2026-10-27 Social General Briefing Summary
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Norway Fires Back After Trump Calls It a āShithouseā Country (r/worldnews)
- fiesty_canuck: Obama should really start wearing his Nobel Prize at speaking events.
- Ozy_Flame: Norway is a brick shithouse country.
“To be built like a brick shithouse is an English idiom used to describe a person with an exceptionally solid, powerful, or impressive physique.” - Dinmorerfeit: He practically begged Norwegians to move to the US in his first term. A local comedy show went around Oslo asking people what they thought about that and the most common responses were ‘That would be moronic’ or ‘Why would I move to that shithole?’ from actual Norwegians.
Brazil markets crater, some stocks sink 50% after Lula victory (r/worldnews)
- Genocode: I’m curious, did the stocks crater because people don’t have faith in the economy, or did some of the stocks crater because people see less options for corruption etc.?
- Herb-Alpert: Capitalism loves fascism
- Usual_Indication9106: I think a far more relevant issue for the average Brazilian is the Real plunging around 9% to the Dollar on a single day.
That’s a lot of added inflation for anything imported.
Still, the Bolsonaros are such irredeemable pieces of shit and so openly anti-democratic, the worst of all of the current South American far right, that it was not even a choice. Democracy must be preserved.
Brazil: Flavio Bolsonaro, who lost the presidential election, ordered to surrender his passport (r/worldnews)
- Dsalgueiro: As incredible as it may seem, FlƔvio Bolsonaro is much, much more of a criminal than his father.
During the presidential campaign, they created a website called āCrimeta Russaā (a pun on āRussian Rouletteā and āCrimeā), where you spin the wheel and land on one of FlĆ”vio Bolsonaroās publicly known crimes.
Itās only a matter of time before heās arrested. - SuddenValley1899: and he nearly won! Like America, you can show people all the evidence in the world and people will continuously vote against their own best interest.
- steampunk-me: It’s kinda mean to say this, but current politics have taught me that about 30% of the people are simply lost to the rest of society. They were swept by the algorithm, indoctrinated by religion, driven by hate, sometimes a combination of all of the above.
And that would be “fine” if it were not for the fact that those are the most passionate fucking voters in the world, so they’re going to the ballots while everyone else is sitting on their asses.
Lula won because the left finally went back to the streets to turn votes and show the average voter the sort of monster Flavio is, they chose to speak up about all of his crimes. Lula’s supporters convinced the rest of the country that they should care.
And even after record lows in abstention and null/blank votes, Lula still won by less than 2% of the valid votes. Almost 20% of voters simply didn’t show up at all, and 3% threw their votes away.
To anyone reading this know that the future of democracy is exactly this: the far right will swallow every nation whose voters turn to apathy. So make people care.
Halloween candy sales are off to a slow start amid high chocolate prices and affordability concerns (r/Economics)
- unconventionalbook: A 6.7% drop in Halloween candy volumes offers a clear look at how localized supply shocks ripple into consumer elasticity trends. While broader CPI has shown signs of stabilizing, confectionery pricing continues to detach from baseline inflation due to persistent cocoa supply constraints in West Africa, forcing a 15.5% year-over-year price spike.
This drop in seasonal sales suggests that mass-market sweets have crossed an affordability threshold for middle-class consumers, triggering a notable demand pullback.
It serves as an interesting case study in corporate pricing power and consumer substitution behavior, particularly as households reallocate restricted disposable income away from highly concentrated oligopoly products (Mars, Hershey, Mondelez) toward cheaper non-chocolate alternatives or non-discretionary goods. - teshh: Hasn’t trick of treating in general been trending downwards since the 2010s? There’s also the demographic decline, there’s simply fewer kids than there was 10 years ago.
- lion7725: Going to 10 cars in a parking lot for 30 minutes a week before Halloween is not a replacement. Itās just another thing