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US President Joe Biden and the Brazil Rioters storming the national congress
Insurrections galore spark off all of a sudden, and 2023 was just born days ago! Want to know why? Because the business model of the global economy is broken and the supposed remedy for that is centralized control of populations and super-strict regulation of all their activities — that is,
techno-tyranny (
with Marxist characteristics, as the Chinese like to put it). Not everybody wants to ride that bus, and so an epic economic problem becomes an arduous political struggle, here and elsewhere in the world.
A great mob of many thousands went apeshit in Brazil over the weekend in that country's weird, geographically isolated capital, Brasilia, a horror of 1960s-style Modernist city planning.
They stormed the national congress and trashed the offices within to protest the fishy election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over the former incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. As in our own country, the quarrel was over the mysterious behavior of voting machines and the unwillingness of election officials or courts to verify the results.
The New York Times offered a thumbnail of Mr. Bolsonaro, who is sitting out the current action in Florida:
"The resulting picture showed an elected leader, first as a congressman and then as president, who has built a narrative of fraudulent elections based on inaccuracies, out-of-context reports, circumstantial evidence, conspiracy theories and downright falsehoods — much like former President Donald J. Trump."
Get it?
There's no way fraud could have happened, just like in our country. And Bolsonaro is another Trump. It explains everything. All complaints are "baseless," "false," and "conspiracy theories." End-of-story.... Are these shopworn tropes maybe losing their mojo? And is
The New York Times embarrassing itself, a little bit, to trot them out as if they are actually arguments against anything?
Comment: As with most issues, there's the good, the bad, and the specific situation; and so whilst Western governments have proven that they cannot be trusted with greater surveillance over the population (even if, for the most part, they already have these powers; and they're in the process of snatching even more); Putin, who enjoys an 80% confidence rating amongst citizens at home, and is widely praised abroad for his work neutralising the nefarious unipolar forces, has shown that, in this instance, greater transparency and accountability may be necessary in order to further the good work.