- FreshParsnip@lemmy.caEnglish10 days
And the Untied States will invade Brazil to install him as president. I wish I was kidding and didn’t see this as a real possibility
- Jiral@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Brazil isn’t Venezuela, much bigger, stronger institutions, stronger army etc. Never say never but you think Trump is eager on getting into another Iran war?
- seeeem@leminal.spaceEnglish10 days
Do you think Trump has the prefrontal cortex mass remaining for that level of critical thinking?
- Jiral@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
No, but maybe there are still some left in the Pentagon who have not been purged yet and some influence left.
10 daysI wouldn’t count on it. Kegsbreath will probably have his public execution if they resist.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish10 days
i suspect RUBIO would have a hardon in invading South america.
- metermatic26@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Well…Iran is a vast country, with a deeply rooted regime, strong military, proxies all over the Middle East ánd the ability to chokehold global energy supplies…
…and yet Trump was stupid enough to wage war on Iran on a whim. Nuff said.
- 10 days
Never say never but you think Trump is eager on getting into another Iran war?
I hate that this question doesn’t have a clear an immediate answer as “of course not!”. Because… yes, I can see pedohitler considering this to hide the disaster of Iran.
- marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Lol! In two more steps he will be trading nuclear hits with France and the UK to distract the population from his earlier mistakes…
- Talcosis@lemmy.zipEnglish10 days
I noticed that my phone no longer autocorrects wwiii to WWII, and has started correcting it to WWIII
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish10 days
by creating another IRAN, to distract from the iran war to distract from NETANAYAHUS problems.
He’s an idiot. Also a narcissist, so easy to manipulate. He always thinks he’s right and he always thinks he knows better. He’s unpredictable imo.
- 8 days
We all agree it would be monumentally stupid, that’s exactly why we’re worried trump will try it anyway.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish10 days
Not a fucking chance. What we would do, is cut a deal with their military to seize control, which, is what we did in Venezuela in case no one told you that yet.
- 10 days
What’s your A1C on that? I mean, I’d ask Gary Webb butt…
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
What’s your A1C on that?
What’s an “A1C”?
FWIW, I’d bet money that the House will flip, and I’m sure that the Senate will win ≥48, probably more. It’ll slow, but not stop, Trump, who might be his own worse enemy. The next Democrat President will be a relative dark horse, as was Obama in 2006, Clinton in 1990, or Carter in 1974; and the next Republican President will be about as bad as Dubya Bush or Trump.
(This posted 10:14 UTC (6:14 AM EDT), 28 October 2026.)
- 9 days
Kind of depends on paying your rent and the fact that money is, was, and never will be real beyond a collective imagination, at most.
- Darkonion@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I hope ‘Untied’ States wasn’t a typo, because that has the ring of truth.
- FreshParsnip@lemmy.caEnglish10 days
It wasn’t. I’ve been spelling it that way since Trump has been back in power
- 9 days
Puck’s gonna be mad at one of us for outing him like that.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish10 days
its much harder to invade it, much like iran its similar, the terrain is very prohibitive of enemy movement, when you have things like massive rivers and amazon jungle in the way.
- stylusmobilus@aussie.zoneEnglish10 days
Don’t worry, if we were to elect a government in Australia that worked for the people they’d do the same here.
- ElChinchilla@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I tried to get hired on as a cement operator (oil and gas) in Australia for a bit. You all dodged a bullet on that one. I would have been there illegally for damn sure after that work posting ended.
Edit: drinking all your Goon.
- Airfried@piefed.socialEnglish10 days
Pretty much. All of this is part of their theater. He flies from facing the consequences of his crimes but the far right will of course spin it around, lying about some political witch hunt. It’s always the same with these criminal politicians. Everyone else is the bad one. They know they simply have to keep denying everything and some idiots will keep believing them. It’s sad, really.
- peetabix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 days
If Trump wants fuck him and he dyes his hair blonde, maybe he could be the new press secretary.
We’ve always collected them. The Shah, Batista, Santa Anna, the police chief who executed a prisoner in Saigon, President Thieu, that dumb woman who thought she would get put in power in Venezuela if she gave Trump her Nobel Peace prize.
We almost had Napoleon I too (that would have been pretty cool though)
- nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish9 days
Except the oil revenue the us is stealing to pay for the bombs it dropped on them.
Madero’s vice president is now president of Venezuela. A different woman.
All pre-negotiated before hand. A fake military operation with real bombs and victims.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish10 days
only the ones that russia financially supported, also they will house any useful propaganda mouth pieces from the west. like TULSI, seagull, assad. and use people like snowden as well.
