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Easy to reconcile "most politics is local" and "wow everyone in my english-speaking timeline is celebrating the defeat of Bolsonaro Jr in Brazil." We live in an interconnected system with interconnected problems. The fate of the literal Amazon and the machinations of Silicon Valley matter globally.

The power of capital is transnational and solidarity in opposition to it must be as well. Democracy abroad is better for democracy at home. The authoritarians and autocrats benefit from the world being a closed transactional buyer's club; it is in all our interests to work against this together.