Even the byzantines hated their "fellow westerners" who came over, took their capital and declared themselves the "actual Roman empire" in Latin while the actual Romans resisted their occupation. On side note even studying the story of Math you get this fun phenomenon where a bunch of Mediterranean mathematicians develop a lot of cool stuff, then a 1000 years of silence (because Europe did nothing of value) and then suddenly after the Crusades they mysteriously "discover" a whole lot more math that sounds awfully similar to Arabic and Indian concepts. It usually goes Pytagoras -> Zeno -> Archymedes -> ?????? -> Euler
Might as well get a couple of them lol. I'll check if any of my local buddies want some and try to get them by the end of the month.
First of all, thanks for the great work!
How's the onboarding of the new contributors going? I assume suddenly getting a huge influx of eager contributors might create a lot of fun "problems" that software developers don't usually get in their day jobs.
Related to that, besides the contributor docs on join-lemmy, is there any recommended reading before getting down to work on starting to contribute (already made or in the works)? I've been looking into helping out and getting better at Rust in the process.
That's a fantastic write up and I have nothing else to say except for: valeu camarada! I had never thought about how specific our political landscape is compared to what people are used to on the internet.
This picture will scare Yankees (Red is the government).
We also have some 33 federal ministries but only 6 of those are held by PT party members, if that serves to illustrate it some more. Even the current vice-president was "neutral" on the 2018 election that got us Bolsonaro.
I'm not in the mood for 
stuff, so I'll be brief.
Those « historical and material reasons » you speak of aren’t justification enough in light of their recent actions. It wasn’t even their seat, but the ussr’s. Which they are not the continuation of in any real way.
One of the country with the most nukes. It's not about deserving or justifying anything, it's because either Russia is talking in there, or they're on the outside looking in. I don't think any nuclear superpower should be on the outside looking in. The USA comment was made in jest because they have by far done worse crimes than Russia worldwide.
I’m a pacifist, but, and I cannot believe I am saying this, you can’t use a ceasefire against someone unilaterally invading another sovereign nation. Does this actually need to be stated?
I also can't believe you're saying this as it is so obviously wrong. By that measure every single American settler state should be militarily opposed by their original nations. Of course they don't do it though, because at this point this level of moral stubbornness and lack of pragmatism would be self-genocidal.
Democracy should not depend on blind trust of public officials, not matter how well-intentioned.
This whole thing is completely irrelevant since you probably think the exact same thing of every other security council member. I can't find a single polling on the Ukraine situation in Brasil, probably because we generally don't care that much if Europeans are killing Europeans in Europe. That's their problem not our problem and his inaction there at least represents our lack of interest. I would rather have a communist proletarian government (as you probably can tell), but to make this about Lula in a discussion about the security council reeks of European.
I am personally quite worried that lula would express some opinions that show a clear lack of solidarity for the ukrainian people
That's where you're mistaken, there's solidarity, we send a lot of aid and the main foreign policy on that area is for an immediate unconditional ceasefire. This is probably the point where you're going to reply with "but a ceasefire is unrealistic!" and that's the part where Lula and NATO disagree on what will save the most Ukrainian/Russian lives.
It’s no coincidence that there has been increased activity around taiwan. It’s also no coincidence that far-right populists have been having their way in the ballot box in many countries. And it’s no coincidence that there have been putches in central africa, which, mind you, are supported by wagner mercenaries, and we have seen russian flags fly there.
Yes, Lula wanting a ceasefire and not wanting in on this war is what caused all of this. Not even going to explore the differences of all those events because if you come here to try and peg this on a completely unrelated Brazilian president just because he doesn't support your pet war, you probably don't care that much about those events either.
True solidarity is solidarity everywhere, because true authoritarianism is increased vulnerability to further authoritarianism everywhere.
Which is why we should dismantle the USA and EU since they're the most authoritarian authorities to ever author authoritarianisms. True solidarity is solidarity everywhere, where was that solidarity during the 2015 coup in Brazil from Ukraine or your other favourite countries?
