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What is it you don’t like about it?

And which sci-fi shows would you recommend instead?

We need good male role models, esp in tech leadership.

And Sir Patrick did provide one as captain Picard.

And on top of he was a good human being.

You obviously have a strong opinion about what's good for your country and I'm not trying to tell you what's true or not about your own country and its political situation.

But I personally wouldn't trust people like Bolsonaro, we've seen how this turned out in other countries, like the US, Hungary as some examples. Luckily Hungary managed to get rid of Orban after many years. People like that don't feel any civic duty to their country and happily sell out their own people in order to gain more power and enrich themselves.

I don't know whether Lula is a net positive for Brazil or not, but putting my global citizen hat on, I appreciate that Lula is trying to protect the Amazon from greedy corporations.

And since you're a doctor, maybe you can appreciate how important the Amazon is for Brazil and our biosphere as a whole. Not just for the current generation but also future generations.

Since the Amazon is important for the whole world, Brazil should setup a fund for protecting the Amazon and allow people to donate to it and make it transparent how that money is spent. I'd happily donate to that fund, so it's not all on Brazilian tax payers.

Destroying something that took millions of years to grow and evolve for the sake of semiconductor plants and related industry is short sighted. Once those species of plants, fungi or animals have been lost, we won't be able to get them back.

But again, you don't need to destroy the Amazon to build a rich and vibrant semiconductor industry. I think Brazilians are smarter than that ; )

I can't give an opinion on the supreme court situation, since I don't know the details.

But the scenario you outlined sounds complicated.

In the end I guess people voted for the person who they think would cause the least damage to the country. That's why the last minute turn out of voters, since they saw Bolsonaro was about to win?

Voting for Bolsonaro would get rid of those supreme court judges, but you'd also get all the downsides with it, i.e. probably have a new leader using the Trump playbook and his father's playbook. And look how 2 years of Trump turned out. Him and his family and friends got immensely rich, increased corruption, while democratic institutions have been dismantled and cost of living has risen immensely.

Or continue with Lula and get marginal improvements but the supreme court stays as is. According to reports I read under Lula poverty and hunger rates have fallen, unemployment rates fell, Economy has grown (but has slowed now), Amazon protection has improved.

I think where he hasn't hit the mark yet is cost of living, but that's a problem all over the world. And that's why it's key to understand it's not left vs right, it's normal folks vs the owner class / monopolistic corporations.

I think it's a false premise to begin with. Protecting your natural resources and rich biodiversity doesn't mean Brazilians have to suffer.

But thanks for clarifying your comment and position.

I get that Lula isn't great, politics is hard. But from the outside it looks like a small majority of Brazilians have voted to say 'not another Bolsonaro'. He would have probably continued like his father and fostered closer ties to Trump and borrowing a few tactics from his playbook, i.e. definitely not good for the average Joe like us.

Good for corporations? Yes - hence why Meta and co tried to push Bolsonaro.

Another poster linked to your previous comment regarding the rainforest.

What's your thought process behind your comment:

"If I had a button that would burn that entire jungle down and replace it with a top tier national semiconductor industry, I'd press it twice."

Given the following facts:

- Climate change is real

- The Amazon stores around 15–20 years of global CO2 emissions. Burning it down would release all that.

- It maintains the rainfall system needed by farms and general Brazilian economy

- There is so much biodiversity in the Amazon and so much unexplored. By protecting it, it preserves biological resources and research relevant to food and medicine.

- Many indigenous people live there (2 million?). So it's OK to just destroy their home?

Any why do you need to burn down the Amazon to build a Brazilian semi-conductor industry?

I think it's clear, if Bolsonaro Jr would have won, he'd continue his father's approach to it, i.e. continue with deforestation and loosen environmental rules.

That's quite a shocking comment. I was willing to give that poster the benefit of the doubt, but saying it's OK to burn down the entire Amazon rainforest is quite something.

> What if he's telling the truth and it wasn't him that disabled it?

Because he admitted that he was behind throttling Starlink.

> And why would Ukraine deserve any kind of warning?

Because Ukrainian lives are at stake? If you owned Starlink, would you just cripple it without warning them first? This is not some SaaS service. People died because Ukraine wasn't able to defend itself from Russian jet powered drones.

>However, from Starlink's PoV, Ukraine is using its network for military attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure

Again, Ukraine doesn't use Starlink to attack Russia. It uses it to defend itself on their own territory.

>That's a possible motivation, although speculative at this point.

Trump and Musk both said Zelenskyy needs to be replaced. Trump said it on TV and Musk on Twitter. And they also parrot Russian propaganda and claiming he won't allow elections, even though it's in Ukrainian's constitution that elections can't be held when there is a war.

Because there was no warning. He just crippled it and then denied that he's done it.

Ukraine uses it for defensive purposes, not offensive. Starlink is disabled on Russian territory.

Musk alongside Trump want Zelenskyy gone (receipts are there) and he thought pressuring him by crippling access to Starlink would do it or at least get him to stop attacking Putin's oil refineries.

Europe is paying for Starlink access.

Musk broke the SLA and Ukrainians died because of it. No warning that SpaceX would cripple it during a time when Russia heavily attacked Ukraine.

Ukraine uses it to defend itself on its own soil. It”s not using it for deep strikes in Russia.

Musk thinks he’s above the law and can play with Ukrainian lives.

I think it's pretty clear by now that those statements are not speculations anymore and Musk / Trump with their pettiness continue to endanger Ukrainian lives and instead help Putin.

If you can't shoot down jet powered Shahed drones to protect your citizens and vital infrastructure, because a key component has been crippled by your supposedly ally and partner, then it equates to sabotage.

Musk, Trump and co know that they can't openly turn things off as it would be a PR nightmare, so the next best thing is to cripple it and deny deny deny that you've done it.

Yes, your statements are both correct.

My comment was more in regards to saying 'Musk has opinions' (who doesn't) is downplaying his involvement.

I'm basing this on what the 4 sources have stated mentioned in Telegraph article and also based on his previous behavior and comments about Zelenskyy / Ukraine and overall affinity and support for authoritarian political leaders.

It's all a game for him and winning at all costs.

Thank you for sharing this.

It will take years for those Musk lovers to grasp how much damage their sieg heiling idol has caused.