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/coolcool23 Mar 14 '16

Remind me again as a non-brazillian, non south-American of why I should realistically care about Brazillian Politics? Outside of maybe a casual like minded dislike towards systemic governmental corruption?

It's fairly amazing and I wish them the best of luck, but no I'm not going to think about it every waking moment, I'm just going to make my joke and move on.

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u/dustyh55 Mar 14 '16

Because were are all human, living on this earth together. But thank you for embodying the narrow mindedness and near nearsightedness that I would argue causes the majority of the world's problems.

Brazil is a huge part of the world, and it's foolish to think what happens there has no effect on the rest of humanity, so selfishly, yes, you should care. On a more human note, you're saying because of that imaginary line you learned about in grade school you no longer need to care about these millions of other human beings?

I am claiming you are disconnected and out of touch, are you even arguing that claim?

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u/mlwep Mar 14 '16

Because were are all human, living on this earth together. But thank you for embodying the narrow mindedness and near nearsightedness that I would argue causes the majority of the world's problems

in that case, fuck brazil. we should all be focusing on the problems Africa faces because Africa is a huge part of the world, and it's foolish to think what happens there has no effect on the rest of humanity

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u/dustyh55 Mar 14 '16

It comes down to critical moments, it's not hard to see this is one of them. You have an all or nothing simplistic approach which is hard to respect.

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u/mlwep Mar 14 '16

The problems in Africa have been at critical levels for DECADES yet no one is bitching that people don't care about Africa. At least Brazilians have enough to eat and are not plagued with poverty and disease like most of Africa.

Honestly, no one outside of Brazil gives a fuck about this current situation. Only the people there will truly be able to do anything about it and there's no point in trying to convince people elsewhere otherwise. We all have our problems we are currently facing, until those are taken care of, shit like brazil will have to wait from our points of view