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People who receive the highest diplomatic decorations in Brazil:

A son of the president

An astrologer who says there’s no evidence for heliocentrism, global warming, Newton’s, Darwin’s, and Einstein’s ideas, and claims there is a mason-inspired conspiracy for globalism

Another son of the president

#don't even know what to say

allthebrazilianpolitics

So, in Brazilian science and free speech news, our new Minister of Education is now talking about cutting scholarships for research projects he deems to have “ideological bias” :)

beautyofendlessforms

I said this would happen a few months ago, and my family members laughed at me and called me hysterical.

Here it is, and yet no one will care. They just told me back then, its better to never say anything concerning your political opinion if you don’t agree with the gov. so there’s no way they know anything and frame you for that.

There’s something deeply disturbing about that.

Don’t say... don’t think, so you don’t exist.

#brazil #bolsonaro

allthebrazilianpolitics

So, in Brazilian rather odd but maybe okay or even nice in but in a strange moment politics news, our president Jair Bolsonaro, in a visit to the Ministry of Education, talked about how important it is for men to properly wash their genitals in order not to get them amputated

He spoke after the minister of education (Idk what he was previously talking about):

“A very important thing, to complement the minister here.” Day after day, well, we are getting old and learning things. I became aware that certain men when they went to the bathroom, they only occupied the bathroom to urinate in the reserved bathroom", said the president, who then quoted data that there are a thousand amputations of penises per year in Brazil “for lack of soap and water” [that statistic is accurate btw]

“When you get to a point like that, you see that we’ve really hit the bottom. We have to find a way to get out of the depths by helping these people, by raising awareness, by really showing what they have to do, what is good for them, is good for their future, and to avoid getting to that point that is ridiculous, sad for us, that amount of amputations that we have a year”.

beautyofendlessforms

That’s such an odd thing..

Yeah, its like the first positive thing I heard out of this guy’s mouth but still, the focus is all wrong.

He should be shocked so many people in the country have no regular access to water and soap. I heard about a whole hospital which has no clean water, in my region... just think how far we've come that people in a damn hospital aren't able to properly wash their hands.

This is some XIX century medical horror story... Its scary, but for them the scariest thought is losing their 'masculine' apparatus. People are fucking dying from infections and things that shouldn't be a problem anymore with modern medicine available..

#bolsonaro #brazil

allthebrazilianpolitics

So, in Brazilian science news, our Ministry of Education has just announced they’re blocking 30% of the budget of three federal universities. The minister is claiming (in an interview, not the official announcement, in which they didn’t explain shit) they’re cutting it because they’re “not productive”, “low in quality ranking”, and a “bedlam”, that “unproductive” and “bedlam” universities will have their budets cut too. Like. How many times will I have to say public universities in this country account for 90% of the scientific publications in this country (and even with that the president has the fucking nerve to say scientific research is rare in our universities)??? And they pulled that ranking thing out of their asses, because the own ministry’s evaluation give those three very high notes??? And when they talk about “bedlam” they’re pretty much talking just about 1. left-leaning political gatherings (that most times aren’t even started by the institutions themselves) and 2. artistic and/or political manifestations they see as “indecent” (for nudity, etc, that are mostly also not started by the institutions themselves)???

Like. Holy fucking hell. This is coming like not even three days after they announced they might stop new sociology and philosophy courses from being created in public universities that don’t yet have them (because of so called “uselessness”, basically). These people have no goddamn idea what they’re talking about, they unabashedly blurt out objectively false claims, don’t give a shit about this country’s scientific production, and aren’t even trying to hide they’re deadass retaliating universities for ideological reasons.

Sorry for not containing myself while writing this instead of translating an article or just passing on the information but gods. I am SO. FUCKING. PISSED. This is a rampant attack on both science and free speech. This is authoritarianism. Nothing about this is right and there’s no sugarcoating it.

allthebrazilianpolitics

So, update: like, on the same day they announced this, they retreated the budget cut due to ideological reasons. Now the budget cut of 30% will extend to each and every federal university in this country!!!!!

beautyofendlessforms

I’m not surprised as I expect the worst from this government, but this still feels incredible sad and despairing...

As someone who knows closely the daily life of researchers and professors, as someone who saw with her own two eyes the sacrifices (both monetary and personal) they have to do to keep up with their research, when everything, even the basics is denied to them. I saw the amount of passion and love they pour into this even though there’s no reward... there’s little to no recognition for those who try to make science in this country, but they keep doing because they believe its worthy.

