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Now, this could be a problem in regards to secular schools. Depending on how the program and the pedagogical structure would be, one would have to evaluate the whole thing to make sure there's no problems within.
To pick my local example again, in the class I had in high school, the teacher was a non-ecclesial/non-clerical volunteer. We talked about morals and ethics, there was a time where the students roughly split in half and got to argue for and against abortion note , and so forth. But the teacher didn't do any sort of proselytisement. The program and the whole structure was approved by either the principal or the school committee many years ago, iirc.
edited 28th Sep '17 7:06:13 PM by Quag15
After the victories the PSUV achieved in Venezuela, pretty much the totality of the Brazilian felt wing and socialist parties, specially the Workers Party, hailed it being a victory for the Venezuelan people, an example of democracy and an act of resistance against an economic siege by the USA.
www.pt.org.br/venezuela-mais-uma-vez-exemplo-de-democracia-e-participacao-cidada/
And our left still wonders why they have a massive trust issue with the people when they keep condoning and claiming that everything is fine when another socialist regime completely fucks things up.
edited 17th Oct '17 10:18:08 AM by AngelusNox
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Primarily, but you also have Argentina with Kitchner, Bolivia with Evo, Brazil with Dilma as a more direct example and, to a lesser extent, the current situation in Europe and how its leaders are handling or mishandling it.
Instead of focusing on relatives that divide us, we should find the absolutes that tie us.Essentially, their governments lived on the basis of propaganda to hype their achievements and create enemies in some cases, the problem is how they let things fester to a point where the population simply got fed up and voted them out or supported a very lousy impeachment process.
Granted, for example, Dilma's case she was just shoveling more money into the Brazilian corporations and big business while trying to paint herself as the female Lula savior of the poor and stuff, that along doing everything she promised not to do if she got elected. Coupled with several corruption scandals, general insatisfaction with the government policies and the economy let the very opportunistic Allied parties to impeach her on shoddy accusations but exempting themselves from their responsibility on the mess they contributed to happen.
Meanwhile in Argentina, Kirchner was going head deep in her ass with her economic policies, constant attacks against media groups and whatever group wouldn't bow down to her whims and her policies of running harmful subsides and import/export restrictions that exacerbated their inflationary issues. She got voted out and Macri got elected, he seems to be doing a decent job, much to the chagrin of the Latin American left wing parties because they were hoping him to screw things up. Kirchner is the female version of a left wing sort off Trump.
Inter arma enim silent legesPeople here seem to be growing skeptical of the promises of the established left. Bachelet's approval tanked hard between her two terms. Piñera has the charisma of a dead possum, and he got a lot of flak when the student protests sprung up (which had several of its leaders go on to become politicians for left-wing parties, go figure), but the sentiment seems to be "lesser evil" or "jackass, but competent" around here.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.So I just found out about this game called Hidden Agenda (1988). It seems quite interesting. You play as the leader of a Banana Republic, but it's a lot more like Democracy than Tropico. It's dead serious and ruthlessly dramatic. What to do when it's impossible to make everyone happy?
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.So, after an appeal, Lula's sentencing to 12 years in prison has just been upheld, meaning he won't be able to run for president and that Jair Bolsonaro will likely be the next one (every poll without Lula has him winning).
Condolences to brazillian tropers if what I heard about him from immigrants here is true.
Life is unfair...I am not surprised given how much of a obsessive trackdown this has been.
This will be a horrible year.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."The talk about the left a while back actually make me thing of something: the whole far left bullshit people in US fear all rhe time? They are real here in Latinoamérica, the left barely care about social issues and more about populism and petty showing of strenght against whatever the hell piss them out.
In fact, is this shift to the right at bad thing? It look like in Brasil but That is because Brasil kinda decent into GOT level of dickery.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"While I don't really mind that Lula got sentenced over his corruption crimes, the scenario wasn't really good with or without him in the presidency.
Still. Now the problem is that even with Ciro Gomes, Doria and maybe Alckmin, there is basically no strong candidate to challenge Bolsonaro in the presidency candidacy.
Outside of me, my siblings and my mother, basically almost my whole family thinks that voting to Bolsonaro is a good idea and mostly loathe the Worker's Party with a passion.
The problem is that Bolsonaro doesn't seem to be really involved in a corruption scheme that is easy to prove his involvement.
Inter arma enim silent legesTo give anyone unfamiliar with the situation an idea of how bad this scenario is: Bolsonaro is, in Gaon's words, Trump fusing with Pence and Dick Cheney into his unholy final form. The guy is literally the most bigoted, hateful, unhinged and reactionary human being you can imagine. His terribleness is so internationally infamous that both Ellen Page
and Stephen Fry
came down here to have a chat and see what all the fuss was about. Neither of them were prepared for the sheer malice that awaited them.
The problem here is essentially that the brazilian left has been too corrupt and in power for over a decade. People think that by changing the government things will at least have a chance to get better (the economy is in one of the worst shapes it's ever been right now) and that voting for Bolsonaro wouldn't make things any worse whatever flaws he has, but that's a seriously ignorant opinion to have.
Outside of the man himself being complete scum, brazilian democracy is extremely fragile. The tradition of autocratic rule where the people have no say and the government can do as it pleases is far stronger. Bolsonaro himself has made his authoritarian pretenses extremely clear and says that he doesn't care if innocent lives are lost due to his actions. He lionizes the military regime we suffered through in the 60-80's and will basically attempt to emulate it as much as possible.
Unfortunately, much like with Trump there are way too many ignorant people who have learned nothing from history, and will gladly vote him into office; at best, they are ignorant of what they're doing, at worst they are consciously dooming the country for god knows how long.
If he wins we basically become the Russia of South America. We'll essentially be living in an illiberal democracy with people's civil rights essentially revoked, police brutality at an all time high, attacks on the freedom of the press, etc. The only silver lining is that with the internet people abroad will have some idea of what's going on and the international attention might help sway things a little.
edited 24th Jan '18 6:55:33 PM by Draghinazzo
And it is bullshit all around, also be glad you don't speak Portuguese because the comment section is filled with all kinds of bullshit from Bolsonaro's base and all moronic comments you can imagine.
Lula is not out yet.
Also, I've talked with the law school teachers and my brother about Lula's sentencing. It is far from over and he still has a few appeals to go through, which might take long enough for him to be elected and the Supreme Justice Court is yet to rule if Lula is eligible or not after the sentencing.
In case he does get elected President, then sentencing and judicial process is halted until the end of his presidency.
edited 25th Jan '18 7:00:58 AM by AngelusNox
Inter arma enim silent legesTruck driver plows into Peru's 2,000-year-old archeological enigma
Excerpt:
Jainer Jesus Flores Vigo, 40, was arrested after he allegedly ignored warning signage and drove over UNESCO World Heritage site, the ministry said.
edited 3rd Feb '18 8:26:02 AM by DrunkenNordmann
We learn from history that we do not learn from history

It's as I said a plausible idea in theory. Schools could have, for example, a Catholic priest go in-depth about Catholicism/Christianity over one year, and then next year have a islam scholar solely focus on Islam, for instance. Something to that effect, while not ideal, is at least functional.
But that's not what will happen. What will happen is the religious right gaining a trump card in every school.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."