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Bruno Dies
@brunodias.dev

Brazil absolutely did much more to stamp down an attempted coup and fight fascism, but it's hard to have that stick when elites broadly would prefer fascism and also you have an imperial power next door actively campaigning for it

George Pearkes@peark.es

I don't have any predictions here but if Bolsonaro were to win a lot of takes confidently declaring that Brazil learned more from its first dabbling in fascism (Flavio's father's term, which ended in a Jan 6-style attack on Brazilian democracy) are going to end up aging VERY poorly.

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Bruno Dies
@brunodias.dev

What Americans need to understand about bolsonarismo is that it's not just an organic fascist movement, it's a *colonialist* movement, very obviously so, and in its schema the US would be the colonizers.

Kevin Riggle
@kevinr.free-dissociation.com

To be sure “elites broadly would prefer fascism and also you have an imperial power next door actively campaigning for it” was also true of 2024 (the powers in question being Russia and Israel)

Bruno Dies
@brunodias.dev

I think Russia's ability to influence internal US politics is SIGNIFICANTLY less than the US' ability to influence internal Brazilian politics