Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The illegal Brazilian gold you may be wearing - BBC News" video.

  1. The BBC obsesses over how this effects "indigenous" towns but that has nothing to do with why it's illegal.
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  2.  @gallie3543  no, the miners mostly poison themselves. These are generally ma and pa ventures with limited education and equipment and often they don't understand how much they're hurting themselves.
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  3. Not following health and safety regs. Not paying taxes. Not getting licensed. All the above are the subject of abuse by local and national officials.
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  4.  @MelbourneMeMe  pretty much. These miners often handle the mercury with their bear hands. Also, it has to be burned off. The miner's life expectancy and education is exactly what you think.
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  5.  @designbystu  Safety regs, taxes, licensing. All the above is the subject of official abuse. There's miners that will get gold from other people's land. And a lot of these guys use mercury with their bear hands and burn it off when they done. Getting past licensing is often a matter of bribe money or friends in high places. Brazilians will fight over anything worth money. It doesn't matter who is "indigenous."
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  6. This predates him by generations.
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  7. Doesn't matter. Decades ago some idiot politician hailed the Amazon as a defense against global warming so now schizophrenic news outlet depict any Brazilian industrial activity as a war crime.
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  8. This has nothing to do with Brazilian politics
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  9. Wut? I can't tell if you're joking or this is conspitard rambling
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  10. It's almost as if sensationalist news media pulling heart strings doesn't actually work.....
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  11.  @Hidinginthetreeline  Brazilian commercial ventures get accused of "destroying the environment" no matter what they do. It's because decades ago a politician with no background in science said the rainforest was a major defense against global warming.
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  12.  @Hidinginthetreeline  if we did anything, you'd throw around words like "undemocratic" and "colonial" and "repression."
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  13. Brazil was colonized by Portugal. The BBC is British. You mind making sense?
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  14.  @ursusursidae3527  go away
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  15. Bug off
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  16. By that same logic you can't buy literally ANYTHING AT ALL. There are wars being fought over vegetables as we speak. If you really think this is that bad, then go down there and shoot them. Don't guilt trip bystanders for not fighting for you.
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  17.  @Hidinginthetreeline  they do care, they just have their own troubles. And more importantly, intervening usually involves "colonialist" practices. Besides, the people whose heart strings they pull are the most charitable nations already... And that doesn't stop other people from being jerks.
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  18.  @Hidinginthetreeline  it's not that chocolate only can be grown in one place, it's that much of the coco land is in Brazil. About a third of it.
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  19.  @simonhool3073  the OP is almost certainly from one of the most charitable nations on Earth. Yanking his heart strings ain't going to squeeze anything from him.
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  20.  @RandomNPC001  wut?
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  21. Brazilians will fight over anything worth money regardless if they "indigenous" or not.
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  22. No. Now spam elsewhere.
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