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He still doesn't deserve to die. There are other more constructive ways to turn it into a net positive like not re-elect him.


I agree. I want him to live.

But ... I want his lungs completely dependent on a ventilator, and him with a TV repeatedly running his speeches downplaying covid, interspersed with medical folks saying otherwise. I want this scene televised to all those who took his side.


I think the applicable quote could be: "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."


while he makes more damage to his people ?


He was elected by 55% of the very same people. His people. Voting is mandatory in Brazil and one gets a fine of 3.51 BRL and has to provide justification if they fail to participate.


Voting is mandatory but one can nullify their vote, vote blank or just not vote at all (thus, having to pay the fine) which was the case of 30% of the votes in the last presidential election in Brazil. So the actual percentage of people who wanted him as president is much lower than 55%.


It doesn't matter. Null votes don't count. They should have voted for the other guy if they didn't like Bolsonaro.

Mandatory voting is just another useless attempt to mask the fact that today's politicians are not actual leaders but rather worthless reality TV personas. Like in Ukraine where people picked an actual actor in an attempt to mock the worthless political class. It's typical Eastern European absurd humour. Adam Curtis' HyperNormalisation documentary explains it quite well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation


> He still doesn't deserve to die.

why not?




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