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Family and Geography
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The United States
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City whose suburbs he grew up in
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Washington, DC
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U.S. states he has lived in
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Virginia
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California
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Countries he's lived in
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South Korea
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Saudi Arabia
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Bahrain
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Israel
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Turkey
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Romania
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Greece
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Ukraine
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Russia
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The Philippines
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Thailand
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His ancestors include these indigenous people
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Cherokee
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Other ancestors include the Winslows, who emigrated on this famous ship
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the Mayflower
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Uncle who lives in Florida
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Butch
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Work and Play
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His alma mater
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George Mason University
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Education
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Hospital ER
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High IQ society he qualified for
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Mensa International
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His favorite band
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Nine Inch Nails
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Artist he's seen in concert the 2nd most
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"Weird Al" Yankovic
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His favorite classical composer
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Game for which he was internationally ranked
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Magic: The Gathering
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Stat he led his community basketball league in
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blocked shots
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His favorite 80s cartoon
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The Transformers
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Director he wishes death upon
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Michael Bay
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His Travels
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# of countries visited (as of Dec 2017)
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61
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His first trip overseas was here
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Paris, France
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Only countries in Africa he has been to
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Egypt, Tunisia, or Ethiopia
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Holiest Sites Visited
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Al Aqsa, Western Wall, and Temple Mount
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Masjid AlHaram (Kabaa)
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre
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St Peter's Basilica
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The Golden Temple, Varanasi
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Beliefs and Values
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Number of gods he believes in
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Zero
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Only president he ever voted for
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Barack Obama
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Contemporary moral philosopher he usually agrees with
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Sam Harris
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His political beliefs are best described as
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Rational, skeptical, or realistic
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Rational, skeptical, or realistic
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The Comments Section
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Top reasons he comments on quizzes
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To show appreciation to the quiz maker
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To instigate interesting conversation
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To call out bigots for offensive or ignorant comments they have posted
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To share a point of view, offer some insight, answer a question, tell an amusing anecdote, or just make people laugh or think
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Top reasons he has never commented
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To brag about his intellect or performance
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To unfairly attack any group of people
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First JetPunk user he feuded with
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OzChris
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His Love Life
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He doesn't believe in this institution
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Marriage
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He also hopes to never have any of these
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Children
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His first love
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Jenni (will also accept Daisy Duke)
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Polish girl who broke his heart in 2004
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Małgorzata
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Royal family he once deflowered a member of
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AlSaud
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Adult film star he once dated
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Alexis Love
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Contradictory Stereotypes
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His shoe size
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17 (US), 50 (EU)
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Type of car he owned for 13 years
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1999 Dodge Viper RT/10
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Country where the above was stolen by police
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Serbia
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His Quizzes
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His most popular featured quiz
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Digits of Pi
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2nd most popular
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Presidential First Names
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His most popular never-featured quiz
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Most Visited Cities in the USA
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2nd most popular
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The "Are You Too Dumb to Live?" Quiz
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Another thing, have you thought about visiting Brazil? It would be great to see our beaches, the Southern Region, which gets frost or snow in Winters, see the Amazon Rainforest, its animals and rivers, big cities, as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, etc., and, obviously, my city: Belo Horizonte!
I would love to go to Brazil. Never been there. Never been to South America. And yes I am homeless in the sense that I have not had a fixed permanent address for a long time. But I'm not sleeping on the street.
1º = CAN TAKE THE HORSE OUT OF THE RAIN! You say: I'm not an atheist! Now with me: I'm an atheist! Is it just me who shit here? We will not distort matters! NO religion is false. You just don't believe in any, but that does NOT mean that all religions are false (except neo-pagan and satirical ones, those are false).
2nd = So you are a ... nomade?
3rd = I think you will not regret coming to Brazil, as you regret coming to Serbia. Just read well how things are done, see the legislation (which I am absolutely sure that you will hate ...), and be careful when visiting Rio, because there is an unfortunate danger, slums too, militiamen, etc. , that is, BE VERY CAREFUL. But I don't want to see the bad side of things! I'm sure you will like it! Have fun when you come here!
Religion is a set of cultural systems and beliefs, in addition to worldviews, which establish the symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and its own moral values.
In addition, most religions have deities. You mentioned several of them in one of my comments, but on top of that you say that there are no religions, remembering that every deity belongs to a religion.
Objectively ... YOU ARE CONTRADICTING YOURSELF!
You say: All religions make empirical statements about history, human nature, destiny and the future, and / or the nature of reality, the world and the cosmos.
