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"The vast majority of foreign capital is going to flee the US, a lot of domestic capital is going to flee as well. We'll probably see capital controls to try and staunch the bleeding. US will be Brazil within 2 years."
"Was walking alone in the woods last night contemplating suicide after failing an exam and my ex telling me there was 0 chance we'd ever get back together and a Brazilian guy saw me and asked me to if I wanted to smoke week with him in his car (this is happening in Portugal, so you can set the scene)"
"The guy is from Brazil so obviously the "asylum" case is bogus. Brazil has its own immigration, they're not 3rd world, and it's not like you're persecuted group who will die if they don't leave their country."
"All the rich brahmins in India, Saudi Arabia, upper class in Brazil / Columbia, China ect... You get to have a private education growing up, with a massive amount of tutors and other help, unlimited cheap labour to never have to clean or cook."
"Lula beats President Bolsonaro to win Brazil election"
"I was born in Brazil. There was this childhood friend of mine, let's call him Robson. Since like age 6, Robson talked in a funny way, hated football (im talking about the beautiful game), was bullied by some boys but friends with all the girls, gave sassy answers to the teachers which always made ev"
"Is it unwise to spend nearly 6k to go on a vacation to Brazil with my very new girl friend?"
"Lyedja Yasmin was a 19 year old girl repeat student in the middle school shot 2 people, but only bruised a boy and missed a teacher before another boy contained her"
"It's especially pronounced in Brazil, where evangelicals are set to overtake catholics in numbers by 2032, if current estimates hold."
"Keep in mind that he also ran a porn company in Brazil (this site looks pretty schizo, admittedly, but the evidence on it checks out.)"
"its essentially the country of the future for better or worse, most of the people have indigenous, european, african and middle ancestry in varying proportions... they have their own cultural bubble that interacts with the anglosphere but isn't too concerned with it, they have a huge influence on Po"
"This is fucking insane. Like this shit is going on in brazil, spain, italy, turkey, etc All this fucking jaw surgery and face lifts."
"Brazil had already rapidly expanded output to fill the void, and now Milei decided to repay the $20bn credit swap line with this lol."
"brazil is not a country where you see many foreigners outside of major touristic cities, of which Rio is the biggest one."
"Just as much as Italy, France, Brazil or any other country. We have distinctive food, holidays, clothing and values."
"I'm from Ireland, where Brazilians are one of the largest immigrant groups in recent years. They enjoy a great reputation and fit in well, despite coming from what most would consider a "low trust" society."
"The context is a small family in a small city in a somewhat conservative catholic region of Brazil."
"gay countries: Brazil, Greece, Thailand"
"Their 7-1 loss to Germany in the 2014 semi finals while being host country is the funniest thing that has ever happened in human history. Today wasn't quite at that level, but still absolutely hilarious"
"We get chatting enthusiastically about a lot of things, how he has recently moved to Ireland (he's from Brazil with Italian heritage), about life in his country, his faith and the world in general."
"I'm currently adapting the Goiânia Accident from Brazil into a screenplay with similar themes to The Pearl and No Country, but it's set in West Virginia because no one wants to watch Brazilians, obviously"
"I told him we had plenty of Brazilians here in London."
"The girl, Ana Benevides, died from cardiorespiratory arrest, probably caused by the extreme heat (worsened by the producers of the event sealing some of the stadium's airways and openings) and from dehydration (no emergency supply to account for the unusually high temperature, very expensive water a"
"My Brazilian school had no clue about American politics but half of the class was going hysteric, putting up images of him on the board and then throwing chairs at it calling him evil"
"I'm from a not very important state capital in Brazil. The mayor of my city was invited by the Israeli government to go on an all paid vacation 15 day trip there... It's impossible not to think it wasn't planned, he is one of 40 brazilian official that are on this trip."
"Worst part is that I come from Brazil, but I already lived in Germany. And i just like it here way better. I just really wished this country wasn't so miserable. Like I want better for everyone here, but at the same time, I know I won't be able to change it."
