I’m so sad about the Brazilian elections. This is tragic, why is nobody talking about it? Just bc it doesn’t happen in your country doesn’t mean it’s not going to affect our fellow LGBT+ community and women.
If WE aren’t talking about this as a massive universal defeat, how will newspapers will?
This is a country that just 30 years ago was under a military dictatorship, where many people literally gave their blood in name of democracy. Now we are watching this country elect a man that not only is homophobic, racist and sexist, but who has also said that the mistake of the dictatorship was to torture people instead of killing them. This is a man who has exalted and complimented a dictator who has raped women and tortured people, including children. Brazil is electing a man who has said in front of the cameras that he would not rape a woman because she was too ugly.
I am a woman and I am terrified. I have many LGBT friends who are terrified. The minorities in Brazil fear for their lives. This is a terrible time for us.
#EleNão
#NotHim
A bit about the Brazilian Election:
It works in two rounds. The first round, all of the candidates are held to a national vote.
The second round features the top two contenders from the first round, also in a national vote. Simple majority. This is very similar to French presidential elections, if you’re familiar with them.
However, if a candidate gets the support of over 50% of the voters in the first round, they will skip the second round entirely, becoming president by default.
Bolsonaro, the “Brazilian Trump”, had a very good chance of winning a majority of the first round, becoming president, due largely in part to his unification of the right wing. But, GOOD NEWS! He only got 46% of the votes!
Now, it’s the second round: we will either have a racist, homophobic, sexist bastard who wants to become dictator (Bolsonaro) or we’ll have Fernando Haddad. It is IMPERATIVE that we do everything in our power to stop Bolsonaro! If you have Brazilian friends, please get them to vote for Haddad! The world is depending on them!
Vote Haddad at the second turn if you are eligible to vote in Brasil.
Get out there folks! My parents’ generation didn’t get beaten up at demos and rallies, or tortured and disappeared by the previous dictatorship for this.
We don’t deserve this, but they don’t either.
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Vote no Haddad no segundo turno das eleições presidenciais no Brasil.
Voçês tratem de ir votar porque a geração dos meus pais não foi batida, presa, torturada e desaparecida pela previa ditadura para que isto acontecesse.
Nos não merecemos isto, mas eles tambem não o merecem.
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