taisasganzerla.bsky.social
Editor at ecfr.eu, previously Global Press Journal, Global Voices, The Cambodia Daily, Estadão. From 🇧🇷, living in 🇵🇱, before in 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧🇰🇭, ❤️ in 🇯🇵🇵🇭, standing with 🇺🇦🇵🇸💚, she/her
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I'm not a reporter and I already have a job, but yes, monitoring this stuff and Collecting Receipts© is my hobby
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Anyway here's another story no one is covering: how all these bullshit accounts that have pop up recently are likely a Russian op (X banned the largest one just last week). If your reaction to this is 'but this is good actually lol' remember that the same people behind those also run neo-Nazi pages
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Good time to remember that in 1993 Brazil held a referendum on its system of government and about 6.7 million people (13% of the total) voted for monarchy.
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Monarchists idolize him. The other 99.9% of Brazilians don't think about him at all.
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Even if the desire to log off is real we’re also deeply comfortable with app-mediated life and not truly willing to give up its conveniences. And maybe insisting the techbros did this to us and there’s nothing we can do about it (short of, idk, revolution or whatever) is also just very convenient.
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(and being extremely averse to differing opinions where even the faintest hint of political compromise is seen as moral failure & betrayal and where everyone fiercely polices each other’s likes and affiliations and live in fear of having your online "friends" turning on them etc etc)
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No caso o presidente do CHAD
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I mean, the fact that a German-Brazilian citizen, *now living in Brazil*, ran a massive neo-Nazi Telegram group in Norway that was exposed in a investigation 2 years ago (and now is the subject of a a documentary) and not a single outlet in Brazil has followed up on it since then is truly beyond me.
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Anyway just more proof for my theory that all those weird "BRICS News" and "BRICS power" accounts that have popped up in Brazil over the past 5 years are run by Russia. Not that our "OSINT experts" will ever look into this (they probably agree with half the stuff these accts post).
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If you've followed Syriaon social media since 2011 then you've witnessed the likes of tankie cartoonist Latuff do a full 180 around 2014, from "Assad is the main villain" to "all opposition to Assad is CIA-funded and al-Qaeda"
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Ok the actual quote is "best thing WAS globalization and free trade". Tiny but key difference as he's speaking in the context of the West's protectionism drive vs China. Unclear whether he's defending neoliberalism or critizing the hipocrisy. Probably both. Lula is a master of ambiguity after all ;)
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Anyway, this is a quick note to anyone whose entire worldview hinges on "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" etc. The world is complicated, kids.
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I say the same to Eastern Europeans: if you idealize the US, talk to Latin Americans and Africans. No one holds all the answers, but saying “no pasarán” and “a good fascist is a dead fascist", assuming you have perfect moral clarity, that's easy. What's hard is when our principles inconvenience us.
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If you're a Brazilian leftist feeling ambivalent, critical of Putin but unsure amid talk of Global South and Western hypocrisy, speak with leftist Ukrainians, Poles, Balts and others who live in Russia's shadow. Listen to their perspective on their terms, without projecting your worldview onto them
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Reminder to self to visit this bar in Bratislava which perfectly captures Slovak state ideology under Fico (must go before tariffs start biting and they take down the Trump stuff)
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Is this really such an extreme position? I'm asking genuinely as it strikes me as entirely rational. Many experts on Somalia who openly say that even al-Shabaab could be integrated under the right circumstances.
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"it's all Britain's fault", no shit! I wouldn't have thought of that on my own, here's my patron subscription.
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I agree music is more personal. As much as I listen to music for pleasure (and like discovering new things) my job (editing, remote) means background I rely on background music a lot and that isn't stuff I particularly love or want to share with others etc.
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Thinking of this as I revisit this year's diary and see I've watched (by main spoken language): 2 🇫🇷, 2 🇯🇵, 2 🇵🇱, 2 🏴, 1 🇹🇷, 1 🇭🇷, 1 🇷🇺, 1 🇫🇮, 1 🇰🇷, 1 🇮🇳 (Hindi). Would be nice to see it all compiled after a year.
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One difference of course is that the Rohingya never sought an independent state, they only demanded recognition as a legitimate minority in Myanmar. So in that sense Palestine might actually be unique as a people denied both national independence and assimilation through citizenship.
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From these examples Myanmar and Rohingya tracks. Decades of statelessness, a government that labels them foreigners and, since 2017, displacement of half of the total population into neighboring countries.
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Stigmatized is a strong word in this context but yes, accent more important than heritage for sure
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"We will assimilate you whether you want it or not, and if you resist it's because you're embarrassed of us/think your ancestors are better than us/want to stand out" is the unspoken message most of the times.
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Most countries in Latin America have been quite consistent on civic nationalism, and in Brazil+southern cone assimilation has been so widespread, aggressive even, that any form of ethnic belonging is often seen as anathema to national identity