Brazil's embrace of the far right.

[BlueK]

lol I just got a weekly newsletter from my nephew who has been on his mission in Brazil for a few months now...

"The Brazilian Presidential Election was yesterday, so that was pretty crazy. Our people couldn't come to church because they had to go and vote, and also it was pretty crazy at night when the results came out. The people here in Campina Grande are obsessed with the guy who won, and they had like a big party in the streets outside our apartment. Tons of cars and motorcycles honking, blasting super loud music, people running around waving flags and making hand guns (aparently the guy who won wants to legalize guns here in Brazil). So yeah that was pretty crazy."

Sounds like it was pretty crazy. :|

I wonder how this guy will affect the church's standing there.

[Bo Diddley]

More guns. That's what Brazil needs. That'll probably help bring the murder rate down.

[Commando]

More guns. That's what Brazil needs. That'll probably help bring the murder rate down.

Of course it will! I mean when everybody has a gun citizens will all be able to defend themselves now.

[Uncle Ted]

Of course it will! I mean when everybody has a gun citizens will all be able to defend themselves now.

But their strict gun laws are working so well now!

What Brazil Can Teach America About Gun Control
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Brazil, though, is also among the world's leaders in firearm-related deaths, with 21.2 per 100,000 people. The United States has about half as many: 10.54 per 100,000. In the U.S., though, the overwhelming majority (roughly two-thirds) of the 33,000 annual gun deaths are in suicides. Not so in Brazil: Almost all of the roughly 40,000 gun deaths each year are homicides. In 2016, Brazil saw 19.34 violent gun deaths per 100,000 people, while the United States had just 3.85 per 100,000.


This means that in spite of Brazil's dramatically tougher gun laws and dramatically fewer guns in private hands, it still has dramatically more gun deaths, violent gun deaths, deaths per capita, and violent gun deaths per capita.
[...]

https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/feat...t-gun-control/

[Commando]

In 2016, Brazil saw 19.34 violent gun deaths per 100,000 people, while the United States had just 3.85 per 100,000.

That's it??? Get those people some weaponry, stat!!!

[Bo Diddley]

That's it??? Get those people some weaponry, stat!!!

I see an opportunity to help strengthen the US economy!

[Commando]

I see an opportunity to help strengthen the US economy!

I'm sure the NRA is hiring Portuguese-speaking representatives as we speak...

[Uncle Ted]

I see an opportunity to help strengthen the US economy!

Yeah, if we impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia then we are going to need a new market for our weapons!

[falafel]

I'm sure the NRA is hiring Portuguese-speaking representatives as we speak...

COJCOLDS RMs.

[LVAllen]

COJCOLDS RMs.

Some sell Living Scriptures. Some sell Pest Control. These guys peddle Bad Hombre Control.

[SeattleUte]

Bolsonaro was elected in a clean and fair election by 55% of the vote, because he was preferable to an intolerable alternative--more morally and practically bankrupt socialism and hideous corruption from friends of Venezuela's dictatorship.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bolsona...zil-1540768718

He was labeled a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a fascist, an advocate of torture and an aspiring dictator. His opponents gathered in the streets to denounce him and wrote withering diatribes against him in the press. The proudly “progressive” international media joined the fray, declaring him a threat to the environment and democracy.

It ought to have been enough to sink the Bolsonaro candidacy. Yet he prevailed, and it isn’t hard to see why: Brazilians are in the midst of a national awakening in which socialism—the alternative to a Bolsonaro presidency—has been put on trial. The resounding victory of Novo Party’s classical-liberal gubernatorial candidate Romeu Zema in the large state of Minas Gerais confirms that theory.

Mr. Haddad was the candidate of Brazil’s gigantic left-wing populist Workers’ Party, known as PT. He was also the handpicked successor to former two-term President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is in jail on a bribery conviction but remains popular with his supporters. Against Mr. Bolsonaro’s small Social Liberal Party, Mr. Haddad should have won walking away.

How Mr. Bolsonaro triumphed is worth examining because it suggests that something changed in this election. It can always change back, and it probably will. But for now the momentum is on the side of reform, and policy makers have a unique opportunity to advance liberty and prosperity in South America’s largest economy.

Mr. Bolsonaro is a social conservative, yet the “traditional values” vote alone couldn’t have propelled his candidacy. It took PT greed and hubris and the palpable failure of its left-wing ideology to send the electorate more broadly into the arms of Mr. Haddad’s rival.

You're all so progressive you think you're smarter than Brazilians about who's more fit to be their president. Ugly Americans.

[Uncle Ted]

Bolsonaro was elected in a clean and fair election by 55% of the vote, because he was preferable to an intolerable alternative--more morally and practically bankrupt socialism and hideous corruption from friends of Venezuela's dictatorship.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bolsona...zil-1540768718

You're all so progressive you think you're smarter than Brazilians about who's more fit to be their president. Ugly Americans.

Are you sure the Russians didn't have something to do with it?

[SeattleUte]

Are you sure the Russians didn't have something to do with it?

I think the New York Times tried to interfere in their election and it didn’t work.

[frank ryan]

Bolsonaro was elected in a clean and fair election by 55% of the vote, because he was preferable to an intolerable alternative--more morally and practically bankrupt socialism and hideous corruption from friends of Venezuela's dictatorship.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bolsona...zil-1540768718



You're all so progressive you think you're smarter than Brazilians about who's more fit to be their president. Ugly Americans.

Why are you telling Venezuelans what’s good for them or North Koreans? Brazil’s left had already been in power and was nothing like Venezuela. Get off your high horse if you thinks it’s arrogant to comment on global events.
The guy is an authoritarian goon. Shame on the Brazilians who elected him.

[SeattleUte]

Why are you telling Venezuelans what’s good for them or North Koreans? Brazil’s left had already been in power and was nothing like Venezuela. Get off your high horse if you thinks it’s arrogant to comment on global events.
The guy is an authoritarian goon. Shame on the Brazilians who elected him.

This guy was elected fair and square by one of the world's biggest democracies. Brazil isn't Venezuela or North Korea (hideously failed socialist experiments, ironically). So stop preaching your reflexive leftist dogma.