The most insane part of it, to me, as a Brazilian, is that the first Bolsonaro and his lackeys are all currently in prison for a plethora of crimes, and now his incompetent and inexperienced son is stepping up to continue the dynasty as if lt were a fucking kingdom. And a lot of right-wing idiots are gobbling it up. I can only imagine the outrage that it would cause if Lula’s son had been the chosen candidate for president back in 2011 after Lula’s second mandate ended and they went with Dilma as a successor.
Well, he hasn’t won yet. But I confess that I’m afraid that this might come to pass. I’d compare the situation to be similar to the USA two years ago, the difference being that Lula is not yet as senile as Biden was, but almost everything else is eerie similar
And our conservatives worship Trump, so we will definitely have a similar situation here soon.
every other latin american country was couped by the new “donroe doctrine”.
so will brazil.
Just put them in the fucking Lulag already
The far right is already back in Brazil. The mostly conservative parliament dismantled environmental rules and Lula was not able to stop it.
Why do people keep voting for these ass-hats? They are never “for the people” and always try to grab more power that belongs to them.
Because conservatism is cancer. As long as we allow cancer to continue living, it will do what cancer does.
Cause
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Lula’s term was a lukewarm nothing burguer
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which shot itself on the foot year one by limiting how much the govmt can invest
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Lula is campaigning as if it was 2022
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both sides are campaigning on “least bad”
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Out of 26 yrs in this millenium, Brasil had a Workers Party govnmt in 18. People want something different
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Lula / PT work really hard to de-politise politics, and to be the only viable option on the left (by punching left)
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Lula’s broad front is filled with ppl (senators, congressppl, etc) that are indistinguishable from Bolsonaro’s camp
don’t forget he just killed the huge working hours reduction bill people were pushing for that would pretty much guarantee his reelection.
And all the stuff happening wrt the supreme court. We could go on and on
tbf the far right were the ones to somehow associate the supreme court with “the left”
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Voting never works, it never did.
Stalin. Gulag. Red terror
Voting by itself won’t stop fascists. But Brazil did MORE than just vote. They voted and also arrested the top fascists. We (in the states) could learn a lesson from Brazilians on that.
Unfortunately, allowing any fascists to live is like allowing any cancer to live. Fascists must be completely deleted or they will always come back to do fascism. Always.
Voting never works, it never did.
Stalin. Gulag. Red terror
Some people wanted to coup, and that’s the scary/sad part.
wow this is sucky news
