https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543423
Every thread about this subject I go out of my way to recount what I saw and reference similar comments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44619572
I waited years for today's news. My only complaint is they sanctioned a single judge rather than the entire supreme court.
It's really simple. I looked up the brazilian constitution on the internet. I read it. When I tried to reconcile the text with what the judges were doing, I couldn't. My conclusion was that they were and still are engaging in blatantly unconstitutional acts. The constitution says something can't be done but they keep doing it. How can you possibly reach any other conclusion?
These judges are effectively writing a new constitution and a new set of laws. They have not been elected. Therefore, Brazil is not a democracy. It's a dictatorship of the unelected judiciary. How can you possibly reach any other conclusion?
I have found the people who tried to debate these matters with me utterly unconvincing. I would love to be shown that this country is not what I believe it to be but that seems increasingly unlikely.
I'm tired of being told everything I know and remember is "fake" or whatever. I feel like I'm being constantly gaslit. Pretty much everything these judges censored as "fake news" was either true or became true literally months into Lula's mandate. Literal Ministry of Truth.
And my fears are not at all unfounded. They've prosecuted completely normal people who criticized them in the past. They've gone after teenagers over online comments. I'm taking risks by posting here because of my sense of justice. I'm just too disgusted and disillusioned by what's happening in this country to keep quiet about it.
>I have found the people who tried to debate these matters with me utterly unconvincing. I would love to be shown that this country is not what I believe it to be but that seems increasingly unlikely.
There's nothing that I can say that you aren't going to ignore, because you are smarter than me and you cannot think that your conclusions are wrong, either because you think you are 100% logical or because you don't see how your emotions are clouding your thoughts. I was exactly like that some years ago, before therapy. I would suggest the same for you, but you will probably consider that gaslighting. Again, you are smart, which makes hard to accept that you are not being rational as you think you are. A good therapist would have the tools to help you realize that.
>And my fears are not at all unfounded. They've prosecuted completely normal people who criticized them in the past. They've gone after teenagers over online comments. I'm taking risks by posting here because of my sense of justice. I'm just too disgusted and disillusioned by what's happening in this country to keep quiet about it.
I know people who spend most of their online time posting about this topic on public social media, some of their posts getting very close to death threats, every day, and nothing happens to them. Some of them works as public legislative servants, what makes them an easy target for censorships. We have elected people posting all day about it, some of them asking for military coups, and nothing ever happens to them. The probability of you getting arrested because of comments on Hacker News are so low that I cannot see that thought as something different of delusion.
I ignore nothing. I'm just not convinced when people start claiming that there was a military coup attempt or that these judges did not engage in unconstitutional political censorship. I always explain why and leave myself open to refutation.
There's plenty you can say to me. I've incorporated quite a lot of information people have told me into my world view. For example, I learned about Trump and Musk's possible economic interests from a leftist publication that someone cited while arguing with me. That's a lot more interesting to me than tired worker's party talking points.
> therapy
I go to therapy every week. Not because of this though. My therapist's reaction to this matter was to tell me to focus on things I could directly control. Perfectly reasonable advice.
> The probability of you getting arrested because of comments on Hacker News are so low that I cannot see that thought as something different of delusion.
So we do agree that the chances are not zero.
This is about one wannabe tough-guy looking out for his wannabe tough-guy pals.
matheusmoreira•19h ago
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0211
> Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes
> De Moraes has targeted opposition politicians, including former President Jair Bolsonaro; journalists; newspapers; U.S. social media platforms; and other U.S. and international companies.
> U.S.-based journalists and U.S. citizens have not been spared from de Moraes’ extraterritorial overreach.
> De Moraes has imposed preventive detention on and issued a series of preventive arrest warrants against journalists and social media users, some of whom are based in the United States.
> He has also directly issued orders to U.S. social media companies to block or remove hundreds of accounts, often those of his critics and other critics of the Brazilian government, including U.S. persons.
> De Moraes has frozen assets and revoked passports of his critics; banned accounts from social media; and directed Brazil’s federal police to raid his critics’ homes, seize their belongings, and ensure their preventive detention.
bigyabai•19h ago
> Trump can do whatever he wants for whatever reason he wants
So you don't oppose god-kings after all, huh? I could've guessed as much.
matheusmoreira•19h ago
> So you don't oppose god-kings after all, huh? I could've guessed as much.
As far as I'm concerned, Trump's helping me and my country as a whole. He's not our problem, it's up to the americans to deal with him however they see fit. As a brazilian, I literally do not have a vote in the matter.
stfp•17h ago
matheusmoreira•13h ago
So I'm glad some foreign power outside their jurisdiction is doing something about it regardless of their reasons.