iamspacedad

iamspacedad t1_j3qg4un wrote

Fascists on average aren't very clever. That's why they rely on the backing of military and police forces siding with them to take power. They suck at everything else and usually have to bruteforce their way into power. (Where they then proceed to suck ass at running the state and have to bruteforce their way to maintain power, until they get deposed somehow.)

Brazil has a past of far-right military coups & corrupt pro-fascist police facilitating a dictatorship takeover - the bolsanaristas thought they could create chaos that would give military an excuse to intervene and stage a coup.(Which is how CIA-backed antidemocratic coups usually have gone in Latin America.)

Basically they were/are delusional morons, and ironically it is *because* Brazil has a deadly serious past of far-right coups that the law there is not going to be kind to them.

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iamspacedad t1_j3qfnnp wrote

Local police (depending on region) are corrupt as hell - this was the federal forces.

FYI about the same thing would have happened Jan 6 if Biden was already sworn in - remember that Trump & his cronies hadn't deliberately stalled federal forces from acting.

Because Lula was in charge, they were able to sign an order for federal forces *while the insurrection was still ongoing* meaning the feds could round up 1200+ of the insurrectionist bozos to process and charge them all on the spot.

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