"He favours the privatisation of all Brazil’s state-owned companies and 'brutal' simplification of taxes. Mr Bolsonaro proposes to slash the number of ministries from 29 to 15, and to put generals in charge of some of them."
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... "Mr Bolsonaro’s answer to crime is, in effect, to kill more criminals ..." -- Still waiting for The Economist to get to the downside.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Your insistence that you're opposed to fascism seems more than a little at odds with your continued support for death squads tbh. Smfh.
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I just realized death squads are unfairly associated with fascism. In fact they are a non-fascism which some imperfectly fascist regimes retain. Naturally, fascists lie about this.
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Chuck a few commies out of a helicopter, and suddenly you're a "fascist".
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Replying to @Outsideness @Alrenous
Please, enlighten me on the difference between fascist and non-fascist death squads. How exactly does one justify death squads without also justifying social engineering of the fascist sort?
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How are death squads "social engineering" anymore than a regular police force is?
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Replying to @Outsideness @Alrenous
Really? You're really gonna claim that death squads and police serve the same function? Death squads are outside of any judicial process, and are utilized to enact political, class, and racial repression. That's the fucking definition of social engineering.
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It's not even close to my definition of social engineering.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Alrenous
What's your definition of social engineering then?
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Employing state coercion to direct the development of society. (Not necessarily an insult word, but the process is generally sub-optimal.)
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Replying to @Outsideness @Alrenous
Violent repression by paramilitary organizations is a form of state coercion.
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What if the death-squads are freelance and entrepreneurial?
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