But also, let's remember that we don't need to fit people into a single box in our lives, people may have really good things in certain areas and really awful ones in certain others.
So, perhaps he's not good or evil, or super clever playing both sides, maybe he's simply himself, and he sees the world as he announces it, likes Russia, and is a left leaning politician, which means he panders to the woke mob, but dislikes Israel, ideologically or otherwise.
I think most human beings are like that, and perhaps that's the better question to explore, is Lula da Silva a human being, and if so, he will go in several different directions and some of them will align with ours and some of them will not.
It took me ten years of frustration to stop trying to categorize people as "good" vs "bad", so I kind of agree with you. People are human (are OPs human?) and everyone is a mixed bag of good and self-serving intentions, successes and failures, etc, politicians included.
However, we here are very much aware of the existence of psychopaths in positions of power and the damage they cause. Is Lula a psychopath? I don't think so, my guess is that he got corrupted by power and the luxuries it brings, enjoying its excesses with his new 20 years younger wife. Also, from his interviews with lefties, he came back from prison seeking revenge, which might have been a self-serving "hook" to the dark side.
Is it righteous anger or did his heart darkened and fell to temptation? Who knows but IMO, besides the covid/lgbx/woke BS, at the very least he IS complicit in the criminalization of dissent that took over the country since the events of October 2022-Jan 8th, 2023.
Which brings me to the fact that IMO the real political protagonist in Brazil in the last years was neither Lula nor Bolsonaro but the Supreme Court, especially
its current president, who doubles as the head of the Supreme Electoral Court. For background, the Supreme Court has significantly enlarged its own powers over the past 20 years. As it currently stands, their decisions are automatically mandatory for all other judges in the country, they exercise quasi-legislative powers and are able to subjugate both congress and government. They have their own police and they've given themselves the power to
investigate, prosecute and judge at the same time. The meme is that the country should be renamed
Xandaquistão, as he is the actual ruler. To our detriment their ideology is globalist-woke-authoritarian, fully backed by Lula. When Lula took office on Jan 1st, Moraes' speech got the spotlight.
As I see it, bolsonaristas were used as useful idiots during Oct/22 - Jan 8th/23 and multiple false-flag attacks were carried out so we could finally have some "terrorrists" in the country. Crackdown ensues.
Some facts I can remember from the aftermath of the elections:
- Hours after Lula's victory was announced road blocks appeared all over the country. In a couple of days days there was mention of over a thousand, the highway police attested at least 350.
- The Supreme Court fined and froze assets of everyone they could attach to the road blocks, including important grain and transport companies, reminding me of the Canada convoy protest.
- Bolsonaro said to not block the roads. Instead, people were encouraged to make their voices heard in front of military buildings. People all over the country set up camps with chairs, food, tents etc. They seemed peaceful and mostly composed of older people. To my surprise they stayed put through heavy rains, the world cup and even after Lula officially took office.
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- The Supreme Court tries to disband the protests by force, bypassing state governors by calling in all heads of state police so they would act in unison against the protesters.
- Mid-December It comes to light that
Brazilian diplomats were coluding to sabotage Bolsonaro's foreign policy.
- On December 24, the day of Lula's inauguration ceremony,
a man set off an explosion in Brasilia, allegedly a bolsonarista.
- On January 8th, 2023, a peaceful protest in the capital turns into a "terrorist attack". All points to an inside job. A copy-paste of the US capitol attack. This was the day that made bolsonaristas, ie, half the country, into terrorists. As you know, we can't have those, have to hunt them down etc.
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- Between Jan 8th and Jan 18 there were
multiple attacks to transmissions lines thousands of kilometers apart, allegedly by bolsonaristas terrorists.
Some results that followed:
- The Supreme Court has procured a digital surveillance company to track down citizens "anti-democratic" opinions on the net 24/7.
- Most relevant conservative politicians had their social media cancelled by the Supreme Court.
- Judges and prosecutors were removed for antagonizing the Supreme Court. The youtube channel with the interviews and testimonies has been removed also.
- Lula signs a law aimed at stand-up comedians: jokes related to race, religion or nationality can get you 5+ years in prison (
not a joke)
- Lula issues a
Decree that creates the Democratic Union Defense Office to suppress "fake news" against public policies .
- Moraes through the Supreme Electoral Court makes Bolsonaro
ineligible until 2030.
This is incomplete and spotty but I hope it helps explain why, from my limited perspective, it made a lot of sense when the Cs replied that "Lula was initiated". It fits with the bigger picture of the country also being "taken in" the woke-globalist-authoritarian paradigm. Lula's been enforcing in government what the Supreme Court is enforcing in the judiciary, which is the same as in the US, Canada, most of Europe etc. Osit.
#Brazil Mass protest in Sao Paulo today calling for the impeachment of President Lula, which may turn out to be one of the largest protests in the country's recent history
an illusion of the so called antiwestern coalition…
