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Tens of thousands of Brazilians wearing yellow and green, the colors of the national flag, gathered Tuesday across the country to protest agains last month's election and asking for the armed forces to intervene.

Every country has its fair share of idiots, and Brazil having a population of around 214M can easily have tens of thousands of idiots who believe and defend all sorts of braindead ideas.

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Tens of thousands of Brazilians wearing yellow and green, the colors of the national flag, gathered Tuesday across the country to protest agains last month's election and asking for the armed forces to intervene.

Every country has its fair share of idiots, and Brazil having a population of around 214M can easily have tens of thousands of idiots who believe and defend all sorts of braindead ideas.

Based on people I know in Brazil it seems to be way more than a few tens of thousands. I hope I'm wrong. Here's a pretty good documentary on the current situation in Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noP8sLB4LSY

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every country has its fair share of idiots, and Brazil having a population of around 214M can easily have tens of thousands of idiots who believe and defend all sorts of braindead ideas.

Based on people I know in Brazil it seems to be way more than a few tens of thousands. I hope I'm wrong. Here's a pretty good documentary on the current situation in Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noP8sLB4LSY

> more than a few tens of thousands

apparently 49.1%...in the US "only" 46.8%...but you can laugh at those numbers, in Russia their idiot gets 95% results

Re: Brazilian Protesters Nationwide Continue Supporting Bolsonaro

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Tens of thousands of Brazilians wearing yellow and green, the colors of the national flag, gathered Tuesday across the country to protest agains last month's election and asking for the armed forces to intervene.

Every country has its fair share of idiots, and Brazil having a population of around 214M can easily have tens of thousands of idiots who believe and defend all sorts of braindead ideas.

Idiots? What do you know of what's happening here that you feel you can dismiss these people as idiots?

We have supreme court judges who were openly partial towards the winning candidate during the election. One of these guys is proud of his own partiality and the fact he chose side. They implemented censorship with the "fake news" excuse, something not seen here since the military dictatorship. The same partial judges preside over the electoral justice court and they gave themselves investigatory and executive powers in order to unilaterally censor anyone they want without even a hint of due process. The election is over and they've yet to relinquish the powers that they used to disproportionally censor the losing candidate's supporters. Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 due to social media, they essentially took away his advantage.

There were plenty of reasonable questions raised by the election results. Instead of explanations and reasoned refutations, these judges offered only summary censorship and arrogance. They openly say the voting machines are "unquestionable" and that anyone doing so will be "held accountable" because apparently it's a crime to question the results of the election. It's worldwide consensus that voting machines are a bad idea yet these judges think they're perfect and will censor and fine you if you say otherwise. Our military's cyberwarfare force released a report that showed the voting machine software was vulnerable to a supply chain attack of the same sort that compromised people on this site many times over the last few years. In response, everyone took it as evidence that there was no fraud and the judges started trying to get our defense minister exonerated in clear retaliation.

People protesting this aren't "idiots", they are tired of this corruption, this dishonesty. I don't blame them, this election left me deeply disgusted and I no longer have any faith in our so called institutions. Protests are a constitutional right but these judges are already fining people and freezing accounts of corporations. People are complaining that the protesters want a coup, well these judges essentially launched their own coup and it looks like nobody noticed.

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Bolsonaro has authorized a transition...what do these people expect to achieve, lol https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazilian-court-order...

Communist bolivian president Evo Morales resigned in 2019 following allegations of election fraud, massive protests and escalating violence. Police joined the protesters. Eventually he lost the support of the military and then it was all over for him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_protests

Re: Brazilian Protesters Nationwide Continue Supporting Bolsonaro

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every country has its fair share of idiots, and Brazil having a population of around 214M can easily have tens of thousands of idiots who believe and defend all sorts of braindead ideas.

Idiots? What do you know of what's happening here that you feel you can dismiss these people as idiots? We have supreme court judges who were openly partial towards the winning candidate during the election. One of these guys is proud of his own partiality and the fact he chose side. They implemented censorship with the "fake news" excuse, something not seen here since the military dictatorship. The same partial judg…

lol.

I'm not sure where to begin, but yes - it does take a special kind of idiot to believe that appointed judges can launch a coup to protect the elected president.

and why on earth is this on Hacker News? I guess even Jovem Pan is beginning to realize this whole movement is a clown show.

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