"What happened to make people think Milei Argentina, Trump America and Bolsonaro Brazil is something to emulate?"
"Another 🇧🇷Brazilian🇧🇷 horror classic from José Mojica Marins that you can watch for R$ 0.00 on YouTube."
"A few weeks later you disembark in Brazil. You're wearing trousers and it's 100F°/40c° outside. You bike everywhere and border the beach where everyone is at the beach getting tanned eating churros/corn on the cob and smoking weed. People in the sidewalk drinking a cool beer at 2pm. Mosquitos everyw"
"idk if it's because i'm brazilian but going to techno parties in first world countries and seeing that nobody ever approaches anybody, nobody is making out and everybody is dancing in a repetitive fashion for hours listening to mediocre music while drugged out of their minds seems so regarded"
"The southeast Asian have no idea what language people speak in Brazil or what the capital of Chile is, the Latin American has no concept of the difference between Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia or Vietnam, let alone their capitals, culture or economy"
"Americans have so many, from Eisenhower being a secret communist, to q anon, NFL and Taylor swift being a democrat agent, whatever, what's the version in Germany, Brazil, whatever?"
"It looks like a serious effort to prevent Lula-leaning areas from getting to the polls is underway. I don't have any particular analysis to add but I'd like to hear from anyone who follows Brazilian politics, especially anyone residing in Brazil."
"Other stuff have kinda have made me feel the same are: After Hours, Conspiracy Theory, Altered States, Angel Heart, Brazil, Devil in a Blue Dress, eXistenZ, The Game, In the Mouth of Madness, L.A. Confidential, The Ninth Gate, Payback, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Total Recall, Traning Day, etc."
"Dom Pedro II was the one who started the 'pls come to Brazil' thing when he first visited the Ottoman Empire"
"They test changes in first world countries that have strong anti privacy laws like Germany, and when they roll out these changes worldwide they don't care if they lose customers in Brazil for example where piracy is normalized but wages are lower."
"There are hundreds of them now and I remember reading that similar things are happening to other countries, like in Hungary or Brazil."
"A few young kids and women were stabbed today in Dublin. the far right are claiming he was an immigrant, but, as far as I'm aware, the main suspect is a Dublin born man, and there was an attempted intervention on the crime by a Brazilian deliveroo driver."
"I'm a Brazilian who grew up in a neighborhood full of Japanese immigrants (my hs sweetheart was one, also Brazil is the country with the biggest amount of Japanese people outside of Japan) and later traveled to the island itself. In both countries the social performance can become waaay too overcomp"
"They'd met on an app. He was a substitute teacher, a couple years out of college. She was from Sao Paulo, and working as a nanny/maid on a one year work visa. When her visa wrapped up he followed her back to Brazil and moved in with her and her parents. They wed in 2019"
"I can't also help but notice that the countries that all had globally popular music genres (the U.S., Jamaica, DR/PR, Brazil, Colombia) all also had a major part in the slave trade. Maybe west-african rhythms/melody are the missing key to globally popular music."
"I asked him about it yesterday and he showed me a pic of an superlative award he won in twelfth grade; "Most likely to travel to Brazil" and the plaque read "because he's loves those Amazonian women""
"Worst part is that I come from Brazil, but I already lived in Germany. And i just like it here way better. I just really wished this country wasn't so miserable."
"A few weeks later you disembark in Brazil. You're wearing trousers and it's 100F°/40c° outside. You bike everywhere and border the beach where everyone is at the beach getting tanned eating churros/corn on the cob and smoking weed."
"The southeast Asian have no idea what language people speak in Brazil or what the capital of Chile is"
"anyone who follows Brazilian politics, especially anyone residing in Brazil"
"Every time I listen to some traditional African music on YouTube the comments are always filled with Brazilians and Russians. They all leave the same 'Hello from Russia/Brazil comment' as well."
"Brazilians are the most tamed and passive people of all the world, they accept anything. Corruption, violence, politicians lying etc, AND NO ONE BREAK ANYTHING, AND NO ONE PUT ON FIRE ANYTHING"