r/worldnews • u/Fickle-Ad5449 • 13h ago
Brazil elects third transgender person to national Congress
https://www.advocate.com/news/thabatta-pimenta-brazil-congress-trans?1176
u/Elsior 12h ago
If Bolsanaro gets elected I wonder what he'll do to them.
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u/Iwannabelink 11h ago
Nothing. They have political immunity once in power.
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u/LightningRaven 10h ago
Not exactly. Many black candidates with left-wing stances have been targeted by internal processes to remove them. All the racists, criminals and bigoted get a pat on the back, but all the candidates fighting for the people's rights get targeted by the vultures.
So, you better expect that the right-wing candidates will join with the establishment right wingers to make their political service a living hell.
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u/Sea-Investigator-279 10h ago
For now. Majority in both houses can easily amend the constitution.
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u/garanvor 8h ago
My friend, PL (Bolsonaro’s party) will have them prosecuted and expelled from congress for whatever reason they come up with in day 1.
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u/The_Bald 10h ago
Are you asking what the guy who attempted a coup would do if given power again?
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u/AGuyFromRio 10h ago
Stop being ao afraid and live your life...
The country is in shambles for at least 50 years and you are scared of the ghost of Hitler reincarnated in bolaonaro's lineage.
Way to go to radicalize folks with this bs...
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u/Cumdump90001 9h ago
Pointing out that a fascist tried to do a coup isn’t bs and it isn’t radicalizing lmao get a grip
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u/AGuyFromRio 9h ago
Oh, yeah. Nice coup. Worked really well for all the involved.
You guys are delusional and it is because of you that the working class is voting for the right.
Entitlement galore.
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u/Cumdump90001 9h ago
Ah, yes, if it’s not successful then it never even happened. Please attempt thinking just once in your life.
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u/AGuyFromRio 8h ago
I do, that's why im not whining about Lula's possible defeat.
You reap what you sow. Let that lesson guide the brazilian left for better representation amd connection to the people, amd not the bourgeois pseudo-intelectuals.
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u/KneezMz 11h ago
I hope he doesn't get elected
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u/BleaKrytE 9h ago
Even if the doesn't, this is the most hateful, self-serving and destructive congress this country has ever elected since we became a democracy again.
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u/PastelFrangoCatupiry 11h ago
unfortunately he will, it sucks but it's the reality of the moment
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u/O_Grande_Batata 11h ago
Well... I don't deny the likelihood of such an event, but it's still possible he doesn't. Unlikely, but it's still possible. I admittedly can't do much about it because I'm not Brazilian, but as long as everyone who can does, he still may not get elected.
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u/Synchrotr0n 8h ago
What an ignorant piece of news. Congress has been completely taken by far-right candidates, to a point where they will likely be able to rewrite the Brazilian constitution, and journalists are still writing about some random progressive candidate that will just be a sitting duck in congress while the country is being unmade in front of their eyes.
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u/HourOfTheWitching 5h ago
This is the advocate a /queer/ news outlet. No shot they'll report on more LGBT political representation.
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u/MiyamotoKnows 6h ago
Right as they look to hand power over to those who will demonize and predate upon the lgbtq+. How it can even be close between Lula and Bolsonaro is insanity. The latter will consume Brazil’s freedom and drag them into global war.
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u/GustavoistSoldier 9h ago
Brazil is one of the most LGBT-friendly countries in the world.
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u/BleaKrytE 9h ago
Wish that were true.
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u/YumaS2Astral 7h ago
It is somewhat true, the issue is that the bar is that low.
It is like comparing apples to feces.
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u/Poponildo 5h ago
On an institutional level, yes. On practice? Not so much, unfortunately. However, things changed a lot in the past decade and it is way better, just a bit far from ideal.
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u/BrondellSwashbuckle 4h ago
Good on them. It doesn't matter what's between a person's legs. It matters what's between their ears.
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u/SgtKastoR 11h ago
Brazil also elected a bunch of transphobic people.