New Netflix doc explores the rise of the far-right in Brazil

Quero muito mesmo que o Brasil melhore, mas do jeito que tá parece que fica tudo igual ou só piora. Não quero morar fora pra sempre, esse é um dos meus maiores medos, de chegar a um ponto que não tem condições de voltar.

We are so fucked.

me, too. i've been living in the US since i was 13. my goal is to work for the national park service here or the usgs for some time, then go back to brazil and work to better our national park system, create a national campaign to educate the public on the values of preservation (and this includes indigenous peoples rights to their lands), etc. america is far from perfect, but the public generally has a love and respect for the parks and i want to learn as much about it as i can then take it back. but at this rate it feels like it will all be gone before i can do anything of value.

it breaks my fucking heart.

that sounds like an amazing goal and i hope things eventually work out so that you can pursue it

Honestly same tipo eu to morando em Lós Angeles a três anos já e não consigo imaginar voltar para o Brasil no estado que está agora. Eu me acostumei com a segurança que é morar nos EUA.

I will def watch it. Discovering that basically every Brazilian footballer is a Bolsonaro supporter was awful. Liverpool's entire Brazilian factions is a big yikes.

they all are and I hate them all. I became what I despised: someone that wants them to lose every game.

thank God for the women's team and the perfect angel that is Marta.

I was so excited for Copa America and this and the Neymar mess has just ruined the whole thing. Welp. There's WWC and AFCON to be excited over

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female athletes in general are so much easier to stan

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A lot of them are religious fundamentalists who get whitewashed in the media (I'm looking at Kaka in particular) so it's sadly almost expected. It's very fucked up how certain countries frame right-wing ideology and Christian evangelical fundamentalism in athletes as something cute or praiseworthy. American football does this a lot too.

Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Moura, etc are all scum for using their platforms to support this monster.

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ugh yeah it has completely ruined my fave sport. they're all entitled elites that forgot what its like to grow up poor and they think racism doesn't exist because they made it. its disgusting.

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i know about alisson and fabinho, did roberto firmino say anything? although i have no hopes for him

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Thanks for the post, op!

I look forward to watching it. Even though things change do quickly, I appreciate a good doc to distill political shifts like this.

Also yes @ a woman directing this 👏👏

I need to watch this especially with all the Lula news that just came out.

omg i just read up on this. my mom was literally saying this exact thing was happening. she's going to feel so vindicated

This is one of those things that I can't wrap my head around.

I can understand the mental gymnastics people make about corrupt politicians but voting for Bolsonaro (or Trump) is like saying ¨if this person was my neighbor, he would be killed in a week, that's how awful he is, but I'm going to vote for him anyway¨ like...

They don't care, that's the crux of it. Bolsonaro supporters, like Trump voters, are fundamentally unable to look outside of themselves and their own interests. If something is perceived to be good for them, even if it comes at a tragic or brutal cost to others (maybe especially so, considering how hateful most of them are), they will support it. As long as they feel that they are at an advantage, and they will have the chance to place their boots on someone else's necks, they will go all in. That's the nature of the authoritarian.

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the mental gymnastics these people make are amazing and I can't stop thinking about this clip

West Virginia voter who says he lost three cousins in mine disaster tied to Don Blankenship tells @TomLlamasABC he's voting for the coal baron anyway.

"I want an honest crook, and that's Blankenship." https://t.co/6CmPQXqK2u pic.twitter.com/jeWQUUZ5hI
— ABC News (@ABC) May 8, 2018

i wonder the amount of $ he and his relatives got for the dead of his cousins... what a pos.

It should have been him instead of his cousins. What the fuck.

They don't care, i have a friend who is gay and his conservative brother (that supports him btw) voted on bolsonaro proudly. Another said to me these days "i voted on him bc i didn't have a choice but didn't expect things would be so awful". My dad decided to pay the fine and no vote, now he only complains things are bad.

