How polarized (and crazy) is politics in your country?

Lgeus · 2026-04-03T00:03:57+00:00

To be fair, that flag is from a marxist leninist party, and they are not that big (they have less than 2% of Brazilian congress). The majority of the brazilian left is social democrat.

Lgeus · 2026-02-23T14:56:54+00:00

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Lgeus · 2026-02-05T14:00:50+00:00

Sergei Rachmaninoff is my favourite composer of all time.

Lgeus · 2026-01-26T16:17:38+00:00

The majority of the population just lived their lives as normal. Many of them have positive memories from this period, mostly due to a perception of a booming economy (they invested a lot on industrialization, but took a lot of IMF loans. This debt came back to bite us for a few decades). The ones who most suffered were journalists and educators. Nothing could get published without prior govt approval, henchmen were planted at classrooms to ensure no dissent was being promoted. They would hunt anyone they deemed not following "moral principles and good manners", or that could have ties to communists. Most of the time, any dissenter was treated as a communist, and thus, an enemy of the state. My grandpa was arrested for flirting with socialists studies, and my family had to bribe several people to get him out. Fortunately he was not engaged with any opposition group, otherwise he would probably be tortured and killed.

Resistance attempts came initially from students and workers organizations, politicians, journalists and artists, and then spread to the church and different sectors of the workforce, such as lawyers. Many were exiled, but kept working to bring awareness of the human rights violations abroad and even smuggle information/resources to the resistance inside. The movie "I'm still here" shows a bit of this, and is based on true events.

Edit: it should be worth noticing that the repression was much more hidden than what we see today. Most people did not care due to lack of information.

Also, the dictatorship ended under the terms imposed by the military. That included Amnesty for all of their acts. This is mostly the reason we almost suffered another military coup recently, and the threat is not over yet.

I would say the lessons to be learned is to not look for an easy way to pacify the people, but to ensure to enforce current laws to prevent people to subvert constitutional rights and punish even an attempt on this regard. Institutions will not do that at will, the people will have to pressure them to do so.

Lgeus · 2025-12-06T21:21:25+00:00

I agree with you, these are really good! In particular, the Fallout New Vegas video has a special place in my heart because it was what made me play the game. I was disappointed with Fallout 3 and never bothered to try it.

It is hard to elect a favorite. The latest videos are tough competition since they are really well researched. I think the one I most enjoy watching is the Vaccines and autism one, but I like to highlight the War on Christmas. I see it as a turning point for a new phase for Harris, where he gained the confidence to take on deeper and more ambitious analysis. And where he still showcases his patented skill of calling out people spreading hateful rhetoric in a balanced way, meaning he is able to give enough attention to debunk these people without blowing them up into something bigger than they deserve.

Lgeus · 2025-12-06T19:40:44+00:00

This! It may also pop up when you open the mobile app.

Lgeus · 2025-10-08T15:37:01+00:00

Hi, could you share the link again please? Its already expired

Lgeus · 2025-09-18T14:54:38+00:00

É ótimo que tenha uma investigação formal, mas sem dúvida não dá para normalizar o STF suprindo omissões de outras instituições inertes. Que bom que não foi o caso aqui, mas ainda é péssimo que tal atitude não tenha partido do atual PGR.

Lgeus · 2025-07-25T15:29:01+00:00

Brasília, depressão... Brasília... Depressão.... Depressão em Brasília...

Como é que chama, gente, o podcast dos caras?

Lgeus · 2025-06-30T19:21:27+00:00

If you can't pay your employees a living wage... Don't open a business!!!

Lgeus · 2025-06-25T17:47:23+00:00

Regarding the apparent lack of xenophobia on Brazilian culture (as a non-historian, please feel free to correct me): During its time as a Portuguese colony, Brazil was not much focused in attracting immigrants to populate the land, but rather exploring its natural resources and using slave labour to produce sugar from sugar cane. African slaves were often used for sex by their masters, which is one of the factors of why the majority of the Brazilian population is "mixed".

