comment: >
  
  USA and Brazil Spider-Man pointing meme
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 >
  
  Well, that would make sense because Bolsonaro is in cahoots with the very same people. Source. >
  
  Didn't he literally go chill at Mar-a-Lago? >
  
  And this is why setting a precedent of no punishment for insurrectionists is bad. >
  
  Well, these ones are going to get terrorism charges, and I'm betting that attacking the Brazilian Supreme Court didn't make any friends in the justice system, so hopefully it's going to stick.
  Lula also said they are going after the planners and financers, so the US should expect some extradition requests. >
  
  Yes I put on Globo News and they are calling the insurrectionists “terrorists” which was nice to hear >
  
  And they say the US doesn't export like it used to. >
  
  Right wing coups have been a traditional US export for many decades, it's the domestic market that's new >
  
  It isn't new. See Foucault's boomerang  tools for expanding empire are often turned inward >
  
  Currently with family in Brasil,  the news here labeled this as a terrorist act off the bat, so they are already ahead of the US in calling it what it is >
  
  "Feeble manchildren unable to cope with losing resort to violence and fascism." >
  
  I feel like the word manchildren makes this sound less serious than it is. A stupid attempt at a coup is still an attempt at a coup. >
  
  Maybe, but these clowns can't coup shit. Apparently nobody's in those buildings.
  Other than the invaders, I mean. >
  
  As a brazilian I am not surprised this happened. Culture spreads, and people from other countries tend to copy what they see happening in the US, even the bad things. 
  After Bolsonaro lost, we had protests against the election results every single day in multiple cities. People even had signs (in english) saying "save us, armed forces". They clearly wanted other people to take pictures of them and have those pictures posted on the internet. 
  People were (and probably still are) literally camping in front of military buildings asking for military intervention in the democratic process, which is pathetic considering that Brazil actually went through a military coup in 1964 and had a ditatorial state, with lots of violence, torture, censorship and suppression until 1985 >
  
  Not surprising at all given how Bolsonaro was a 1:1 copy of Trump's reaction upon losing. >
  
  Or the fact that Tucker fuckface Carlson has been real chummy with the Brazilian president >
  
  Yeah, that's the point I was going to make. It's not like all of this is accidental, "cultural spread" it isn't. As the criminals they are, those people are in cahoots. >
  
  Omg. 
  It’s the shitshow from the capitol building in the States but Brazilian.  
  Have fun, idiots. I hope your police cracks down harder than ours did. >
  
  Police are filming and chatting with them lol >
  
  The Secretary of Police was Bolsonaro's loyal Minister of Justice. He took office this week.
  And what a coincidence, he just went on a trip to Florida.
  Doubt he is coming back as well. >
  
  maybe we should contact ICE to deport Bolsonaro >
  
  I bet some Brazilians living in Orlando will try to help him hide or something. And I wont be surprised if that happens. >
  
  Not from FL and not Brazilian but I'd be happy to hire some people to stuff his ass on a plane and send him back for a trial. >
  
  There's a pattern emerging around the world of the "far right" who have historically portraid themselves as the tough guys.... Are in actual fact, little fucking crybaby bitches when they don't get their own way. >
  
  Literally cry babies. Yesterday the police of Belo Horizonte arrested some people and tried to take down their camping. There are some funny footages of this in Twitter. >
  
  Unsurprising that they’re attempting their own January 6th style event. What is even dumber however is that their congress is in recess until February 2nd meaning that no one is there. >
  
  The event they are copying failed.  A few hundred losers crowding into a government building isn't going to change anything.  In this case it's doubly dumb because they don't even have the hope of preventing the inauguration by causing chaos.  The inauguration already happened.  This is just crybabies protesting a legit election. >
  
  The fact that people are around to desire copying the event is enough for great concern. >
  
  The hard right anywhere is just exhausting, stop insisting upon yourselves we don’t like or want you >
  
  Why wouldn't there is nothing to lose, and maybe you topple the government. The mask is off far right conservatives don't really care about democracy >
  
  the far right has never cared about democracy >
  
  "It'S a RePuBLiC , NoT a DeMoCrAcY" >
  
  It's so annoying when they say that cause they think they're 500IQ logic brains when they say it, even tho everyone with a little bit of sense knows that (I'm only using the US in this example cause it's where I live, this applies to many countries too) is both a democracy and a republic. But they can't understand that >
  
