I stay offline for one day and when i get home i learn that we had a
FUCKING TERRORIST ATTACK TO THE SENATE
I am very tired. Fuck the alt right. Cant have shit in Brazil
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WHAT IS HAPPENING IN BRASIL RIGHT NOW:
So, as some of you may have noticed, today (2/10) was elections day here in Brasil. Things are really tense and scary here, at least for myself. Right now, our president, unfortunately, is Jair Bolsonaro, a man who has openly said he supports torture and our dictature, is also openly misogynist, queerphobic, the first thing he did when he became president was putting an end to the ministery of culture, he openly made fun of the pandemic, being able to help the people in need during covid's peak and decided not to, saying things like "it's just a little flu, people need to stop being so dramatic about it", made advertisement of a medecine not approved by doctors which his supporters started taking like water, never properly wore a mask and promoted marches during the lockdown, oh, and also spread fake news about vaccines, wich made a lot of people refuse to take them, among many many maaaany other things (I'm so tired rn, it's 02:59am here, if you guys want to, I can get the sources and post here but tomorrow.). Today we had the chance to take him out of our lives, but this is Brasil, no one takes anything seriously and we always find a nee way to surprise people.
I didn't want to sleep until the votes apuration reached 100% but I'll be waking up super early tomorrow so yeah, I must sleep. Anyways, the vote apuration is currently on 99,99% (it's been for the last hour btw) but those ate the results so far.
In conclusion, I am legitmately terrified. Lula was our best shot to take him out, so everyone who didn't want Bozo voted for him, and we were really hopefull we could get him elected on the first turn, but now we'll have to have a second one where we choose either Lula or Bolsonaro. The choice is obvious to me, but as you guys can see, most people prefer to elect a genocidal man than a socialist.
I don't really know what I wanted to achieve with this post, but I just thought it was important to let everybody now what is happening here. We are comparing this to our period of dictature, bc a lot of people here still deny the fact we had one or say it was the best time of their lives and that, quoting my grandma "the history books are wrong".
I once had to research the kinds of tortures that were made by the army during the dictature for school and it still haunts me to this day.
And to see people in the streets, using my beloved flag as their symbol to say that that period was good makes me really angry and terribly sad.
I'm fucking terrified of the second turn. Things are getting more and more expensive here. There are reports of people raiding garbage trucks to look for food bc they're hungry. I am lucky to be privileged and I can still buy food, but for how long? I don't really wanna find out what four more years with him as president will do to us, but I'm scared. I'm scared to go out in the streets, and to openly say my opinions on the matter. There are also reports of people being murdered on the streets bc they were wearing stickers of leftists candidates.
Things are scary here. But please, don't let this be ignored like the dictature was. We now have internet on our side. Please, pray for us and wish us luck, we'll need it.
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when in 2019 the progressive (let's leave it at that bc it's complicated) candidate won the presidential elections, following a savage neoliberal government that took the biggest debt in argentine history, my stupid naive ass really thought. well glad that's over! we will get at least 4 slightly more peaceful years... but nope.
the pandemic and economic crisis was the perfect breeding ground for an anarchocapitalist candidate to gain ground. never let your guard down kids not even for a second because behind every neoliberal piece of shit there's a bigger neoliberal piece of shit 👍🏻👍🏻 now this is b0lsonaro and trump's lovechild 👍🏻👍🏻 cool cool cool
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I seriously wonder what some of you in my ask box want to achieve!
You're not complaining about Checo and his family or Carlos and his family meanwhile both have some questionable political connections going on. But that doesn't upset you it seems.
If you wanted to I'm sure you can find questionable people in the vicinity of ALL the drivers!
I care more about what comes out of their own mouths.
These men are mostly white and rich and get paid insane amounts of money for driving in circles. Most of them even have very privileged backgrounds and live in tax havens.
Enjoy their skills! And don't use them as inspiration for your moral compass or political opinion!
There are people that are very knowledgeable that have spent years educating themselves or have the right experience that you can turn to for these things.
Stop putting any of them on a morality pedestal and you'll be better off for it! Because eventually they're all gonna let you down in some way or another!
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