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

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

The added features made it harder to deploy, came with some bugs, and overall traded a simple design for community-oriented features that IMO were a negative value overall.

IMO, the Gogs dev was correct. If you look at that community input and what Gitea became, I was glad to use the version that rejected it.

But I don’t know how it compares with Forgejo.

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.

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.

No one can cut off the US oil supply.

Well, if the US invests on being able to use its own oil without mixing with anything else, the can become true.

Not to mention they could simply seize oil haulers for themselves with their navy.

A few times, yeah. The world won’t react well to the US specializing into constant piracy.

How many more of these stories need to come out before us around the rest of the world stop treating the United States like a democracy?

What do you mean by “treating like a democracy”? What countries have you seen treating the US in high regards recently? Or, what do you want to change?

Hum… I only disagree on that it looks like the entire reason Israel is attacking is that Netanyahu isn’t firmly in power.

If Israel starts getting seriously hit, I’d expect him to fall. But the consequences of that can go both ways.

Do you know what “Exchange-Value” represents?

An attempt of pushing some amount of subjectivity into his value theory, but still in a way that keeps it objective and still fails to predict trade.

None of the LTV hold up. For a start, it predicts that people won’t ever trade. That’s quite a big flaw because, you know, people do trade. Theories of value predicting people won’t trade was a big problem by the time Marx was young. His one doesn’t solve the problem at all, but well, it wasn’t a problem anymore when he published.

The family of theories of value that predict that trade happens are called “subjective theories of value”.

For example, the entire labor theory of value doesn’t hold up on the real world and Economics had already better explanations for the phenomenon it was trying to explain.