  A republic is a form of government (no monarchy).
  Democracy is where the power is derived from. (rule of the people) 
  2 different things.
  You can have a republic such as Iran, that 100% is a republic. But is 0% democratic.
  You can also have a monarchy such as Denmark, Sweden and Norway, that are among the most democratic nations in the world.
  you could also have a democracy without parlament in many different kinds of ways. You could probably have direct democracy and an app every citizen could sign in to and vote. >
  
  There are some places in New England that are direct democracies. They hold town meetings where all the residents vote on issues. >
  
  Always nice when "patriots" break government property for no reason. >
  
  The same dipshits are the ones who love to scream how left-wing protests are uh so violent!! >
  
  It is simply astonishing what the right wing can get away with it.
  We've known about the intention of these terrorists for days already. Literally days ago we've seen messages being spread on social media from these so called "patriots" about what they were planning to do once they got to the capital. Yet, nothing was done.
  The capital of our country is under the firm command of loyal Bolsonaro's supporters, the governor is a Bolsonaro supporter, the security secretary is a former minister of justice of Bolsonaro, and as Minister of justice he was very much willing to let Bolsonaro's tugs off the hook in their violent uprisings against the state in the run up, during and after the election. So it was not at all surprising to see that the security of our capital was utterly inadequate, and one could very well ague to have been fully cooperative with the traitors.
  Also that fucker of secretary of security of our Federal district isn't even in the fucking country. So while our capital is being ransacked he's in the US doing fuck knows what.
  A few updates here:
  The buildings of our branches of power have been completely vandalized, complete destruction inside the buildings, from common furniture to even the photographs of Brazilian Presidents were not spared, foreign state gifts to Brazil have also been destroyed, a replica - not the real one - of our first constitution has been stolen. The terrorists tried, but failed to get into the President's office - his office had reinforced doors that they were unable to get into - other than the President office, every office was vandalized.
  Secretary of Security of the Federal District has been fired by the Governor of the Federal District - Governor is trying to save his own ass by firing the guy he placed there despite repeated warnings by the Supreme court that this man was unfit for the office he was being nominated for.
  President Lula has declared a federal intervention in the security situation of the Federal district, this effectively places the security forces of the state under the command of the Federal government.
  The Supreme court has determined that the Governor of the Federal District will be temporarily removed from his office for 90 days. The situation involving his now former security secretary will be determined separately - there is a request for his arrest that is yet to be judged. >
  
  I hope some of your politicians who recognise the scope and severity of this problem have the power and authority to purge the police force.
  They are essentially a fascist army of a kind, pre-formed for use in a coup. 
  Police officers, almost everywhere in the world (something to do with the kind of mindset that seeks out and enjoys the kinds of actions associated with policing… I wonder what they could be! /s 😠), tend strongly towards right-wing authoritarianism. >
  
  Most of the right wing nutjobs in our political system are at the moment doing what they can to distance themselves from the terrorists, not because of any moral wakeup but because they are fully aware that there will be criminal consequences for this. The governor of our Federal district, has already fired his security secretary, the very same guy that he was warned NOT to nominate to that position by our supreme court because of his utter and complete lack of action against right wing terrorists when he was Minister of Justice under Bolsonaro, he did this not because he realized the guy is a traitor to the nation, but because he needs someone to take the fall so that the blame doesn't land on his desk. >
  
  I see they learned from Trump and January 6 in the US. >
  
  How long until they blame it on antifa? >
  
  Some people in the right are already saying that this is an inside job and the goverment will use this to hunt and censor the opposition.
  "Just like the dems did in the US" Lmao >
  
  The so called do nothing Democrats are so capable in their minds huh? >
  
  Remember that in fascism, "The Enemy" is both strong and weak.
  
  Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. 
  
  Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism", 1995 >
  
  I found this when reading about Lula da Silva. 
  “However, Lula is probably best known for his social programs, such as the "Bolsa Familia" (literally: "family wallet"), which tied welfare payments for impoverished families to children's school attendance. Through these programs, Lula raised around 20 million people in Brazil out of poverty during his first two terms as president, constituting a major population shift from the lower to the middle class.”
  Very interesting idea that I haven’t heard about before. Maybe the US could think about something like that, or would that be too anti-capitalism? 🤦🏻 >
  
  Lifting people out of poverty directly contradicts US values >
  
  The reason all these nazis around the world feel so emboldened to do this kind of thing is because they haven't been facing any serious consequences.  It's time for serious consequences.  We need a strong deterrent against something like this. >
  
