>>121682 Haven't heard of them? Have some more. >>121687 This spring I was caught in sudden snowstorm with summer tires. You accelerate — car does no react. You brake — car does not react. Good thing my city does not have hills. And those angloes probably have never seen snow before.
>>124372 All is the same internationally. We all living in Amerika, Amerika is woundabar. If before the internet we had some barrier it's gone now and being gone for a decede.
>>126629 probably an ethnic Portuguese 55-70y jealous taxi driver or former taxi driver or pensioner. He parked in the taxi parking spots but scratching the car is disproportionate.
At the second video, one undercover police officer, after pursuing some drug dealers that ran away, meets a police elite squad (BOPE) who thinks he is a drug leader, and a shootout begins, ending only when another police officer gets into scene and tells both sides that they are in the same team.
>>127614 Thanks for the video. Although, occasionally someone creates Dark webm threads in /b/ where they post atrocities of Brazilian drug cartels, it's still “Rare” in terms of international limited distribution to national content. After watching it, I had some questions: 1. Do gangsters in Brazil really have that much power? 2. Why has it been so long since they were consolidated and they still exist? 3. How serious is the drug problem in Brazil?
1. In Rio de Janeiro, yes, without any doubt. They have .50 guns like the one in the pic related, which was seized by the police, antitank artillery, and recently they use drones (not military drones, but ones like in the pic related) to monitor and even drop bombs on other gangs (there are four in Rio: Comando Vermelho (the biggest one), Terceiro Comando Puro, Amigos dos Amigos, and the Militia (initially formed by corrupt cops, but recently by gangsters in general)). They are literally parallel states. During the pandemic, the police were prohibited by the Supreme Court (the same one that had a beef with Elon Musk for censoring Brazilian right-wing accounts on social media) from entering the favelas except in extreme cases, so they consolidated their power even more. They elect city councilors and sometimes (though it is rare) even senators, through their influence on the population of the favelas, which are millions of people. Nowadays, the police can't raid the big favelas too often because of what I mentioned previously. When they do, they go with 20+ men and kill dozens of gangsters, like in the Jacarezinho "massacre". They still raid the smaller favelas on a daily basis though. This whole situation I mentioned is exclusive to the state of Rio de Janeiro and a few other regions. In the majority of the country, drug dealing and general crime are controlled by a single mafia called Primeiro Comando da Capital, which has worldwide connections, most notably with the 'Ndrangheta, and is smarter and more lucrative than the combative gangsters of Rio de Janeiro. The PCC doesn't stimulate violence, as it is bad for business, and even helped to diminish it.
2. I don't know, honestly. It's easy to say that it is because of corrupt politicians, but the reality may be more complex than that. I think that because of left-wing politicians, gangsters are treated as victims, and because of that we don't have the 'Bukele solution' needed. The army took the biggest favelas in 2010, but it lasted only a few months and never happened again. I can tell you how the problem started in Rio though. It started in the 80s with a left-wing politician called Brizola who made an informal deal with the gangsters along the lines of "the police won't go to the favelas if you don't take crime outside of it" and prohibited the police from going there. The gangs started arming themselves with more powerful weapons to fight each other, which didn't happen outside of Rio because of the existence of a single mafia previously mentioned, and then we got here, with favelas being literal fortress, having embrasures like in the third pic.
3. The problem here is not any bigger than in Europe or the USA. The state capitals have their share of drug addicts, but at the rest of the country it is not that big of a deal. The Rio gangsters make the majority of their profit by extorting "their" citizens (at least in the favelas they don't have to pay taxes or even for energy or gas as it is all stolen lol), stealing cargo, and assaulting banks. And the Primeiro Comando da Capital is more concerned with exporting drugs than selling them inside Brazil.
>>127621 Read this with great interest, it gives me more insight into Brazil. If you're interested, my thoughts on it are as follows: - I believe that as long as the cartels exist Brazil is very vulnerable to outside interference, especially from the US, and I'm almost 100% sure that they are taking advantage of this opportunity by providing access to weapons and money, intelligence, forming strings to pressure and control your country, in other words, Brazil's national security is breached. - After the bankruptcy of the USSR, Russia in the 90's was a hellish miserable dump where literally all spheres of life degraded, enterprises and factories closed down, money stopped being paid, people lost food, supervisory bodies disappeared, cheap heavy drugs (and with them AIDS) from Afghanistan appeared, a mass of swindlers (for the naive Soviet mind), - all this became freely available and in huge quantities - the soil on which armed groups and total corruption instantly grew. Oligarchs seized power, in many cases illegally privatizing former Soviet property. Murders of businessmen, murders on the streets have become the norm. Two wars in Chechnya, one of which Russia lost and separatist sentiments in some regions of Russia - these were all realities of the 90s. And then Putin came. - Putin came to power as a liberal politician, a follower of Yeltsin's ideology, who saw Russia as a democratic and moderately liberal country, he saw Russia as a member of the European Union and NATO. But when he took the president's chair and opened the first folder with documents, he realized that his ideas were more or less untenable. (He may have suspected this earlier, as director of the FSB, but now he is finally convinced of it). The next day, several oligarchs came to the Kremlin and informed him in a not very formal form that Putin was nobody here and if they wanted, then a more comfortable president would sit in this chair, so Vladimir Putin should cooperate with them. For Putin, this effectively became a declaration of war.
