Very useful extension and I absolutely understand why people would want that. Having said that, in my personal experience, sponsored segments are sometimes the only kind of ad I find even remotely bearable, because at least sometimes the people whose videos I watch get to play around with the idea of peddling products and services. I'm talking about sponsored ads like the kind of stuff Comment Etiquette, i did a thing or YKS do. But that's very rare.

ACAB

All Cats Are Beautiful

I couldn't find any information about this specific incident on any news outlets, so I decided to do some digging and had a good laugh. I found some screenshots from a whatsapp group allegedly used by tour guides in Jericoacoara, I'll post them here and translate:

"That day their tour had to end halfway through because they were trying to destroy a company's ATVs and trying to assault the guides!"

"That's when the guides abandoned them and went to call the ATV owners so that they could take back their vehicles."

"They didn't say that ten days ago they ripped up a guide's bag and even hurt the guy's neck.

"The community gave them two hours to leave the village.

"I was an ATV guide for 8 years.

"They've even stolen from me, these Israelites [sic]."

Now some choice comments from the Facebook post, all very well received, which is great to see:

"Pra ver como é um pouquinho do desespero das milhares de crianças na Palestina"

"This ought to show them a tiny bit of the despair thousands of Palestinian children feel"

"Que será que esses moleques aprontaram? Já vi alguns aprontarem em pousadas."

"What were these brats up to? I've seen some of them making trouble at hostels."

"País onde o Satanás tem lá uma mansão."

Country where Satan has a mansion.

"Esses sem noção vem tirar férias da guerra aqui, depois de participar de um genocídio, daí quer causar aqui e acha q vai ficar de boa... Só o fato de eles tentarem agredir os guias, ja era motivo pra uma cóça..."

These dumbasses come here to take some time off from their war, after taking part in a genocide, then want to stir shit up around here and think they'll get away with it... Just the fact that they tried to assault the guides is enough reason to beat them up...

This is just plain wrong, in my view. You don't learn Communism; you learn to hate life itself, instead of the terrible system in which your shitty life happens.

The impoverished Brazilian gig worker delivering food to rich people while riding a motorcycle with Bolsonaro stickers begs to differ. I see this guy all the time. He struggles to feed his family (because communists are making groceries more expensive), he wants more police brutality (against other people), he wants followers of certain religions (not his) arrested, he says he works 18 hour days and life is tough but he works hard (and you're a lazy crybaby if you don't want to do it too).

Sure, Marx explains why his life is miserable, but there's plenty of other people willing to offer misleading but more immediately compelling explanations and these are all very appealing to somebody who was born and raised immersed in anticommunist propaganda.

it's crazy, this has to be the only 20-year-old who's online enough to have Demolition Ranch merch and yet have no social media pages

The tracker, who passed away not long after the incident, [...]

really burying the lede here though lmao

When you scramble this many ghouls to check every single detail of a person's life history, you can make even the most well-adjusted person seem like a complete fringe lunatic. This is a concerted effort to make this guy seem as deranged as possible, just a wild crazy man, or a poor victim of online radicalization, depending on what tone you want for your think piece.

You can turn the ultimate protest into a cautionary tale about the seductive rhetoric of the violent online left or a mental health awareness month-style unheard cry for help.

jesus fucking christ lmao that comment feels like it was written in some kind of laboratory as a distillation of pure liberalism

Yeah this fucking sucks but I can't say I'm surprised.

A couple of months ago he went on an interview and just completely lost his shit, hearing voices and talking absolute nonsense... there was a lot of talk on twitter about how he had just lost the election right there and then, surely it would not be possible to recover from such a disastrous public appearance...

I remember laughing in Brazilian back then, doing my best impression of the "first time?" meme, wondering if people have not been paying attention at all for the past five years. The same "silver bullet" kind of moment happened over and over and over again with Bolsonaro (and Trump for that matter), and guess what? Nothing fucking happens. These right wing lunatics can shit themselves live on TV however much they want, nothing's going to dissuade their voters.

And I think there's a reason for that: nothing makes fucking sense anymore. People just want change, they just want to fix this "nameless" despair, this emptiness and lack of purpose and hope. People intuitively understand that neoliberalism has nothing to offer except for abject failure and slow but certain decay, unless you're rich. The thing is, they don't know what to call it. Half a century of propaganda as well as an education completely unconcerned with a critical, materialist assessment of history has made it all but impossible to even begin to understand what's going wrong with the world.

The left is under constant surveillance and is browbeaten back into hiding every time it grows strong or even tries to. The right has no such limitations, and has the freedom to come out and "explain" to the people their own twisted version of reality. An exploited, uninformed, desperate, frustrated and angry working class believes that explanation, after all they have nobody else to explain things.

I'm certainly oversimplifying things, but I think that's the reason why I very often see stuff like delivery guys riding motorcycles adorned with "God, Nation and Family"-style fash stickers. It's the only way I can see the most exploited sympathizing with the exploiter and voting for the people who openly say that the exploiter should exploit more.

I'm very afraid of what comes next for the Palestinian people, but regardless of what happens next, Israel has been dealt a fucking incredible blow to its international reputation. This is a country whose main export is highly sophisticated systems of oppression. If you have a nagging problem with some pesky minority, Israel is your "consultant" of choice.

Now here we are, watching as some of the most violently oppressed, downtrodden people in the entire world do deftly orchestrated commando raids on lawnmower engine powered paragliders, surprising literally the entire world. They have been training to do this under Israel's watch for god knows how long, and the IDF was none the wiser. How did they pull this off?

How can you still claim to develop the most sophisticated surveillance systems and to have the best-trained military in the world, when shit like this happens? How do you even recover from this? This is unprecedented, a paradigm shift, we're watching history in the making here.

Absolutely uncritical support for the heroic Palestinian efforts.

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