  Shit, in America we had it and the politicians that stirred it up are still free and causing issues.   
  The lowly idiots doing the charging will be arrested but the ppl responsible will walk free. And their base still won't see it. >
  
  The same congresspeople who enabled it here were literally holding congress hostage the past week gaining excess concessions for their miniscule minority. Not even no punishment, straight up rewards for this shit. >
  
  If Brazil learns anything from the US, it's that you have to throw the book at these insurrectionists or the problem will persist.
  The US has pretty much soft pedaled its response and the right-wing anti-democratic extremist movement hasn't really abated much at all. >
  
  Throw bullets. >
  
  Oh, good. A J6 in other countries due to disinformation and fascism soaking up brains of idiots. Fuck these people and the cults they create. Looking at you too, MAGA. >
  
  Wow. The parallels between the Trump MAGA crowd and their Brazilian equivalents just keep growing. You even have Bolsonaro and Trump spending after post-election defeat time (defeat denial present in both stable geniuses, of course) residing in Florida (added to the million and one reasons not to go to Florida). Now the Brazilian Congress just needs to establish a January 8 Committee. >
  
  The same forces are at work in both instances. >
  
  Yes. These aren't organic events where people are "fed up" as some people love to portray. They are completely organized.
  Jan 6th crowd was bussed in. Wouldn't be surprised if these Brazilians were bussed in as well. >
  
  They were. The DF (Brazilian DC) Governor and Secretary of Police were complicit on this >
  
  USA and Brazil Spider-Man pointing meme >
  
  Reminder: this dickhead JUST visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week.
  Getting tips on how to organize a mob? >
  
  Trump not only tried a coup but he is working with others to ensure chaos in other countries too. How long will take to consider him a terrorist too? He should be jailed for sure! He is a menace not only for the US, but the rest of the world. >
  
  storming an empty building to own the libs >
  
  Nothing screams patriotism more than destroying historical buildings and artwork >
  
  And of course, cops are nowhere to be seen. >
  
  Nonsense, they're right there, storming the National Congress. >
  
  piece of shit right-wing losers >
  
  The police are on their side. Cops in every country are infested with fascists in their ranks. >
  
  Hopefully they’re able to crack down on these fascists. >
  
  At least they are being called terrorists >
  
  The Minister of Justice 
  @FlavioDino
  announced that he is allowing the use of all federal forces against them.
  Yes please bring in the military police and show the U.S. how it should be handled. Take any and all scums out. >
  
  Far right fascists and coups name a more iconic due >
  
  No limit to the amount of moron millions of right wingers who will attack whoever they are asked to attack like stupid and loyal terrier guard dogs. >
  
  When a fascist mob stormed the National Assembly in France in the 1930's, the cops shot the fascists and their insurrection was over immediately.  Maybe governments need to learn the lesson from France on how to deal with this kind of thing.  Perhaps they should avoid hiring fascists to be police officers who would look the other way when a fascist mob invades.  Government buildings need guards who aren't fascists or fascist sympathizers, and who are prepared to do what must be done to protect democracy. >
  
  obviously this is a false flag by antifa to make Bolsonaro supporters look bad and clearly it was planned by the Jewish financiers that secretly control the world. 
  /s >
  
  Is there anyway we can get rid of the far right from every country? They're a blight on every country. >
  
  Last time, it took a World War to do that >
  
  
  Last time, it took a World War to do that
  
  And look where it got us, half the countries that fought against facism are now the ones harbouring supporters of it. >
  
  Houses never stop getting dirty, the trouble comes when you get complacent and stop cleaning up altogether. >
  
  These nazi larpers cant stop losing, they are so predictable. >
  
  Never seen so many people devoted to fight for the guy that fucks them over...oh wait... >
  
  Hmmmmmm, where have I seen aspiring fascism like this before? I wonder who taught it to them? That mind boggler is TRUMPed only by the question wondering who taught it to the ones who taught it to them? I’ll have to PUTIN some serious brain power on this one. >
  
  lmao and they say the far-left is dangerous lol >
  
  Classic fascism >
  
  Cheers to that user name. >
  
  No pasaran. Death to fascism. >
  
  "Não passarão". Portuguese please >
  
  It’s scary how far many people are willing to go for fascists who don’t care about them in the slightest. Democracy will fail if we don’t have stronger safeguards against fascists like Bolsonaro, Trump, and so on >
  
