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The no political stuff rule is meant to weed out the "'Fuck you, Democrats!' 'No, fuck you, Republicans!'" nonsense. I'm personally okay with this sort of post. Can't speak for the other mods, but I'm letting this one stay.

heh...he said doody

I never said we were, otherwise I wouldn't support this. Actually this is exactly what I expected since I was 14 (not long ago, 5 years :p)

"There is no cause so noble it will not attract some idiots."

Well I'm glad that today nothing happened either in Ponte Estaiada nor Paulista. Tomorrow, Sé (I won't be there, not that safe even on a normal day)

Yes, you can take it as the last drop of the cup.

well life is complex. Social injustice on scary scales happens all over the globe continually. Eventually we have to choose to ignore some things. It sounds worse than it is. Anyone trying to push an agenda has to recognize this and realize the limits of what you can do.

It can be something as simple as "hey my life sucks too". For instance there are people who have these "First world problems" things like being unable to pay back student loans with any effectiveness. Sure it's nothing like being paid below the poverty line for 3 generations in your family of college graduates but it still doesn't leave a lot of room for the urgent concern of Brazil's issues.

There's "Burned out" for instance someone who traveled to Katrina, Haiti, Syria, Boston may be burned out on going full steam on social justice outside their country (because this person is Mexican or Welsh or something). We can only do so much.

Of course there are plenty of people who are just dicks and don't care about social injustice out of laziness and apathy.

I think in any movement you should be pushing for information spread as your bare minimum. I'm not in a position to help out much on Brazil but I can take in your information, learn something about what's going on there that way if someone starts talking about how "Brazilians be crazy fighting the World Cup man that's money on the table" I can point out that there are reasons for their actions.

By technology I didn't mean the minor things like internet speed and such, I meant it in generality.

EDIT: also what you mentioned isn't such a big problem, I have exactly the same internet speed.

+1

You could see it in my profile, but Finland.
(Yeah, atleast we have healthcare and stuff..)

Se a Câmara e o Senado já são bastante diferentes, e fazem parte do mesmo poder, imagina o Palácio do Planalto, que é do Executivo. São coisas totalmente diferentes, embora fiquem a alguns metros de distância. Nada contra o OP, cometeu um erro bobo na hora de digitar e isso é aceitável, mas tem muita gente aí que não sabe nem do que se trata essas reivindicações. Nunca nem pegou o texto da PEC 37 pra saber do que fala de verdade, nunca abriu a Constituição pra saber seus direitos, e por aí vai.

Sua afirmação me lembra um post que vi certa vez no Facebook, com uma foto do Plenário da Câmara. Nela um mané qualquer comentou "tem que matar todos esses de terninho aí". Ocorre que eu era um dos "de terninho" na foto, e sob os olhos da maioria da população, deveria morrer junto com os deputados, sendo que eu sou simplesmente um servidor público como qualquer outro de qualquer outro órgão. A galera não sabe nem diferenciar quem tem culpa de quem não tem. Prova disso é o próprio Diretor-Geral da Câmara ter levado chutes e cuspidas anteontem, sendo que o cara não é deputado, é servidor.

Não tiro a legitimidade das manifestações, mas muita gente aí só quer ver o circo pegar fogo. É uma pena que tenha esse tipo de gente mal-intencionada no meio de tantos outros fazendo a coisa com seriedade.

Well, not quite. We have much fewer protesters, sadly, even after accounting for the population difference. I'm not among them myself, because I can't stand tobacco smoke, and protests are always full of smokers.

I have no idea, I don't go to work and I never did:s So I guess our healthcare system is pretty good. The point of me stating the bus price didn't mean I was commenting on Brazil, it was simply a statement. I have no idea if our prices are high or not.

Somehow not just me but everyone was giving "one side" of the story "Oh that includes global news agencies including CNN international btw.." maybe because that was the only truth that can be shown and proved you ever thought of that? And the thread was not mine saying "just like you were giving one side of the story in Turkey" sounds like I'm a source of misinformation, I didn't even try creating one of those threads...

Oh if you wanna hear the other side of the story maybe you should contact such media publishing fake interviews

Of course these threads shouldn't be the final destination or source of information, these just work to raise some awareness about what's going on in your home country or somewhere in the world. And everyone is free to investigate it further by using any means that they consider reliable...

I'm all for the legitimation of the debate. After all we're all grown-up adults and I don't think there's the need of babysitting us.

I didn't close that thread, and it was probably only closed to mollify people complaining it was a 'political' topic. As jade pointed out before, the whole purpose of that rule is to prevent the posting of threads about controversial topics that largely divide along traditional party lines and wind up descending into flame wars with a bunch of arguing and name-calling and other really mature, productive stuff like that. It would be better worded as discouraging the posting of threads about controversial topics, whether they be political, religious, about thanking people in giveaway comments, etc.. There's nothing particularly controversial about government corruption, and this one doesn't even have the vague undertones of possible religiously-based controversy, as it's purely an issue of misuse and misappropriation of public funds.