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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Application denied because BRICSA is a bad acronym and nobody was willing to rearrange the letters.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] juanclaude@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

SICBRA sounds way more sick... bra.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

There are like 20 countries that want to join I doubt they will add all of them to the name, maybe xhange the name altogheter.

The same Algeria that has a 12.7% unemployment rate, a rising 8% inflation rate, and whose economy almost strictly relies on processing hydrocarbons?

$1.5 billion would be nice though. Based on the $5.1 trillion moved per day in 2016 according to the BIS, that will last about them about....25 and a half seconds worth of cross-border transactions on the international market!

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Let'ssssss fuckingggg goooooooooo!