I don’t think this makes any sense, but I can see how much it means to you.

I’m gonna be honest, I’m not a huge Brazil expert. I had thought Vargas was close allies with the integralist party and even sort of it’s figure head through much of the rise of fascism.

For real, I noticed that too. I think there’s also a bit of a thing with fascism over the Brazilian, since Vargas’ Brazil was the most prominent fascist nation outside Europe.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-quadrupling-argentina-beef-tariff-rate-quota-80000-metric-tons-2025-10-23/

Which is after dumping $40 billion into their economy in the form of financial aid.

Basically we’re propping up their beef industry instead of funding snap.

Yeah, I can dig that. Frankly my outrage is more about the cutting of nutritional assistance to impoverished humans, but the funding of industrial beef farming is also pretty fucked up.

They’re taking the money from people who need it and are using it to pay people in Argentina to torture and kill cows.

Bush bailed out the banks. Obama handled the auto industry, who had to give up some control of their companies and pay us back with interest, and they did so.

They agreed on bailing out the banks in 08, which is why I picked that year. Then the tea party movement pushed us into a deadlock and we’ve been there ever since.

Well you can forgive loans with executive orders, I don’t think you can change the system without an act of Congress. Our legislature is no longer functioning, it’s been locked in a cold civil war since at least Trump, maybe as far back as 08.

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I’m advocating for fascist and corrupt regimes to be overthrown.

Viktor Yanukovych was not taken out in a covert top down regime change, he was ousted by the Revolution of Dignity; there were over half a million people gathered in the capital demanding change and parliament voted to remove him without a single dissenting vote.

Are you implying he wasn’t a bad leader?

Helping people remove a corrupt president is generally good. If the KGB wanted to help us oust trump I wouldn’t cry about it. (Though let’s be real, they’re more likely to help him cling to power if anything)

Are you seriously suggesting it was the CIA’s fault that Yanukovych was removed from power?

Motherfucker stole billions, killed hundreds of protesters, and committed high treason by conspiring to use the Russian military to quell dissent.

If the CIA helped that’s fine, people like that should not be in power.

Do you think the genocide of Palestinians began with the invasion of Gaza in 2023?

The Russian Ministry of Defense admits 307,000 children were illegally forced from their homes in Ukraine and relocated to Russia. That is not ‘isolated incidents’, and it’s why the ICC has an arrest warrant issued for Vladimir Putin.

Those children are being reeducated and raised as Russians. That is not a normal wartime practice, it’s a Hallmark of genocide.

What ratio of soldier to civilian casualties is necessary for a genocide? I wasn’t aware of this metric.

It’s not just about the children, the areas being conquered are having their culture and history stripped away and destroyed, the language is being changed to Russian; the goal is the destruction of the Ukrainian ethnic identity, this is not the same as other conflicts you named.

Your comment was performative. Just an insult really. I don’t think it has any arresting effect on fascism, but it does make Lemmy feel less safe for people who have been bullied with that slur.

In that case I guess slurs are okay? I don’t follow your reasoning.

Yeah, but we do get riled by ableist slurs.

The ethnic cleansing of Ukraine is absolutely a genocide, what are you talking about? They’re kidnapping the children and sending them to be raised by Russian families, they’re destroying the cultural and religious monuments and changing the national language. How is that not genocide?

That makes sense. I’ve only hosted Plex through a proxy or VPN anyway for networking and security reasons, but it’s pretty shitty to force it just out of greed.

I am also planning to move to JellyFin, but more out of open source fanaticism than financial reasons.

That isn’t how it used to work.

Why would they care what subnet the request is coming from? That’s wack.