i think everyone falls for propaganda sometimes, it’s pretty unavoidable but as a general rule if you think you’re immune to it you’re probably especially likely to fall for it, because identifying it generally requires concerted effort, not just passive instinct.
you can’t tell me having money doesn’t play a role in getting accepted to better universities when universities rely so heavily on exams whose test takers scores improve with the more money they have the ability to funnel into taking said test.
it becomes a question of how much expendable income you have to score high on said test, rather than what your actual abilities are.
In my experience, getting in to college was more about how much you can pay a tutor to tell you how to fill out forms correctly. Forms meaning SAT tests or the college applications themselves. Not to mention that “sending” test scores over to college costs $30+ and college applications themselves can be $100, so the more money you have to apply to more likely you will get in to a school.
u ever meet that very specific type of teenage boy where u just think, man, this kid was definitely Assigned Cop At Birth
since this is getting notes i’d just like to say im deeply sorry that this is a universal experience. even moreso that this resonates w some of you so much that youre naming and shaming Certain Young Men in the tags, which is kind of what i expected to happen. but honestly i really appreciate the one person who just tagged this post as
because it completely fucking blindsided me and THAT is what im on this website for, so thank you from the bottom of my heart
Alright but there’s some CRAZY historical shit happening in brazil right now
our ex-president (and the most popular politician alive here by far) was convicted of a crime and police issued an arrest warrant for him yesterday
so he basically said “fine, come and get me, i’ll be at the labor union speaking to the people who support me meanwhile” (cause he was running for president again this year and was VERY likely to win)
and so many fucking people showed up and basically barricaded blocks and blocks around the building that police can’t get near him
and police knows exactly where he is so they can’t consider him a fugitive and apply penalties cause he’s technically not breaking the law
and today after negotiating his surrender carefully he tried to get out and people literally won’t get off the gate???
people are literally human-barricading this dude from being arrested this is WILD
Important to note that this is all part of a coup by the bourgeoise right wing in brazil to oust the workers party that started in 2016 when they got workers party ex president dilma roussef illegally impeached
right wing judge sergio moro accused lula of receiving a bribe in form of a luxury apartment in guarujá
they took it to court and lula was sentenced to 12 years jail time despite no real evidence being presented
lulas lawyers are currently presenting the case to the UN as a case of a human rights violation by the brazilian judicial system
this is likely to be a turning point for brazil’s left bc
a.) they’re now unified (protesters from all different leftist parties came together to support lula) and
b.) it undeniably proves that electoral politics are no longer a feasible solution for the left
the main form of resistance against the coup thus far has been voting for alternative parties (like lula’s) and protesting, but moro and the rest of the car wash leaders are brazen enough to arrest lula, despite it being clearly illegal and w/ international eyes on them /and/ the case being brought to the UN, which has already been intervening in a similar case in catalonia. so they’re not even pretending to abide by their own laws anymore, or care about the will of the brazilian people.
For short: The military AND the Brazilian judiciary are BOTH being controlled by the extreme right. this is political persecution. This is an unconstitutional act that violates human rights and a scandal of unspeakable consequences. This is a full blown attack on Brazilian and Latin American democracy and social prosperity.
Lula was born and raised in the Northeast and he grew up extremely poor. He was a metal worker and became an union leader. He was jailed for 31 days under the military dictatorship. His political career started upon his release. Lula lifted millions of people out of hunger, out of absolute poverty and unemployment.
PLEASE READ, “Lula, I am an idea. And ideas do not die” - that’s what the extreme right wants. to criminalize the most popular president in history. one of the biggest symbols of social and political resistance of Latin America. And the world.
