Brazil Presidential and Congressional Elections 2018

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Yesterday a Brazilian guy who appears to be a Bolsonaro supporter requested my friendship in Facebook. He has a shirt of the Brazilian football team with the number 17 (Ronaldinho endorses that trash, apparently). I would spit that guy in the eye instead. It's crazy.

It seems that Brazilian elite and a good chunk of the middle class are very happy with the fascist. Highway to Hell

I don't know, man, but if you would spit this guy in the eye for his political preferences when he did nothing bad to you, it may be you who behaves like a fascist, not him.

The overblown rhetoric about Bolsonaro's "fascism" (I even saw an article in Foreign Policy comparing him to Goebbels) has only led to a far-left attack on him. In the Netherlands we've seen what happened to Pim Fortuyn. I wonder if this is a deliberate tactic and if the supposedly "respectable" leftists just want Bolsonaro to be "taken out".

Idk how else you'd describe Bolsonaro other than "fascist." He is admittedly a fan of right wing military dictatorship, has praised torture and the death penalty; is deeply sexist; said a female politician wasn't "worthy of rape"; is deeply homophobic.

he also has refused to acknowledge the election result in the event he loses.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Bolsonaro has just been officially declared the winner! Hell yeah!

What the hell is wrong with you two?

We literally have a Duterte running one of the most important countries in the world. Obviously Silva or Alckmin would have been ideal, but Haddad was just fine.

Duterte is better than Bolsonaro. At least Duterte cares for the poor - he signed a free college bill last year, for example.  Bolsonaro is an elitist fascist.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Bolsonaro has just been officially declared the winner! Hell yeah!

What the hell is wrong with you two?

We literally have a Duterte running one of the most important countries in the world. Obviously Silva or Alckmin would have been ideal, but Haddad was just fine.

Duterte is better than Bolsonaro. At least Duterte cares for the poor - he signed a free college bill last year, for example.  Bolsonaro is an elitist fascist.

Don't be a Duterte apologist. Just don't.

(But yes, Bolsonaro really is vile.)

I'm just noting that Duterte isn't as bad as Bolsonaro even if he's clearly unpleasant overall. Duterte is a mix of extreme bad and extreme good, with the bad outweighing the good. Bolsonaro is pretty much all extreme bad.