lula did have 10 million more votes from catholics, whereas bolsonaro was up by 14 million with evangelicals

but it’s a tricky stat: the most catholic regions in the country are the south and northeast, and while the first one voted firmly for the right, the second basically pushed lula to his win, with crazy percentages like over 76% of the votes in piauí

so, two catholic regions voting in completely different ways. my take is that it’s not really that catholics support lula, as much as northeasterners do (for very material, concrete reasons - historically the poorest region in the country, but whose conditions improved massively under lula I and II), and they just happen to be very catholic

improper comparison (why aren’t we comparing Haiti and Cuba instead of the US and Cuba?)

this has buggered me so much since the first time i ever heard that comparison

it’s especially bad when it’s someone from the 3rd world spouting that bullshit. “people are leaving cuba to go to the US!!” yea bitch but more people are leaving our country for america too and ours is a fucking capitalist one

maybe that, coupled with the recent re-opening of investigations on the military (over disappearances during the dictatorship), could help us get rid of these comprador assholes in the long term because by god do i hate our military

the other time they had a similarly good result was with that other piece of shit neolib we all know, and blair might have been even worse than starner in some way or another

brits really are just hopelessly thick

it’s funny because what they’re calling productivity is actually just production: they’re literally increasing hours rather than increasing product per hour (which is productivity, and also the only way to be more sustainable, even under capitalism)

Maybe it’s that we made the Internet so full of disinformation that everyone is just automatically refusing to listen to others, maybe we have created a social group that just assumes they are more educated than everyone else cause they read some stuff in the internet.

i’ve always thought the decline of capitalism, or even just the accumulation of its downturns, had the consequence of people trusting authorities less than they used to, and that scientists just get thrown in the same bag (“people who mess with this convoluted stuff as if they know what they’re doing and just keep making my life worse”)

imperialism is responsible for conservatism there

hey i only said more responsible, iranian conservatives still had their own historical agency and are definitely our enemies. i mean, they’re the ones who pulled the trigger, even if imperialism put the guns in their hands

you can say “amerikka bad” but really what it means is “western imperialism is the greatest obstacle to the left, even within 3rd world countries governed by the right-wing”

ironically, imperialists, intentionally and unintentionally, are more responsible for conservatism in iran than iran’s own leaders. it’s bizarre, but that’s what a global system like capitalism manages to do

International communism is in its infancy as it was in Europe during the 1840s.

i’d never thought of it that way, depressing as fuck but i guess it’s true

i wouldn’t be surprised if both kind of were the same moment