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Post by jdredd on Oct 8, 2018 15:04:23 GMT -5
So "populist" dirtbag Bolsonaro did not quite get the 50% he needed to avoid a runoff, but he is still on his way to becoming Brazil's Trump. It was interesting he survived an assassination attempt. Assassinations are so rare now (except for the CIA's assassinations of suspected "terrorist leaders"). I guess that's a good thing.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 24, 2018 15:51:25 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/opinion/brazil-bolsonaro-conservative-values.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Mr. Bolsonaro’s ascendancy has deeply polarized Brazilian society. For the past decade, our presidential elections have been the stage for a center-left versus center-right face-off, which at times has provoked some heated debates — but now it feels like the house is burning down. More than ever, the election has become a battle over values — fairness versus equality, freedom versus authority, justice versus legality — in which both sides are appealing to the self-evident nature of their own views. And so in an effort to understand my fellow Brazilians, I’ve turned to the work of the psychologist Jonathan Haidt, whose moral foundations theory makes an impressive attempt to connect people with differing political views. Having done so, I can concede that there’s something about Mr. Bolsonaro that activates deep moral intuitions in his supporters. Many people side with him not for his proposals but because to them, he has become a symbol of everything good. The problem is that these people are responding only to Mr. Bolsonaro the symbol — not Mr. Bolsonaro the man." Personally, I'd like to see Mr.Bolsonaro the corpse. But I guess in these slick times we are all too civilized. Unless you are a right-wing Brazilian landowner who kills activists with impunity.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 29, 2018 4:11:38 GMT -5
Well, Bullshitnaro is going to be the next prez of Brazil. Whatever. One more country I'll avoid traveling to. Not that I will leave California if I don't have to.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 15, 2019 3:16:14 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/world/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-100-days.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"The president, a right-wing populist, was swept into office with an expansive mandate for change by voters fed up with political corruption, violence and the lingering effects of a deep recession. Instead, his tenure has been roiled by culture wars, disputes among the factions that support him ( the military, evangelicals and anti-globalists) and disarray, with two ministers sacked. His party is also under investigation in connection with a possible illegal-campaign finance scheme, and one of his sons, Flávio Bolsonaro, a senator, is under investigation for corrupt practices." Now that's what I call an Axis of Evil.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 27, 2021 12:36:26 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/world/americas/virus-brazil-bolsonaro.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage"More than a year into the pandemic, deaths in Brazil are at their peak and highly contagious variants of the coronavirus are sweeping the nation, enabled by political dysfunction, widespread complacency and conspiracy theories. The country, whose leader, President Jair Bolsonaro, has played down the threat of the virus, is now reporting more new cases and deaths per day than any other country in the world." "President Bolsonaro, who continues to promote ineffective and potentially dangerous drugs to treat the disease, has also said lockdowns are untenable in a country where so many people live in poverty. While several Brazilian states have ordered business shutdowns in recent weeks, there have been no strict lockdowns."
Brazil's Trump is not doing so well.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 29, 2021 13:47:53 GMT -5
And by saying Jair is a "Trump", I mean any ignorant, bombastic Nationalist.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 1, 2023 20:01:44 GMT -5
So Jaiir has fled to Orlando. Florida deserves him and Trump.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 3, 2023 2:29:31 GMT -5
Awww, too bad. Jair was Brazilian Evangelicals guy.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 9, 2023 2:09:32 GMT -5
Changed the name of this thread from “Class War in Brazil” because Class War has become such an antiquated concept. Sorry, Marx.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 9, 2023 9:26:53 GMT -5
Still being Brazil’s Trump, supporters of Jair are rioting and clsiming the election result was illegitimate. Taking to the streets is always fun in my book.Heck, I thought January 6 was hilarious. What a bunch of dufuses. But it’s sad that lady was killed by a trigger-happy cop.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 29, 2024 15:39:45 GMT -5
Haven’t paid much attention to Brazil lately, since at least Jair lost in a “rigged” election (sound familiar?). But Brazilians have taken to the streets to protest President Lula’s comments that Gaza was the Palestinian “Holocaust”. In millions, per one source, 190,000 by another. What’s the truth? Of no consequence, as I’ve said in the past. All that matters is what people believe. From what I’ve read, lots of Bolsanaro’s supporters are evengelical, which as in the USA are big Israel supporters, for reasons too dreary to talk about.
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