. and i mean zero. not only are brazilians not the most anti-imperialist people, who would never be willing to meaningfully mobilize, we wouldn’t even have proper material support for such an effort. right now it’s far better to negotiate a slow takeover while we wait for america’s own contradictions to weaken it (as it’s been happening), than to try and outright refuse their demands, ultimately losing everything in a single late night operation

hopefully he lives until he’s 100 years old and keeps winning elections. at that point we’d be adding stripes to our flag as a sign of cooperation with the empire, we’d have renamed the real to brazilian dollar (featuring george washington’s face in every bill), and i don’t give a shit, as long as it’s a controlled pillage. america doesn’t have that long anyway…

honestly the whole thing around gifted children in america is so weird to me

it’s a mixture of parents desperate to see their children making it under neoliberalism (especially through gifted programs) and psychologists having a really hard time setting boundaries between the ordinary and the exceptional (while being financially incentivized to make those boundaries even murkier)

that said, there’s always time. just because the person went through the gifted child into underachieving adult pipeline doesn’t mean they have to stop there

3 days in that job and i would be commiting seppuku

12 hrs is a lot mate

coupling the sacrifice with a chance of the greatest exclusivity a CEO is always craving for is a way to make all this much more acceptable to the members

the individual sacrifices his own life, his clanmates temporarily sacrifice their position. all for the Greater Good

Ah the classic in order to safeguard democracy we’re removing power from the people that the country voted for move

i mean depending on the situation that’s not necessarily wrong

though in this one we know what he’s about lol

they are complex, i’m joking about the fact that a lot of the game is basically Accountant Simulator 2 (1 being 3.5)

the highest selling point of pf1 is that it’s good for those who either lack imagination and need the books to create everything for them, or those who think complication equals complexity

as for 2e i have no idea

and whatever happens capital is still gonna win because they’re not really in the spotlight

if people get angry after the tariffs fuck them up, capital will just rally behind some democrat, or another, more practical fascist

No way this goes through right?

he doesn’t really need congress for tariffs

according to the law people being interviewed they’re supposed to be consecutive yea

it’s mostly to find underground stuff like festival movies, old foreign tv shows etc

i don’t see any reason for them to fuck us, it’s different this time because lula is pretty much just a figurehead now. the real people behind this government are the ones riding with haddad and his neoliberal goons

yea i was thinking of bush when i said that, lula can run circles around idiotic neocons/reactionaries. if he has one great talent, one single ability that sets him apart from other people, it’s knowing what you want to hear and how to say it (something that he uses to mislead both the right and the left)

smart libs like obama are another thing entirely though, they don’t fall for his shit

i think brazil is gonna be fine, 3rd term lula has been neolib as fuck, there’s no need for americans to do anything against it. lately some social movements have been trying to pressure congress into passing laws reducing the workweek to 5 days (currently it’s like 5.5, with a 44h total, 4 hours on saturday) and his own minister of labor and employment came out against it (defending “separate collective negotiations in each sector” instead, but less than 9% of our workforce is unionized - even less in the private sector - and that fucker knows it lol)

also lula is pretty good at handling people like trump in general

fucking climate change or fucking ricardo nunes

in a way, i think we can see it as a type of tailism

that last part is so true lmao

when these evangelical leaders were reaching their peak, back in late 00’s/early 10’s, the PT decided to support rather than to fight them, in the hopes that they would get electoral support (which they even did, for a time; but like any reactionary opportunist, those leaders soon turned their back on the party)

there’s a bunch of bureaucratic stuff to do before it becomes blocked, but once it does you can probably still use nitter (or even use a vpn, though you might be fined for 50k in that case)

tbh, all elon had to do was to appoint some legal representative for brazilian operations. this is literally just him throwing a tantrum and not wanting to be coerced

moraes has ordered twitter to be shut down

i know that lib would do the same to communists, but since that cursed website is a den of nazi fucks i’m actually pretty happy about it

gonna be harder to see how my ex is doing though… but it’s all for the best lmao