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The Amazon rainforest was really lucky Bolsonaro was not re-elected to a second term, nor the attempted January 8 coup succeeded.
by Qem 3y ago
The Amazon rainforest was really lucky Bolsonaro was not re-elected to a second term, nor the attempted January 8 coup succeeded.
- Gualdrapo 3y agoAnd that here in Colombia we elected the first left-wing president in more than 90 years.
- breakyerself 3y ago[flagged]
- goykasi 3y ago> nor the attempted January 8 coup succeeded What effect would this have had?
- ufo 3y agoBolsonaro is pro-deforestation. It was literally one of his campaign promises.
- Qem 3y agoIt appears he intended to get a brazilian supreme court minister arrested, void the election he lost, declare martial law ("intervenção") and extend his first term indefinitely, backed by a military junta.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoHe was never gonna do any of that. Half the brazilian population practically begged him to do it and he didn't.
- lacrimacida 3y agoHow do you know what would he do and what stopped him?
- matheusmoreira 3y agoI don't know. I simply don't believe he would have or could have done it. He either lacked the military support for such a thing or he lacked the balls to do it. It wasn't for a lack of popular support, I'll tell you that. I watched many of my countrymen get on their knees and beg for military intervention. Way too many of them. On brazilian independence day, I saw an insane number of people on the streets because of him. I thought brazilian nationalism was dead and buried until I saw that. It got to the point they tried to make it illegal to associate the holiday with Bolsonaro. All those people, they would have supported him. I'm sure of that.
- surgical_fire 3y agoHe certainly wanted to, but didn't have enough support, especially from foreign nations. He might actually end up in jail because of his plans to do a coup. We'll have to wait and see.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoI agree that's the likely scenario. I don't doubt he'll end up in jail but I don't think they'll arrest him for that. Of all the extremely dumb shit he's said and done, they rendered him ineligible for his perfectly valid criticism of the electronic voting system. I bet whatever they arrest him for will be an equally inconsequential non-crime. It's like the courts are trying to be ironic. They'll probably give him 22 years of jail too just because it's his party's number.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoThere was no "coup". There was a protest. Identical to numerous others in the past. Even the pictures look the same. I even saw one of the several brazilian socialist parties condemning the criminalization of the protesters for obvious reasons. If only there had been a coup. They're all being punished for attempting one anyway. Might as well have tried, right?
- Xunjin 3y agoPlease refrain from spread misinformation, that was a coup, in the mind of Bolsonaro's followers the "protest" would trigger an action by the military to "take the power". This was spread by months after the elections, we even had a attempt of exploding a bomb in a gas tank truck for aviation. Not a single protest in the history of the redemocratization (1988) had a protest that destroyed the buildings from the three powers.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoSo? They believed a lie. Doesn't turn what happened there on that day into a coup. When you want to take power, you don't do the utterly pointless stuff they did. You want to seize power, you don't show up to an empty supreme court to shit on its chairs. That's just stupid. I think it's far more likely that it was a false flag operation from the start designed to justify the judiciary dictatorship we're currently living under. How else could we possibly go from a democracy to a state where a supreme court judge can openly and publicly showboat to an audience about defeating Bolsonaro alongside his fellow judge-kings? Can you imagine a US supreme court judge openly bragging about defeating Trump, stopping his campaign its tracks? And don't accuse me of "spreading misinformation". Everything I post here, I post in good faith because it's exactly what I think. I simply do not agree with you. You're not on brazilian social media. Either reply to me with respect or don't reply to me at all.
- Xunjin 3y agoYou are spreading misinformation, read your own comment, here is an example: "[...]designed to justify the judiciary dictatorship we're currently living under." That's literally the fake news spread in far-right media, which seems you are consuming too much. Just because you don't agree with a decision done by the Supreme Court on Brazil (STF) doesn't mean it's a dictatorship. If you feel I caused any damage to you by point facts in your commentaries, you have the right to sue me, and I will have all the instances of defense garantee by our constitution :)