This makes me incredibly depressed.

Just to imagine what they’ll have to endure. This all because ignorance and obscurantism took over and there’s no place for science in such society, there’s no place for truth or knowledge, only lies and ‘myths’.

They’re destroying the academic system, no one bats an eye, life continues... for how long?? Every day a new disaster, until it hits you... then its too late.

I feel like this government is the literal Four Horsemen, lol.

The chaos is orchestrated, its fully intended.

They’re destroying the literal pillars of democracy and freedom.

#brazil #Bolsonaro

beautyofendlessforms

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president from 2003 and 2011, is in jail over corruption charges that he disputes

All those months I avoided talking about Lula in any shape or form, because currently the situation here dictates that if you don’t desire his death you’re automatically labeled a red army communist…

The whole left avoided him due to this, but I have to give in: this man is absolutely right in what he says here.

skellybonesandtrees

My “favorite” bit:

Lula’s comments came as Bolsonaro faced renewed criticism for a series of incendiary and homophobic comments in which he claimed Brazil could not be allowed to become a “gay tourism paradise” and appeared to promote sexual tourism.

“If you want to come here and have sex with a woman, go for your life,” Bolsonaro told journalists in the capital, Brasília, on Thursday. “But we can’t let this place become known as a gay tourism paradise … We have families.”

Brazil’s best-selling author, Paulo Coelho, was among those to slam Bolsonaro. “Brazilian women ARE NOT a commodity. Sex tourism is NOT a reason to visit Brasil,” he tweeted to his 15 million followers.

—- so, like… sex tourism with women is a family value? Ok….

beautyofendlessforms

This! Its weird to see a president talking with some sense of reason after all these months under Bolso’s lunacy, that it even made many anti-workers party people miss Lula’s era.

Also, I need to say everyone knows the image of brazilian women worldwide is already terrible, and the horrible president goes out and makes it official that Brazil is a whorehouse open for anyone (as long as you’re hetero male with some money) to come and fuck...

This will seriously make the lives of br women abroad even worse, I’m so afraid of what I hear right now from those who tell me their experiences outside being called out as ‘easy women’, just for being brazilian as if that made them automatically willing to whore themselves out. Several people have stories to tell, of people groping them and later stating “but you’re br? I though you’d be willing”.

Such is the image we have outside: of bandits and whores, and the damn president, the damn government made this even worst, I’m sincerely afraid of what’s to come if things remain like this.

They just officially stated that anyone could come as long as they would have sex with women... I’m baffled.

But there’s good news among all this crap. I’m very proud of Northwest region for standing up against Bolso’s declaration, with official statements such as these:

For those who don’t read Portuguese, all of those carry more or less the same message: the states of Northwest region are open for tourists to enjoy, but northwestern women are not a commodity.

I’m proud of this region to stand up against the tyranny of this government.

This region that is often considered a ‘problem’ to the country for being the poorest is now the last refugee of sanity, apparently. An ode to them!

#brazil #bolsonaro #sexual tourism

allthebrazilianpolitics

Where all the money that got cut from education, research and arts goin???

Well, I think the point would be for them not to go anywhere, because they want to save public money. But then there’s that story that broke out of Bolsonaro handing R$40 million in expenses for parliamentary amendments until 2022 (let’s consider that payment would start in 2020, so it’d be three years) to deputies who vote in favour of the pension reform. Like, you need 308 deputies and 49 senators to approve the reform.

(308 + 49) x 40,000,000 x 3

357 x 120,000,000 = 42,840,000,000, or 42.84 billion in three years

The predicted savings with the pension reform is 1,200,000,000,000, or 1.3 trillion, over the next ten years. Some banks predicted that real savings, after the bill is watered down in Congress, would be of around 500 billion.

1.3 trillion ÷ 10 = 130 billion per year

500 billion ÷ 10 = 50 billion per year

The votes for approval: 357 x 40,000,000 = 14,280,000,000, or 14.28 billion per year

I don’t even know how the parliamentary spending works (so take my reply with many grains of salt, and if anyone wants to explain that please do) but almost R$ 14.28 per year (compared to R$ 50 billions in savings per year) for three years adding up to R$ 43 billion (compared to R$ 500 billion in savings in 10 years) sounds like an awful lot amount of money for a government aiming at cutting spending.