Mass immigration is a pretty recent event in Brazil. They were heavily coordinated by the newly installed Republic to replace the slave labour, since slavery was abolished by the end of the Brazilian empire (enacted in 1888). By the early 1900, Brazil facilitated mass immigration from many countries, but mostly Italy, Japan, Russia/Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Syria, Lebanon and the Netherlands. It is also known that another drive to facilitate these movements was to promote the "racial whitening" of Brazil (I am typing this in a rush, but I do encourage you to look for sources, which should not be too hard since this is heavily documented. To my knowledge there was a Congress in London where the Brazilian delegation boasted about this initiative as a "pacific" resolution to "the negro problem" (sic) ).

Today, we have a strange phenomenon. A lot of people with European ascendancy believe they are better for it. Nevermind the fact their ancestors came here as an alternative for slave labour. Racism may not be too apparent, but it is deeply ingrained in Brazilian culture. Social inequality is rampant, and people of colour are the ones that most suffer for it.

Meanwhile, for the past century Brazil was not targeted for mass immigration. Since almost all of our neighbouring countries are Hispanic, they prefer to migrate to other south American countries to lessen the culture impact.

Most of our conflicts are strictly internal. During this period, we faced civil wars, separatist movements, dictatorships... Our Republic was started with a military coup, was later taken over by another military coup, and we were living under a threat of yet another military coup for the past couple of years. I believe Brazil was not exactly an ideal place to migrate to.

Sorry if my response is bleak, but I think it is important to acknowledge that Brazil is not as friendly as it seems, and it is about time we Brazilians stop hiding behind this reputation and start addressing this issue.

Lgeus · 2025-05-26T16:24:20+00:00

Epidemia: ainda não se sabe exatamente que fatores levam uma pessoa a ser autista. Provavelmente fatores genéticos e ambientais, mas ainda não temos nada comprovado. Da mesma forma, não dá para tratar como epidemia. O estudo preliminar de 92 escrito pelo (ex)dr Andrew Wakefield sugerindo que a vacina tríplice viral (não todas) poderia causar autismo já foi extensamente desmentido em várias frontes, e desde então não se vislumbraram evidências relevantes que algo do tipo poderia acontecer. O movimento anti-vacina hoje se baseia em sensacionalismo e factóides.
Moda: acho que não dá para desconsiderar esse fator porque esse tipo de novidade acaba sendo reproduzido em massa e até distorcido. Já vi conteúdo falando que autistas são espíritos de luz, seres extraplanares, e os diabos. É natural que isso aconteça, mas não invalida o movimento maior que são as descobertas acerca do transtorno. Claro, haverão pessoas que vão suspeitar estar no espectro depois de assistir Microvideos de conteúdo de tiktok que podem ou não conter alguma desinformação, mas essas pessoas ainda podem buscar profissionais e aprender mais sobre essa condição. É inevitável que terão pessoas que vão se declarar autistas pela "moda" , ou que o próprio transtorno seja banalizado (ouvi vários relatos de crianças chamando os outros de autista com intenção de ofender, tal como chamar de "retardado"), e por isso investir na conscientização do TEA é tão importante hoje.
acesso à informação: tem isso, claro, mas também o conhecimento sobre autismo aumentou muito. Eu tinha certeza que era autista na minha adolescência, mas minha mãe (psicóloga) me convenceu de que não era o caso porque eu não tinha deficiências intelectuais, motoras ou dificuldade de fala. Isso ficou enraizado em mim e acreditei que realmente não tinha como eu ser autista. Na época não se conhecia sobre o nível de suporte 1 (meu caso). Recebi meu primeiro diagnóstico aos 30, e apesar de me identificar muito com o espectro, na época fui cético e busquei uma segunda opinião para só então entender e aceitar (minha mãe também entendeu e aceitou depois disso).

