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Bannon is not handling Bolsonaro's loss well: "He cannot concede" (Original Post) FelineOverlord Oct 2022 OP
No surprise. MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2022 #1
Including True Dough Oct 2022 #4
+100. MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2022 #6
Convicted criminal says what? Walleye Oct 2022 #2
Why is this jackass on bail, and not in jail? JohnSJ Oct 2022 #3
All these totalitarian creeps have one thing in common C_U_L8R Oct 2022 #5
Mussolini and Hitler were popular bc they did help the common person. Yavin4 Oct 2022 #8
Just disgusting Johnny2X2X Oct 2022 #7
Now they try to incite a civil war in Brazil nt doc03 Oct 2022 #9
cuz it normalizes it here. mopinko Oct 2022 #13
Bannon, Pompeo, Flynn, Gingrich... 2naSalit Oct 2022 #10
I can't even post what I want to say about these evil fascists. But you all know what I am thinking Samrob Oct 2022 #14
+1 2naSalit Oct 2022 #15
Trump of the Tropics Zambero Oct 2022 #11
Bannon is a loser on steroids malaise Oct 2022 #12
Go Wrestle a mama anaconda Steve. GreenWave Oct 2022 #16

Yavin4

(35,433 posts)
8. Mussolini and Hitler were popular bc they did help the common person.
Mon Oct 31, 2022, 09:40 AM
Oct 2022

Of course, they abused the common person as well as and committed horrific atrocities.The problem with today's fascist leaders is that they're okay with abusing the citizenry, but they're not okay with using the power of the state to help the common man.

Look at Hungary's Viktor Orban, hero of America's right wing, who's every bit as Fascist as Trump or Bolsonaro, maybe even more so. Orban is very pro family but unlike the American right wing, he's willing to pour money into the nation's resources to increase family size. That's something that Republicans would never, ever do.

Johnny2X2X

(19,030 posts)
7. Just disgusting
Mon Oct 31, 2022, 09:29 AM
Oct 2022

Here's where they are with their thought process and it's terrifying. They don't consider the 51% of their fellow Brazilians to have equal standing as them. Either they view them as not real Brazilians, or not real humans.

And that's what you're seeing in the US too. The 81 Million Americans who voted for Biden don't matter one bit to Republicans, they don't care about their rights, their wants, or their citizenship. And the media seems to rarely acknowledge them either.

Both countries are on the cusp of fascism. More than anything, what Democracy takes to survive, is the acknowledgement of the other side as viable and real.

mopinko

(70,075 posts)
13. cuz it normalizes it here.
Mon Oct 31, 2022, 10:25 AM
Oct 2022

nobody wants to be the only dictator wannabe on the world stage. too obvs.

2naSalit

(86,522 posts)
10. Bannon, Pompeo, Flynn, Gingrich...
Mon Oct 31, 2022, 09:49 AM
Oct 2022

And all the rest are the wrecking crew for the despots in waiting.

They have been careening around the planet bolstering fascism for the wealthy for a long time and really ramped it up during the 45 admin since they were given carte blanche to do so and with gov't help and cover.

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
14. I can't even post what I want to say about these evil fascists. But you all know what I am thinking
Mon Oct 31, 2022, 10:34 AM
Oct 2022

Waiting for Karma.

Zambero

(8,964 posts)
11. Trump of the Tropics
Mon Oct 31, 2022, 10:00 AM
Oct 2022

A very SAD Steve Bannon sees Bolsanaro taking the same "rigged election" route as TFG, a strategy that Bannon predicted in advance of the 2020 election results. The hostility to democracy is tangible here. Ends always justify means, when it comes to keeping authoritarians in power.

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