“Dictatorship vs Democracy” is the new “Savage vs Civilized”. Words thrown around without explanation to signal friend and foe in the current ideological framework used to justify imperial conquest.

Time and “order” are very unimportant with discoveries.

Im pretty sure historians would disagree with this statement.

I think time is an important variable, I should have stressed it more in the question. Sure, we would eventually get to the same ideas, but how long would it take? I suspect some development are somewhat expected as multiple people are simultaneously looking at the same underlying problem, while others come as a little more surprising.

It is very simple and few people, but it does work.

I don’t remember which hurricane it was that caused a lot of problems in the us a while ago, a real tragedy. Still cuba offered humanitarian help but was refused by washington.

Drug cartels are the new Hamas. Conveniently placed targets that just happen to be where the bombs explode. “Do you condemn Maduro?”

The talk about epstein files is laundering the real reason too.
Turning a century old trend into just a person being petty.

I think your capacity to think is irrelevant or even played against you when the elites pour obscene amounts of money to change your perception of reality. Even the greatest minds can’t escape this.

Even if people realize the system they live in is called liberal democracy, not just democracy, they often fail to notice that said system is an implementation of a plutocracy, not a democracy.

It’s like watching an embryo develop into a child.

Venezuela is cursed with abundance of oil and proximity to USA.

“The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox.” - Malcom X

Why only for certain foods? This practice is misleading at best.

Not everything is Trump’s fault. That country is a mess in itself.
Edit: I think I am providing yet another example of how facts hurt.

No worries. It was a valid concern. The key context here is that Lula is trying to reclaim national symbols from far right political opponents that use much less ambiguous slogans such as “brazil above everything, god above everyone”.

The slogan “x country for x nationals” when used to reinforce sovereignty in the face of external threats from colonizers is reasonable. It’s not necessarily xenophobic in nature.

Tiktok was also very popular, until it wasn’t anymore.

Germany is as much a proxy as it was before the wall fell.

Youtube has demonetized or taken down videos for much less, citing fears of driving out advertising. Now the advertisers are promoting genocidal messages to family friendly channels and their audience.

Trump is doing this because he feels threatened by brics+, but he decided to use the upcoming arrest of far right politicians as a justification. That has however put a lot of strain on the right as they are seen as responsible for harming brazilian economy in an attempt to save themselves from accountability, uniting the left in the process.