[For foreigners, R$1 = ~US$4]

-Mod Nise da Silveira

beautyofendlessforms

Back in my day this was called ‘mensalão’... or ‘vote-buying scandal’...

P.S.: For those that don’t know, they don’t want to show the data backing up the claim that the reform is necessary or good in the long run:

https://www.plataformamedia.com/en-uk/news/politics/interior/government-orders-secrecy-on-studies-supporting-pension-scheme-reform-10819508.html

Ironically they said that they’d show the data after the approval (lmao)

#brazil #pension reform

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president from 2003 and 2011, is in jail over corruption charges that he disputes

The whole left avoided him due to this, but I have to give in: this man is absolutely right in what he says here.

#brazil #luiz inácio lula da silva #americas #jair bolsonaro

eco-minimalism

this is super important 👏🏻

beautyofendlessforms

Why do you think they are trying so hard to get control of south america’s oil reserves??

What do you think motivates the whole chain of coups here, and the war intent in Venezuela??? What do you think is behind the whole Bolso apocalypse in Brazil?

And they are getting it, no one bats an eye... the planet will pay the price for this.

allthebrazilianpolitics

Por favor, me expliquem essa postagem do coisa com o curso de humanas. Ele vai cortar tudo? Investimento (quais)? Vagas? Eu vou poder FAZER meu curso?

Boa tarde!

Ow, então, não temos muito como explicar, porque infelizmente nem o presidente nem o ministro explicaram como vão fazer isso. Eles falaram que estão “estudando” a possibilidade, então parece que não bateram o martelo sobre o assunto ainda. Eles se limitaram a falar que os que já estão matriculados não vão ser afetados (então se você já estiver na faculdade, *teoricamente* você não teria que se preocupar com sua própria situação). Dando um palpite, creio que eles poderiam talvez cortar a verba pra abertura de novos cursos de filosofia e sociologia em outras faculdades e pro aumento do número de novas vagas em faculdades que já os tenham. Mas isso é um palpite meu, pensando em como eles poderiam fazer isso “sem afetar” quem já é estudante. Mas se eles fossem seguir o exemplo do Japão, eles poderiam pedir o fechamento ou remodelamento dos cursos já existentes, diminuir verba pra pesquisa, e acabar com isenções e outros incentivos fiscais pra que empresas façam parcerias com institutos de pesquisa na área (tudo isso evidentemente afetando quem já estuda).

Só que se eles forem seguir de verdade o exemplo do Japão, eles em alguns anos vão voltar atrás porque (olha só, quem diria) essas pesquisas são importantes (😲). Tanto a sociologia pra políticas públicas quanto a filosofia pra temas como bioética, inteligência artificial, e a própria criação de ciências.

Mas honestamente, o anti-intelectualismo está tão desenfreado nesse governo que nem com essas áreas eu acho que eles se importariam o suficiente pra voltar atrás em qualquer decisão feita contra cursos de filosofia e sociologia. Na verdade, minha impressão é de que isso só vai de mal a pior, com história e geografia sendo os próximos na linha de tiro, e então ciências naturais e exatas de base. Vou até chutar que vão acusar biologia e estudos sobre clima de aparelhamento ideológico. Eles não se importam com evidências o suficiente pra se basear nelas na hora de tomar decisões de políticas públicas (temos inclusive negacionistas do aquecimento global nessa administração), e não parecem ter a menor intenção de investir na produção científica desse país. Então meu sentimento é bem pessimista. É tudo só palpite, nenhuma decisão foi confirmada e muito menos explicada ainda, mas acho que meus palpites são bem razoáveis.

Eu espero muito que não sejam.

-Mod Nise da Silveira

beautyofendlessforms

Vc está certo, infelizmente.

Não somente os cursos na área social serão afetados, pois já sabemos o que aconteceu com as bolsas de pesquisa e verbas, além disso, na área da biologia: ICMBio e IBAMA estão completamente desvalorizados e amordaçados, inclusive militares ocupam cargos de alto escalão nestes órgãos atualmente, assim como em comitês de ética em pesquisa regionais que estão sendo sistematicamente desmantelados...

