Who do you support: Brazilian presidential runoff

[Libertas Vel Mors]

Bolsonaro.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

Bolsonaro.

Do you have any comment on Bolsonaro's recent remarks that he felt "sexual chemistry" with 14 and 15-year old girls and followed them into what he described as a brothel full of trafficked teenagers?

He did not say sexual chemistry. He said chemistry. He's a politician, so him talking to citizens of the state he's representing is part of his job. The entire point of the clip was that he didn't realize he was walking into a brothel -- and that he was shocked when he realized he had.

Also, Bolsonaro could be everything you accuse him of being and I would still vote for him over any socialist. Socialism is an evil ideology that has resulted in the deaths of tens of millions, violates property rights, and attacks the very concept of the individual. It is fundamentally wrong and should be rooted out everywhere.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

Once you ignore the aesthetics and look at policies, Lula is essentially a Blairite - in the sense that he pursues socialist goals through market means - you utter clown.

I wasn't aware that expanding social programs and opposing pension reforms were "market means."

[Libertas Vel Mors]

Bolsonaro.

Do you have any comment on Bolsonaro's recent remarks that he felt "sexual chemistry" with 14 and 15-year old girls and followed them into what he described as a brothel full of trafficked teenagers?

He did not say sexual chemistry. He said chemistry. He's a politician, so him talking to citizens of the state he's representing is part of his job. The entire point of the clip was that he didn't realize he was walking into a brothel -- and that he was shocked when he realized he had.

Also, Bolsonaro could be everything you accuse him of being and I would still vote for him over any socialist. Socialism is an evil ideology that has resulted in the deaths of tens of millions, violates property rights, and attacks the very concept of the individual. It is fundamentally wrong and should be rooted out everywhere.

Would you vote for Nathan Larson or Bernie Sanders?

I would abstain: I think Larson also supports tyranny, and I have more trust in the American system to stop the spread of socialism.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

Once you ignore the aesthetics and look at policies, Lula is essentially a Blairite - in the sense that he pursues socialist goals through market means - you utter clown.

I wasn't aware that expanding social programs and opposing pension reforms were "market means."

It is very obvious you haven't the slightest knowledge of politics or economics beyond what you presumably read on those silly glib TPUSA graphics. If you knew...anything, you would know that Lula's expanding social programs and Keynesian stimulus spending are exactly the sort of market means we're talking about. But of course, you probably think socialism is when the government does stuff, and the more stuff it does, the more socialist it is!

Keynesianism is many things, but "market means" it is not. Keynesianism is explicitly built around using the power of the state to intervene in the economy, rather than allowing private enterprise to operate independently.