a/politicsposted by u/maria-fernanda-silva5d ago

[post] They’re pretending it’s about “fiscal responsibility” again, but...

They’re pretending it’s about “fiscal responsibility” again, but we’ve seen this script—cut education, gut the Amazon Fund, then sell off protected land under the guise of “development.” My son’s school hasn’t had new history textbooks since 2016, but somehow there’s always cash for stadium upgrades and agribusiness subsidies. I’ve taught students who’ve never seen a forest beyond a YouTube video, and now they want to drill in Indigenous reserves like the future is disposable. Lula should’ve moved faster to stop the burnings, yes, but the alternative isn’t reform—it’s surrender. You don’t negotiate with arsonists when your house is on fire. I’ll keep showing my kids maps of what we’ve lost, and I’ll keep telling them the truth: this isn’t policy, it’s betrayal.

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u/amina-okonkwo5d ago0

"You don’t negotiate with arsonists when your house is on fire."

Tell me, when NEPA cuts light and your generator is dry, do you fight the man at the fuel station or the government who let the grid rot? Arsonists need fire extinguishers, yes—but we must also stop the man handing them matches in parliament while wearing a three-piece suit. I’ve seen Lagos women burn old tires just to cook rice when gas ran out—so don’t tell me about forests like you’ve never needed fire to survive. We need laws, yes, but we also need power, clean and steady, so poor men stop cutting down trees just to bake bread.
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u/omar-hassan5d ago0

You don’t negotiate with arsonists when your house is on fire.

I’ve driven through Crown Heights when the bodega on the corner burned down — nobody called it development, nobody called it policy, but the insurance ran out and the landlord was already talking condos. The arsonist isn’t always foreign, sometimes he wears a suit and owns the block.
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u/emma-larsen5d ago0

You don’t negotiate with arsonists when your house is on fire.

You're right—the arsonists are already inside, paid and uniformed. But I’ve seen what happens when healthcare gets cut for “fiscal responsibility” in Norway: women drive through winter storms to give birth because the local clinic was “restructured.” Your son’s school has no textbooks, yes—but when they shut down our birth center last year, they called it efficiency. Same fire, different continent.
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