Ciências de base, sejam elas humanas ou biológicas não tem valor para um governo e uma população anti-intelectual... o objetivo é claro e foi anunciado pelo próprio, ele 'veio para destruir'.

https://g1.globo.com/natureza/noticia/2019/04/24/apos-pedidos-de-exoneracao-ministro-do-meio-ambiente-anuncia-militares-para-diretorias-do-icmbio.ghtml

https://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,militarizacao-atinge-2-e-3-escaloes-do-governo-bolsonaro,70002742313

““““““cargos técnicos”“““““““

#bolsonaro #brazil

allthebrazilianpolitics

Grand day👍

#at least this good news #this is fucking beautiful

allthebrazilianpolitics

Monarchists hold positions in Brazilian government and rehabilitate ultraconservative Catholic group

In the year when the fall of the Monarchy in Brazil will complete its 130th anniversary, a member of the former Portuguese royal family felt at home visiting one of the most powerful organs of the Brazilian Republic - the National Congress.

Great-grandson of Princess Isabel (1846-1921), the monarchist leader Bertrand Maria Jose Pio Januario Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga of Orleans and Bragança had scheduled meetings with recently inaugurated parliamentarians.

In the office of federal deputy Carla Zambelli (Social Liberty Party, or PSL, same party as president Jair Bolsonaro), Dom Bertrand - as he is called by followers - was surrounded by a flag with the coat of arms of the Brazilian Empire, a bust of his great-great-grandfather Dom Pedro II, and a portrait of his brother Luiz Gastão, current head of the Imperial House, an organ that seeks to restore the monarchy in Brazil. He almost saw his nephew, the newly elected deputy Luiz Philippe de Orleans and Bragança (PSL), in the corridors.

“I was surprised, I found more openness than I expected,” he says of the visit in February, when he also met with Senator Márcio Bittar (from Brazilian Democratic Movement, or MDB) and with federal deputies Paulo Martins (Social Christian Party, or PSC), Delegate Waldir (PSL), and Enrico Misasi (Green Party, or PV). The group composes the “monarchist bench” of Congress, according to enthusiasts of the movement.

In the same trip, Bertrand was received in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by its minister, Ernesto Araújo, and the presidential advisor for international affairs, Filipe Martins.

The monarchist says that some interlocutors have expressed “complete consonance” with their positions - which include opposition to gay marriage, the end of the demarcation of indigenous lands, and the prohibition of abortion under any circumstances.

The warm welcome to Bertrand reflects the advance of monarchism adherents in Brazilian State organs and the rehabilitation of one of the main exponents of the movement - the Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP). Only men can integrate the organization (according to Bertrand, the activities of the institute, which include marches and trips through Brazil, “are not suitable for people of the fragile sex”).

“When a person is elected, they worry a lot about the next election. A monarch does not have that concern: he only thinks about the country’s good,” argues Zambelli, who claims to keep the imperial symbols on her desk permanently.

The congresswoman advocates for the adoption of a parliamentary monarchy in Brazil, with elections to the Parliament and the return of the Orleans and Bragança familiy to the throne. In this scenario, Bertrand would be second in line to the king’s post, behind his brother Luiz Gastão.

“The Republic broke a historic process and created an illegitimate regime coined by half a dozen military and intellectuals, without any support from the masses”, says Congressman Paulo Martins.

Zambelli and Martins say, however, that there is still no political climate to discuss returning to the regime. "Before, it is necessary a movement of cultural rescue, of rescue of the true history of the monarchy, that the republican period took care to destroy", says Martins.

The influence of the monarchist movement is not restricted to the new Congress. Last week, a supporter of the idea, prosecutor Gilberto Callado de Oliveira, was appointed representative of civil society in the Inep (National Institute of Educational Studies Anísio Teixeira), body responsible for the ENEM (National High School Exam, kind of like Brazil’s STAs).

The list of supporters of monarchism in the country’s government includes the Minister of Education, Ricardo Velez [update: Velez has been sacked]. In 2014, he posted on Facebook that, if Brazil were a monarchy, “we would not be dealing with all this mess”. "The monarch, long ago, would have dissolved the parliament and called new elections to renew the Congress,“ said Vélez.

Another who demonstrates affinity with the movement is the presidential advisor for international affairs, Filipe Martins. He released on Twitter a photo of his meeting with Bertrand in February, presenting him as "His Royal and Royal Highness, Monsignor Bertrand of Orleans and Bragança.”

