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« on: January 01, 2019, 01:07:40 PM »

The end is nigh ...

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« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2019, 01:23:10 PM »

Here goes the Amazon...



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« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2019, 01:39:28 PM »


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« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2019, 02:38:58 PM »

This is legitimately terrifying.
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« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2019, 06:23:32 PM »


RIP Brazil
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« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2019, 06:48:20 PM »

He should have died after that stabbing. I know y'all respectability civilty hacks hate hearing that but the danger he poses against the environment and Brazilian democracy are too high. I wouldn't be surprised if he gradually turns Brazil into a dictatorship.
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« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2019, 07:08:35 PM »

He should have died after that stabbing. I know y'all respectability civilty hacks hate hearing that but the danger he poses against the environment and Brazilian democracy are too high. I wouldn't be surprised if he gradually turns Brazil into a dictatorship.

Killing Bolsonaro, then and now, wouldn't have solved anything given who his VP is.
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« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2019, 07:31:40 PM »

He should have died after that stabbing. I know y'all respectability civilty hacks hate hearing that but the danger he poses against the environment and Brazilian democracy are too high. I wouldn't be surprised if he gradually turns Brazil into a dictatorship.

If he had died that way, he would be even more deified by those who agree with him ("Myth," "Myth," "Captain") and he has 3 adult children involved in politics, now imagine if one of his sons ran for president in the future in this scenario with the argument that "They did not let my father save Brazil", would probably be elect president.

I'm from Brazil and I did not vote and I did not like that he was elected (they had several other options, in 13 candidates), but I understand that him being assassinated would only make matters much more worse.
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« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2019, 07:38:08 PM »

He's a lot scarier than Trump for sure.
Also, the Social Liberal party has to be one of the worst named parties in the world.
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« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2019, 08:27:27 PM »

He should have died after that stabbing. I know y'all respectability civilty hacks hate hearing that but the danger he poses against the environment and Brazilian democracy are too high. I wouldn't be surprised if he gradually turns Brazil into a dictatorship.

If he had died that way, he would be even more deified by those who agree with him ("Myth," "Myth," "Captain") and he has 3 adult children involved in politics, now imagine if one of his sons ran for president in the future in this scenario with the argument that "They did not let my father save Brazil", would probably be elect president.

I'm from Brazil and I did not vote and I did not like that he was elected (they had several other options, in 13 candidates), but I understand that him being assassinated would only make matters much more worse.

Wouldn't his running mate (General Antônio Hamilton Mourão) become president instead? Bolsonaro won by a fairly comfortable margin, I imagine Mourão could also win right?

Or maybe one of Bolsonaro's kids instead?
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« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2019, 08:43:54 PM »

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« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2019, 09:15:40 PM »

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« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2019, 10:02:17 PM »

Killing Kennedy didn't end liberal democracy in America, and killing Bolsonaro wouldn't have ended far-right populism in Brazil. A bad tenure as President, however, might.
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« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2019, 03:30:39 AM »

The attack on him was actually a key moment in swinging the campaign his way; he might not have won otherwise and certainly wouldn't have won so clearly.
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« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2019, 03:44:03 AM »

I hope his reign is short. May his evil views haunt him as long as he's alive.
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« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2019, 08:30:30 AM »

(sickness and tremors)
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« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2019, 08:45:44 AM »

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« Reply #17 on: January 02, 2019, 09:38:22 AM »

Honestly the more terrifying thing is how much American conservatives are rallying behind him
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« Reply #18 on: January 02, 2019, 11:01:14 AM »

Honestly the more terrifying thing is how much American conservatives are rallying behind him

Does it really surprise you that American conservatives have a deep loathing for democracy, civilian control of the military and other such niceties? When a conservative see some uncontrollable fascist militia being officially sanctioned by the government, they find that thrilling. Unless they're the sort of conservative who cares about money only, in which case they may fingerwag once or twice at the state sanctioned murders, but happily buy the striped mined assets of the dismembered state at bargain prices.
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« Reply #19 on: January 02, 2019, 11:04:31 AM »

Honestly the more terrifying thing is how much American conservatives are rallying behind him

A couple of decades ago the very same people we're dealing with now would have defended the Apartheid regime because "it triggers the libs".
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« Reply #20 on: January 02, 2019, 03:59:07 PM »
« Edited: January 02, 2019, 04:13:12 PM by PSOL »

Honestly the more terrifying thing is how much American conservatives are rallying behind him

A couple of decades ago the very same people we're dealing with now would have defended the Apartheid regime because "it triggers the libs".
And don’t forget that his actions mirrors both our founding fathers instigating Manifest Destiny and the current expansionist policies of Israel, both titillating factors to our modern conservatives.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-agriculture/bolsonaro-gives-brazil-farm-ministry-powers-on-indigenous-land-in-win-for-farmers-idUSKCN1OW0OS
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I fully expect that indigenous leaders and activists’ assasinations will be in new highs under this government.
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« Reply #21 on: January 02, 2019, 06:43:34 PM »

It’s funny seeing our lilly white posters mourning the Bolsonaro presidency. Meanwhile all of my actual Brazilian friends seem near universally stoked.
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« Reply #22 on: January 02, 2019, 07:24:08 PM »

It’s funny seeing our lilly white posters mourning the Bolsonaro presidency. Meanwhile all of my actual Brazilian friends seem near universally stoked.

Please stop using idpol, it's just as boring from the right as it is from the left.
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« Reply #23 on: January 02, 2019, 08:42:45 PM »

People still use the word stoked? Huh? But either way, Bolsonaro is bad news for people supporting human rights, democracy...or decency. But odds are he's probably got some kind of corruption scandal in his closet, we'll see.
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« Reply #24 on: January 02, 2019, 11:07:31 PM »

It’s funny seeing our lilly white posters mourning the Bolsonaro presidency. Meanwhile all of my actual Brazilian friends seem near universally stoked.

You are absolutely correct. While I think Bolsonaro is disgusting and I abhor the things he has said/plans to do, Brazil is in absolute shambles right now and i understand why they voted for him.

Hypothetically, if the United States had 3 consecutive Dem presidents all wrapped in major corruption scandals(that led to actual criminal charges), surging violent crime rates and a sluggish economy, I'd bet many left leaning posters would be willing to give the super right wing candidate like Bolsonaro a look.
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