Discussion: Brazil's Far-Right Presidential Candidate Stabbed During Campaign Event

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Sounds like it’s the Brazilian way of punching a Nazi in the face.

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Hopefully the culprit will be meted out the justice befitting the crime.

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/virginia-man-convicted-of-punching-white-nationalist-rally-organizer-fined-1-1.546027

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Jury Dontyoudarenazification.

@tena

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"Despite being a congressman since 1991, Bolsonaro is running as an outsider ready to upend the establishment."

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He has been fined, and even faced charges, for derogatory statements toward women, blacks and gays.

This is probably not the cleverest public stance to maintain in a nation with demographics such as Brazil’s.

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True

However, we’re about to find out how large is voter apathy and suppression in Brazil.

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Of course he is. hahahahahahahaha

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Ait it weird how '16 political events keeps replicating?

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Yes, but then the rest of the world just watched us ‘elect’ a rightwing extremist demagogue which has to have given all kinds of new oxygen to far right extremist movements everywhere.

And of course, Putin.

He’s everywhere too.

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It seems the stabbing already tells us a lot.

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Permission was duly issued … around the world.

Thanks, Obama Electoral College.

Okay, I’m not going to go there. Yet.

Et tu?

Not all of it

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I agree. My gut feelings might be wrong about my native South America which I left so long ago.

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Voting is mandatory in brazil.

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