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[–] kadup@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This kind of rhetoric is exactly why countries get this inflated view of themselves and get surprised when they elect somebody like Trump.

Your comment implies Brazil is somehow a bad country so "if even Brazil is dunking on you, you know you're bad!" but Brazil is the world's 8th economy, they have a robust electronic voting system that was audited many times and works fantastically well, they have a digital payments system that works instantly and isn't tied to any corporation, they have the largest biomass and clean water reserves in the world, public healthcare, public universities that actually publish the most research in the entire country (out-competing all private institutions by a huge margin) and many more examples.

They're not perfect... but not even Switzerland is perfect. When you feed this world view of "even Brazil" you become deeply blind to your own monumental issues.

[–] Verdorrterpunkt@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Didn't expect the switzerland mention, but can 100% agree that we aren't perfect over here.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Your exploding roads are pretty metal, though.

[–] Verdorrterpunkt@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Our metal roads (... rail....) are pretty sick as well ;)

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