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Here in Brazil they were legalized under Bolsonaro, and it was terrible. They are mainly making the weak and poor addicted to gambling and preying on them.
In a few months the poor lost millions of government assistance money to these Casinos.

The app is not going to suddenly stop working, and it’s unlikely to do so before a replacement appears.

Static types are great, but not exactly what would have helped here, any decent language or at least a linter should catch the use of a not declared identifier.

Tudo beleza

And here in neighboring Brazil he is a “communist” because he dared criticize Bolsonaro.

As a C# programmer, I like to make desktop GUIs with WPF or Avalonia. Web is also possible with asp.net, but I don’t like it as much.

It’s complicated…

My state is one of the most prosperous of the country, and built on numerous social policies, that even the “right-wing” politicians reflect, and mostly voted for Bolsonaro, because Lula represented a continuation of all previous governments that only cared about taking our wealth for nothing in return, or destroying our culture(s), and Bolsonaro was the first to pretend to care.

There’s a lot of historical resentment, many things justified, many exaggerated.

This is for my state, others must have other reasons.

I voted against Bolsonaro because for me it was clear he was just more of the same, just with a façade of change. By me both Lula and Bolsonaro should be cell mates.

But my state of not one of the affected (directly) by the fires.

I can’t exactly say for the other states, but for mine (Santa Catarina), the governor has since the beginning of the mandate avoided any and all meetings with Lula, even finding some bullshit excuse to leave the state when Lula came here for a public works inauguration.

For too many here “doing anything” “hurts the economy”

Bolsonaro has his share of guilt today, but this is a decades old issue, centuries even if extending to the colonial exploitation culture.

Not just lack of preparation, many governors are actively hostile to Lula and conservation efforts, and many farmers are creating more fires to spite Lula and “support” Bolsonaro.

And I only found out recently when other countries started talking about joining.

For sure! Until recently I didn’t even know it has become some sort of official thing, I always thought that it was just an observation by economists that these 5 countries in particular were “ahead” of the other “developing” countries.

As a Brazilian, I’d rather have Ukraine than Russia in BRICS. Of course EU is certainly more attractive.

Moraes has done some very good stuff and probably saved Brazilian democracy from Bolsonaro, but recently has been caught in some corruption scandal as well.
At least I hope he still has enough political pull to smack Musk a bit.

I agree.

But “Political Spectrum” is bullshit anyway, most of today’s issues don’t fit a one-dimensional left-vs-right line.

Calling the current Brazilian government leftist nowadays is a bit of a stretch.

More like open source engine for Minecraft-like games and more.