Brazil elections 2022

[farawaysaint]

In before Bolsonaro refuses to concede and cries fraud. (Lula has now been called the winner by the major polling houses with 99% counted.)

[LVSaint]

Good job Trump's not back on Twitter yet, he'd be leading the 'voter fraud' tweets for his shitty friend

[Sheaf Saint]

Good news for the Amazon at least.

Didn't Bolsonaro only beat Lula last time by having him falsely imprisoned?

[farawaysaint]

21 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Good news for the Amazon at least.

Didn't Bolsonaro only beat Lula last time by having him falsely imprisoned?

Hard to say to be honest. His conviction was held up by more than one court before being overturned on a technicality. 

[tajjuk]

Yeh its good news for the global climate as Bolsanaro was screwing the Amazon hard and exploiting it, he's a big climate denier. Hopefully this will signal some policy reversals and see the rainforest recover a little as its massively important for global CO2 levels.

I think really its a bit of a Biden vs Trump situation, the two options are still bad, but one is completely horrific and dangerous, whereas the other is just more typical bad politician. (Though credit to Biden he seems to have become a lot better recently and done a lot of unexpected good) As far as I understand it Lula was basically corrupt and just got away with it, though he seems to claim it was a stitch up. 

[Lighthouse]

Good, one fewer right wing crackpot ruling the world. I can’t imagine his hopeless Covid denial and stubborn inaction did him too many favours.

[farawaysaint]

I am shocked! Shocked I say

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/23/bolsonaro-derided-for-senseless-challenge-to-brazil-election-he-lost-last-month