You just talked about religion, and you say it is false. If it is false, why did you just describe it?
Kal, I don't hate you, but you mostly contradict me, and even yourself. And look, I'm "walking on eggs" with this.
Example: You said "graveyard shift" and it translated as a graveyard shift! You know? Those places there that do burials, funerals, with the word "shift". Do you know?
But NO RELIGION IS FALSE. Many may be atheists like you, but some 99% say: religions are not false, but I don't believe in any.
For example = When you asked for the literary references of the name "kalbahamut", in the comments, you spoke the word "tempted", in the masculine, but as the gender is undefined, he writes "tempted", already in the feminine.
Now I understand what you say about Harry Potter, remembering that it is a completely fictional book, and with a theme, which ... well ... IS FALSE. I think J. K. Rowling did a terrible job with that.
But now, I'm going to change the subject (not that I don't put up with your arguments, but living on it won't do). What do you think about Brazil? Do you find a good place to take a vacation? Before answering that, read the points I told you about Brazil.
And you didn't answer me one thing: So, are you nomade?
It is not because you do not believe that it is false. We are never sure of everything, neither me nor you. As I forgot my colored pencil, better spell it right? Come on! N. O. N. E.
Religion is false. For example, I am a Protestant, but I don't think Islam is false. I just don't agree with him. Just as you are an atheist (or you are not, because you distort these things a lot), you do not believe in Protestantism, but (to spell it out again) does N. O. T. mean that I am false. The difference between the two is huge, and I don’t know how you don’t see it.
I know you said you would like to go to Brazil, but I don't think you read the points I added.
Again, did you read my points about visiting Brazil?
Also, I weep for the future of literacy when 1000-character-limited comments become famous for being the longest paragraphs possible ever in the world ever.
2. met her in L.A.
I don't mind that you are religious as long as that doesn't lead to you voting for candidates who will try to enforce their religious beliefs on everyone else, or teaching your children to not think critically about the world leading to them growing up like most other people embracing superstition and not being able to evaluate claims as credible or not, or attacking those who don't share your beliefs as arrogant or ignorant or sinful, or trying to excuse the behavior of other bad actors who share your religious beliefs. I hope you don't think of this as a bad thing.
Reading it felt like reading an offensively weird fairytale. XD
2. I lived in Saudi Arabia for 6 years and officially converted to Islam at the Islamic Center on Imam Saud St in Riyadh. Long story. But the laminate they gave me helped me gain access to many places I shouldn't have been able to.
2b. If you'd like to debate me on something that's fine. See comment below.
3. I don't care about protecting my anonymity. Some people here don't seem to like me but I haven't received any death threats so far. I've posted links to social media at least once before that would have made it easy for me to be identified. Here's another one.
On the other hand, it was really more of a vote against Trump than for Biden, so I guess in that way the clue still fits.
But in the past "consoles wars", who did you support...?
I really like your "gamer cursus", because I really like Nintendo, and also because I'm too young to know most of these consoles, but I'm a kind of retrogamer, and I have some of these consoles, and would like to have some others.
What is your favorite console, and your favorite game?
Oh, and you have never had a handheld console...?
My favorite all-time console is probably either the SNES or the PS2. My favorite game is probably Final Fantasy VII. Though I'm also partial to Alpha Centauri and the Civilization series especially Civ IV and Civ V.
Other favorites include the Mega Man series, Gran Turismo, Street Fighter 2, Final Fantasy Tactics, Mario Party, Metal Gear Solid, the rest of the Final Fantasy series up through 9, Symphony of the Night, Planescape: Torment, Command & Conquer, bunch of others...
If you want to go really really retro, my favorite Atari 2600 game was probably Solaris. My dad was a fan of Frogger that was the last game he was any good at.
And your chooses are, I think, totally understandable, this two consoles marked the video game industry.
Personally, I don't know which console choose between Game Boy Advance and 3DS.
I would very like to have an Atari 2600, which is for sure an excellent but, as I said, I first focus on the handheld consoles. By the way, my next console will probably be an Atari Lynx.
And what do you think about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (or the series in general)? Personally, I think it's like a kind of video game museum, but I'm just so bad at the versus fighting games, sadly...
There's no telling what they will turn out like. There's a non-negligible chance that they will be awful people even if you raise them perfectly, and nobody raises their kids perfectly. Most of us are awful people. There's a good chance they won't even like you. Or they might start leeching off of you the way my aunts and uncles did to my poor grandmother.
They represent an enormous commitment. Like 20+ years of your life... gone. I don't know what I'm going to be doing next year let alone 20 years from now.
