Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Brazil Might Elect An Ultra-Right Wing President (HBO)" video.

  1. Actually Vice, readers, commenters, and non-brazilians... Bolsonaro is not ultra right wing. There is an actual ultra right wing candidate running too, he's called "Cabo Daciolo". That's the real ultra right wing candidate - he has no chances of winning. There's also ultra left, moderate left, centrist candidates, etc. Bolsonaro is definitely right wing, but not ultra right wing. But let me tell you that at least part of the people thinking of voting for Bolsonaro are not considering it because his past military history, his past remarks, his idiotic remarks about the military dictatorship, his supremely asshole and idiotic statement against that senator, among other stuff. It's mostly because the current polls indicates that the final run will be between him, and the workers' party (PT) candidate Fernando Haddad, who's ex-president Lula's lawyer. Yes, you heard this right. The other candidate is the lawyer of an ex-president that is in jail because of multiple corruption charges. It's a proxy candidate for the party. This is something Vice won't show in their videos because they have a left political leaning. Which I don't hold against them, but it's true. With this in mind, people should realize that we're basically between a rock and a hard place. In one side, yes, we have a guy not that much dissimilar to Trump. Their rethorics are pretty similar, proto-dictators that thinks too highly of themselves while often spouting some grade A bullshit in public. Bolsonaro is definitely a bad choice as a president for Brazil, and setting aside fanatics and stupid revisionists plus religious zealots that are willing to vote for him no matter what, there should be plenty of better options among the presidential candidates. Bolsonaro is also homophobic (part of him being a religious zealot), he is a step towards dismantling secularism for brazilian democracy, he has shown a tendency of recrudescence against criminals, he keeps turning a blind eye for police brutality, he is pro gun rights, and a huge part of law propositions and whatnot he has made in his political career are basically for military forces, against human rights groups, against diversity groups, and for making criminal penalties and laws harsher, plus promoting gun rights. Typical macho asshole wannabe alpha male stuff. I hate this shit. I really do. This is why I watch Vice, and like several videos a whole ton of people hate. Just so people know, we have 13 candidates running for president right now. BUT, and this is a huge deal right here, the most likely candidate to go against Bolsonaro in an end run according to polls, is the de-facto lawyer for ex-president Lula. He entered in place of Lula who tried to run for election using all sorts of dirty tactics despite being in prison condemned of multiple charges of corruption schemes. He is a proxy guy who entered in the election run just recently. A puppet of the party and the people who wrecked the country's economy in the past half decade or so. He activelly defends that Lula should not be in jail, that it's all a conspiracy of the political opposition to put him in jail. He constantly attacks the legitimate press for being responsible for both putting Lula in jail and ousting Dilma. He furthermore constantly discredits brazilian justice system, he says Dilma was unfairly impeached, he shows zero regrets and zero repetance on what his party has done to this country, and PT has shown several signs that they are willing to do everything they can to dismantle the current justice system, replace positions with cronies, and revert all the justice that has been done in recent years towards putting corrupt politicians in jail. And to put things worse, this is all he's running for. A continuation of status quo. He has no active platform, he has only showed up in the very latest debates, he has nothing concrete to present other than being the guy who thinks Lula was unjustly arrested. He has no political career to talk about. He is a puppet of the party. So it's super accurate to say that between Bolsonaro and Haddad, you are submitting to a logic of dictatorship either way. A military proto-dictator in one side, and a corrupt proto-communist in another. So it ends up in a decision dictated by historical distancing. The military dictatorship ended over 3 decades ago in Brazil, lots of people don't know or don't remember it's horrors, don't know how bad it was. The corruptocracy is still ongoing, everyone knows the consequences of it. So, while I'd never discount the worries about putting someone like Bolsonaro in power, even if he is and acts like all the bad stuff critics are saying about him, we brazilians can still fight injustices on the streets. It's important to note that even if Bolsonaro comes to power and starts writting policies that are an exact reflection of his image, he can't supplant justice system power or our constitution. He can't single handedly go against brazilian diversity, he can't dismantle secularism by himself, he won't be a military dictator alone. Much like Trump has limits as to what he can and cannot do, the same can be said of Bolsonaro. He is not a military dictator, he would be a democratically elected president with military leanings. He could definitely weaken a lot of things that were conquered with hard work by previous presidents, but he isn't actually gathering the military and enacting a coup. The alternative though, is a continuation and a tacit approval of what has been happening to the country in recent years. It's an admission that we have to continue with a corrupt system that has put the country in bottom of the pit. There is no right choice in this election, only the least wrong choice. And I'm frankly tired of all that has happened here in recent years. I'd rather see radical change that might wake up people and have a clear target to protest against, rather than succumbing to 4 more years of corruption, and having to watch all the white collar criminals we put in jail going free and taking the country over once more. So, my current position is this: I will vote for a centrist. Neither Haddad, nor Bolsonaro. Because both are bad for democracy and for Brazil. But if it comes between then in the final run, I will begrugingly vote for Bolsonaro. Because Haddad deserves the vote of no one. And I guarantee you if Haddad wins, the future of Brazil is bleaker than if Bolsonaro gets elected. Because brazilians can't live like they are right now, and they will not accept 4 more years of workers' party. Blood will run in the streets. It is all but guaranteed that several sectors of the economy will go down in protests, it's the most likely scenario for a full blown popular revolt and revolution. And then, we'll really have a coup and the worst possible scenario.
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