Putin destroyed everything that undermined Russia's stability: Russian Russian separatists and minority nationalists, armed groups of bandits, parallel corrupt government structures, Russian Nazis, Chechen terrorists supported by the United States, opposition parties sponsored from the United States, foreign agents, fugitive Russian spies abroad and oligarchs — some of them were imprisoned or killed, and he forbade those oligarchs who survived to participate in politics or finance political movements in any way, otherwise they would lose business by reviewing the results of privatization, in fact, he also made them an unwitting tool of the FSB to create economic confusion in the CIA's assessment of the Russian economy (by the way, this one of the reasons why Western sanctions against Russia failed, he used them to hide the real economy of Russia). He also took all the most important and critical enterprises into state ownership (for example, the Kalashnikov Concern, Rosatom, Roscosmos and many others).
At some point, he simply realized that certain liberal mechanisms would destroy the country under external or internal threats, none of the existing models of political governance suited Russia, so a completely new Putin system of power was born. As the Western media of those years called it: "Authoritarian democracy." High internal stability and external national security, yes, this has its limitations, but Russia has become a pretty decent country even in comparison with Western countries, including the United States. Russia is a very effective hybrid of right-wing and left-wing ideas.
Obviously, Brazil is also difficult, so I believe that Brazil does not need a left-wing or right-wing politician, Brazil needs a universal patriot who knows how to adapt to the realities of his state. In fact, creating a universal society in which everyone will be moderately comfortable.
>>127724 Then they should have just left the house, as it is private property, and written in the report - false call, as it is done in civilized countries. Obviously the woman is scared and may think the cops are in cahoots with the intruders.
>>127725 she could 1) be on drugs, 2) fake complaint to escape domestic violence from her husband, etc or 3) maybe a hostage situation with the burglar threaten to kill her or one of her family. You must think in every scenario as a cop
>>127725 >>127723 These things are not appropriate in Russia, because we are a different society, there are not a bunch of psychos and drug addicts walking freely on the street, there are no AK-74s freely available. The USA is a fundamentally different society, where this cruelty is necessary, it is a payment (or, rather, payback) for their model of society. I hope I've made myself clear to you.
>>127771 Is this Russia at war or not? It's hard to believe. In medical certificates in such cases, in addition to the scientific definition and cause of death, they write the laconic ‘killed’. Besides, the crime rate in Russia is not much higher than in Portugal. https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp
>>127774 >"takes out account of Russian fatalities in extraordinary military op?" I don't where they got the data, therefore I brought now UN agency whose data is brought and supervised by their own member countries including Russia. this is until 2021. Russia won in 2021 vs USA having a lower homicide rate per 100 000 people. no gay quantitative score from 1-5 I pushed before (page 74 - https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GPI-2024-web.pdf ). but USA is 13% naggers, I subjectively take that in account.
>>127777 It's weird. I don't feel that in society. There are no live weapons here, no shootings, no gangs willing to do it, cops don't kill you because of a wrong move, they need to make an effort to seriously harm you. I can only make an assumption about this though: not all countries honestly report their statistics. Especially those where political ratings depend on those statistics.
In 2020, the US didn't believe that any country other than the US\Europe could invent a cure for the coronavirus in a short time and accused Russia of hiding coronavirus victims, and someone (maybe even Lindsey Graham, who also claimed that Russia had no drug factories, lol, I don't remember exactly) offered a reward for any information about coronavirus victims in Russia. Essentially, they were attacking the Russian brand on behalf of European pharmaceutical corporations because Sputnik V was sent to Europe for certification for future shipments as the European situation worsened. But in the end it turned out that Sputnik V just worked well and everyone recognised it. And the US discredited itself. So I wouldn't trust US statistics. I think they certainly don't have Brazilian levels, but something very close.
>>127762 >we are a different society, there are not a bunch of psychos and drug addicts walking freely on the street KEK. Are we from the same country? Fucking bot.
Police brutality aside, the officer in that video was justified in shooting a woman, because she was a nigger.