Studies show that having kids is just about the single worst thing that can happen to a person in terms of the negative impact to your overall emotional well-being. Worse than losing your job, divorce, major illness, or a death in the family. We say that our kids make us happy because society programs us to. But in reality kids mean giving up most of the things you enjoy or find meaning in presently.
can you link one study that has found this?
All of the reasons I've ever heard people give for having kids are absolute bollocks... they say... you need someone to take care of you when you get old. But if you just invest the money it costs to raise a child you could afford a whole team of better-qualified nurses. They say... do you really want to die alone? When the inescapable fact is.. we all die alone. I know a lot of people who want to have kids because they came from a broken home and they hate their family and they think that they can somehow do better... this seems masochistic to me. They say... you need someone to carry on your name and remember you. 1. no I don't. I'm not that egotistical. 2. There are already plenty of people with my name. 3. Tell me 5 things about your great great grandfather. You can't. We will all be forgotten.
1. there is no single decision you will ever make in your life that will have a greater impact on someone else's life, up to and including the decision to kill them, than the decision to conceive them. And yet... nobody is ever asked for their consent when it comes to being conceived or born. Making that decision for someone, to me, feels incredibly presumptuous, selfish, vain, and thoughtless. Life for most of us is pain, suffering, drudgery, monotony, and loneliness. Punctuated here and there by moments of happiness or joy or pleasure, then back to the other stuff. I don't want to be responsible for putting anyone through that.
and 2. I haven't found anyone that I'd actually want to have kids with who would want to have kids with me and I cannot reproduce asexually.
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Thank you for your reply!
Noam Chomsky
Jordan Peterson
Slavoj Zizek
John Lennox
Richard Dawkins
Peterson: Right about a few things (the stupidity of mandating others know and use "your pronouns" lest they be subject to penalties for hate crimes, I think is what originally made him famous/popular)... but... completely whacko on many other things. So, like Chomsky, his alignment with one political issue (in Chomsky's case, anti-US anti-Israeli bigotry; in Peterson's case, anti-SJW politics), and his sometimes adept use of language, has turned him into almost a cult leader with a lot of vocal fans. But... also like Chomsky... talk to him for very long on any of a large number of subjects and he reveals himself to be a fruitcake and dingbat.
I think that your analysis of Peterson is spot-on for the most part, especially the fact that his large vocabulary and skilled oration give him an almost scary amount of appeal to certain individuals. Although I do believe that people don't give him enough credit in certain areas, despite his shortcomings.
Zizek: never heard of him.
Lennox: don't feel like I know him well enough to offer up an intelligent opinion.
Dawkins: smart, funny guy. Good writer. Seems to be a competent and accomplished biologist... though I wouldn't know, that's not my field. I never understood much of the hate directed at him... except that he's honest. And people dislike honesty.
Lennox is pretty influential in mathematics, which is my area of interest and I can understand if you're not really into any of his work, but I think he's at least worth checking out a little more.
I also think you need to look more in Dawkins. There definitely are some very legitimate criticisms of him, albeit much of it is undeserved, as you mentioned.
There could be other stuff I'm not aware of. But when I asked people who hated him why they hated him... they were never able to produce anything more compelling than what I just mentioned above. And... to be honest I don't especially care.
My one beef with him is that when I, independently, came up with the idea of memes (cultural ideas that mutate and evolve like genes do as they are passed from person to person and across generations), it was disappointing to discover that Dawkins had already described the concept in his book The Selfish Gene, published 3 years before I was even born. It's so hard to be original.
But yeah, the stuff you're saying about alleged Transphobia/Islamophobia is mostly nonsense. Especially the Islamophobia. Although I do disagree with you that he's a funny guy and good writer, but that is more just personal taste.
The two debates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF5bPI92-5o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVEuQg_Mglw
As far as the debate with Lennox goes, I think I may have seen it before, or maybe not. I'm sure I've seen similar debates. Between real scientists like Dawkins... and people who are nothing more than professional apologists, debaters, and liars... and it can be frustrating to watch because usually the serious people on the stage who haven't made a career out of BS are caught off guard by the inane arguments the other side is making and they don't know how to respond because they're just so ridiculous and they might have never heard them before.
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This is a very controversial quiz, but that's only because of your prominence in Jetpunk. Good quiz nevertheless.
Also you seem to be slightly entitled considering your rant against Jeremy who had a third of the comments you did
Renaissance man? Eh... Probably overgenerous, but I'll take it. Da Vinci might be the historical figure I identify with the most.
