brazil (my country too, eae paizao) has been a colony for most of it’s history since the portuguese came here. first to the europeans to have our gold and natural resources, then for the US to have our consumer market and natural resources for very cheap, so they can feed their industries and markets.
a lot of the economic policy we are applying RIGHT NOW (such as the teto de gastos implemented since michel temer) are IMF impositions, which is controlled by the US.
this is essentially what makes us deindustrialized and dependent on foreign goods, and is making our public services so bad, which is the whole point of making us a colony in neoliberal capitalism. so they can come in to the “open” market and dominate everything unfairly.
we (the global south) are also doing most of the work to make western companies and their profits possible:
my last sources of employment put me to work 6 days a week (no famoso 6 por 1, disfarçado) earning a comparatively low salary to enrich us and european multinationals.
bolsonaro was literally sponsored by the CIA and planned by steve bannon to align us with the US and try to put us in line. remember how he “patriotically” simped so hard for the US throughout his term?
lula’s admin is not much different in practice by the way. just ideologically more aligned with neoliberal capitalists than fascists. the best we can hope from him in terms of materially improving our lives right now is putting us closer to BRICS.
our country doesn’t suck because brazilians suck, as a lot of reactionary right wing brazilians like to say. it sucks because of us imperialism.
brazil (my country too, eae paizao) has been a colony for most of it’s history since the portuguese came here. first to the europeans to have our gold and natural resources, then for the US to have our consumer market and natural resources for very cheap, so they can feed their industries and markets.
a lot of the economic policy we are applying RIGHT NOW (such as the teto de gastos implemented since michel temer) are IMF impositions, which is controlled by the US.
this is essentially what makes us deindustrialized and dependent on foreign goods, and is making our public services so bad, which is the whole point of making us a colony in neoliberal capitalism. so they can come in to the “open” market and dominate everything unfairly.
we (the global south) are also doing most of the work to make western companies and their profits possible:
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my last sources of employment put me to work 6 days a week (no famoso 6 por 1, disfarçado) earning a comparatively low salary to enrich us and european multinationals.
bolsonaro was literally sponsored by the CIA and planned by steve bannon to align us with the US and try to put us in line. remember how he “patriotically” simped so hard for the US throughout his term?
lula’s admin is not much different in practice by the way. just ideologically more aligned with neoliberal capitalists than fascists. the best we can hope from him in terms of materially improving our lives right now is putting us closer to BRICS.
our country doesn’t suck because brazilians suck, as a lot of reactionary right wing brazilians like to say. it sucks because of us imperialism.