Paulo L. dos Santos

Political Economist, often mathematically. Associate Professor of Economics @NSSRnews. Formerly @SOASeconomics. Thinking Marxist. #InformationTheory, #futebol

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

The Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research has just issued a statement on the New School's decision to layoff dozens of staff and faculty colleagues, including our own colleague and friend, Professor Sanjay Reddy.

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

I suspect that using LLMs to find faulty claims and adjudicate arguments in published work in Economics will go as well as trying to do this in arguments with one’s spouse…

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

@FlavioBolsonaro Alguém pode me explicar como a soma de dez milhões de votos é "matematicamente impossível"?? Dividir por zero? Sim, impossível. Raiz quadrada real de número negativo? Sim, também. Ganhar dez milhões de votos? Completamente possível....

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

@ticktockufucked May I suggest you read article 320 of the Brazilian Penal Code?

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

Yanis, please read up on the details of the Brazilian Federal Police investigations into Flávio Bolsonaro's suspected crimes and Brazilian law.

Bolsonaro is under investigation not for misdemeanours but major crimes, including money laundering on unfathomably large scales. The Federal Police determined he was a flight risk, a determination his flight to the United States would patently corroborate. The decision of confiscate his passport is a common, low-level restriction under those conditions.

Bolsonaro could have challenged the decision, demanding a hearing on its merits. Instead he fled and is now claiming “electoral fraud” and “judicial persecution”. Claims belied by statements by his own allies, and by the fact his party has the largest caucus in the Brazilian Senate, six state governors, and many other elected officials that are carrying out their jobs as usual.

There are deep problems with the Brazilian judiciary, including possible overreach and highly credible claims of rampant corruption. But that does not ipso facto mean that every judicial decision is illegitimate. Hearing various American commentators imply that it does rankles, especially when done in support of a US puppet ready to shred Brazil's basic sovereignty.

Again, Bolsonaro could have had his day in court and challenged the decision on his passports on its merits, presented evidence of judicial bias or malfeasance, etc. Like Lula did successfully not that long ago.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

I am going to write something below that should be seen as the musings of one who celebrated – and still celebrates – Lula’s victory over Bolsonaro Jr. Here it goes:

I cannot for the life of me justify why o why Brazil’s courts had to demand of Bolsonaro that he hands over his passport the moment he lost the election. That he disputed the veracity of the election result is a sign of a faulty character, evidence that he is a bad loser. BUT, he had every right to being a bad loser; to dispute, rightly or wrongly, any result.

As for the argument that he was being investigated for other misdemeanours or crimes, that doesn’t wash either: What would have happened if Bolsonaro had won the election? Would the judges also prevent him from travelling abroad, as President-elect? I very much doubt that – which means that the judges were conflating executive and judicial powers.

To those who tell me that the Bolsonaro clan is a fascistic, criminal family, my reply is: You and I may very well think that. Alas, the judiciary has no right to use its powers to indict and to pursue someone because – or immediately after – they lost an election. It is shameful, to be precise. And it is also dangerous for those of us on the left who know what it means to be banned and hounded by rogue judges and police commissioners.

But I also have a message to Bolsonaro supporters, or those sitting on the fence, who assume that Lula is somehow behind the judges. He is not! This is the same court that imprisoned, falsely, Lula himself. What we have in Brazil is a judiciary that overreaches and habitually crosses the line that ought to separate judicial from political power.
It is such a shame that a judge took it upon himself to go after Bolsonaro on the eve of his defeat and, in doing so, to sully Lula’s stupendous victory.
One last point that my comrades in Brazil should note: If Bolsonaro and Rubio wanted to mount a campaign against Lula and Brazilian democracy they could never have been aided better than by that judge’s reckless writ.

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

Can we please nip the coup-mongering bullshit about electoral fraud in the bud? Here's Flávio Bolsonaro's campaign manager saying he cannot sustain any claims of fraud. His senior allies are all making the same point.

[Folha de S.Paulo @folha]

O coordenador da campanha de Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), afirmou que nem ele nem o PL (Partido Liberal) podem afirmar que houve fraudes nas eleições deste ano.

📲 Leia mais na #Folha: https://t.co/QREMa3sWxD

🎦 Isadora Albernaz

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

Just don't translate it into German...

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Wait wait wait… he changed the letter from “the true President elect of Brazil” to “Leader of Brazil”?

Lmao

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

@JuanMGrana "Estados Unidos do Brazil," con zeta...🤡

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

O cara aconselhando estratégia golpista agora #golpe

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

Told you…

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Flávio Bolsonaro declares himself leader of new Venezuelan government in exile

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

@pfigueiredo08 @FlavioBolsonaro 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[Gustavo de Carvalho @gb_decarvalho]

A few thoughts on Flávio Bolsonaro's runaway week, now that he has arrived in Miami. For those following this circus from abroad, some of the context seems to be getting lost. There is more behind his departure than just the fact that he lost the election. 1/...

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

Tool: my Latin American friend had to flee from a tyrannical leftist government that wanted to take away his wealth

The Latin American Friend:

[Lázaro Rosa 🇧🇷 @lazarorosa25]

Impossível não ser fã do Lula! O maior da história 🇧🇷✊🏾

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

Still time to get your vote in!

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

Gleen Greenwald is...

[Rick Azevedo @rickazzevedo]

É por cenas assim que a gente luta.
Quem já passou a vida em pé, no balcão, na cozinha, correndo contra o relógio, sabe o tamanho de finalmente poder descansar dois dias por semana. A escala 5x2 é dignidade. Viva a classe trabalhadora.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered a police investigation into alleged ties between a donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance and the presidential campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro in the run-up to Sunday’s election. https://t.co/nkELhIoVen

[TIME @TIME]

Bolsonaro’s departure comes as Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered a probe into possible illegal foreign financing of his campaign, including alleged links to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance https://t.co/U1829p8P5i

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

@JoaquinCastrotx Congressman, Congress and the American people also deserve answers on reported efforts by US officials and other persons to meddle in Brazil’s presidential elections.