I've had to study Brazil at a basic detail, learned about the underage sex industry, how farmers in the Amazon got murdered for their land. How the woodlands in the Amazon were completely ransacked of its natural resources for the creation of wealth. The insane difference between the rich at Rio De Janiero and the poor, celebrating their big day (I forget the name of it). Obviously the drugs industry.

Yet even with those problems, this country Hosted the World Cup 2014 and the Olympics at 2016 pumping millions if not billions into it. That's indeed Brazil in a nutshell. I saw the protests about the lack of funds into public spaces.

Though I wonder if that's the legacy of the huge debts left when Brazil was left with a military government in the 70s that plunged them into debt. Huge debts = Social unrest = Drugs and negative social behavior.

I'm not an expert on Brazil whatsoever but to me, that's "Brazil in a nutshell".

TL;DR: Failed state doing failed state things.

except that the failed state was until this year composed mostly by social justice warriors

there was a celebration yesterday for the 30 years of our constitution with the heads and representatives of the 3 powers giving speeches. of the 8, 5 spoke about social justice, 2 about freedom and the so-called fascist who will threaten south america's democracy bowed to the constitution

i'm no military period admirer but it takes less than 5 minutes to figure out which has worked best, 64-85 or 88-2016. make a long story short, they at least built infrastructure and despite the absurd debt (which was mostly caused in late 80s greed) they at least made us a strong country

people needed health and education though, so that's how the cycle restarted

anyway, hardcore socialists caused both and everyone is sick of it, except this time it was so outrageous i doubt it'll happen again

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I'm not saying you had a functional government to begin with. But that also doesn't mean what you have now is a functional government either.

Third-world governments are really funny to observe because they function so much like a kindergarten class trying to solve world hunger.

pretty much, yes

there is a sense that we're in the right direction now

not because we elected him but because people is more active, from kids to grandmas and grandpas checking for speeches in congress and such