I have given up trying to understand the hysteria around the Brazilian elections. Why do the international media think that Brazil should be run from a prison cell? How is that democracy at work? And what about the hits (like Celso Daniel and the seven witnesses of his death) and the unexplained air crashes (Supreme Court Judge Zavascki , Presidential Candidate Eduardo Campos) that seem to be closely tied to Lula?
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Paul Cull (pdcull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 07:12:26 UTC Paul Cull -
Paul Cull (pdcull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 07:19:33 UTC Paul Cull Meanwhile, the PT is supporting dictatorships in Venzeuele, Cuba - to say nothing about the USD 15 million from the starving people of Equatorial Guinea that was brought in by the son of the dictator and personal friend of Lula, guess whose campaign that was going to help finance?
Here goes Lula's good mate, Maduro, again...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/americas/venezuela-assassination-plot-intl/index.html
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Paul Cull (pdcull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 07:20:16 UTC Paul Cull And what about the PTs plan of government, which was launched in August, which includes rewriting the constitution and restricting the freedom of the press? Do their supporters even read what they publish?
Meanwhile, Haddad has declared that he will ignore the decision of three courts and free Lula - how is that the democratic option?
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Paul Cull (pdcull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 07:20:43 UTC Paul Cull I just don't understand the local - and international - phobia about Bolsonaro. He's uncouth, he's no statesman - I'm sure he never expected to be anything more than a petty congressional back-bencher supported by the military, which is why he said the stupid things that he did. But another Hitler? Suspension of democracy? Really?
The sad reality is that things got so rotten in the Congress that for the majority of Brazilians he is now the best of the bunch.
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Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 20:42:51 UTC Nate Cull @pdcull Well, far-right popularism is on the rise globally. The fascists are networking with each other, with Russia as a hub and they've now taken out the UK and USA. This gives them a fair bit of power.
Brazil also has a history of actual literal Nazis plus a CIA-backed far-right military dictatorship.
Without knowing anything else about the intricacies of of Brazilian politics in 2018, I think it's fairly likely that if a far-right politician looks like a fascist, he probably is a fascist.
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