There is even a better side (no joke) called hexbear.net

The sad part is that it is not federated with most instances.

But still a good place to go and learn.

Brazilian here. Even when it is too late there will people still drinking the koolaid.

I’m waiting to see how things will develop in US, in part, because I hope the obvious failure that is bound to happen will nudge our senate and judiciary to say a loud “FUCK NO!” to anyone trying to copy cat Trump’s tarifs, Big Beautiful Bill or other shits here.

Still, there are 20 or 30% of the population that still want something similar to Bolsonaro.

If we ever have the disgrace of that idiot getting freed of Jail, I’ll either join the fight against his sycophants or I’ll flee away from Brazil.

(free bolsonaro is unlikely but not impossible and there are his family members and close ties in politics to always haunt us that want a proper democracy)

You’re not wrong, but you forgot that the in-group always shrink.

Also, it is usual for fascists to throw others “under the bus” as a way to save their own face.

Serious question: What about Alcohol cars?

I get it that there would be a need to develop better motors to run on alcohol alone and that alcohol’s output is lower than gasoline but at least the first part is solvable in the same way that diesel motors got better over time (spending money on R&D).

I ask this because, here in Brazil, Lula tried to implement pure alcohol cars back in his first or second term but faced some backlash both because we didn’t had the necessary tech to make good alcohol motors and from a lot of other reasons (one which is probably to be petrol companies fucking the project to keep their gains, which although sounds conspirational, may also be true since it is patently obvious that petrol companies lobbyed against climate change measures).

Also, as long as we don’t fuck up the soil by mismanagement, it will be almost carbon neutral in emission since all CO2 output was used to grow plants, which is different from using petrol that needs millions of years to be put back under a rock deep down the soil.

I’d even risk to say that it could even be a net-positive(?) carbon capture since the fiber from sugar cane (for brasil’s case) is captured carbon that could be used to fertilize the soil back again.

But I don’t think we will see a resurgence of alcohol based cars because, as it seems, it failed here on Brazil and oil companies’ greed definitivelly aren’t the only reason for that (though I believe it played a smal to medium role)

I hope you are right, but my highest fear is that Trump isn’t pusshing bills through congress.

by that, I ean the congress is in control and want to pass such bills without loss of face.

Then who better than trump (or whatever president) to autopen everything thatwas handled by a middle man, then make a show of “How Trump is bad and bullying us! Bwaaahhh!!!” and then just let the bill pass because that was the plan from the begining.

But again, I really hope that I am wrong and spurting some tin-foil hat nonsense.

Either that or he will think someones wishes him to get corona virus.