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>>/49635/ > holocaust "Lulag" is funnier. They were all processed in a couple days, though. Looking back one month later: intelligence agencies noted there could be an act of vandalism a few days in advance and warned the government. The resulting chimpout is entirely the state government's fault (they got purged) and the Army's fault (also purged), with no responsibility whatsoever on Lula's Interior Ministry. Lula and Alexandre de Moraes are amassing power and institutionalizing the emergency measures to save democracy, as one would expect. There's talk of creating a National Guard. Some American libs have expressed worries about the Supreme Court's power, but they find little support here. From the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/world/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-supreme-court.html > In many cases, Mr. Moraes has acted unilaterally, emboldened by new powers the court granted itself in 2019 that allow it to, in effect, act as an investigator, prosecutor and judge all at once in some cases. > In 2019, a few months after Mr. Bolsonaro took office, a one-page document vastly expanded the Supreme Court’s authority. > At the time, the court was facing attacks online from some of Mr. Bolsonaro’s supporters. Typically, law enforcement officers or prosecutors would have to open an investigation into such activity, but they had not. > So Mr. Toffoli, the court’s chief justice, issued an order granting the Supreme Court itself the authority to open an investigation. > The court would investigate “fake news” — Mr. Toffoli used the term in English — that attacked “the honorability” of the court and its justices. > It was an unprecedented role, turning the court in some cases into the accuser and the judge, according to Marco Aurélio Mello, a former Supreme Court justice who last year reached the mandatory retirement age of 75. > Mr. Moraes ordered major social networks to remove dozens of accounts, erasing thousands of their posts, often without giving a reason, according to a tech company official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid provoking the judge. When this official’s tech company reviewed the posts and accounts that Mr. Moraes ordered it to remove, the company found that much of the content did not break its rules, the official said. > In many cases, Mr. Moraes went after right-wing influencers who spread misleading or false information. But he also went after people on the left. When the official account of a Brazilian communist party tweeted that Mr. Moraes was a “skinhead” and that the Supreme Court should be dissolved, Mr. Moraes ordered tech companies to ban all of the party’s accounts, including a YouTube channel with more than 110,000 subscribers. The companies complied. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/world/americas/brazil-alexandre-de-moraes.html > He has jailed people without trial for posting threats on social media; helped sentence a sitting congressman to nearly nine years in prison for threatening the court; ordered raids on businessmen with little evidence of wrongdoing; suspended an elected governor from his job; and unilaterally blocked dozens of accounts and thousands of posts on social media, with virtually no transparency or room for appeal.