What's happening in Brazil

It’s sad to admit this but like many brazilians, I’ve never been a person really interested in politics. In the midst of so much corruption, people seem to be discredited that positive change can come from this decayed system. Though the economy has been growing, none of this came with a significant improvement in social welfare, but that’s just a reflection of bad choices. We are the ones who elected them, which make us responsible for all that crap. 

Great changes only happen when people unite for an ideal. It took us long, but we finally reached our limit. I took the liberty of translating the text taken from the website http://impedimento.org which explain exactly why these riots started. 

“The increase of the passage is a pretext for the standard of Brazil as an emerging country: the service became more expensive, but didn’t improve. The bus became more expensive, but it didn’t justify this increase – is still crowded, still killing passengers (like in Rio), still lingering. Like buses, housing also became more expensive and hasn’t improved, health got more expensive and hasn’t improved.  Education became more expensive and hasn’t improved. (…) Given all that, the arrival of a Confederations Cup amplifies the outrage. The stadiums are expensive, paid by the State, and hospitals, paid by the state, kill people for lack of care.”

This is a blog that shares pictures of male models, i don’t have any intention to turn this into a political debate but i’m asking you, my 60.233 followers, as a brazilian and as a human being to take quick look at these 2 videos below, one is explaining with more details what’s happening and how you can help us, the other is showing how the police (that is supposed to protect us) is reacting with these riots.

“Please help Us”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIBYEXLGdSg

“Jamais achei que ele fosse atirar”, afirma repórter atingida em protesto (to active english subtitles, just click on the button at the video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6QVLE8PQJ8

Best Regards,

Isabella

You thought "being held down and watching your family get raped" is an accurate description of season 4? I want Dan Harmon back on the show as much as the next person, but that comment was inexcusable and saying "you know how he is" as really weak. There's nothing funny about it or accurate about it.

Agree. That’s not the kind of joke that should be done, for the simples fact that is not a joke.

My accurate description of season 4 would be: it was like eating a neapolitan ice cream. I like it, but had the good bad (chocolate), the normal part (vanilla) and the I wouldn’t mind if this weren’t here part (strawberry).