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Comment by marcosdumay

9 hours ago

Flavio seems to be a mob leader, why anybody would care that Lula was caught stealing things?

Your cause and effect are inverted. It's precisely because of Lula's corruption that nobody cares anymore.

He was arrested for the biggest corruption scandal this country ever had. People ratted him out. He was the guy at the top.

Then the supreme court cited some technicality like "his initial judgement took place in the wrong court" and just undid the entire thing. They did it because nobody else could take out Bolsonaro.

Then he ran against Bolsonaro and took him out in 2022. And he just did it again.

It's Brazil. Crime pays. Lula's existence is proof. This country will never truly change.

  • So... people react by voting on one of the leaders of the fucking Rio mob? (the "nice family you have, it would be a shame if something happened to them" kind of mob?)

    Besides, Jair Bolsonaro won when Lula was still in jail.

    • The "mob" accusations are just that: accusations. Lula was actually held guilty by multiple independent judges based on evidence and testimony.

      And you're right, Lula's imprisonment changed everything. It was a moment of hope for many of us, and the reason why Bolsonaro even had a chance to begin with. Surely you can understand why the supreme court breaking the guy out of jail and putting him in the presidential race again while censoring everything Bolsonaro said and did would cause people to stop believing in justice?

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