the largest copper miners union was also one of the first to strike against allende

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

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")

i hate everything here, from the ridiculous price to the guy treating a degree like a simple matter of value exchange

it's like even the pursuit of knowledge has become just a tool to help or hinder your survival under capitalism and i really fucking hate it

"a degree is like a car" no it fucking isn't??

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)

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

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

That's true, their methodology was flawed as well. I get a sense that there was a sense of desperation at the time, that they felt they needed to industrialize ASAP and rushed a lot of processes instead of examining them to make sure they would work as intended.

there was such a feeling, and the idea that they could double iron production in such short time (which was absurd, and something other people better informed about the economy, like zhou enlai, did insist on saying before 1958) is pretty illustrative of that

i really like mao and i agree with a lot of what he wrote, he's probably the most important marxist for my own views after marx and lenin. but i think starting from 1956 he unfortunately kind of let idealism take too much of his views on development