  Wonder where they got that idea… >
  
  Something tells me these Illiberal Bolsonaro supporters wouldn't accept anything regardless of merit  unless it said that they won the election.
  These Bolsonaro supporters participating in this act have abandoned any sense of supporting the Will of the People in Brazil in favor people of their view point having perpetual power without voter consent. >
  
  horrible to read about this. Far-right policies that mainly favor the billionaire oligarchs. democracies around the world are under siege it seems. death from within >
  
  Fucking Fascists >
  
  The far right globally are such a bunch of fucking babies. Whine, cry and piss their diaper any time they can't handle an election result.
  Lock them up. >
  
  This right-wing shit needs to stop.
  There is a reason foreign countries push these beliefs to destabilize other countries. >
  
  This is how authoritarians act when they're not the authority anymore. Like babies. >
  
  January 8: The January 6 ripoff >
  
  Unbelievable that this is happening.
  Bolsonaro should be considered an enemy of the state >
  
  Fuck bolsonaro and fuck the bolsonaristas, bando de filho da puta >
  
  Guys, Brazil is not imitating USA. We are victims of the same person: Steve Bannon.
  He is Bolsonaro and Trump father. >
  
  Its strange to think Bannon used to be CEO of the biodome project in the 90s >
  
  Now he is the CEO of the Fascist Project around the world. >
  
  They stormed an empty building while everyone is on vacation, the president is already pushing for federal intervention and saying EVERYONE involved is going to be investigated and prosecuted, including the state's secretary of public safety, who failed extraordinarily in doing his job. Policr and the army (the ones who actually work for the people and didn't stand back and film like the first ones) are already respondinh, arrests are already being made and control is being taken back, many are going to be tried as terrorists, as explosive artifacts have been found in possession of some of them. >
  
  USA, yes, this is how stupid we looked to the world on 1/6. Interesting to see if Brazil do consequences or have they stopped those, like we have. >
  
  Fuck the fascists, anywhere they raise their ugly heads. Take the L and go away. >
  
  At least Brazil's chief justice has the balls to call them what they are, terrorists. Unlike certain people in a certain country. >
  
  Far right losers are pathetic. Everything they say the left does, they do 1000x worse. >
  
  USA should deport Bolsonaro to Brazil. Like tomorrow. >
  
  The far right needs to be crushed worldwide. Only by taking the gloves off and dealing with these people like the dangerous fascists they are, can we be safe. >
  
  How do you say "And the Ashli Babbitt Award goes to" in Portuguese? >
  
  As a Portuguese
  "E o prémio Ashli Babbitt vai para..." >
  
  Right wing party stop being fascist losers challenge: impossible >
  
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  Absurda imagen en Brasilia, policias filmando y hablando con los bolsonaristas mientras toman el Congreso de Brasil, el Ejecutivo y la sede de la Justicia Federal.  
  "Absurd image in Brasilia, police filming and talking with the Bolsonaristas while they take over the Brazilian Congress, the Executive and the headquarters of the Federal Justice." 
  
  History repeats itself >
  
  They followed Trumps play book...wankers >
  
  Fox “news” is trying so hard to ignore this.    There is literally a story about Brad pitts topless girlfriend on vacation before any mention of Brazil.   They know how similar it is to what happened in the US and desperately want to ignore that.
  Edit fixed typo. >
  
  Coup attempts, looks like the right wing is destabilizing another democracy. >
  
  I don't understand people like this trying to push their country into a dictatorship.
  Don't they realize it's not them that would benefit from this?
  They're just doing the dirty work for an elite class that would steal most of the country's wealth and a leader that would corrupt every institution while they exile, jail or murder anyone that is a threat to their power. >
  
  Disgusting. >
  
  Yea, we’ve exported “freedom”. 🇺🇸 >
  
  Almost exactly two years to the day after Trump's supporters did the same.  The right wing is an existential threat to democracy. >
  
  I'm ready to see reports of these coup supporters being shot in the streets. You don't tolerate or appease fascists. >
  
  Just another "peaceful protest" by people who refuse to accept losing elections, eh? >
  
  Bolsonaro supporters are scum, not surprising. >
  
  What the fuck, he's pulling the Trump while not even being in the fucking country. Fascist coward >
  
  I guess the right rejecting democracy transcends borders. >
  
  It’d be nice if these moronic far right fascist lovers in America, Brazil, Hungary, Italy etc etc would actually grow brain cells that if youre actually going to protest, maybe go after the actual people making you’re life a living hell >
  