Yeah, PCR has some weird talk:action ratio and I even started a conspiracy theory in my head that they're a CIA thing because their youth branch has a weird name that looks like somebody badly translated an English name and I couldn't find information about a single person that is part of it.
I'm probably jumping at shadows, but if it walks like a fed and quacks like a fed...
And I usually do, yeah. The critical support only goes for when fascists and (more rightwing) liberals go outright slanderous against them. Dilma-Temer-Bolsonaro sequence was quite horrible and I think a big part of it (besides intelligence agencies and capitalist interference) was that we allowed right-wingers into our movements against them and suddenly they co-opted everything and suddenly it was all about "liberty" and "fighting communism" with way more financial support than communists could counter. The criticism/support balance is usually incredibly hard to find with social-democrats, and most often it's by design to make themselves seem like the "One True Effective Left Party."
But voting is hardly enough, which is why I'm patiently waiting for the restructuring from the PCB (that has been long overdue in my opinion) and for things to calm down there to try and get organised through them too.
Edit: for instance, the Unidade Popular party and PCB have this nasty habit of allying (more like submit) themselves with PSOL which is hardly much better than PT themselves. PSOL is not even that big of a party, there's no reason communists should play the junior role to the junior left-liberals.
I'm on the same vibe but I'm also a compulsive hoarder, which is why I keep every old tech thing that is still barely functional and try to make them be something useful for what still works. So I have an old phone that serves as a music downloader/player, a notebook I'm turning into a very large e-reader, a couple of busted headphones I use only for sound isolation or testing and the list goes on. I'm still fairly reliant on my phone for browsing, but I'm really not fond of how unified and fragile modern hardware has become.
For the most part "low tech" solutions are not just more efficient in resources, but they're also much better developed with the dedicated user in mind. Which is why stuff like vim, bash, tmux, arch are usually leagues ahead of their corporate competitors, specially now with the AI craze where not even the developers have control of their product.
Another difference is that he also commands the leadership of the party and gets elected, while Bernie is just happy to kneel to the Democrats and do the occasional speech to his fans. They're not that similar in practice and I do have a bit of critical support for the PT, but that doesn't mean I endorse them, or electoralism for that matter. They're a bourgeois social-democratic party with all the liberalisms you can expect, but at least they aren't actively telling their followers to kill communists, and voting costs nothing. (you actually pay a fine equivalent to 1 dollar if you don't vote lmao)
Remove an imperialist warmongering nation
By that I hope you mean the USA, the world's leading imperialist nation. Brasil has been so aligned with "western" interests that they had some fashy president until last year who sold a lot of our industry to gringos of the north for discount prices. Just because Lula is a bit different and a complete pacifist, doesn't mean the country is free of imperialism at all, just look at the headlines of acquisitions of land by foreign-owned corporations to exploit our resources. Russia is in there for historical and material reasons and to remove them from the council would only serve to discredit the same council's representation power. It should be expanded to include Brasil without downgrading anybody.
But his take is still insane and naive
Care to elaborate or should we just take your word that "demanding a ceasefire" is naïve?
and the brasilian people deserve better than « not bolsonaro » as the only option.
How's that UN's problem? Or related to this at all? Although I agree, I don't see why this is being brought up here when Ukraine's war wasn't even an issue in the election.
but he’s not being a leader on the world stage here
He's being a leader. He's on the world stage. Pedantism aside, this is not about domestic policy, it's specifically about Brasil's opinion on this war, which is that it should be stopped ASAP. I have no idea what you're even trying to say other than randomly spouting whatever little you know of Brasil, and pretending that somehow discredits one of the biggest countries in the world.
Yeah, redbubble really hates sub-Chihuahuan America for some reason. They sometimes even indiscriminately ban small artists from here. It's not even that big of a trip here since it's not by land, and we don't even have an active warzone near us or anything.