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I love that the officer down emote is the closest thing we have to party poppers btw

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This seems like a good thing but I'm not well educated in this area. Are there any Brazilians here, or people who know a lot about Brazilian politics that can tell me if this will benefit the people of Brazil, or if this is a "both sides kinda suck and will submit to the ruling class eventually" kind of deal like we see with western countries? I am kind of skeptical of electoralism after being burned so many times in my own country, but maybe Brazil is different?

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[–] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

edit 2: little shit is already in the US, Juan Guaidó 2 is here

That can very well still happen.

The election window was extended by 2h, but that was done last minute, a lot of poling places had already closed. poll workers had gone home, and because our electronic voting machines are actually secure they cant simply be turned back on. So some places had more time to vote, this is already being used by the fascist as an excuse to place doubt on the process

A few more details

  1. during the election cycle a supreme justice is appointed president of the supreme electoral court. This year it was a mega-bolsonarista (Kásisio Nunes , the terribly evangelical, Marques -- KNM)
  2. a court order by the supreme court ordered free public transit throught the country with 100% of public transit fleet out and working
  3. a lot of places ignored 2 to do a little vote supression
  4. because of 3 and some incredibly heavy rains, the workers party asked for the extension. This has never happened. Voting is on sunday 8h to 17h and that's it.
  5. because of the incredible rains, bolsonaristas asked for an extension in são paulo city
  6. KNM wasn't issuing a decision
  7. at almost 17h a supreme justice ordered the extension (Zannin, appoited by Lula and his former lawyer)

since an extension is unheard of, and who did 7, the hogs are claiming election interference. To me, Zannin and PT fell for a trap with the extension, especialy it being last minute. An accidental trap, imo, but a trap no less

also, 4 years ago, the bolsonaristas spent oct-jan camping next to military HQs asking for a coulp, and did assult the capital. 2nd round of the elections is over, the "3rd" begins. I know that some elected commies have already started to organize a new "legality" movement to ensure Lula takes his seat.

the name is borrowed from a 1961 movement that avoided a coup, it was the closest we had been to a civil war in a long time, with the 3rd army mobilized for the resistance and other armies mobilizing agaist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_Campaign

edit: I got a couple justice hogs mixed up

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 child)

    A correction from a fellow Brazilian: the "terribly evangelical" Supreme Court justice is André Mendonça, also a bolsonarista, and also part of the Superior Electoral Court this year. The president of the Superior Electoral Court this year is Kassio Nunes Marques, a bolsonarista criminal, but not known for his religion.

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