- 10 days
Idi Amin spent the last couple of decades of his life in Saudi Arabia. I can’t think of anything that Saudi Arabia has in common with Russia …
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I can’t think of anything that Saudi Arabia has in common with Russia …
The prosperity of both seem to have a lot to do with oil exports.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish10 days
SA is worst off, thier only export is oil, thats why they are desperately trying to diversify, sportswashing, buying games,etc. russia as other resources besides oil.
- ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
russia as other resources besides oil
Such as?
I don’t think krokodil is considered a ‘resource’.
- 9 days
Natural gas … although that’s not exactly “diversification” from oil.
- Hayduke@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
A Latin American illegally entering the US on a revoked passport? How much would you bet ICE would cuff him at the airport if he was anyone else?
What other Brazilian would be able to fly here on a questionable passport (seeing as he was ordered to surrender it) with no clear plans to ever go back to Brazil? I promise if he was pregnant they would kick his ass back home after some torture.
- Hapankaali@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
What other Brazilian would be able to fly here on a questionable passport (seeing as he was ordered to surrender it) with no clear plans to ever go back to Brazil?
Perhaps his brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who has already been living in the US while facing an arrest warrant in Brazil.
- new_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Don’t forget about Alexandre Ramagem, former congressman and director of ABIN (Brazil’s CIA)
- 10 days
They trapped Snowden in Russia and then called him a Russian spy by cancelling his passport, but this guy is fine I guess.
- nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish8 days
He refused to give up his passports, so they cancelled them, which means he’s traveling with an invalid passport.
I’ve been a little out of the loop on this Bolsanaro though, and the article doesn’t say for what crime his immunity is ending.
ETA: NPR mentioned he’s been charged with money laundering “among other charges”
- LSTNYER@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish10 days
Criminals used to flee America. Now we’re importing them and giving them government jobs. I hate this timeline
- speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish8 days
It’s astounding to me how many people on Lemmy seem ignorant of US history and its deep darkness that existed long before Trump.
I suppose it shows the power of nationalist indoctrination that we all go through no matter where we grow up. But man, USians got them some real strong indoctrination.
- fritobugger2017@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I believe Flavio’s brother is already a fugitive from charges in Brazil and currently in Florida.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish10 days
places like argentina, russia is apparently not stable for this criminals.
- grue@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Brazil showing the US how it’s done. Trump should’ve been that scared after Jan 6.
- obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
One of the biggest indicators of whether a country is a fascist country is that other fascists flee to that country.
Eh. This is more an indication that Lulu, specifically, has learned his lessons from his first turn at the Presidency and isn’t going to wait around for the Bolsonaros to organize a coup against him.
Look at Columbia or El Salvador or Ecuador or Chile. They all had a turn at Biden tier liberalism, let the fascism feaster under their watch, and then got flipped to reactionary dictatorships in the next cycle.
Lulu got jailed once. He came out stronger and smarter. He’s too old to get shoved back into prison again.
- ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
More info from the similar Guardian article:
Bolsonaro allies told Metrópoles [news outlet] that he would land in Florida on Tuesday afternoon and planned to request political asylum. “The Donald Trump administration has been informed,” the website added.
A US state department spokesperson said Bolsonaro and his family would be granted visas “to allow them entry into the United States.”
Bolsonaro has had Italian citizenship since 2023 and reportedly possesses a passport from the European country.
Lula slammed what he called Bolsonaro’s “shameful” decision to flee. “This is what the family Bolsonaro are like. Brazil is their second homeland. Their first homeland is licking the boots of the US, as he’s become accustomed to doing,” he said at an event celebrating his 81st birthday in Brasília.
- 9 days
Well, the US famously don’t like immigrants, so I’m sure the fine boys from ICE will sort him out.
What?
What do you mean it doesn’t matter because he’s rich?
Well, that’s an oddly unprincipled stance to take. So, perfectly good foreign nationals with low net worth will be incarcerated but literally the devil himself would not if he had wealth?
Yes I know who Elon Musk is…
- selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish10 days
It blows my mind just thinking this guy almost won the presidency of the second biggest country of the continent. Two days ago he was voting and lecturing about democracy.
- ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Ok. I can’t figure out what you mean by “second biggest.” At first I assumed you meant “America” as the continent, rather than “South America,” since Brazil is the biggest country in the latter by quite a wide margin (it’s about four times the size of Argentina). But Brazil is the third largest Pan-American country after Canada and the US. So, ok, you must have a different definition in mind. Second-largest in the Southern hemisphere, maybe? But Brazil is bigger than Australia, by a million square kilometers.
Second-largest…uh…country with a large part of its mainland in UTC-3? (After Canada.) Second-largest country from which you can draw a direct line to Antarctica? (That one might be debatable, actually.) Second-largest country whose Northern border is closer to Canada than it is to its Southern border? (After the US, and yes, that’s true.)