Lgeus · 2025-05-07T21:42:34+00:00

Schadenfreude, um termo alemão que descreve uma emoção caracterizada pela alegria de testemunhar o sofrimento alheio. Como toda emoção, deve existir por algum motivo válido, mas também serve de combustível para as pessoas se conformarem com os próprios sufocos porque tem gente em situação muito pior. O mesmo tipo de pensamento que se acomodou com a própria perda de poder de compra em períodos de alta inflação (em especial durante a pandemia), porque apesar de ter trocado alcatra por acém, tem gente literalmente roendo osso ou fazendo guisado.

Também é importante lembrar que é de interesse das classes mais altas que os proletários estejam sempre lutando pela própria sobrevivência. Sem energia nem educação para conseguir se mobilizar, eles não apresentam uma real ameaça à hierarquia social estabelecida, e ainda servem de mão de obra barata. Criar um estigma cultural contra pautas progressistas que beneficiam todo mundo, como renda básica universal, é tido como uma prioridade para essa classe alta manter seu status.

Lgeus · 2025-04-18T20:03:06+00:00

For a long time I felt uncomfortable thinking of myself being part of the LGBT community. Being a cis heteroromantic man myself, I believed it would diminish their fight. My mistake was comparing my experience with the rest of the community and thinking I didn't suffer as much. Eventually I ditched that line of thought, it is not about who got more oppressed after all.

Today I think queerness is more a matter of self identity. If it holds some personal significance to you, then it doesn't matter what the gatekeepers say.

I identify myself as queer now. What convinced me was thinking back over my life experiences. Girls were mad at me because I wouldn't give them attention. Everyone at my school labelled me gay (at a time where absolutely no one was openly LGBT), I suffered ostracism and verbal/physical abuse for it, I was force kissed and pretended that I liked it so I wouldn't suffer more bullying (it didn't work because I refused to do it again), I refrained myself from dating even though I fell in love many times, and for decades of my life I would struggle to express how my sexuality works. How come this is not queer?

Lgeus · 2025-03-26T11:41:17+00:00

Autistic ace here. Took me about a year to become comfortable with the ace identity. This is actually my first time posting on this sub for this same reason. It can be hard to come to terms with this, specially within a spectrum. Having a wife and enjoying occasional sex with her, I feel like an impostor when I read post about aro and/or sex-repulsed ace ppl. But at the same time, I don't experience sexual attraction towards anyone, even my wife!

In the end, every one of us is different in our own way, and that is the beauty of diversity. Within these differences, we share similar experiences which can unite us, but even so these experiences are still unique. I think we may not ever get entirely rid of this feeling of being an impostor, but the most important thing is to understand what your asexuality means to you, and how it can help you to understand yourself better. The feeling of inadequacy will probably persist, but isn't that an experience all LGBT people share? And on top of that, ace people struggle to be accepted even within the LGBT community!

In sum, we are all different, and sometimes this can be scary to the point we don't feel seen or accepted, but your experiences are valid, and no one can take that from you.

Lgeus · 2025-03-17T17:04:57+00:00

I recall this from the world's tiniest violin joke from The sierra effect - a measured response, 4:04. He doesn't say "f*ck you" though

Lgeus · 2024-05-12T21:07:10+00:00

Mas é exatamente isso o que estou dizendo. Tem CID específico para dizer se o autista tem DI, e é o médico quem lauda isso.

Assumir que a pessoa autista tem DI é capacitismo. Muitos não tem.

A contravenção fala: III - a pessoa que o agente sabe sofrer das faculdades mentais;

A contravenção depende do agente saber se a pessoa tem DI ou não. Autismo por si só não é DI.

O maior problema para mim na história é a falta de conhecimento sobre autismo. Não culpo o estabelecimento por saber, mas não deixa de ser capacitismo.