  American here. All this sounds eerily familiar somehow. >
  
  From the article...
  Brazil's Chief Justice Rosa
      Weber on Sunday said the
      country's Supreme Court will
      work to ensure that
     "terrorists" were made an
     "example" of. >
  
  Brazilian cops are arresting the rioters on the actual day of. Imagine that. >
  
  Fascist pieces of shit >
  
  He pulled a Trump >
  
  exactly 2 years and 2 days after Jan 6th.. >
  
  Looks like a Insurrection to me, where is the US government calling them terrorists? >
  
  This is going to be standard operating procedure for the hard right going forward isn’t it? >
  
  They are terrorists. They must be treated the same way that Germany treated the Reichsburger terrorist group some months ago. The only reason why they are not as dangerous as ISIS, MILF and Al Qaeda is because they are idiot, however, they are as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan. >
  
  once again we have a stark demonstration of the danger that democracy and peace face from right-wing conservative values. 
  This world is heading in a very bad direction as we see conservatives slowly but surely seize control of otherwise functional democracies with the desire to install authoritarian figures >
  
  I’m so tired of my Brazilian relatives talking about stolen elections. All the same conspiracy theories we had here in the US. Feels like 2020 again but from Brazil. It’s very sad. >
  
  Ask them a simple question. If it was really stolen why did so many others in his party win office? 
  That’s how stupid all of this is. >
  
  Rational thought is not part of their motivation. It’s anger, fear and blind belief in the politician that gives them the best scapegoat for their anger and fear. >
  
  Leave it to Brasilians to attempt a Jan 6th like insurrection 2 days late. >
  
  Another Jan 6th instigated by online propaganda. Notice a pattern? >
  
  The best place for a fascist is hanging from a lamppost >
  
  Best part is Bolsonaro planned this and left the country.  These people are going to get arrested and Brazil won't treat them like the US soft courts have.
  Must suck being so cultie as to do this and achieve nothing/ >
  
  Trump and the MAGA cult are an inspiration to pathetic losers all over the world! >
  
  Trumpism. >
  
  It’s funny, they look the exact same as the Jan 6th goofballs too, just with green and yellow flags instead of red, white, and blue. >
  
  Wonder when the global fight against right-wing terrorism will happen.  It's gotta be getting close, and it's clear these idiots are too dumb to realize they've been duped and are the problem >
  
  Freaking immoral right wingers.  Can’t accept that they suck and people are rejecting their antiquated mentality.   Sore losers… >
  
  Start just shooting these losers en masse.  Should have done the same on Jan 6. >
  
  Alt right funding and talking points, for this global push right towards fascist authoritarianism….emanates from Moscow…the funding, the talking points, everything.
  Bannon and company are operative pawns in this game.  I highly suggest reading Malcolm Nances books on this.
  This has been, and is still, an ongoing long term project. >
  
  So this is just a thing whenever a right wing politician loses now? >
  
  Bolsanaro is just chilling in Florida. He knew this was coming, he needs to be extradited and shipped back to Brazil. >
  
  I really can't understand this platonic love Brazil's right wing have for old uncle Sam's stinky ball sack, I bet they think the USA (specially Trump) view then as equal...
  (To clarify I am Brazilian myself) >
  
  Partial blame here goes to the dumbass USA trump babies for their actions on Jan 6th. I wonder if we will see the blame pointed at Antifa again, after all, "patriots" wouldn't do such a thing. 
  History repeats itself, fascists will always remain stupid. >
  
  Domestic terrorists thinking they're patriots ew >
  
  This is trump's legacy, emboldening the idiots of the world. >
  
  To answer y'all questions: they want a military coup. The cops at the location were in their favor and did very little to prevent the situation. Bolsonaro was verbally blamed for this terrorist attack by Lula and frankly, we all know he's behind this. 
  Probably all cops and people involved who can be identified will lose their jobs and face criminal charges. Sad day for Brazil, that seemed to have imported the far right fascism and the attacks on political buildings from the USA.  My family told me about it before the media even started talking about it there, I'm honestly in shock. The far right is dangerous and must be stopped. >
  
  The poor wee snowflakes ❄️ >
  
  
  Since the October 30 elections, in which Lula defeated Bolsonaro, hundreds of people have been camped out in front of the army headquarters in Brasilia.
  
