Why the fuck do the europeans think that they should be the ones to set the conditions for the ceasefire?

Here in Brazil it has been a very, very hot summer. Literally hitting 50°C on some street thermometers during a heat wave.

Lol, Skyrim memes go brrrrrrrr…

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I heard that about 1000 people fainted in that concert because they didn’t allow people to bring water bottles so they would buy overpriced water bottles in the venue (which is against the Consumer Defence Code in Brazil).

edit: and people did not buy the water bottles because nobody wants to pay, like, more than R$10,00 in a water bottle that costs a few cents if you just bring tap water from home (incredibly, in most of the state of São Paulo, where the show happened, tap water is completely safe as long as it is coming directly from the grid, and not from your home reservoir)

edit: also, in Santos (a coastal city near São Paulo), some street thermometers measured 50°C on saturday, as shown in the local news channel “A Tribuna” (The Tribune). The increase in temperature is probably due to the boiling hot asphalt of the streets.

Congratulations to both of you

Because there are lots of real leftists in Brazil that usually get lumped in with the “leftists” of the revisionist parties.

wait, they are talking about just going full “dictatorship style” and excluding a party with 14% of the votes of the result?

Also, I’m pretty fine right now. I’m working on a research project at my university, for which I’ve received an scholarship grant (about 120USD per month for a year, which is about 0.5x the minimum wage)

Other stuff to say: Here in Brazil the Palestina conflict is being pretty controversial. The evangelicals are fully supporting Israel, “leftists” are split on the subject, and the government (as in traditional Brazilian foreign policy) is trying to keep itself neutral.

More stuff to say: The government here is discussing a possible humanitarian visa for armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and palestinians, which would help them escape their conflicts to Brazil. I do not know if I should support this or not (especially the palestinan part) because this would just accelerate their displacement and would in the end help the israeli forces in their effort to ethnically cleanse palestine. Still, I do think that people who want to leave should be able to leave.

“and then they shot the flyers in self defense…”

“Only sith deal with absolutes”

-some old, senile man

Maybe it detects “Death to” and then prompts this warning message automatically

We do not use mailing lists very often here. I think it would be hard to convince them. I suggested reviving the old CAASO website, which is abandoned, but it seems like it will remain abandoned for now.

Search “The long march chinese movie” on Youtube. You’ll find a few.

I watched a few minutes of one such movies, but the movie felt too different from what I am accustumed to so I stopped watching it.

The professors’ union, ADUSP, has entered the strike in the São Paulo campus, so at least there the research has probably stopped.

I do not use IG or social media in general (Lemmygrad is the exception) so I do not know if CAASO (the student organization responsible for the São Carlos campus) or the DCE are using them to communicate. I’ll look into it right now to know the answer.

edit: CAASO has an Instagram page and the DCE has a Facebook page. (I can’t access any of them because I do not have an account)

That is indeed the right option.

Well, I do not know any websites or anything like that, but in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo there are many news about the strike (although they are basically one-sided agains the students).

Also, I think that the state governor, Tarcísio de Freitas is way more responsible for this than Haddad, since Carlotti, the Dean of the University of São Paulo, wants to be part of the Department of Education of the state of São Paulo, so he is pretty much invested in being “tough” on those “students that only want to cause chaos” or whatever because Tarcísio is basically a “far-right centrist” (he wants to privatize everything and he applauds police brutality, but he tries to not be seen as fash).

edit: I think my poor english made this sound kinda weird, so I’ll rephrase it:

Tarcísio de Freitas, state governor of São Paulo, is fash. Carlotti, Dean of the University of São Paulo, wants to cozy up with the fash to get a job in the government. As such, Carlotti is very invested in not appearing weak to “rioters” and as such it will be pretty hard to force him into negotiating.

???

The sources are linked in lemmygrad, but they are from outside lemmygrad.

Also, there is no neutral information in the world, all information has parts omitted (for many possible reasons), has parts that may be distorted because of the bias of the primary sources, or has other biases that you must take into account when reading it.

If you only read information from one side you will only get the biases of that side, and won’t be able to understand reality. Most principled communists who study history do not use only pro-communist sources, they actually use mostly anti-communist sources (because, guess what, most historians with resources to do research are american or western european, and literally can’t publish pro-soviet or pro-chinese books in well-acclaimed presses) and then they filter out most of the biases (but not all, because that is literally impossible) by using primary sources or translations of primary sources, in case the primary sources aren’t in a language they know.

I’m not saying you must read literal nazi books and take their word for it, for example. What I am saying is that if you want to research 19th century India, for example, you must read from at least most of the different perspectives, always questioning yourself about the sources like this:

1. Which biases does this source have?
2. How can these biases affect the information I am reading?
3. Which other perspectives can I use to understand this information?
4. Is this source reliable? (have they been caught lying?)

If you can’t even do this, you really won’t understand history.

Also, what is considered “neutral” at any point in time is what the ruling classes consider to be beneficial to them. If you could talk to the average white person of mid 19th century southern USA about slavery, they would tell you that news articles criticizing abolitionists and promoting slavery were “neutral”. The same applies to current times.

You do not know what fascism is. You do not know what communism is. Go read a book before you argue online, it is good for you.

I know that you did not read anything because of your mention of Tiananmen Square. You did not do any investigation on the subject nor did you read someone else’s investigation into the subject. You just took the propaganda as truth and ran with it.

If you want to actually learn about communism, fascism, the USSR, China, Tiananmen Square, etc. you can just use the search function of lemmygrad. You’ll find many resources to learn.

(or you can just continue helping the fascists by regurgitating propaganda, do whatever you want, I won’t force you)

Do you even know what you are talking about?

The USSR was a state controlled by the workers, while the Russian Federation is a state controlled by the russian capitalists.

Putin distorts the history of the USSR every time he speaks about it. He wants russians to think that Russia was “a glorious empire that almost beat the West”, not a country led by the working class that gave hope to billions of people worldwide.

I mean, Russia is fashy, but they are way less fashy than their enemies (The West).

edit: Also, this guy (Kings and Generals) is probably fash as well and is trying to make the West seem less fashy by exagerating Putin’s fashyness.