What does my or Jeremy's comments have to do with entitlement? I'm trying to make my points clear. It's possible to pack a lot of fallacious statements into a single comment if you spend no time supporting any of them... but if you want to respond to all of those fallacious statements and explain why they are wrong, more space is required to do so. Again, what does this have to do with entitlement? Am I not entitled to respond to people who comment on my own quizzes?
let's say I still don't have it at alland zero strategies to show my viewpoint, or at least to doesn't look like a pampered child. I guess I'm now minimally mature to take an argument seriously, although I'm not calling you to debate once again about anything. As Sir Isaac Newton said, one must always learn even from an enemy.it's f*cked up, it's basically impossible that there wouldn't be a person who wouldn't get directly or indirectly affected, and would get into the politics world. Let's say it made me to be kind of sensationalist, but I always try to compare both sides and what would be my main principles. If we are gonna ever agree on something, that's something I won't assure you, and probably may not happen, at least I feel more mature to take an argument seriously :)Best wishes to you and to Brazil.
once again, that he helped the country in some aspects, etc, etc, but it’s unquestionable that the bolsonaristas are getting pressured with a state of censorship by part of the court and congress. No matter if the Elections were fraudulent or not, it’s not good-looking that you cannot express your opinion on the country and ask for the basic, and with the basic I mean: getting informed if the Elections were or weren’t fraudulent. But you’re right at one thing: I was expecting some help coming from Bolsonaro to the current situation. Many people are organizing demonstrations around the country and the world claiming “Brazil was Stolen”, but the president doesn’t show up.Could you at least tell me why was Bolsonaro “a disaster to the world”?
I don't feel like starting a conversation about how terrible Bolsanaro is... I'm sure you can find plenty of places to read about criticism of him if you'd like to. If you're only reading the other side then you probably should seek out some of these sources and get a different point of view. I know they're there.
badlythe current situation in Brazil, although last blog was more centered to FIFA World Cup. As I said, I don’t wanna argue, so if you feel free to, I can explain a bit of what’s wrong with Lula’s government. Lots of people are complaining about his chooses of ministers. Even the ones who self-declared “specialists” and are part of his brood.Often politics is a matter of choosing between the lesser of two evils. But... the greatest evils will try and convince everyone that there's no appreciable difference even when the differences are substantial.
About the ministers, from 5 of the ministers announced by Lula, 3 were condemned by the Justice. And I'm talking about:
Ministry of Economics - Fernando Haddad (PT-SP): Condemned in 2019 by slush fund (forgery) and considered one of the worst mayors of the history of São Paulo
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Ministry of Justice and Public Security - Flávio Dino (PSB-MA): During the Pandemics, his government as Maranhão's governor spent R$9.3 million (US$1.7 million) in respirators that haven't been delivered
Chief of Staff of the Presidency - Rui Costa (PT-BA): Also regarding to Pandemics, he hired a cannabis-based company to buy pulmonar ventilators as governor of Bahia and excused saying that he didn't dominate well the English language (more like me two years ago)
So, I know you wasn't meaning that Lula was a good option to Brazil, but I don't see Bolsonaro being worse than him. There are a lot of controversies evolving his name, but I'll try to avoid raising them for don't start an argument.
Although I'm avoiding to raise controversies to avoid arguments, I must say that Paulo Guedes was one of the best Ministers of Economy since Itamar Franco's government (1992-94)*, that raised back the economy with Plano Real. His minister was Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC), that would...
*Itamar took possession after the impeachment of Fernando Collor
“It's worth noting that anyone with access to the program can change one or two of the 17 million lines of code and significantly change the results. And more than 60% of code programming is outsourced. In fact, a recent study conducted by the Instituto Voto Legal states that the TSE programming process offers only 5% security according to international standards.”
I’ve been trying to make more researches about it, but it’s impossible for me to understand why is it so hard to simply argument why are the polls trustworthy, instead of shutting anyone who questions it.
Also about the point of the diplomacy, the other side says that the Electoral process is done, although the Constitution says otherwise in the Article 14th, Clausule 10th: “The elective mandate may be contested before the Electoral Justice within fifteen days from the diploma, instructing...
And about the cannabis point, it’s more for the point that it’s controversial, not criminal. It wouldn’t be seen with good eyes having a pulmonar ventilator based with cannabis derivatives. And I also could find another controversy on Flávio Dino, but I’d rather understanding it a bit better before showing it to you. Remembering: I don’t wanna argue, so I’m trying to be less denialist, differently from the Brazilian leftist side (or also like the rightist side).