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  Well, that would make sense because Bolsonaro is in cahoots with the very same people. Source.
context: Meanwhile Bolsonaro is walking around Florida grocery stores like an old man in long black socks. >
  
  The best alibi. "I'm so innocent I was in another country!" >
  
  "I was in bed with minions" >
  
  Banana! >
  
  Now you have me thinking of a minions version of the capitol insurrection. Which one would be the shaman in that case? >
  
  The yellow one >
  
  r/TechnicallyCorrect >
  
  Storming an empty building a week after the inauguration and after their guy already fled the country? What did they hope to achieve? >
  
  I think in their minds it's a show of force - they want people to know they aren't giving up and will do anything in their power to have their way. >
  
  So they hate democracy and want to let everyone know? >
  
  I blocked several previously close Brazilian friends because they were posting verifiable lies about the elections and calling openly for a military coup. They absolutely hate democracy if it doesn’t get them the results they want. >
  
  I did the same with Republican friends for the same thing. >
  
  Right around the same time of year! >
  
  Fascists be fascisming no matter the language or uniform. >
  
  This is completely pointless, congress in on recess until February 2nd, they're invading an empty building lol
  A twitter thread with some videos of the event >
  
  Lmfaooo they better get some camping supplies if they’re waiting until congress comes back xD >
  
  There are rumours that they're actually planning to camp in there lmao >
  
  Omg that’s priceless. Ain’t the main man just chillin’ in Florida too? Someone get this guy in front of a mic. I gotta hear his thoughts on this shit show he’s concocted. 
  “Sir, would this have been more successful if you and Donny had just planned ahead? Maybe instead of two countries, y’all could have just settled for Florida, huh?” >
  
  He probably ran away so he wouldn’t be blamed for setting it up - gotta have that alibi- wonder how much he may have paid for them to show up - 10M ? >
  
  I think they are as brainwashed as the MAGA morons. They probably think they’re immune to prosecution and that the military will take their side.
  I wasn’t taught a lot about Brazil in school… what’s the militaries stance on this? >
  
  They're as brainwashed, yes... In fact bolsonaro hired some of the trump team to run his campaign, and has set in place a disinformation network just like maga/qanon
  Brazilian military is very fascist / right wing. We had a USA-backed coup in 1964 "to fight communism" and they governed with low liberty, nationalist propaganda, political persecution, torture, concentration camps masked as psychiatric institutions, and all that. It lasted 21 years, up to 1985.
  Bolsonaro joined the military in the final years, when the govern was already weakened. But he has always been in favor of the dictatorship, constantly praised torturers, etc. 
  Our military is extremely fascist, and I bet there's a lot of them that are in favor of a new military coup. I'm pretty sure the ones against it are more concerned with the inconvenience of having to put some actual work, as they now have a good paycheck to do basically nothing. >
  
  Sorry the CIA fucked up your country so badly. They don’t tell us this stuff in school. We focused on Europe and that was basically it. Very little about Asia, very little about south of the boarder… nothing about toppling governments and torturing people and stuff. When i transferred to private school I realized how much public school had brainwashed us with American exceptionalism, guiding light of democracy and stuff like that.
  Private school they didn’t do any of the pledge of allegiance stuff but also they told us about a lot of America’s sins but they didn’t get into Brazil or Chili or the shah of Iran or other stuff and it was pre 9/11/2001.
  I think maybe transferring and being on a custom curriculum just for me might have made it different than if I’d gone there all four years, or if I’d been on the regular curriculum. Maybe they just don’t teach that stuff there either. >
  
  
  Sorry the CIA fucked up your country so badly. They don’t tell us this stuff in school.
  
  There's certain people who would probably go off about CRT or something if we did.  Conservatives really REALLY hate having the ugly past brought up.  They only want a Disneyfied version of things where they are the good guys. >
  
  They hate Disney now though. >
  
  Lol do they have a bull shaman too? >
  
  Yes, I shit you not.
  Edit: as far as I remember, this guy was on a different protest, but still. >
  
