Alex_The_Hedgehog said:
Bolsonaro was pratically sentenced to death a couple of months ago. I'm talking about Lula and his squad. Back in 2013 we had a "not-so pacifist" protest in Sao Paulo and around the country. It showed some results and that incompetent Dilma Rousseff fell a couple of years later. Today we are basically hostages from the supreme court and Lula. More and more crimes from the government ends in absolutely nothing. You may not believe it, but if someone is caught badmouthing the government, they may end up in jail, and I'm not exaggerating. The last hope is kicking Lula out of the power next year. If he wins again (and that actually may happen), I see no future for my country too. |
I'm Brazillian as well, and I can guarantee anyone reading this that even as I agree that our government is a massive piece of shit, regardless of who is in charge, the notion that one may end up in jail simply by badmouthing the government is a complete lie.
People do it on a daily basis, and the only time in our modern history where that was true was during the military dictatorship, pre dating both me and Alex, we both never lived in a country where that holds true.
The supreme court is not holding anyone hostage.
Like always, at least since I was born, the only hostages is this country are the poor, which is A LOT of us.
The poor go to jail, the law works wonders to punish them.
The rich and politicians have to do extremely absurds ammounts of shit to get a slap in the wrist. I kid you not that one politician literally received the police in his home with rifle gunshots and grenades, and nothing happened to him. Meanwhile if you are poor you may eat a bullet by simply walking the street home and crossing the wrong person (even a policeman).
Our country IS a piece of shit, and our current government IS really bad (even as the previous one was a lot worse), but what is written in the post I'm quoting is sadly exactly what you guys are experiencing in the USA with the Trump propaganda affecting people there.
Alex is a very nice person, but sadly like what happen with many other people here and there in the USA as well, seems like one sided politics is getting the best of him.