  The terrorists should have been cleared out back in October when they started camping out. Failure to forecefully act then only encouraged them now. >
  
  Meanwhile Bolsonaro is in Florida with Trump... >
  
  Another domestic terrorist attack by right-wingers because they can't accept an election loss.
  Conservative movements across the world have lost all credibility. >
  
  Do you get the impression that Far-Right Wingers are complete and absolute morons the world over? >
  
  Some footage on site; as always, do your research. Stay informed; seeing a lot of disinformation online right now! 
  • Police officers chatting with terrorists
  • Military police officers escorting the terrorists
  • Footage from inside the Presidential Palace
  • Inside the congress
  • Terrorists beating officer
  • Terrorists breaching police barricades
  • Police car driving over the terrorists >
  
  they want to copy the GOP so badly >
  
  Oh look….it’s the January 8th Insurrection…in Brazil. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  From these comments it's literally a copy and paste from two years +2 days ago... Sadly Trump's ideology isn't contained to one county >
  
  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 >
  
  So it's like the Jan 6 attack but even dumber. >
  
  History repeats but often dumber. >
  
  First time as a tragedy, second time as a farce. >
  
  I don't know, January 6 was pretty farcical at the time. Once they got in the building those people literally became like the dog that caught the car, they had no idea what to do, so they started wandering around, making asses of themselves, and trashing the place while smearing their shit on the walls like the apes they were.
  Morons, can't even articulate what they want yet are more than willing to tear everything down because their feelings got hurt. >
  
  We're very, very lucky things didn't go way worse though, they were absolutely out for blood, here's how lucky we were:
  
  if so many hadn't gone to the Trump rally they would have been significantly better armed,
  if the handful of cops that wanted to do their jobs decided not to they would have gotten there before anyone had left the main chambers,
  if Pence hadn't refused to leave it's likely they would have been emboldened,
  if the secret service agent hadn't stopped babbit, there'd probably be a lot of dead congress people
  
  They were incredibly incompetent but it could have gone soooooo much worse for everyone.  
  *edit, missing a word >
  
  Also, we're lucky that Trump's own security kept him from the Capitol. His plan was to march into the empty chamber after Congress had fled to declare that the vote was "being sent back to the states." 
  If he pulled that off, then it's guaranteed that the same republican officials involved in the fake electors plot would have declared that their states' votes had flipped, and then it's anybody's guess how Congress would react. It might not have automatically made him the winner (although it absolutely could have), but it would have guaranteed larger and more violent subsequent attacks if Congress tried to certify the original votes on a later date.
  It's really fucking scary how close the coup came to working. And it's even scarier that so many elected officials were on board for such a meticulously planned attack on democracy. >
  
  "We're very lucky they're so fucking stupid" >
  
  The followers maybe, but the leaders of these movements know exactly what they're doing.
  Keep in mind, that what you and I see as a lack of critical thinking skills is actually just good old-fashioned double-speak. And their followers lap this stuff up, because they don't care about consistency or logic, they just want to "win." >
  
  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. >
  
  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 >
  
  Manda a o print com o nome dele pra jairmy no twitter, ela tá juntando as provas pra mandar pro local certo. >
  
  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. >
  
  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 >
  
  Well, that would make sense because Bolsonaro is in cahoots with the very same people. Source. >
  
  Didn't he literally go chill at Mar-a-Lago? >
  
  And they say the US doesn't export like it used to. >
  
  Right wing coups have been a traditional US export for many decades, it's the domestic market that's new >
  
  It isn't new. See Foucault's boomerang  tools for expanding empire are often turned inward >
  
  And this is why setting a precedent of no punishment for insurrectionists is bad. >
  
  Well, these ones are going to get terrorism charges, and I'm betting that attacking the Brazilian Supreme Court didn't make any friends in the justice system, so hopefully it's going to stick.
  Lula also said they are going after the planners and financers, so the US should expect some extradition requests. >
  
  Yes I put on Globo News and they are calling the insurrectionists “terrorists” which was nice to hear >
  
  Hi.  I'm in Rio now watching global news.  Can read i portuguese but cannot understand it spoken.  Really just watching picture.  Is this a decent outlet.  I. Trying to stay informed as an American here alone right now still traveling and don't know. >
  
  As a brazilian I am not surprised this happened. Culture spreads, and people from other countries tend to copy what they see happening in the US, even the bad things. 
  After Bolsonaro lost, we had protests against the election results every single day in multiple cities. People even had signs (in english) saying "save us, armed forces". They clearly wanted other people to take pictures of them and have those pictures posted on the internet. 
  People were (and probably still are) literally camping in front of military buildings asking for military intervention in the democratic process, which is pathetic considering that Brazil actually went through a military coup in 1964 and had a ditatorial state, with lots of violence, torture, censorship and suppression until 1985 >
  