  History is just a repeating dam cycle. >
  
  What is this, a fascist crossover episode? >
  
  This is 100% planned by some shady fuckers, they invaded all three branches at the same time (the courts, congress and presidential palace)
  The ordinary plebs can't be entirely faulted for being indoctrinated into bullshit ideals, but the organizers of this aught to be hanged same as in the US.
  EDIT: Seems Lula is doing the good fight and not the shitty one the US did where they took 51 months to get the phones and arrests needed to get convictions.
  Also for those who say "We can totally fault the 100% conscient enlightened university-sociologist-educated fascists for fascism!" yeah sure but that's not the case here,  you cannot blame someone poor and uneducated for falling for the only information given to them. If you do then you're probably the exact same kind of person who'd fall for the same confirmation-bias echochamber only you're arrogant enough to think you'd be that 1-16% of people who would rather die than go along with the stream.
  You can't blame idiots for being idiots. They've always been what they are and always will be throughout history, it doesn't excuse their behaviour but pretending you're going to fight fascism by chasing the footsoldiers is as idiotic as playing chess and chasing the pawns. They're just that, pawns. Unless you get the King and his cohorts, it doesn't matter at all that you chase down every bolsonaro/maga idiot.
  Ofcourse, lock em up, but I'd rather had FBI instantly confiscate the equipment around trump than have 2000 idiots convicted for being idiots. Unless you're going to go full eugenics and start purging the stupid people you're going to have to learn to live with them and treat them as the pool-of-fish they are.
  That said, it is a world of difference inbetween the fascists in the US who have easy access to tons of different media, education etc. to that of Brazil. >
  
  Yes their names are Steven K. Bannon and Rodger Stone. It's not as if we don't know whom they are. >
  
  fucking stone was doin this shit with Kean in New Jersey in 1981, hell they had The ballot security Task Force which eventually required a ruling to stop till, you guessed 2017. Joel Kaplan was a brooks brothers riot participant and is currently Facebooks VP of global public policy since 2011.  He was house deputy chief of staff under bush 2.
  Its fucking insane how intertwined god damn stone is. hes as bad as Uihlein funding all the PAC behind the seditionists >
  
  These animals have been a plague since Nixon. >
  
  Yep. we took our foot off the gas dealing with nixon and allowed the wound to fester and now we are septic. >
  
  We didn’t respond appropriately to the civil war losers, we didn’t respond appropriately to Nixon and watergate, we didn’t respond appropriately to The 2000 election, we didn’t respond appropriately to Jan. 6.  We always refuse to clean house, letting these assholes hang around and continue their influence in various ways. >
  
  This one hundred percent. its always the same nonchalant "oh we didnt think_____" shoulder shrug all the while handing the keys over to the new generation of shitbricks that a blindman can see how terrible they are. >
  
  Police is doing nothing right now to stop this other than pepper spray some supporters. Some have been seen with guns shooting in the air >
  
  There is a video of some of the pigs recording video of the event and laughing with the Bolsonaristas >
  
  Holy shiiit. That's my  neighbor >
  
  Welp. You know what to do. >
  
  When teachers and working class citizens protested for losing rights, they were forced out by the police using violence. This happens and the cops kind just watch. Brazil hasn’t changed mu h 🌚 >
  
  All conservatives are like this.  Cops would absolutely allow conservatives to get away with any and all crimes if there were no oversight at all.  They basically already do.
  I wish there were some kind of neoliberal answer to the issue of police aiding and abetting fascism, but it seems that requires an acknowledgment that police are there to protect capital, and neoliberals will never, ever move against capital.
  We're doomed to repeat this until we address the underlying cause. >
  
  How tho?
  Police should protect us, yet because they receive power they abuse it.
  If every citizen had a weapon it wouldnt also really help as the US shows.
  No police at all also isnt a solution
  So what would be a good approach? >
  
  Police accountability. Police who answer for crimes and wrongdoing. >
  
  The problem is who checks that? We already have many cases of "I investigated myself" or just corrupt justices we shouldnt solely rely on that
  A good start might be bodycams >
  
  An independent agency that can't be threatened by the police. Even military police are better than our police. And while they have independence in authority, they're obviously still military.
  The only possibility is a powerful oversight that can straight up shut any police individual or station down on the spot, with the force of full federal government. >
  
  Protesters are seen flying the flag of the Empire of Brazil
  Is that like the Confederate version of the Brazilian flag? >
  
  In level of dumbness, yes, pretty much. Some don't even know the origin of that flag. They just want the country to be a monarchy because they feel "superior" in comparison with the common people. >
  
  Wow, this is so insane. Unfortunate to see. >
  
  But not completely surprising >
  
  Bernie Sanders called it. >
  
  I mean the whole thing feels like a South American version of what happened in the USA, bit by bit