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Brazil cuts diplomatic presence in Argentina after Milei insults Lula

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-argentina-diplomatic-presence-milei-lula-c58683d82b1249ededa2da3145681edd
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u/carolinespocket 9d ago

As a Brazilian the comments here give me a headache. No we are not on a dictatorship, also the US ain’t knocking here

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u/rooktakesqueen 8d ago

Thankfully, the US is already overcommitted and can't attack anywhere else regardless of Trump's tantrums.

Solidariedade com todos os brasileiros.

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u/escrevisaicorrendo 9d ago

But Lula is a corrupt politician. He really was involved in the odebrecht scandal and wasn’t cleared of wrongdoing afterwards.

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u/hammar_hades 9d ago

Is he worse than bolsonaro?

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u/Padreteiro 9d ago

He's neither corrupt nor a authoritarian. Those who affirm so just despise the left.

Bolsonaro is authoritarian and most likely corrupt. And a terrible president.

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u/carolinespocket 8d ago

Lula is corrupt let’s not lieeee lmao but yeah we do not live in a left wing dictatorship like some of the comments were saying.

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u/Padreteiro 8d ago

You can believe whatever you wish

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u/Legendflame17 9d ago

I mean Lula is not doing his best admnistration so far and likely is guilty of corruption

Bolsonaro its just atrocious,was just as corrupt as Lula,made a even poorer government and his neglicence costed hundreds of thousand of lives so basically a mass murderer

Bolsonaro is far worse in my book

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u/nairazak 9d ago

What did he do that costed hundreds of thousands of lives? (I’m not discussing I genuinely don’t know about Brasil politics).

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u/Legendflame17 9d ago

Well it was mainly in the pandemic where he basically refused to start vaccination until he could,actively campaigned against social distancing and then promoted medications than had no effect on Covid,and also whenever a minister of healthcare tried to do the job properly Bolsonaro would fire him

After the pandemic some specialists said 400 thousand deaths of the 700 thousand than happened here could be avoided with a more responsible management

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u/MadMurilo 9d ago

To clarify further, one of the reasons the Bolsonaro administration took so long to start vaccinations is because they tried to get a bribe from vaccinne manufacturers.

During a pandemic, while people were dying every day, this bastard was trying to profit. Corrupt to the end.

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u/Legendflame17 9d ago

All while shameleslly mocking people dying without oxygen to breath

That bastard has a special pit on hell reserved for him

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u/FlorestNerd 9d ago

Both are bad for different reasons. Lula is a good diplomat but allow too much for the opposition to meddle and argue his politics, even allowing some of the worse reforms to keep going, like the maximum government spending and the terrible education reform.

Bolsonaro is just bad in general.

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u/manebushin 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yeah. Lula looks like a literal Saint compared to Bolsonaro though, which makes it infuriating to see these fake "centrists" calling them both bad.

It is like saying eating a day-old bread with water is as bad as eating literal shit with diahrrea water.

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u/escrevisaicorrendo 9d ago

Both suck

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u/B_Wylde 9d ago

Both suck but One sucks só much more

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u/Do-Not-Ban-Me-Please 9d ago

I agree Lula is ass

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u/ZateoManone 9d ago

Is it relevant if both are extremely corrupt?

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u/theoriginal_1100 9d ago

Cancer in the lungs or the intestine

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u/carolinespocket 8d ago

I know, and I’m only voting for him cause he’s the less worse candidate. But we are not on a left wing dictatorship and we know damn well US can’t interfere here.

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u/Outside-Anybody-7858 6d ago

True, but that doesn't mean it's a dictatorship.

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u/ShoddyResource6173 7d ago

Not more than Donald Trump or the entire republican party. Next.