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🇧🇷 President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva celebrated with supporters in São Paulo after Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court declared him the winner of Sunday’s presidential runoff against Flávio Bolsonaro, securing a historic fourth term just two days before his 81st birthday.
Lula won 51.76% to 48.24%, a margin of about 4.3 million votes. The win makes him Brazil's first four-term president and the oldest person ever elected to lead the country.
A former metalworker, Lula rose to national prominence in the late 1970s. As head of the metalworkers' union in São Paulo's industrial suburbs, he led strikes in defiance of the military dictatorship, and he was jailed in 1980, the year he co-founded the Workers' Party.
Lula was only 33 when he led the strike alongside the metalworkers’ union that challenged Brazil’s military dictatorship. He secured wage increases and was imprisoned.
His rival, the far-right Flávio Bolsonaro, on the other hand, has had only one occupation since the age of 21: spending his wealthy family’s money and engaging in far-right thuggery.
It’s funny how the people who pretend to care the most about so-called “democracy” also spend half of their time shaming people for not voting how they want them to. You really have to repress any discomforting thought that appears in your brain if you’re into electoralism
Has anyone ever tried a kneeling chair? Trying to work standing up but for some reason my brain stops working when I’m standing, need an alternative to not destroy my body when I work lol
People do not want to vote for liberals that pretend to be on the left after seeing that they sign off on a lot of the same policies as their predecessors (in the case of chow, maintaining exorbitant funds to police and instituting bubble zones against Palestine protesters)
nazanin retweeted
Nathan Fielder made the one millionth movie about the extremely overplayed postmodernist idea that “truth like isn’t real bro” and everyone’s acting like that’s somehow good and not a decadent sickness infecting our critical faculties
I genuinely think the reason why this film is so astounding is purely because Nathan Fielder had an absurd opportunity to live with Elizabeth Holmes right before she goes to prison. Beyond that, I’m not sure the film does much besides raising some vague point about perception
I don’t really care about Nathan Fielder but he hasn’t said anything about “Israel” and someone making vague posts about him doesn’t really strike me as “proof” of his “secret” feelings. Also, what is this impulse to try and expose people as secret Zionists? What’s the point?
nazanin retweeted
Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi after his best film award in Busan:
"For 48 years, Iranian people have been subjected to the harshest economic, medical sanctions, but have not surrendered. When they saw that we would not surrender, they subjected us to the most brutal attacks."
nazanin retweeted
If you live in, let's say Chesley, Ontario and have a medical emergency between the hours of 5PM and 7AM, or on the weekend, your ER is closed. Yet, Doug Ford's government is blowing $50 million on removing bike lanes in Toronto.
chesleyfoundation.ca/our-hos…
nazanin retweeted
This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
nazanin retweeted
NEW: A newly declassified report reveals that the CIA was actively involved in resettling Nazis in Canada and that a leading CIA officer in charge of resettlement operations was later the CIA’s representative in Ottawa.
readthemaple.com/declassifie…
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