The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup.
A panel of five Supreme Court justices handed down the sentence just hours after they had convicted the former leader.
They ruled he was guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
As an American I find it difficult to understand how a working justice system can convict a criminal.
As a non-american posting from one of those 3rd world shitholes Trump talked about, you guys deserve way better.
When Brazil respects democracy more than America.
We’re fucked, y’all.
We
Sounds like a 4% of world population problem.
From my perspective: So far the best SOAP that I ever watched. The episode yesterday with the gun sidestory was insane.
regardless of how you feel the united states falling to a fascist regime effects everyone on the globe the same way the industrial power of germany falling to fascism was cause for global war.
frankly, you are espousing the one of the most ignorant opinions i’ve ever heard. i’m not saying this because in some pearl clutching american. im saying this because you seem to have no idea about how cause and effect play out on a world stage.
keep feeling safe and acting like none of it matters. your country isn’t immune to what’s happened here, and it’s certainly not immune to a fascist american military. you’re no better than the 60-ish% of americans who complacently have allowed the current status quo to come to pass.
The didn’t get to vote on it
Well I’m just leaning back and grabbing my popcorn because I already watched this shitshow for over 4 years and I have to deal with it for another few years.
Trying to tackle this situation with logic or realism is clearly not working and just drives people insane so I’m doing this approach which is at least funny and not constantly depressing ^^
i don’t fault you for feeling this way, there are a lot of people feeling the same right now. like all of the establishment-politicians here in the US.
fhey think MAGA will die with Trump, and Trump’s days are numbered, i’ll be surprised myself if he makes it to the end of the year. they’re banking on a “return to normalcy” where they can go back to ratfucking the country in peace with their brothers across the chamber…
…this…won’t happen, imo. MAGA is here to stay, and a lot of people are in for a rude awakening when things don’t “return to normal”. after trump dies, slowly but surely people are gonna look around and wonder wtf happened to their county/state/country…
the big what-if here is how establishment-dems act (where they don’t just continue to lose elections), do they give even the pretense of caring about this country and bend the knee to facism all in the name of that all-mighty dollar (then, the far-right leopards start eating evermore faces), or do they make way for the progressives who just want the 1% to pay their fair share in taxes…
Americans:
See, America? That’s how you do it. Learn from Brazil.
apparently brazil’s government is more functional than USA’s
“More functional than the USA” is a low bar, though. And rapidly getting lower.
And the judges didn’t bend for the US sanctions. I hope this becomes an example for the world.
That was an absolutely fucking admirable sight to behold. So fucking happy they didn’t cave, and told the regime to eat shit and fuck off.
If only The Big Short ended like this. Well done Brazil!
Life in prison effectively. If only we could start putting our leaders in jail for their crimes.
Brazil gets to sit at the table with Iceland on the list of countries who jailed the people responsible for almost torpedoing thier own country. (In Icelands case, it was the bankers involved in 2008s financial crisis)
The right wing is still powerful over there. The Supreme court judge who voted to acquit bolsanaro is still a member of the court. All it takes is a broken judiciary to enable fascism. And Brazil could easily go in that direction again if the fascists win control again.
If he was American, he would’ve just gotten another term
Now do Trump
No, we needed to heal and let him run again so he could finish the job of stealing the election.
We are still trying to heal from it. Maybe we need to give him a third term. Just rip up the constitution and use it as toilet paper (the actual one in Washington)
we should let him steal the washington monument to put his name on it and use as a buttplug (i did not check the base for flaring, please remove any flaring)
PAGEant pervert, nooo
What a terrific idea
So basically Brazil is less of a banana republic than the USA.
Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months, Trump was elected for his second term. Now who is bigger democracy? Maybe because Brazil plays REAL football?
@ United States of America, that’s how you fucking do it.
only beat me to the meme by, uh, 16 hours
It’s nice to see traitors held accountable for their actions. Maybe one day the US will take note.
“That’s very much like they tried to do with me. But they didn’t get away with it at all.”
Infuriating
He’ll be 97 when he gets out, if he lives that long.
Good riddance.
Eh, wouldnt be hard to get it reduced tbh, I doubt he will actually stay there for 27 years. But Ill take what I can get
You’d think attempting a coup would warrant a total block of any reduction in the length of sentence, but oh well.
The only thing that should be reduced is the length of the rope.
Think positive. He could be sentenced for more crimes he definitely committed
yup, nothing about the genocide yet. the 27 years was just about the coup attempt.
here’s hoping his sons can be next.
Will still be capped so even at 40 years max, his lawyers will be trying to get him released with 20 or less years in jail for good behavior or what not
20 or less will make him up to 90 years old. It’ll do.
FYI: South Korea’s former president got pardoned by her successor after her impeachment & removal & imprisonment. (The one back in 2017, not the recent 2024 one)
okay i’m taking notes. when we rebuild the republic, impeachments can’t be pardoned.
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
