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[–] 148 points 3 days ago (23 children)

This is a relief. This plus Vucic losing in Serbia has made for a pretty good day

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  • [–] 83 points 3 days ago (20 children)

    The Alberta separatists getting brutally stomped on last week was also very nice.

    Let's see how the American midterms go now.

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    Hey, at least Alberta's UCP lets you look at your conservative party and think about how much worse they could have been.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 days ago

    Sure glad to hear the coup plotter's son wasn't elected

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  • [–] 45 points 3 days ago

    Good to see Lula did not let the right-wingers walk all over him and rig the elections without fighting back.

    The time for playing nice with cheating foreign agents is over.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 days ago

    The American billionaires aren't going to like their right wing puppet lost

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  • [–] 46 points 3 days ago

    Congratulation to Brazil, all the best to you all !

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  • [–] 34 points 3 days ago

    Such good news to start the week with. Congrats to Brazil!

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  • [–] 31 points 3 days ago* (20 children)

    By a whooping 1.5% difference, we haven't got a mob boss on the head of the executive power, with an aligned congress and the capacity of putting 2 judges on the supreme court and get a majority there.

    So... whew... our democracy will only die slowly now. Beats dying quickly.

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  • [–] 54 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    A whopping 10 million more people voted for Lula in this second turn of the election, and he had a 4 million voters lead on Flávio. That's not a bad number. Now our job is to push the government in prosecuting all the mayors and secretaries involved in undermining the election.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 days ago (16 children)

    So the good guys won but didn't win hard enough for your tastes.

    Just take the W and have a nice night. Now there's an opportunity for improvement, that's a good thing.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Look at the United States.

    Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020.

    And remember the cheering, and the relief, and the way people felt on that day.

    Never forget that day.

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    [–] 15 points 3 days ago (9 children)

    Now if only British Columbia hadn't put the conservatives in power there.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (8 children)

    On the plus side, from what I've read they're mostly old fashioned sane conservatives rather than Trumpian lunatics. Some of them are on the far right edge but hopefully the rest will keep them in check, the party's actual policies aren't too bad.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago*

    I'm glad for this and enough good people showed up this time. It shouldn't be so close though in all these elections, but the lies work. Canada had to back away from the edge last time and others have still gone to the authoritarian bs. They spread the propaganda more than ever to keep winning with their lies so don't fall for it. See that history shows their ways suck long-term and healthy ways proven in other countries are the way to go. Stay the course of proven healthy policies and demand better! Swinging back and forth is like a wrecking ball, and can't rebuild as fast as destroy. Think critically, refute the propaganda, use Sagan's baloney detection kit to understand accurately, read Democracy In Chains, you can do better!!

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