Brazil's former President Bolsonaro found guilty of coup plot
www.bbc.com
The right-wing former leader could be sentenced to decades in prison after he was convicted by Brazil's Supreme Court.

Three out of five Supreme Court justices found the 70-year-old guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

  • Wilco@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Can we get some of that here? Sadly our motivated assassins are doing neck shots on influencers and missing the actual threats.

    • Coriza@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The article says 4 out of 5. Maybe OP was mistaken or the article corrected at some point.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s a perfect parallel. Brazil cleaned house of their traitor, America wimped out.

      We are literally the weakest nation on Earth. We won’t even protect ourselves from the most serious existential threat that our country has faced in over 150 years.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Wow, can you imagine if a former president of the Untied States attempted a coup? Surely such a treasonous act would be prosecuted with the utmost severity.

    • Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I remember americans calling Brazil a shithole in the MMOs I played. Oh how the turntables

    • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Proper action on the day in which we all remember the assassination of Salvador Allende at the hands of the CIA.

    • Marty_Purtell@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Muito melhor do que mostrar pro mundo a superioridade do nosso futebol é criar tendencia de como defender a república. Essa noite aqueles que se importam com a democracia nos olham com admiração. Lutemos para que isso seja o prenúncio de um futuro democrático e do império da lei.

      AQUI É BRASIL, CARALHO! 🇧🇷

  • Hayduke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Brazil - gettin’ shit done.

    The punishment for an attempted coup here is that you have to be president again.

    • ruan@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Being honest, there’s still a long way to go here. Next year’s elections will be very important for Brazil. But, 4 years of Trump, then 4 years of Bolsonaro, then Trump again now, that’s a lot of damage, and some people that I don’t see leaving the cult. Access to bias confirming “news” channels (mostly through social networks, there are plenty propaganda groups in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and lately TikTok, and also YouTube Channels) makes some people seem to be living in a different universe.

      With tech companies profiting lots of political “controversy”, US big tech companies having a big predominance in Brazil, and also tech companies being used as a state political discourse dominance weapon we are pretty much at their mercy. META can definetly skew elections to a candidate of their own, or to the “least damaging” candidate to their interests, and there’s no way for the Brazilian governement, be it executive body, justice system, or congress to do anything about it. So the tendency is to everytime more and more legislators to be sided with the tech companies objectives, which ARE ALL FOREIGN companies, and that IS definetly very detrimental for any kind of actual democracy.

      And, of course, the current tech companies aligned legislators, and most proeminent “right wing” prospects for presidential run next year, are all sided with Bolsonaro (that, for me, makes all of them extreme right wing candidates) because that guarantees them only chance to having an actual significant amount of votes, since hardcore Bolsonaro supporters makes at least 20-30% of the population. All those candidates basically have pledged to give Bolsonaro an amnesty, and current Bolsonaro supporters in the congress are trying eveyday to passando new laws to favor him too (and remembering that most supreme court judges have already declared that an amnesty for the coup attempt would be unconstitutional), however the next president will also be able to appoint 3 other judges for the supreme court, and Bolsonaro has currently appointed two of the 11 judges, that could give Bolsonaro a chance of having an amnesty either by the president or the congress.

      TL;DR: There’s still a lot of shit to be done here, and the right wing extremist wave is definetly not going away easily.