On a more serious note, I'd actually say the dictatorship monuments and memorials are what our main goal should be at. As disgusting as our slavery past is, the dictatorship worship presents a more immediate and clear danger.
I actually live in the same block (more or less) as a school named after Castelo Branco (one of the main architects of the military coup). It makes me chuckle though that someone vandalized it with the words "A good fascist is a dead fascist".
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
Does the sun rise from the East?
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I weight over a 100, I'm big enough.
You tell me, I almost feel like gagging whenever those types keep calling people "Paraíba"
Which is unfair to the state, I know, but still.
Edited by HailMuffins on Jun 9th 2020 at 12:55:52 PM
Argentina? Oh no, their economy was already screwed before the Pandemic, now THAT!? (Argentina depends a lot on their meat industry)
Edited by KazuyaProta on Jun 23rd 2020 at 12:35:11 PM
Watch me destroying my countryWait there’s another locust cloud working its way across a continent? I wonder if it’s climate change related, as having a massive locust cloud emerge in both Africa and South America in the same year seems like a weird coincidence.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAlright, since this post got buried in the LATAM thread, I decided to post it here.
With ex military man Senhor Bolsonaro screwing Brazil inside out, I think this is a good time as any to bring up and discuss with Brazilian posters the 60s Tropícalismo movement.
I first found out about the Tropícalia movement through music acts involved with it such as Caetano Veloso and Os Mutantes, and my first impression is that these guys are clearly taking a piss out of the Brazilian Junta through abstract left-leaning lyricism. But I heard that the Tropícalismo scene also encompasses other art and media such as poetry, literature, cinema and even theater. Can someone explain more about this Brazilian counterculture movement and its viability in the modern age?
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That and/or complacency. After a few decades of successfully limiting locusts through various measures, I suspect corners started to get cut or money diverted, both on the ground and up top.
Cue grasshoppers turning locusts when the factors click into place.
Edited by Euodiachloris on Jun 24th 2020 at 12:54:12 PM
...supposedly. I don't personally trust this. Give it a week, and if he comes around saying that he got cured because he took hidroxicloroquine, then we'll see.
If this is real, though, I wish him a speedy recovery, even if I won't exactly mourn him if the worst case scenario takes place.
There's no way he won't spin a speedy recovery as "proof" that "cloroquina works" or that the disease isn't serious.
If this is for real - and I doubt so -, I don't exactly wish he dies, but if going through what has happened to Boris Johnson is what it takes to make him take this seriously, so be it.
... And that's called jazz!Crossposted from the Latin America Thread, Bolsonaro has been found to have mold in his lungs: https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazil-president-bolsonaro-says-antibiotics-232314896.html
I think it’s most likely he’s made up some of his misfortunes to present himself as macho, because no one could survive all that. Like I think he was also supposedly bitten by at least one animal.
But I’m amused by the idea that he’s cursed and totally oblivious.
Edited by Hodor2 on Jul 31st 2020 at 6:05:41 AM
So, Brazil has now reached 100.000 COVID deaths.
(PT-BR)
Also this week, Bolsonaro vetoed monetary compensation for the families of health professionals who have died during the crisis
. (PT-BR)
Oh, coincidentally, today was a big football classic: Corinthians Vs Palmeiras!
Would anybody like more bread with that?
Edited by TheLovecraftian on Aug 8th 2020 at 7:47:41 AM
The comparison to Bread and Circuses is erroneous...mainly because there's not really a lot of bread being provided.
Disgusted, but not surprised

The recent events on Bristol reminded me that not only we still have several statues of bandeirantes across the country (particularly the South, because São Paulo loves associatimg itself with rapists, murderers and slave-catchers), but still plenty of schools and buildings named after the military leaders of the Dictatorship.
Nothing that can really be done in the current administration, but here's hoping the Floyd protests give a little bit steam towards their dismantling in the future.