• @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3214 hours ago

    All the BRICS have. Brazil just stands out, because its not a country we’ve flagged as “Evil Enemy Run By Inhuman Savages”.

    • xor
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      16 minutes ago

      Oh yeah, Russia is real good at keeping those tech oligarchs in check /s

      BRICS is such a loosely linked group that generalising like that is just never going to be accurate; Indian and South African, for example, policy on tech regulation couldn’t be more different if they tried.

      Don’t get me wrong, I think BRICS is a good organisation for economic cooperation between these very diverse countries, but there’s really no common political, social or economic characteristics.

      Brazil is a good example of that, because under Bolsonaro, it couldn’t have been more different - regulations on big tech and banning X would never have happened under his tenure (well, at least not with the same goals)

    • @cygnus@lemmy.ca
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      7813 hours ago

      It also helps that unlike the R and the C in BRICS, they aren’t imperialists threatening and/or invading their neighbours. Brazil is a good world citizen.

      • @masquenox@lemmy.world
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        42 hours ago

        Brazil is a good world citizen.

        Uhhh, did you forget that Brazil was being run by a fascist war criminal just a short while ago?

        • xor
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          And now it isn’t, that’s democracy, baby

          I fully agree that Bolsonaro was a straight up demon, but I also agree with the idea that - currently - the administration of Brazil is probably about as good an example of a good world citizen as it gets

          • @yeahiknow3
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            3612 hours ago

            Fact checking is censorship apparently.

            • @Monomate@lemm.ee
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              -147 hours ago

              The old system of using fact-checking agencies was biased, and the content they deemed false had its reach negatively impacted. They were literally the arbiters of truth, and their actions silenced their political opponents’ voices. The new system of Community Notes is superior because it requires approval from people with diverse political alignments to show a fact-check to everyone.

              • @imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
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                116 hours ago

                Because remember you need a Nazi and a tankie to agree with facts in order for it to be the real truth.

                Sometimes reality doesn’t align with political views. Doesn’t mean it’s not facts

        • @forrgott@lemm.ee
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          49 hours ago

          I think you might be confused. They were talking about a country other than the US. 😂

    • @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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      because its not a country we’ve flagged as “Evil Enemy Run By Inhuman Savages”.

      Unless the subject is Amazon deforestation, in which case we have to stop these inhuman savages from destroying this global patrimony (mine). Please don’t ask who’s buying the cattle and soy being grown there or running the mining companies or where I got all this fertile land.

      • @mke@programming.dev
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        Reminds me of people who said Amazon deforestation warranted a “military intervention.” Hey, be funny if trumpet added another country to his want-to-invade list, wouldn’t it? Yet folks still feel bothered when I say people in rich countries don’t really care all that much about poorer ones.