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Brazil's Authoritarian Rise(environmentalprogress.org)
3 points by andrenth 3y ago|1 comments
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The Rise of the Censorship Industrial Complex in Brazil(environmentalprogress.org)
1 points by andrenth 3y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 3y ago
Legally speaking you can say whatever the Supreme Court’s ad-hoc “interpretations” of the constitution will allow you to say, meaning whatever’s aligned with their political interests.
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by andrenth 3y ago
An advisor to the ministry of social equality has referred pejoratively to fans of a soccer team as “white fanbase” and something like “f’ing europeans”. That was after her boss used public money to travel to watch a soccer game. A district
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by andrenth 3y ago
> You literally cannot say "I hate <insert race>". Unless the “race” in question is white. In that case, you can absolutely say that, as has been done by government officials of the current administration.
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A new survey suggests TikTok is a meaningful driver of a surge in antisemitism(twitter.com)
4 points by andrenth 3y ago|2 comments
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The Greatest Transfer of Wealth from Middle Class to Elites in History (2021)(brownstone.org)
2 points by andrenth 3y ago|0 comments
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Secret Warnings About Wuhan Research Predated the Pandemic(vanityfair.com)
33 points by andrenth 3y ago|10 comments
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by andrenth 3y ago
I’ve always been partial to borrowing a bit from Perl and renaming .expect() to .or_die()
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by andrenth 3y ago
We have to add one more important characteristic to the problematic psychological properties of mass formation: radical intolerance of other opinions and a strong tendency toward authoritarianism. To the masses, dissident voices appear 1)
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YouTube Hits Orf Again, as Censorship Grows Silent but Deadly(racket.news)
2 points by andrenth 3y ago|1 comments
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The China Convergence(theupheaval.substack.com)
10 points by andrenth 3y ago|0 comments
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Where Have All the Liberals Gone?(racket.news)
6 points by andrenth 3y ago|4 comments
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At High School Debates, Debate Is No Longer Allowed(thefp.com)
22 points by andrenth 3y ago|13 comments
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by andrenth 3y ago
> - https://godoc.org/github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing For this there is also the testcontainers project, which has support for Go and other languages. https://golan
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Pitești Prison(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by andrenth 3y ago|0 comments
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The Neon God(paulkingsnorth.substack.com)
5 points by andrenth 3y ago|0 comments
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An Illustrated Guide to Self-Censorship(thefp.com)
4 points by andrenth 3y ago|0 comments
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Possible toxicity of chronic CO2 exposure associated with face mask use(cell.com)
91 points by andrenth 3y ago|54 comments
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In Brazil, the suffocating grip of patrimonialism is back(pedrojobim.substack.com)
3 points by andrenth 4y ago|3 comments
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Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office(cnn.com)
6 points by andrenth 4y ago|0 comments
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YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation(taibbi.substack.com)
5 points by andrenth 4y ago|2 comments
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s fall cuts off big source of funds for US Democrats(ft.com)
18 points by andrenth 4y ago|11 comments
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by andrenth 4y ago
I never said fascism is “just” whatever you think I did, so your uncharitable read of what I said is unnecessary. Fascists use the state to empower themselves. By reducing its size, by definition, a politician reduces his own sphere of infl
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by andrenth 4y ago
I don’t think this is a good framing. Lula has financed dictatorships in South America and Africa, has taken corruption money for personal benefit and used money from the healthcare budget for other means. Is this a bad politician or a bad
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by andrenth 4y ago
I don’t understand what you’re trying to imply about my comment. Can you be specific?
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by andrenth 4y ago
What claims? He basically agrees with you. An individual printout that allows one to verify that the vote matches what the machine displays, and that allows for a recount to ensure physical and digital counts match.
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by andrenth 4y ago
> "Lula trial in Brazil violated due process, says UN rights panel" [0][1] You have got to be joking. The UN has neither jurisdiction nor the access to the necessary information to make such a statement. This panel's opini
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The Return of Lula in Brazil(wsj.com)
8 points by andrenth 4y ago|4 comments
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by andrenth 4y ago
> Well, given that the condemnation was unlawful, I imagine it’s not very hard to understand why talking about it without also speaking clearly about the unlawfulness and facts around it would be misleading to the public. This kind of pa

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