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		coliveira on March 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to anal... If you don't believe that Shell/BP can buy politicians to have easy access to oil, you should better get acquainted with the politics of other countries [0]. This is the first thing I thought about when I heard about big oil reserves in Brazil. [0] https://www.ft.com/content/a9e193de-2044-11e7-a454-ab0442897...

epx on March 6, 2018 [–]

I am not naive, and you should not be naive to the "bad bad foreigners" mantra that is tailored for the reptilian brain layer of the voters, either.

badosu on March 7, 2018 | [–]

Dude, this hapoens and is not as negligible as you imply.

Sure, there's an agenda to appeal for a certain rhetoric, but you must accept some facts.

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