That just means that USian democracy is sick for a long time.
Here in Brazil we have lots of problems and room to improve, but I think we do right by requiring everybody to register to vote on turning 18 and if anyone misses an election without justification they are fined.
Big? Trump got elected with only 20% of USians voting for him.
Anything less than 90% turnout would already start being dangerous for democracy.
Voting is not a right, it’s a duty.
I haven’t really looked into it, but isn’t Friendica supposed to be the FOSS Fediverse Facebook?
Both, but the second always gets stuck before the end.
If you don’t mind wiping out and reinstalling the system, you can get the LTSC ISO from MS and activate with this: https://massgrave.dev/
(This site also has the ISOs)
Dipyrone. It’s OTC here in Brazil, but it seems to be restricted in other places.
Here in Brazil they were legalized under Bolsonaro, and it was terrible. They are mainly making the weak and poor addicted to gambling and preying on them.
In a few months the poor lost millions of government assistance money to these Casinos.
Best looking for sure.
Well, beyond that the alternative is to abolish the state, which I’m not against, but the ideal would remain.
It’s an ideal in that people should be working towards taking control of the state apparatus and making it so. The class struggle will always make it impossible to reach, but it can always be pushed to be better.
And here in neighboring Brazil he is a “communist” because he dared criticize Bolsonaro.
There’s a lot of historical resentment, many things justified, many exaggerated.
This is for my state, others must have other reasons.
I voted against Bolsonaro because for me it was clear he was just more of the same, just with a façade of change. By me both Lula and Bolsonaro should be cell mates.
It’s complicated…
My state is one of the most prosperous of the country, and built on numerous social policies, that even the “right-wing” politicians reflect, and mostly voted for Bolsonaro, because Lula represented a continuation of all previous governments that only cared about taking our wealth for nothing in return, or destroying our culture(s), and Bolsonaro was the first to pretend to care.
But my state of not one of the affected (directly) by the fires.
I can’t exactly say for the other states, but for mine (Santa Catarina), the governor has since the beginning of the mandate avoided any and all meetings with Lula, even finding some bullshit excuse to leave the state when Lula came here for a public works inauguration.
For too many here “doing anything” “hurts the economy”
Bolsonaro has his share of guilt today, but this is a decades old issue, centuries even if extending to the colonial exploitation culture.
Not just lack of preparation, many governors are actively hostile to Lula and conservation efforts, and many farmers are creating more fires to spite Lula and “support” Bolsonaro.
Similar to abortion, while there are legitimate cases, the capitalistic system will pressure people into doing it to increase profit and power to the elites.