‘A coin flip’: on the campaign trail as Brazil’s far right edges back to power
www.theguardian.com
Neck-and-neck with Lula in polls, Flávio Bolsonaro fires up his base in the bellwether state of Minas Gerais – starting at the scene of his father’s stabbing
  • AviAdi@lemmy.world
    44·
    3 days ago

    Once again the “left” has failed working class people and made the elites richer so the working class has no choice but to try something different. Evil Biden did the same to poor Americans.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      5·
      3 days ago

      “Doing a little heroin didn’t fix my life, so my only option is to try doing a lot of heroin instead!”

      -A sane and well educated member of the public

      • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlineEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        There’s fundamental flaws in the system of global capitalism that the liberals refuses acknowledge or do anything about. They get into power and do nothing with it. So we should just keep voting for them to keep wasting our lives? The system is built to force us to vote between two bad choices.

        • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
          2·
          3 days ago

          None of that suggests supporting Bolsonaro or other fascists is any kind of solution. My comment was meant to imply that whatever problems may exist with Lula, Bolsonaro has them but worse.

          If one does not find solutions by voting then there are other political actions one can take.

          • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlineEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            It has been said many times before “Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds”. As long as we have global capitalism, true solutions cannot be found and we’ll cycle between ineffective liberals who can’t fix anything and fascists who want to destroy everything. Liberals are the good cop to the fascists bad cop. They are both against you but only one is obvious about it.

            • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
              1·
              2 days ago

              I think that saying is a thought terminating cliche. The real world is more complicated. But even if you take at face value it does not in any way suggest that you should actively support the fascists.

              Are you sure you don’t just prefer fascism?