I don’t consume lib stuff anymore, but the fact that the people I listen to are politically more developed and insightful than Oliver and Stewart doesn’t make me exempt at all. This applies to the stuff I consume too, and I know exactly the feeling this person is talking about. I consume politics, but I’m part of a working class that’s so fragmented I don’t even know where to begin doing politics.

I wish I had somebody cool like Zohran to work with, but there’s pretty much nothing cool going on where I live. Actually, there probably is, but I’m so alienated from local politics that I have no clue where to start.

if he kills Elon Musk then he’ll become an international hero in my view

no, but even if I was invited to go, I don’t know if I would have the courage to risk being imprisoned and tortured by an Israeli prison guard

these people are incredibly brave, and I have the deepest admiration for every one of them

“We cannot build bananas in America” is an incredible sentence lmao

these absolute gigachads are doing IRL sidequests and I’m here for it

I wish I had a quarter of the courage these folks have, holy shit what an incredible mission

Casual observers and the liberal media, the government base delude themselves exactly with a mirror image of US Democrats, parrotying out of context economic “data” when it suits them and ignoring the material reality.

True, we refuse to give up on our mission to be the US’s poor cousin. It’s depressing, really.

There is a sliver of hope Ciro Gomes will be this leftist option, but otherwise it will be a massive defeat.

Agreed. I was talking about this today with some friends, and I really think this is the ideal time for him to come back from his soirée in Paris and actually get shit done. Both the far right and the neolibs are headless chickens right now, and Ciro is as far as I can see the only hope to develop the country rather than deliver it on a silver platter to the international bourgeoisie and the local comprador elites.

Lula and Haddad have adopted the neoliberal “compromise” route and yet the entire rich capitalist class, the giant agribusiness exporters, the entire rural far-right fascist organized movement that burns the Amazon and kills indiginous people, the half dozen giant banks making billions every year through predatory loans and a ridiculous interest rate etc.

You know, I’ve been calling them cowards for a while, but I think that’s giving them too much credit. I think the truth is that they actually agree with this neoliberal program and follow it of their own accord. Our agricultural elites as well as the armed forces are lazy, stupid and brittle. If you engage with them seriously, they will fold. The one aspect of Brazilian society that I do think would be a real obstacle is criminal factions and the way they’ve infiltrated public administration.

Global south reality is already hell and IMO fakenews shit is more relevant to radicalize westerners who are still comfortable but have a growing anxiety about worsening conditions.

Agreed, but I do think that the situation in the article I posted is going to make public discourse next year an absolute nightmare. Can you imagine trying to convince your parents that the video they’re showing you of Lula having a party with prostitutes on a yacht is actually fake? Or that this transgender person saying the most horrible shit you can imagine is actually the product of an AI model? These AI tools will poison conversations and endanger people who are already vulnerable, and that’s the thing that really scares me.

he wanted to workshop his new Chinese voice impression

Trying real hard not to be a total doomer here, but Intercept Brasil has just published a chilling article: https://www.intercept.com.br/2025/06/04/oficinas-google-meta-partido-bolsonaro/

Essentially, Google and Meta sent representatives to PL’s (Bolsonaro’s party) latest communication seminar to teach them how to best use the capabilities of AI in order to communicate with their followers. It’s not even just an internal event where the worst ghouls chat with each other about how to undermine what’s left of democracy, this is literally official representatives from these companies teaching them a masterclass on how to do AI prompts to generate text, images and videos.

Just straight up foreign interference, right there, out in the open.

Next year we’ll have our presidential election here, and I think it’ll be the world’s first major election after the release of Google’s boomer brain melting machine, the Veo3 model. This will likely be the first glimpse on what’s coming down the line everywhere else in the world. We’ll be a kind of lab experiment that the rest of the world should definitely pay attention to.

And, of course, our lovely government is seeking to open our country to foreign investment in the form of datacenters in impoverished cities. There will be zero resistance from the liberals in power. Right now, Bolsonaro’s only role is as kingmaker, since he’s currently barred from running for office, and at least the right still hasn’t coalesced around a new leader. The pathetic centrist liberals in power are bleeding approval by the day. I’d like to huff some copium and say that this means there’s fertile ground for an ascendant left, but they are nowhere to be seen.

We are absolutely cooked, and this is seriously yeeting me deeper into uncharted territories of Luddism. This slop factory needs to be fucking razed to the ground.

typical honky behavior

the BBC won’t broadcast the Superbowl, and yet it has no problem broadcasting this superb owl, curious

I’ll never stop finding it very funny that the only hugely popular mainstream mass entertainment product that I would possibly call “leftist” without making caveats for copious amounts of lib shit is a massive budget Star Wars show produced by fucking Disney

what a time to be alive

2025 and we’re still doing Nuremberg defenses huh

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lmao get this AI slop out of here you jackass

motherfucker you’re on BRICS, who the fuck are you trying to impress by shooting yourself on the foot with the gun that makes you racist

rookie numbers, let’s see him take all his pill stock at the same time and chase it down with a handle of whiskey

lots of rivers in Brazil have names that come from indigenous languages, so we have some real bangers too: Xingu, Juruá, Parnaíba, Iguaçu, Juruena, Tapajós, Tietê, Piracicaba

some true bangers in there, but actually that’s a very reddit coded normie top 10 lol

Basically music curation through 30 year old white American nerds who LOVE Radiohead.

Aside from that, I’ll definitely check it out! Thanks

what kind of music most people actually like… which if you go by the spotify charts, is a lot of slop!

I don’t want to go all Rick Beato-style grumpy old man, but yeah, it’s really a crazy thing to open the spotify top charts and see that I don’t know even a single one of the most popular artists right now. Especially in my country, it’s all mass-produced slop. It’s the kind of music that’s not AI but might as well be, considering how it all seems to be composed by a market potential maximizing algorithm,

What is that service on the right, though? I’m not familiar and while I’m not a fan of ultra nerdy metal and post-rock, I’m way more interested in that than in the two hundredth song that sounds exactly the same as the previous one in the Spotify top charts.

“We’re the rhydo, kid. We’re the fuel. We’re the thing that explodes when there’s too much friction in the air”

that speech hits like a semi truck, Forrest Whitaker fucking DELIVERED that goddamn line