Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Shadow Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Facebook Account Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:58:40 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Shadow Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <9q4vcjhaj0nti7j1p7boasakb4q86vh6qr@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:58:45 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1c127ee7973da00e8015d02ddee3d1b1"; logging-data="1646779"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18040+VMmVidxL4PBLK26nujBw2Kj7+o6s=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:uxWHSLfREbk1FjfwPtbbVgePlIg= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 Bytes: 2881 On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 17:40:49 -0600, AMuzi wrote: >On 11/4/2024 5:27 PM, Shadow wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 16:03:08 -0600, AMuzi wrote: >> >>> Brasil hasn't been under >>> military rule for 40 years. There's a rich participatory >>> electorate who, as elsewhere, swing in their decisions over >>> the years, but a military dictatorship this is not. >> >> To be fair, we suffered a coup in 2015. The President was >> impeached without committing any crimes and the favorite candidate for >> the 2018 Presidential elections (polls gave him almost 70% of the >> vote)was put in jail because a judge was "pretty sure" he was corrupt. >> He used newspaper cuttings as "proof" of corruption. No actual >> physical proof. >> And Bolsonaro got in with the help of millions of social media >> messages a day. And almost managed to reinstate the military >> dictatorship after he lost the elections on 2022. >> If he wasn't so corrupt and if people's lives had not >> deteriorated so much he might have pulled it off. >> []'s > > >'Car Wash' was all fiction?? No. There was massive corruption. It was "installed" by the previous government, (Fernando Henrique Cardoso) and still is used to finance right wing politicians. It's very hard to get rid of decades of right wing corruption/dictatorship. No PT member received a penny. The Intercept did a pretty good investigation. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 Google Fuchsia - 2021