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This looks good, though I'm sure it will be depressing. The trailer alone is so disheartening. Nothing but the utmost respect for Brazilians speaking out against this fascist shit, I can't imagine how helpless and alone they must feel against the tide of far-right lunatics and authoritarians growing in number. It's honestly really fucking disturbing how many people support Bolsonaro - proudly, too.

His psychotic commitment to rolling back protections on the Amazon is genuinely scary too (as if his disgusting views on POC/women/LGBT weren't enough). imo you're an international security threat when you're trying to destroy a place with 10% of the world's fresh water, 20% of the world's oxygen, and serves as a key resource for sucking the carbon out of the atmosphere. This is also why I have to say fuck American presidential candidates who still have middling approaches to climate change - if you can't take leadership in changing course for the most pressing issue of our time, get the fuck out of the way to make room for those who can. I'm so sick of all these corporate candidates going out of their way to give businesses and polluter industries a 'spot at the table' as if their shitty profit opportunities are in any way equal to current environmental concerns.

it's depressing how his anti-environment neoliberal agenda -- which, I agree, is definitely up there among the most alarming aspects of his presidency -- isn't really all that much debated in Brazil. it's fucked up.

Also, this isn't covered in the doc because it's very recent but it's equally relevant to understand what the fuck is going on in Brazil:

Secret Files Show How Brazil’s Elites Jailed Former President @Lulaofficial and Cleared the Way for Jair Bolsonaro and the Far Right https://t.co/zvQI8VQj0x pic.twitter.com/umCaiJzkBo
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) June 15, 2019

Brazil’s Justice Minister Sérgio Moro, while serving as a judge in a corruption case that upended Brazilian politics, took to private chats to mock the defense of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and direct prosecutors’ media strategy. https://t.co/zR6RAaqQqB
— The Intercept (@theintercept) June 17, 2019

I was going to ask if anyone knows, is the consensus in Brazil that Lula was set up? How popular is Bolsonaro?

there's no consensus in Brazil. a huge % of the population has been brainwashed by fascism and will support whenever Bolsonaro (and Moro, the judge in charge of Lula's case) do. everything is as polarized as it can get.

Lula has arguably been set up and it's pretty obvious he didn't had a fair trial. his party was obviously involved in corruption scandals but the Brazilian media (which is mostly right-wing) and judiciary were successful in selling a narrative that made it seem like corruption was not a structural issue in Brazil, that is present at all levels, but something that was related specifically to Lula and his party. so millions have a visceral irrational hatred of him, even though he left the presidency with 86% approval rating and he successfully decreased inequality in Brazil.

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While Lula is not a saint, it’s obvious that he never had a fair trial because the judge in question (who is now minister of justice for the bolsonaro government) wanted to catch him and undermine his party while miraculously ignoring everyone else.

Brazil is a racist and classicist country, and a lot of the hatred towards the Labour Party (Lula’s) exists because rich and middle class Brazilians cannot stand the idea that poor people of color were getting chances to go to school and make more money instead of working for less that minimal wage as their servants.

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we're divided in terms of bolsonaro, but in terms of lula, I think there's a bigger number of people who believe he's guilty of corruption and should be in jail.

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Honestly idc if this is an unpopular opinion but I thought Lula was an amazing president who did a LOT for this ungrateful af country. But of course people won’t recognize his efforts because he was helping poor POC come out of extreme poverty. #lulalivre

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assistiu Moro? caralho que assustador aqueles senadores lambendo ele falando umas coisas completamente sem sentido. e ele todo: o hacker inventou mas se eu falei não vejo nada errado.

eu não queria mais ver pq tava com raiva.

will it show Obama's direct hand in creating the coup that ousted Dilma? that the CIA spied on her a lot?

Ha!

care to explain

Idk, I doubt it. I also think itwont show the US involvement with one of the famous lawyers on the case either

care to elaborate? im really curious

the 2017 NSA cable leaks showed that the CIA has made an extensive surveillance program around Dilma and her administration. And this happened all under Obama's second term. They were in talks with doing a soft coup for Temer.