I need answers!
- selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish9 days
I was thinking about several things at the same time, but yeah, seems like I was also wrong in the most obvious one: area. However, it’s not that far away from the USA, being Alaska the deciding factor. Second in population and GDP.
- ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
That’s a good point about excluding Alaska in the area calculation; Alaska is almost 18% of the land area of the US, so pulling it is significant.
From the perspective of population, I honestly don’t know why I didn’t consider that when thinking through this originally. It seems so obvious in hindsight, lol.
GDP is a little bit more complicated. By pure GDP, it looks like Brazil and Canada kind of flip back and forth depending on the year (right now Brazil is just barely above Canada); though if you look at per-capita GDP, Canada is way higher up the list.
- selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish9 days
But I don’t think they are flipping back and forward anymore. Canada is facing a trade crisis now that the new NAFTA is over, and Brazil, if the current political environment settles as it should, is facing a brilliant future in BRICS, also being a power in Rare Earths. In any case, you can consider both 2nd in GDP. Finally, sure, GDP per capita is a different beast, that’s the whole struggle of our lives in the “global south”.
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish10 days
I’m pretty certain South Africa is bigger than Brazil perhaps at second biggest country in the Southern hemisphere?
- ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Not even close. South Africa is like an eighth the size of Brazil. Australia is significantly bigger than South Africa, too, though slightly smaller than Brazil; and Angola, Peru, a good chunk of Congo, and Argentina are all (a) South of the Equator, (b) bigger than South Africa, and © smaller than Australia.
- WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
El Dorado.
The Dorodoan people are vast and numerous, covering an area much larger than Brazil. They’re just really sneaky about it.
- Bysmuth@lemmy.zipEnglish10 days
Probably meant American continent with the US having a larger population
- VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zipEnglish10 days
Brazil is 48% of the continent. Argentina in second at 16%. Not even close.
- NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Perhaps they meant hemisphere…? Even then it’d be third though, I’m pretty sure…
- Crewman@sopuli.xyzEnglish10 days
Pan-American continent by population, Brazil is second. Mexico comes in 3rd.
- NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Pan-American content is the same as the Western hemisphere, making the biggest Canada, followed by the US, followed by Brazil, no?
- ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
There are four hemispheres; each colocated with halves of two others. There’s a Northern and Southern hemisphere, yes, but there’s also an Eastern and Western hemisphere; one from the Prime Meridian East to the Date Line, and the other from the Prime Meridian West to the Date Line.
And actually, geographers talk about a third hemisphere delineation: the “Land Hemisphere” and the “Water Hemisphere.” The “equator” of this hemispherical division is a circle that runs south from Baja California to just under Peru, curves across South America and across the Atlantic where it ducks under South Africa, then curves back North to skirt just below Vietnam and Japan before turning South again over the North Pacific. That might not sound like a hemisphere, but it is when you look at a globe; and the “Land Hemisphere,” which is centered on France, contains 81% of Earth’s land, while the “Water Hemisphere,” which is centered just south of New Zealand, contains about 63% of Earth’s water.
- 10 days
outside the US the Americas is usually considered a single continent. Not 2.
- Heliumfart@sh.itjust.worksEnglish10 days
I’ve only spent a week of my life in that shithole country, and I’ve never heard of the Americas as a single continent.
What about the seven summits?
- 10 days
- ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
In Australia I consider Europe and Asia to be a single continent too.
- 10 days
I actually go further personally. Afro-Eurasia is a single supercontinent. The Americas are a single continent. Oceania is one (Not just Australia but all the large islands out that way), and Antarctica. So I’d say we have 4. Then lots of subcontinents.
- azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish10 days
Never heard of the term seven summits but the Olympic flag has five rings for the five inhabited contingents.
- AAA@feddit.orgEnglish10 days
Most (maybe all?) European countries consider them to be two continents. Because they are.
But even if we look at the Americas as a single continent, Brazil would only be the third largest country, because Canada would be second.
- 10 days
Brazil is 2nd largest by population in the americas. That’s what the OP was referencing.
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish10 days
What movies are distinction between a geographical definition of a continent and a political definition.
The geographical definition of a continent puts large parts of China in Europe and that just doesn’t seem right. It also means that New Zealand is its own continent all on its own.
- 9 days
parts of China in Europe
What a weird way to put it. I’d argue Europe doesn’t exist. It’s a pureply political distinction. It’s just far west asia. Or Eurasia if you want to be a bit inclusive.
- tirateimas@lemmy.ptEnglish9 days
Where is ICE? Trump is right on this one, it is not one of their best.
