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[–] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Good that at least one South American country is telling the Epstein empire to eat shit. In the Presidential elections, at least.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago

    Easy

    Death to America, try wasting more billions next time.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    Meta didn't go mask off without assurances, there will be more shenanigans afoot. I'm so incredibly happy that the people of Brazil have stood against evil and said no. I wish the same could be said of the USA.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    Average Latin America election

    Mr. Give People Food - 51%

    Senor Hitler - 49%

    Flip depending on how mad that country is at America or minorities each year

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    Congrats to Brazil. Y'all don't deserve to be a right wing fascist shit hole like my country...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    brazil will not be cushioning the usian fall. faz o L.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Thanks for the official link.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Uncomfortably close, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Brazilians: Is the NE part usually this red with the rest usually that blue? I’m personally shocked at Rio de Janeiro and São Pauló being so blue.

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    [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Everyone is repeating that, but in these same elections the right got 23 out of 27 governors, 50 out of 55 senators and about 330 out of 390 congressists... they only lost for president and by a small margin. To say fascists were defeated...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Yeah, that's what I wanted to know, since the wikipedia breakdown on parlimentary structure isn't clear.

    But even then, are those out of seats available during the election, or seats total?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Brazilian_general_election#Chamber_of_Deputies
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Brazilian_general_election#Federal_Senate

    The results don't seem too good, but I don't understand how the coalitions will work due to mixture of colours and unfamiliarity of with the brazillian parties.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Senators have 8 years term and every 4 years it renew 2/3 or 1/3 of the seats (this election was 2/3, so 54* seats - I had said 55, it was wrong... also I'm not sure how I counted the "330 out of 390" deputies thing... anyway...)

    So here names like socialist, social, progressist and liberal means jack shit, the liberal and the progressist parties are far right conservatives, and half of the parties with socialist/social in the name are neoliberal (literally).

    I added subtitles
    Here's the Senate:

    Here's the Chamber of Deputies:

    We have far left parties (PCO, PCB, PSTU, UP) but they very very rarely elect anyone, when it happens it's for city council.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    so basically, it's still fucked. What's Lula going to do about the parliament being stacked against him?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    We've been through this before with Dilma (Lula's successor) in 2014, to get "allies" they put a rightwing guy as vice president and gave all ministries to leaders of rightwing parties, so on paper her coalition had the majority of seats, however, her government was completely sabotaged (there was the commodity price shocks of 2014, which led us to economic crisis) and the congress simply voted her out in 2016 putting the rightwing vice president in power... so, what Lula did now? He got a rightwing guy as vice president too, and we got employment crisis coming because of AI, AI bubble market crisis, probably gonna have shitty grain production because of el niño, congress won't accept anything the president proposes, he gonna do a shit government like Dilma, and just like then the whole left gonna take the blame for the rightwing active economic sabotage and be voted out... I'm not optimistic at all :P

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yes, this and the fact that Lula has close ties to countries like China with a totalitarian government. He frames himself as a guard of civil and human rights, but so he must also reconsider his stance to such regimes.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Take that fascist scum!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Woo some good news!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)