It's hard to overstate how insane things in Brazil have become after Lula's polling lead over Flavio Bolsonaro -- held most of the year -- has largely vanished. The first round of voting is Sunday. The likely Lula/Bolsonaro runoff would be Oct. 25. Look at this:
Last night, Brazil's largest media outlet, Globo, was to hold the only presidential debate thus far. Lula refused to go.
Globo's rules (which Lula's party agreed to) are that any candidate who refuses to debate will have an empty podium with their name on it -- to highlight their refusal to debate for the voting public -- and the other candidates will be given time to state the questions they would have posed to the missing candidate. This is common.
But at the very last minute (just moments before it was to begin), a left-wing, Lula-aligned election judge issued a censorship order barring Globo from showing Lula's empty podium, and also banned Globo from allowing the other candidates to state the questions they had for Lula. So Bolsonaro pulled out over the censorship, and Globo canceled the debate in anger.
As Lula's campaign gets more desperate, the election (like the country itself) has come to be ruled by his allies on the Supreme Court and judiciary more broadly, using blunt, daily censorship (as they did when Lula barely beat Jair Bolsonaro in 2022) to ensure Lula's victory. Kind of amazing to watch how deeply into full-on lawlessness and tyranny they're plunging.
@rojalita25@jk_rowling My father was also born with only one kidney. And we totally agree with you that this doesn’t refute the kidney binary, just as variations in sexual development don’t refute the biological sex binary.
@AndreiKampff@mozaodabruna Quem está contrariando o senso comum (de que homens biológicos tem vantagens físicas em relação às mulheres biológicas) é quem deveria ter o ônus da prova. As mulheres biológicas devem ser protegidas enquanto as pesquisas com mulheres trans não forem suficientemente robustas.
@nineborg Ela quer inverter o ônus da prova. Na falta de pesquisas específicas comparando mulheres biologicas com mulheres trans, devem valer as conclusões obtidas nas pesquisas comparando mulheres biologicas com homens biológicos.
@MATRIAoficial Fora as interpretações erradas de textos científicos para se adaptar à sua ideologia. Ela mente descaradamente e distorce os resultados de textos científicos para promover sua pauta.
@reduxx Brazil has been taken over by woke activists. Most Brazilians are largely unaware of gender ideology. However, left-wing parties have been captured by activists who are trying to impose gender ideology on the entire population.
@Miranda50sonia@lygia_maria Achei interessante um vídeo da Madeleine Lacsko explicando que ela ganhou o prêmio de mulher do ano mesmo tendo perseguido uma mulher (Isabella Cepa), que ganhou asilo político em um país europeu em razão disso.
Ano passado, o governo brasileiro divulgou nota parabenizando os vencedores do Nobel da Paz.
Vamos aguardar a nota desse ano parabenizando a vencedora por defender a democracia.