Wow, this is shockingly coherent, are you sure you don’t want to add anything about corporate mind control, low IQ, or head sizes?
I love the story of when Deng Xiaoping (邓小平) visited Singapore and Lee Guan Yew (李光耀) lectured him about how he needs to make Singapore like changes in China. Deng listened patiently then replied that the ideas are great, and if he’s ever the mayor of Shanghai he will implement…
Also, the jury is out on Xi. The clampdown on control has had an adverse impact. The environment for small and medium sized business was improving last many years. After last year, it has markedly reversed, with SOE once again crowding out small business. China is famous for playing the long game, but they sure do make a lot of lousy short term decisions.
* All polls throughout 2018 show Lula would easily win the presidency
* Judge Moro rushes to convict Lula on dubious charges, preventing him from running
* Bolsonaro wins with Lula in jail
* Moro to get high, powerful position in Bolsonaro’s government
#Justice
The judge who put Lula in prison on a highly dubious conviction, which resulted in Lula’s being barred from running while leading all presidential polls, just got his reward: formally accepted Bolsonaro’s offer to be Justice Minister
"President-elect Jair Bolsonaro plans to offer federal judge Sergio Moro a turbocharged version of the Ministry of Justice.
The department will be joined with the ministries of Public Safety, Transparency, the Comptroller General of the Union, along with the Council for Financial Activities Control, a department created to fight money laundering and that until now was subordinated to the Ministry of Finance."
So, he is going to combine police, courts, comptroller, and anti corruption departments under one guy? This is some Judge Dredd level sht here.
There’s no such thing as having violence restricted to turf wars. These things occur in the poor cities and destroy the populations stuck there. The guy won by a landslide for a reason. This is just such an insanely ignorant POV. Do some reading about the rise in violence and poverty in Brazil over the last two decades.
Giving the job to this Moro guy does cast doubt on the legitimacy of “Operation Carwash”, as it raises a possible political motive for the probe. Furthermore, power concentration in one individual might be conducive to more corruption.
With that being said, I don’t know if anyone can honestly say that the old government organization was effective, or that it can be reformed without strong arm measures like this, as risky as they might be.
^ true capitalism protected by an active domestic military is literally the best case scenario in brazil right now. ideally the active domestic military will not be required if the switch to true capitalism results in much better quality of life for the average brazilian. only real risk is if members within PSL get greedy and start skimming themselves. if the threat of skimming is death, i doubt many will do so blatantly.
Well I’ve got a good sized group of Brazilian friends including three living in Brazil (those three all voted in favor). So this is based partly on talking to them and partly on widely available crime and poverty statistics. I’ve done my reading, I don’t really feel a need to do that for you. It’s incredibly stupid to believe you can have widespread violence with something like 20 if the world’s 50 most violent cities in Brazil and not have it impacting those populations. You also have a 25% high school graduation rate. This violence has been rising for decades, trying to point at the World Cup is also moronic. I can also read spanish (spent a semester doing home stays in Mexico and one in Costa Rico, although I struggle to speak it well anymore), dance salsa and my brother’s wife is from El Salvador not that that has anything to do with anything.
LMAO, let me help you with this because you seem to be struggling. You think western or non-Brazilian sources aren’t as legit and you question anecdotes. So let me give you some statistics, Bolsonaro ran on the exact position I’m stating and the majority of Brazil voted in favor of it. So there you have it straight from Brazil’s mouth. But please, as a non-Brazilian apologist, continue to speculate based on your broad ignorance of the topic. FYI you said I can’t speak spanish, but I can and I do have strong cultural ties to the region. I’m more Brazilian than Elizabeth Warren is Native American.
Now since I have the people on my side. Prove to me that violence didn’t spike in that period and prove to me that it’s not impacting the slums. Also prove to me that the situation is just fine for most of Brazil and that they basically elected a right wing extremist because they don’t understand what’s going on in their own country because so far all you’ve put forward are some liberal arts rambling and excuses.
I’m aware of the national language, but you said I could probably not speak Spanish or Portuguese. I can speak Spanish. Please try to keep up, I know this is hard for you.
Obviously the poor aren’t the only ones effected, that’s a pretty dumb assumption. When your nation struggles everyone struggles. Brazil as a country spoke. Still waiting on that proof, but all I got was a hypothetical. Ah well, sorry for your loss.
There was… Brazil has been a violent country for many years. It just happens that most people don’t care as long as it does not affect their lives. In the eyes of many fine Brazilian citizens violence only became problem a after the infamous “2 guys in a motorcycles” started appearing in their neighborhoods. Brazilian logic goes as: 27 murders per weekend on a small sized city is fine, but “2 guys in a motorcycles” coming to the bar to steal my phone… “Save me Bolsonaro!”
Another anecdote of the Brazilian election after 3 Pt presidencies, high unemployment areas still vote majority for pt, it makes no sense
The whole average IQ and destiny of nations theory is spot on…
i know four brazilian couples here in canada. they all left because they are middle class and see a poor opportunity set in brazil and/or they are capitalists and assumed they’d have a better chance at retaining/creating wealth in canada. they all support bolsonaro for economic reasons. safety was a much lesser issue in the election. human rights was also a much lesser issue. really, people only voted for bolsonaro due to his economic promises. which from an outside pov, will likely ignite economic growth after six years of recession.