  Not surprising at all given how Bolsonaro was a 1:1 copy of Trump's reaction upon losing. >
  
  Or the fact that Tucker fuckface Carlson has been real chummy with the Brazilian president >
  
  Yeah, that's the point I was going to make. It's not like all of this is accidental, "cultural spread" it isn't. As the criminals they are, those people are in cahoots. >
  
  Omg. 
  It’s the shitshow from the capitol building in the States but Brazilian.  
  Have fun, idiots. I hope your police cracks down harder than ours did. >
  
  Police are filming and chatting with them lol >
  
  The Secretary of Police was Bolsonaro's loyal Minister of Justice. He took office this week.
  And what a coincidence, he just went on a trip to Florida.
  Doubt he is coming back as well. >
  
  maybe we should contact ICE to deport Bolsonaro >
  
  I bet some Brazilians living in Orlando will try to help him hide or something. And I wont be surprised if that happens. >
  
  Not from FL and not Brazilian but I'd be happy to hire some people to stuff his ass on a plane and send him back for a trial. >
  
  Currently with family in Brasil,  the news here labeled this as a terrorist act off the bat, so they are already ahead of the US in calling it what it is >
  
  There's a pattern emerging around the world of the "far right" who have historically portraid themselves as the tough guys.... Are in actual fact, little fucking crybaby bitches when they don't get their own way. >
  
  Literally cry babies. Yesterday the police of Belo Horizonte arrested some people and tried to take down their camping. There are some funny footages of this in Twitter. >
  
  "Feeble manchildren unable to cope with losing resort to violence and fascism." >
  
  I feel like the word manchildren makes this sound less serious than it is. A stupid attempt at a coup is still an attempt at a coup. >
  
  Maybe, but these clowns can't coup shit. Apparently nobody's in those buildings.
  Other than the invaders, I mean. >
  
  Unsurprising that they’re attempting their own January 6th style event. What is even dumber however is that their congress is in recess until February 2nd meaning that no one is there. >
  
  The event they are copying failed.  A few hundred losers crowding into a government building isn't going to change anything.  In this case it's doubly dumb because they don't even have the hope of preventing the inauguration by causing chaos.  The inauguration already happened.  This is just crybabies protesting a legit election. >
  
  The fact that people are around to desire copying the event is enough for great concern. >
  
  The hard right anywhere is just exhausting, stop insisting upon yourselves we don’t like or want you >
  
  Why wouldn't there is nothing to lose, and maybe you topple the government. The mask is off far right conservatives don't really care about democracy >
  
  the far right has never cared about democracy >
  
  "It'S a RePuBLiC , NoT a DeMoCrAcY" >
  
  It's so annoying when they say that cause they think they're 500IQ logic brains when they say it, even tho everyone with a little bit of sense knows that (I'm only using the US in this example cause it's where I live, this applies to many countries too) is both a democracy and a republic. But they can't understand that >
  
  A republic is a form of government (no monarchy).
  Democracy is where the power is derived from. (rule of the people) 
  2 different things.
  You can have a republic such as Iran, that 100% is a republic. But is 0% democratic.
  You can also have a monarchy such as Denmark, Sweden and Norway, that are among the most democratic nations in the world.
  you could also have a democracy without parlament in many different kinds of ways. You could probably have direct democracy and an app every citizen could sign in to and vote. >
  
  There are some places in New England that are direct democracies. They hold town meetings where all the residents vote on issues. >
  
  Always nice when "patriots" break government property for no reason. >
  
  The same dipshits are the ones who love to scream how left-wing protests are uh so violent!! >
  
