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Originally Posted by daveT
Why does the leader of Brazil matter to you? Surely there are worse people in power.
well, let's see:
because there are too many countries these days going in the extreme right direction?
Brazil is the 5th largest and 6th most populous country in the world?
Oh, and these words by him:
Mr. Bolsonaro has described having a female child as a “weakness,” and has said he would not treat or pay women the same as men in the workplace.
n 2014, he told a fellow lawmaker:
“I would not rape you because you are not worthy of it.”
In 2013, he said that he would “rather have a son who is an addict than a son who is gay,” and that he was “proud to be homophobic.”
In June 2011, he said he would “rather his son die in a car accident than be gay,”
In April 2017, Mr. Bolsonaro spoke about visiting traditional Afro-Brazilian communities. He described the weight of the residents using the word “arrobas,” an outdated unit used to weigh cattle and agricultural products.
“The lightest Afro-descendant there weighed seven ‘arrobas’. They don’t do anything. They are not even good for procreation.”
Torture
Mr. Bolsonaro advocates it:
“I am in favor of torture — you know that. And the people are in favor of it, too.
In April 2016, when President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment was put to a vote in Congress, Mr. Bolsonaro dedicated his vote to a colonel who ran a torture center during the country’s military dictatorship in which Ms. Rousseff was tortured in her youth:
“In memory of Col. Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, the terror of Dilma Rousseff … I vote YES.”
Mr. Bolsonaro has said he would curtail efforts to protect the environment and indigenous land:
“We are going to fuse together the Ministry of Agriculture with the Ministry of the Environment … We need to put a stop to the demarcation of indigenous land … indigenous people want to rent out the land, they want to be able to do business, they want electricity, a dentist to remove the stumps of teeth from their mouths … indigenous people are human beings like us. They don’t want to be used for political purposes.”
Mr. Bolsonaro has also said that there were far too many indigenous reservations in the Amazon:
“Our Amazon is like a child with chickenpox, every dot you see is an indigenous reservation … and the Brazilian people applaud [demarcation of indigenous land]. Look at these people, no political strategy!”
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So basically, he wants to subjugate women, criminalize homosexuality, and raze the part of the world where get 20% of our oxygen.
I'd say that's worth being concerned over