comrade-bear

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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • Look at positions that oppose your and try to see the merits of them put yourself in the shoes of a diverging point and on those shoes you’ll probably find an issue with your own point, even if the shoes you wore to do so were wrong as sin, changing the perspective helps.

    Other than that I think that the constant balancing of conviction on your position to the point of acting on it but humility to recognize that it could be wrong, and strength to correct course when you realize it’s wrong. This last part, to internalize that you might change part of your beliefs and if so pivot to the new one with the same conviction as before, this point is important, because once you accept it as a possibility and realize that its not reason for shame, you become less prone to holding on to dear life on an outdated or incomplete view. Those are all hard things to do but I believe it’s through there.


















  • Well, there is more to it coming from Brazil, like it is true that there is a lot of good will towards the BRICS members and with straightening ties with China, but it’s important to not make it seem that Brazil’s internal politics are more to the left than they actually are, there are some very pro market and austerity inducing measures in course in Brazil, that bodes poorly for the short to mid term future. There is a need here for grater popular protests and movements, and there are some groups showing promise on the subject, but the situation here is not good, although Lula’s posture on international matters are nothing short of amazing, his team of ministers here are a far cry from what it would be expected of him. TLDR: Things are good, on one side, but really not good on the other.


  • But you are lumping together very dissimilar things, like saying that a mass murderer and a thief, neither are innocent technically, and you saying that they are both the same is a misguided perspective. To say that China is just as bad as the US, is more than naïve, you may believe that China is not the role model for us to follow, for sure that’s a very reasonable perspective, but claiming that there is no improvement by changing the world’s hegemony from the US to China is to ignore reality, China never did any coup on any rival country, China does not finance genocide and never did, China does condition loans to a destructive control over the countries finances like the IMF does. I think you are misguided thinking that both sides are equally bad, there are issues for sure on either side, but I think that the differences are many and should be accounted for, and most important of all, suggest a great improvement with the forces of the east.