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[–] 20 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Austerity creates radicals and the rich are siding with the far right.

If you don't want violence, please vote left

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    These days, the rich have enclaves where they'll be safe no matter what.

    Violence will be poor people killing poorly paid police.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Violence will be poor people killing poorly paid police.

    It's historically the opposite in Brazil.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Basically everywhere. It was a wishful thinking

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    When I was in school, we went down to study the favelas for an architectural studio, and the only folks I saw patrolling with machine guns on tripods were police. The people aren't running assassination squads. Anyone can watch documentaries on the extreme injustice against the people of Brazil by the state. It's very obvious everywhere. I encourage people who think otherwise to read up on it. I'm hoping for the best for your country. You don't need or deserve any more fascists in power.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    U.S. citizen here.

    I feel it.

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago

    The Bolsonaro family’s assets consist of a total of 107 properties purchased by Jair Bolsonaro and his sons Flávio Bolsonaro, Carlos Bolsonaro, and Eduardo Bolsonaro, as well as properties purchased for Jair Bolsonaro’s ex-wives.

    In 2020, the newspaper Correio do Brasil published an article on investigations into the involvement of Jair Bolsonaro and his sons with the militia and discovered that his second ex-wife, Ana Cristina Siqueira Valle, became wealthy during their marriage; together with her husband, she purchased 14 apartments, houses, and plots of land. Real estate purchases also took place during Bolsonaro’s first marriage, to Rogéria Bolsonaro.

    Julian Lemos, Jair Bolsonaro’s former campaign coordinator, suggested—without presenting evidence—that Flávio Bolsonaro had assets worth R$ 600 million and Eduardo Bolsonaro had around R$ 150 million, and that they had amassed their wealth during Jair Bolsonaro’s administration; he also claimed to have further information about the family’s assets. To the Electoral Court, Flávio and Eduardo declared assets totaling approximately R$ 1.7 million each in 2018 and 2022, respectively, when they last ran for office.

    An exclusive report by UOL conducted a survey and found that nearly half of the real estate assets owned by Jair and his closest family members were acquired over the past three decades using CASH. The survey covers assets acquired in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Brasília by the president, his three oldest children, his mother, five siblings, and two ex-wives.

    From the 1990s to the present, the president, his siblings, and his children have negotiated 107 real estate properties, of which at least 51 were acquired entirely or partially with CASH, according to their own statements. The purchases recorded at notary offices that were paid for in CASH totaled 13.5 million reais, in amounts adjusted for inflation using the IPCA; this amount is equivalent to 25.6 million reais today.

    According to experts, payment in CASH can be a way to conceal the source of funds; this tactic is also frequently used for MONEY LAUNDERING.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    There's no real ideology behind flavio bozo, he has the mentality of a petty criminal who got too much money and is trying to avoid being caught. He has managed that thus far, despite many spotlights showing how rotten he is.

    Then again, the largest political force in Brazil for the past 20 years has been antipetismo, simply being against PT (Worker's party). For a lot of people, anything is better than PT and Lula. Democracy is a perpetual risk of putting asinine demagogues in power.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    @politicalcartoons @ICastFist

    I knew Bolsonaros are corrupt fascists and this is an insane attempt to snatch back power made more possible via nepotism and cronyism but that is sad to hear about Lula. I'm under the impression he was part of a solution or, at least, trying to hold back the tide of fascism.

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  • [–] 1 point 20 hours ago

    Lula was more of the latter. Senate and chamber of deputies, which hold a lot of power over the president^[Seriously, the chamber of deputies has tried to implement a parliamentary presidency since 1990, but public support never went past 30%. Despite that, they keep approving laws giving themselves more power. They can unilaterally veto almost anything the president does, including presidential vetoes to laws.], have PL (Liberal Party, the shit that houses bozo and other trump-sucking drama clowns) as the majority party, with other right wing parties accounting for over half of all seats in both cases. It was already this bad during this last term of his, it'll be even worse now.

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