Brazil is now a fascist dictatorship

[Svartalf]

and like for Germany, it happened with the wrong guy winning the elections.

[pErvinalia]

Trump will be a supporter then?

[Svartalf]

>*Well, the new Brazilian prez is a fan of his, it would be good form to reciprocate the liking

[Seabass]

If he's anything like Trump, he must be a moderate liberal. And anyone who thinks otherwise has Bolsonaro Derangement Syndrome.

[laklak]

Bolsonaro, isn't that an Italian tomato sauce made with veal, pork, and cream?

[JimC]

The Brazilian version replaces the pork with the flesh of political prisoners. And it has more chilli...

[DRSB]

Make Brazil great again!

The president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, has exalted the country’s military dictatorship, advocated torture and threatened to destroy, jail or drive into exile his political opponents.

He won by tapping into a deep well of resentment at the status quo in Brazil — a country whiplashed by rising crime and two years of political and economic turmoil — and by presenting himself as the alternative.

“We have everything we need to become a great nation,” Mr. Bolsonaro said Sunday night shortly after the race was called in a video broadcast on his Facebook account. “Together we will change the destiny of Brazil.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/worl ... y6tLAh55jo

[Rum]

But will he make the trains run on time?

[Svartalf]

If he's anything like Trump, he must be a moderate liberal. And anyone who thinks otherwise has Bolsonaro Derangement Syndrome.

He's nothing like frump, he's a lot more like the Filipino Duterte... he's nostalgic about the military dictatorshiup of 30 years ago, he'll do nothing good.

[Svartalf]

But will he make the trains run on time?

Does Brazil even have trains?

[Rum]

He looks alarmingly like Carl Sagan!

[Svartalf]

a shame he thinks alarmingly like Pinochet

[Animavore]

A far-right, pro-gun, pro-torture populist has been elected as Brazil’s next president after a drama-filled and deeply divisive election that looks set to radically reforge the future of the world’s fourth biggest democracy.

Jair Bolsonaro, a 63-year-old former paratrooper who built his campaign around pledges to crush corruption, crime and a supposed communist threat, secured 55.1% of the votes after 99.9% were counted and was therefore elected Brazil’s next president, electoral authorities said on Sunday.

Bolsonaro’s leftist rival, Fernando Haddad, secured 44.8% of votes.

In a video broadcast from his home in Rio de Janeiro, Bolsonaro thanked God and vowed to stamp out corruption in the country.

“We cannot continue flirting with communism … We are going to change the destiny of Brazil,” he said.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.theguar ... l-election

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil on Sunday became the latest country to drift toward the far right, electing a strident populist as president in the nation’s most radical political change since democracy was restored more than 30 years ago.

The president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, has exalted the country’s military dictatorship, advocated torture and threatened to destroy, jail or drive into exile his political opponents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/worl ... eqHXTJQ6zA

In advance of this Sunday’s second-round presidential election between far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro and center-left candidate Fernando Haddad, Brazilian media are reporting that Brazilian police have been staging raids, at times without warrants, in universities across the country this week. In these raids, police have been questioning professors and confiscating materials belonging to students and professors.

The raids are part a supposed attempt to stop illegal electoral advertising. Brazilian election law prohibits electoral publicity in public spaces. However, many of the confiscated materials do not mention candidates. Among such confiscated materials are a flag for the Universidade Federal Fluminense reading “UFF School of Law - Anti-Fascist” and flyers titled “Manifest in Defense of Democracy and Public Universities.”

For those worrying about Brazilian democracy, these raids are some of the most troubling signs yet of the problems the country faces. They indicate the extremes of Brazilian political polarization: Anti-fascist and pro-democracy speech is now interpreted as illegal advertising in favor of one candidate (Fernando Haddad) and against another (Jair Bolsonaro). In the long run, the politicization of these two terms will hurt support for the idea of democracy, and bolster support for the idea of fascism.

In the short run, the raids have even more troublesome implications. Warrantless police raids in university classrooms to monitor professor speech have worrisome echoes of Brazil’s 1964-1985 military regime — particularly when the speech the raids are seeking to stop is not actually illegal.

https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-factio ... P6KD950nug


And of course, America's own wannabe facist dictator scumbag...

Donald Trump congratulates Brazil's president-elect

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.rte.ie/amp/1007310/

[Animavore]

https://theintercept.com/2018/10/28/jai ... lsKCSX-JTU

[Brian Peacock]

To paraphrase a man in a nappy, this fascistic trend towards nationalistic popularism in contemporary politics will not be overcome with righteous indignation but with compassion.