I wonder when people decided to format emails that way.

The actual format (not the name) is at least some 30 years old, email is at least some 55 years old.

Brazilian tariffs are actually smaller than the ones the US imposed. The reason you can’t find anything below 190% of the original price isn’t just the tariffs.

That said, yeah, they are already too large.

It’s because old movie cameras had astigmatism.

Well, some old movie cameras. That movie-makers decided to be passionate about.

Well, it’s the correct court to judge it.

Or you meant “how come someone even though the opposite?”

I don’t have an answer for that. There’s that guy that got a powerful position in some other country that keeps ordering that people do those nonsensical stuff, and I can’t really understand where he takes his ideas from.

I really love that the appropriate response to it is “Oh, God. Please make it not happen” instead of laughing at the ridiculous idea.

Nah, don’t get too worked out over it.

It can’t be economically viable either, so as soon as that company stops gifting investors out of their money, it will just disappear and the mirror will fall back into Earth.

I imagine it would be about the fake evidence used as justification to invade Iraq. 9/11 isn’t anything remotely comparable.

(And of course, the US is not the same, as you can talk about the Bush’s perjury all day long and not get arrested. Although it is similar in that you can be brown and sent into a concentration camp.)

It’s well documented that he organized several murders with the goal of establishing the military dictatorship. Yep.

He didn’t even tell the exact coordinates and depth…

That would be the WTO membership agreement.

PIX does not violate it. But even if it did, like any other country on Earth, Brazil has an endless list of US violations that it could claim it’s remediating.

It’s not a middle finger to Trump. The Brazilian government has had that position for a long time.

A long time ago the Japanese government decided that the entire country producing only one kind of food is bonkers, and started forcing farmers to diversify.

Jump to a handful of decades later, and the diversification effort was kept every ear, with people complaining that they can’t keep it forever, and the government claiming that it never caused any problem. Repeat that again and again, and well, finally it has caused some problem.

The police, persecution and two independent levels of the Judiciary found him to be the central player on the Petrobras scandal that you talked about (and either way, it was created while he was the president). He was the central player on the scandal of car companies paying him (personally) to avoid paying taxes. He inherited the position of central player on the scandal of construction companies paying bribes.

There were dozens of other crimes. He was right on the middle in most of them. Including the one where he used taxpayer money to bribe representatives and senators.

Cut the bullshit.

It now seems that the arrest was for more political rather than criminal reasons

That’s just false.

They rewrote the law so that the judges that judged were the wrong ones, decided that this invalidated the judgement that already happened, and that no existing judge had the authority to rule over the case. He wasn’t deemed non-guilty of anything, no evidence was found wrong, and no crime was corrected.

If he stops making newsworth content, the news will be tempted to fill their space with other, less egregious corruption scandals.

So, I don’t expect him to go out free, but I really expect him to keep just enough freedom he needs to keep throwing shit around.

We have lots of both sugar and potable water here in Brazil… Maybe the US could send the wanted Brazilian criminals they are protecting in Florida to come get it.

A trade surplus doesn’t mean they are going well.

Total exports increasing does. But it’s only half of the picture.

I don’t think the US military complex consider that “less undesirable” than basically any other possible outcome.

… well, it may be better in their minds than an asteroid destroying Earth before they can cash-out. Maybe. I’m not sure about this one…

They just had the largest protest in their history, have a handful of cities under military intervention to stop the protests, and are close to elect somebody that promises to fight against the federal government as mayor of their largest city.

What exactly do you expect them to do?

So, they wished the increased spending to the monkey paw and got exactly what they were wishing for: countries are cancelling orders of complex US equipment all over the world, and Europe is developing a military industry to compete with them.