The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup.

A panel of five Supreme Court justices handed down the sentence just hours after they had convicted the former leader.

They ruled he was guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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    11 hours ago

    i don’t fault you for feeling this way, there are a lot of people feeling the same right now. like all of the establishment-politicians here in the US.

    fhey think MAGA will die with Trump, and Trump’s days are numbered, i’ll be surprised myself if he makes it to the end of the year. they’re banking on a “return to normalcy” where they can go back to ratfucking the country in peace with their brothers across the chamber…

    …this…won’t happen, imo. MAGA is here to stay, and a lot of people are in for a rude awakening when things don’t “return to normal”. after trump dies, slowly but surely people are gonna look around and wonder wtf happened to their county/state/country…

    the big what-if here is how establishment-dems act (where they don’t just continue to lose elections), do they give even the pretense of caring about this country and bend the knee to facism all in the name of that all-mighty dollar (then, the far-right leopards start eating evermore faces), or do they make way for the progressives who just want the 1% to pay their fair share in taxes…