Brazil’s 2018 Election: Bolsonaro defeats Haddad to become President of Brazil

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Nah fukk this bytch, all talk zero action :russell:

PT and Lula fukked big Brazil, most people aren't pro-Bozonaro ideals, but the vast majority is against PT and affiliates, that's the deal :manny:

How? In your opinion did they screw Brazil? Just corruption or policy too?

Clearly they didn't give any money to upgrade the National Museum of Brazil from fire, which torched 20 million artifacts.
 

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A 4 year recession has driven a lot of them to desperation. Bolsonaro is a demagogue but in a country with weak institutions.

He will win for sure since this right wing populism has spread like pandemic but if guns get legalizes...

Caraca muleke:wow:
 

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Bolsonaro's son :snoop:

Bannon is easily the most dangerous person in Trump-world after Trump himself...


Cultural marxism is a fukking insidious term that really just a euphemism saying I'm racist and/or a bigot. It's basically stating that treating people equally regardless of race, religion, sexuality, and whatever other marginalized group is an attack on civilization and is to be eradicated. Just another version of "anti-racism is anti-white rhetoric". Social stratification is the natural order and some people are simply inferior and therefore, its justified that they are placed into an inferior status. A made up term where they cherrypick marxist thoughts and apply it to social movements.

Funny enough, the Nazis, had a similar term called Cultural Bolshevisim meaning close to the same thing. Its just a repackaged Nazi term.

It's a shame that it has been allowed to become a normal term without anyone really calling it out.
 

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How? In your opinion did they screw Brazil? Just corruption or policy too?

Clearly they didn't give any money to upgrade the National Museum of Brazil from fire, which torched 20 million artifacts.

Although the Brazilian economy is one of the largest in the world, the country is experiencing a terrible recession and internal financial crisis due to the theft and mismanagement of resources during the Lula/PT era.

Extreme poverty has risen 33% in the past three years, reaching more than 23 million people across the country. Unemployment sky rocket to 14% of total population...

They burned public money with no fukks given and now everything is falling apart. People fell into the duck tale that the country was progressing but the bill was yet to come :francis:
 

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Authoritarianism fosters a mob mentality among a population if the surrounding rhetoric and propaganda does a good enough job to rile them up and give them someone they can place under themselves and kick down on. Under the right conditions, many people willingly will join the stoning party and people will cheer and celebrate brutality as part of the mob and no one will ever stop to examine what they are doing as being horrific because it gives them an individual sense of power even if doesn't really do nothing to change their current condition. All they did is bring pain on someone else and used them to vent their anger against.

It's much more satisfying to express direct anger and violence towards a very easy to understand "bad guy" (minorities, criminals, political opponents) than it is to take on deeply entrenched monied elites that use the complexity of the entire political, media, and economic structures to give them their "elite" status in the first place.

This is why even though I think a lot of us just have an instictual reaction to "authoritarianism" being bad, there is a segment that not only embrace it but view it as good. Especially if you can frame it as a counter-culture to the status quo "liberal order". A lot of people are drawn to attitudes and movements that APPEAR to be subversive. It helps if there is a real problem that the authoritarian can point to to justify his actions like crime or drugs. People can then be convinced that authoritarianism is a necessity because in their mind if these things exist in a free society then a iron fisted government is needed to squash it.


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Brazil Election: Jair Bolsonaro Heads to Runoff After Missing Outright Win
Georgewlany Smith, a 61-year-old public servant in Rio de Janeiro, said that an erosion of democratic norms and civil liberties is a price he is willing to pay for a more secure and prosperous Brazil.

“You have to consider what were the best times for Brazil,” Mr. Smith said shortly after he voted for Mr. Bolsonaro in the upscale Barra de Tijuca district. “Unfortunately it was the dictatorship.”
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Cultural marxism is a fukking insidious term that really just a euphemism saying I'm racist and/or a bigot. It's basically stating that treating people equally regardless of race, religion, sexuality, and whatever other marginalized group is an attack on civilization and is to be eradicated. Just another version of "anti-racism is anti-white rhetoric". Social stratification is the natural order and some people are simply inferior and therefore, its justified that they are placed into an inferior status. A made up term where they cherrypick marxist thoughts and apply it to social movements.

Funny enough, the Nazis, had a similar term called Cultural Bolshevisim meaning close to the same thing. Its just a repackaged Nazi term.

It's a shame that it has been allowed to become a normal term without anyone really calling it out.

Cultural Marxism originated with the US far right, Willis Carto's neo-nazi/Holocaust denial Liberty Lobby in particular, back in the 90s. It was part of the beginning of the infiltration of far right ideals into the mainstream American right the GOP had previously at least tried to resist.

Eduardo Bolsonaro also retweeted the bullshyt about the Nazis being 'leftists' because they were called National Socialists. Something any scholar of Germany will tell you is a bag of laughs.
 

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One of the big elephants in the room is that, at least historically speaking, Brazil's elites have never been on the hardcore Republican egalitarian view of politics, even compared to the elites in places like the US. The national motto is 'Ordem e Progreso' - order and progress, which comes from Comte and Positivism not the Enlightenment philosophers.

Brazil won independence as a monarchy, was the last to abolish slavery, after the Republican revolution the first few leaders were military men, Getulio Vargas was essentially a right leaning quasi-fascist who ruled from the 30s to the 50s, you had a little bit of democracy after his death, economy grew and then went down and there were problems with leftists so the military took over, and then democracy came back in the late 80s until now. A lot of the economic growth happened under Vargas and other military dictators like Medici allowing people to remember them fondly an forget the torture, press censure, oppression of dissenters and Blacks (as if anyone cared), admiration for fascists, etc.

As @Afrodroid said, not really strong institutions.
 
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