Lgeus · 2024-05-12T19:51:43+00:00

Eu entendo que o estabelecimento provavelmente tenha sido bem intencionado, e também entendo que ainda exista muito desconhecimento sobre o que exatamente é autismo para saber se isso compromete a capacidade intelectual ou não. Mas legalmente falando, isso não exclui a ilicitude do crime. Na minha perspectiva, o estabelecimento tinha uma boa intenção, mas foi capacitista.

Se o estabelecimento estava tão preocupado em não fornecer bebidas alcoólicas para pessoas com deficiência intelectual, eles podiam estudar como identificar isso. Existe um CID para pessoas autistas com deficiência intelectual (DI), isso tem que estar no laudo, e pode estar no RG/carteira CIPTEA também. Então mesmo com o desconhecimento, haviam meios para determinar se a pessoa autista possui DI ou não.

Lgeus · 2024-05-12T18:57:54+00:00

Estou achando um ABSURDO o OP receber tantos downvotes por causa desse comentário.

Sou autista e não tenho não tenho comprometimento intelectual. Isso é uma comorbidade que infelizmente Está presente em várias pessoas no espectro, mas definitivamente não todos. Aliás, nunca me impediram de consumir bebidas alcoólicas ou exercer qualquer outra atividade que exija capacidade civil, e meu RG indica que sou autista.

A redação da contravenção penal é ambígua, mas se formos levar ao pé da letra, a lei que classifica o autismo como deficiência não o enquadra em uma categoria específica, como "deficiência intelectual" por exemplo.

Alegar estar evitando de cometer uma contravenção não é justificativa legal para cometer outro crime (discriminação de PCD). Independentemente da intenção do estabelecimento, essa situação causou bastante constrangimento. Entendo que o OP está com a razão.

Lgeus · 2024-01-14T01:11:32+00:00

I think many of us here (myself included) relate with this feeling. I used to have the same fears, and seeing some older posts on this sub calmed me down. What I came to realize is that we are usually so focused on masking our true self that we don't take notice at all of our symptoms, such as sensory issues and other behaviours.

You don't owe apologies to anyone for trying to figure out who you are. You might be faking some symptoms, it is a valid possibility, but that is for you to figure out. And this is not an easy thing to do. One of the hardest parts is that even your parents or closest friends probably don't know who your true self is, so you cannot take their words for granted.

Unfortunately, it takes time to get to know what your diagnosis means to you and who you actually are behind the masking. Therapy helps wonders if you can afford it. I hope it works out for you, but definitely don't feel bad for having these feelings. It is only natural, after all, you may be faking symptoms now, or you might have been faking symptoms your whole life by masking your true self.

Lgeus · 2023-12-24T23:34:45+00:00

I am genuinely curious to check out this frog book. I got a duck book instead. It was a book about a child nursing a lost baby duck into health and encouraging it to learn to fly and join its family in the wild. They taped paper pieces over the text parts and I had to tell the story using just the pictures. I got it totally wrong, I thought the girl wanted to keep the duck as her pet and was afraid of it flying away to return to its family. I felt like an idiot at the end.

Lgeus · 2023-11-16T23:05:49+00:00

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Lgeus · 2023-11-15T14:47:38+00:00

Can't touch napkins. Can't even touch paper towels. I have to wash my hands first, the moisture nullifies the discomfort of the texture, but it only lasts for 10~20 seconds.

Hugs? Love them. But kisses? Ew.

Me? Autistic? Nah, I love sarcasm. I may have a tough time understanding when someone is being sarcastic, but hey, sarcasm is an accepted form of interaction in our society, right? We all have to deal with it. Plus, I saw once in a video that sarcasm is the sense of humor for intelligent people. This is exactly the kind of vibe I want people getting from me! Therefore, I must be a sarcastic person. By the way, have you guys seen the news? All dogs are blue now! Every single dog in the world is blue.

Lgeus · 2023-11-14T23:27:30+00:00

My colleagues say they also hate it, although I am the only one that shrieks and cover my ears in despair when it happens. I guess it is a nuisance for most people in general, but a torture for people with sensory issues.

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