  It is simply astonishing what the right wing can get away with it.
  We've known about the intention of these terrorists for days already. Literally days ago we've seen messages being spread on social media from these so called "patriots" about what they were planning to do once they got to the capital. Yet, nothing was done.
  The capital of our country is under the firm command of loyal Bolsonaro's supporters, the governor is a Bolsonaro supporter, the security secretary is a former minister of justice of Bolsonaro, and as Minister of justice he was very much willing to let Bolsonaro's tugs off the hook in their violent uprisings against the state in the run up, during and after the election. So it was not at all surprising to see that the security of our capital was utterly inadequate, and one could very well ague to have been fully cooperative with the traitors.
  Also that fucker of secretary of security of our Federal district isn't even in the fucking country. So while our capital is being ransacked he's in the US doing fuck knows what.
  A few updates here:
  The buildings of our branches of power have been completely vandalized, complete destruction inside the buildings, from common furniture to even the photographs of Brazilian Presidents were not spared, foreign state gifts to Brazil have also been destroyed, a replica - not the real one - of our first constitution has been stolen. The terrorists tried, but failed to get into the President's office - his office had reinforced doors that they were unable to get into - other than the President office, every office was vandalized.
  Secretary of Security of the Federal District has been fired by the Governor of the Federal District - Governor is trying to save his own ass by firing the guy he placed there despite repeated warnings by the Supreme court that this man was unfit for the office he was being nominated for.
  President Lula has declared a federal intervention in the security situation of the Federal district, this effectively places the security forces of the state under the command of the Federal government.
  The Supreme court has determined that the Governor of the Federal District will be temporarily removed from his office for 90 days. The situation involving his now former security secretary will be determined separately - there is a request for his arrest that is yet to be judged. >
  
  I hope some of your politicians who recognise the scope and severity of this problem have the power and authority to purge the police force.
  They are essentially a fascist army of a kind, pre-formed for use in a coup. 
  Police officers, almost everywhere in the world (something to do with the kind of mindset that seeks out and enjoys the kinds of actions associated with policing… I wonder what they could be! /s 😠), tend strongly towards right-wing authoritarianism. >
  
  Most of the right wing nutjobs in our political system are at the moment doing what they can to distance themselves from the terrorists, not because of any moral wakeup but because they are fully aware that there will be criminal consequences for this. The governor of our Federal district, has already fired his security secretary, the very same guy that he was warned NOT to nominate to that position by our supreme court because of his utter and complete lack of action against right wing terrorists when he was Minister of Justice under Bolsonaro, he did this not because he realized the guy is a traitor to the nation, but because he needs someone to take the fall so that the blame doesn't land on his desk. >
  
  I found this when reading about Lula da Silva. 
  “However, Lula is probably best known for his social programs, such as the "Bolsa Familia" (literally: "family wallet"), which tied welfare payments for impoverished families to children's school attendance. Through these programs, Lula raised around 20 million people in Brazil out of poverty during his first two terms as president, constituting a major population shift from the lower to the middle class.”
  Very interesting idea that I haven’t heard about before. Maybe the US could think about something like that, or would that be too anti-capitalism? 🤦🏻 >
  
  Lifting people out of poverty directly contradicts US values >
  
  I see they learned from Trump and January 6 in the US. >
  
  How long until they blame it on antifa? >
  
  Some people in the right are already saying that this is an inside job and the goverment will use this to hunt and censor the opposition.
  "Just like the dems did in the US" Lmao >
  
  The so called do nothing Democrats are so capable in their minds huh? >
  
  Remember that in fascism, "The Enemy" is both strong and weak.
  
  Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. 
  
  Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism", 1995 >
  
  The reason all these nazis around the world feel so emboldened to do this kind of thing is because they haven't been facing any serious consequences.  It's time for serious consequences.  We need a strong deterrent against something like this. >
  
  Shit, in America we had it and the politicians that stirred it up are still free and causing issues.   
  The lowly idiots doing the charging will be arrested but the ppl responsible will walk free. And their base still won't see it. >
  
  The same congresspeople who enabled it here were literally holding congress hostage the past week gaining excess concessions for their miniscule minority. Not even no punishment, straight up rewards for this shit. >
  
  If Brazil learns anything from the US, it's that you have to throw the book at these insurrectionists or the problem will persist.
  The US has pretty much soft pedaled its response and the right-wing anti-democratic extremist movement hasn't really abated much at all. >
  
  Throw bullets. >
  
  Oh, good. A J6 in other countries due to disinformation and fascism soaking up brains of idiots. Fuck these people and the cults they create. Looking at you too, MAGA. >
  
  Wow. The parallels between the Trump MAGA crowd and their Brazilian equivalents just keep growing. You even have Bolsonaro and Trump spending after post-election defeat time (defeat denial present in both stable geniuses, of course) residing in Florida (added to the million and one reasons not to go to Florida). Now the Brazilian Congress just needs to establish a January 8 Committee. >
  
  The same forces are at work in both instances. >
  
  Yes. These aren't organic events where people are "fed up" as some people love to portray. They are completely organized.
  Jan 6th crowd was bussed in. Wouldn't be surprised if these Brazilians were bussed in as well. >
  
  They were. The DF (Brazilian DC) Governor and Secretary of Police were complicit on this