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most federal universities in brazil are currently striking against lula's neoliberal government, and more have been joining every month (my campus is deciding today)

but the biggest demand from professors is a wage raise... when they already earn more than like 95% of the population and universities are seriously lacking in stuff like capital for infrastructure, scholarships, etc. i mean, salaries already account for 90% (not a typo; it really is 90%) of federal university expenses

always sad to see how capitalism can turn unions into selfish orgs

It's practically a miracle that he was elected president when everything and everyone was against him

he was just the figurehead of the liberal side of the bourgeoisie, which at that time was fighting the more openly fash wing for hegemony

i'm ok with it, i'm just saying... the fascists were against him. the liberals were not, and were, in fact, in their majority, helping him out

i think sometimes we equate liberals to fascists too easily. liberals don't like fascism. it's disorganized, unpredictable, it has a distorted "popular movement" tinge to it that makes it way too volatile. it's a weapon they might use, and usually do use, but when facing serious threats. but lula was an open ally, not a threat, and proved to be the only electoral option for the bourgeoisie (which they happily used, or the fascists would eat them up)

edit: it's funny, but lula had always tried to be accepted by brazilian capitalists, and yet they were always going after him, to the point of putting the guy in jail and shit. then it took bolsonaro for lula to get the embrace that he'd always wanted

i love how that dude makes an absolutely ridiculous assumption, as i've never seen a "tankie" deny that current russia is reactionary as fuck, but since he's saying Bad Thing about The Tankies everyone just goes "hmm yea those tankies amirite? smh"

liberals are fucking idiots, they never have any idea what they're actually talking about and just throw around concepts and categories with the level of understanding of a monkey playing with a power tool

honestly a difference of this size, among people of the same party, can't be explained by anything other than these two groups having two completely different sources of information

now we get why america is starting to think about getting rid of any social media that is harder to build a consensus with, they're simply not able to manage them as easily as traditional news sources

i'm pretty sure america is gonna build its own "great firewall" in the next years, brick by brick

he represents the overly online debate lord liberal loser demographic, so of course he's gonna have a lot of fans - people like him, who will defend their avatar at all costs

it's like taylor swift with the utterly mediocre

i think it's a matter of degree, russia's smo definitely did accelerate things in europe for instance (which, in turn, makes things worse for america)

it definitely feels like america is stretched thin right now (at least politically, if not yet economically), and that is weird because they've been involved in more concurrent conflicts in the past and it didn't feel that way then

the rise in fascism and nafo maniacs is precisely a consequence of that weakening, the imperial core and its "peripheral" thugs should get worse and worse as time goes by

but i'm not expecting them to intervene, that would be insane

i was expecting lula's rhetoric and they came up with something way better, by basically saying hamas is not doing terrorism

every time i think china is being disappointing they kind of do more than i was expecting

For me the dividing line would be recognizing the Al Aqsa Flood as genuine expression of colonized people under military dictatorship fighting for liberation, rather than an act of "terrorism" against "innocent civillians"

at that point we were trying to rescue brazilians from gaza and needed help from the colonizers, after we brought them back his discourse started changing

lula recalling his ambassador from israel is the happiest i've been with his 3rd term since the scholarship raises

if this escalates to cutting relations with the zionist occupiers i'm not even criticizing his domestic policies anymore, just full, uncritical support to his government. i genuinely believe palestine is the dividing line, where all contradictions come to meet

and not only are decisions being made right now gonna tell me whose side each group will be on in the future, but whatever comes out of this war has the potential to heavily impact capitalism long term