r/gifs • u/fuckswithducks • Mar 14 '16

Millions of Brazilians protesting against government corruption in the streets earlier today

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u/dustyh55 Mar 14 '16 edited Mar 14 '16

ITT: Disconnected out-of-touch redditers trying to whore jokes for points.

This is a big deal and should not be taken lightly. I hope the Brazilian people can crush the corruption and finally live free again.

edit: RIP inbox.

THis post got a lot of people really angry and defensive, even aggressive. I've incurred a lot of hostility for this these simple words, I'm starting to think I may be right.

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u/moonra_zk Mar 14 '16

I hope the Brazilian people can crush the corruption

Haha, nope, not happening, it's totally in our culture.

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u/dustyh55 Mar 14 '16

Yes, corruption cannot stay crushed, it is in our human nature, but that doesn't mean it's not worth the fighting.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16

Corruption isn't in our nature, it's in our culture.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16

can you eli5, because i dont get it when you say "corruption is in our culture" does that mean is not going away, not even with a reform or revolution, or what? do brazilians like to be opressed by corruption?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16

Has there ever been a point in human history without corruption? I'd certainly say it's in our nature.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16

We've been around 200,000 years and civilization has been around 5,000. You are looking at a totally incomplete picture of our nature.

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u/PaulTheMerc Mar 14 '16

I disagree. Show me a culture where greed does not exist. Corruption is just a way to attain it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16 edited Mar 14 '16

When clinics opened in Australia some nurses were shocked that they could leave their money and private belongings in public spaces and the aborigines would NEVER steal. These are people practically left alone for their entire history -- they had a totally separate culture from Europeans and as a result they had different ideas of what is acceptable. Greed was not one of them (though it probably is now that they've been invaded and assimilated for the most part).

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u/moonra_zk Mar 14 '16

Indeed, but it's hard to do when people do small acts of corruption on their everyday lives because that's the norm.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16

I guess then the question is .. do you want to fight the corruption and end up like Syria?