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- Comment on Brazil Becomes the Largest Nation to Decriminalize Marijuana 5 months ago:
As a Brazilian myself it couldn’t have been any better day for the progressive society which was rooting in a dark place of uncertainty for far too long for a closure on this issue (which has been postponed/dragging for over a decade).
However have no shred of doubt cause the dilema is still swirling. It does bring some medicine to a deep divide in Brazil’s social fabric involving a biting topic: the police’s social profiling over race and social class that is an institutionalized teaching impregnated in the police mentality.
The Brazilian judicial system is scrambling to finish cases resting in tribunals, and this can bring about a needed end. Furthermore the country’s penitentiary system is overwhelmingly filled with people of color and poor for petty crime such as drug possession. It could come to an end.
Anyhow, the right wing is already battling this verdict at its own benefit as it’s rallying the narrative that the Supreme Court has overturned and disavowed the legislative’s say on the matter, by insinuating that Brazil is living under a “dictatorship of the judiciary” by overstepping on the legislative.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 5 months ago:
As a foreigner I sinned for I disobeyed the advices and watched it…
I couldn’t believe it was so bad… once I saw it I couldn’t believe I was watching that.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 5 months ago:
As longs as inertia prevails in the world stage, sadly, I don’t see a near term future where a light might shine in the end of the tunnel for Palestine’s future.
But if it serves a consolation, simmering tensions are purging therein the Netanyahu’s regime. His close allies aren’t aligned with the PM’s vision of the plausibility of defeat of Hamas (as if the Israel’s anger agains Palestine had anything to do with Hamas; it’s was a fallacious pretext).