Vélez and Martins were both appointed to the government by the writer Olavo de Carvalho, ideologue who has also defended the monarchy on several occasions. In 2017, he said in video on YouTube that, after the regime ended, “Brazil went from one coup to another, from revolution to revolution, and never stabilized again.”

In another video, Olavo defined Bertrand de Orleans and Bragança as “the most patriotic Brazilian I’ve ever seen in my life, the guy who most studied the problems in Brazil, who is looking for solutions.”

In addition to the old anti-communist ideals upon which the organization was founded in the 1960s, it began to address popular causes among modern conservative groups, such as combating so-called “gender ideology” in colleges; "the elimination of the ambiguous concept of ‘slave labor’“, "the interruption of any financial aid to the” Bolivarian “dictatorships”; and “the elimination of all socialist laws that persecute Brazilians with abusive taxes.”

Today, according to Bertrand, the group mobilizes “hundreds” of people, among partners and volunteer collaborators.

For the historian Luis Foresti, who analyzed Oliveira’s trajectory in his master’s dissertation, the ideas of the TFP founder are present today in the speeches of several conservative thinkers and religious activists. One example, according to Foresti, is the use of the term “counterrevolution” to define the 1964 coup. “The idea of revolution as intrinsically bad is typical of the founder’s thinking,” he says.

Bertrand recognizes the favorable moment. "It’s nice to be right-wing and conservative, and the left is inhibited,“ he says.

For him, Jair Bolsonaro "knew how to embody a Brazilian malaise with the politically correct” and “interpret the aspiration of the Brazilians to be free of ties, of an interventionist and statist mentality influenced by socialists and Marxists, who dominated the Brazil and plundered the nation”.

Opposition to agrarian reform has brought the organization closer to agribusiness in recent decades. One of the main interlocutors of the organization in government is the agronomist Evaristo de Miranda, an Embrapa researcher who makes frequent visits to the institute and is seen by ruralists as an ally.

Bertrand also praises changes in government stance towards the environment, such as restrictions on punishments for environmental violations.

In 2012, he launched the book “Environmentalist Psychosis”, in which he claims to reveal “the backstage of ecoterrorism to establish an ecological, egalitarian, and anti-Christian religion”. Opposing the vast majority of scientists who research the subject, the book challenges the studies that link human action to climate change.

Contrary to historians, Bertrand says that “there were practically no” indigenous people enslaved during Portuguese colonization. He further states that the Empire can not be held responsible for the enslavement of blacks - although 5 million Africans were brought to Brazil as slaves during the regime - and that the monarchy faced strong opposition in abolishing the practice.

For him, “the solution to the problem of Indians” was given by Emperor Dom João III to Tomé de Souza, governor-general of Brazil between 1549 and 1553: “We must catechize, give civilization and culture - do what the Church did over five centuries”, says Bertrand.

For Bertrand, the Catholic Church lived a great moment in the Middle Ages, when it was confused with the State and founded the first hospitals, universities, and leprosariums in Europe.

Asked if he was defending the reunification between church and state, he said that “the only solution is the restoration of Christendom”. "The spiritual sphere is not confused with the temporal sphere, but there must be an exchange of good offices between one and the other, like there was before".

For Bertrand, the French Revolution (1789) was a sad landmark for the West. The movement - inspired by the motto Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity - ended the absolutist monarchy in France and resulted in the execution of King Louis XVI.

Despite the motto, Bertand says that “there has never been less freedom, equality, and fraternity than in the French Revolution." "It was enough to be a suspect to be guillotined. Anyone who objected would go to the guillotine.”

Bertrand says that the ideal of equality of the French revolutionaries, which was eventually incorporated by socialists and communists, caused great harm to the world.

“The beauty of society is not in equality, but in differences, which must be proportional, hierarchical, harmonious, and complementary, just like a symphony.”

Source, translated, very summarized, and adapted by the blogger.

beautyofendlessforms

Behold the next development in Brazil’s bizarre existence...

allthebrazilianpolitics

So 500 million bees were found dead across four Brazilian states and 80% of those deaths are due to pesticides (and our Ministry of Agriculture continues to recklessly allow the usage of highly toxic ones) and everything is fine in Brazilian environment

beautyofendlessforms

This is so terrible.. I always say the worst part of what is happening is unseen because the harm done to nature is noticed by very few.

As someone who has been interested in nature all her life I can say its heartbreaking to notice the diversity in insects drop every year.

I've lived my whole life in the same place and just wonder where the bugs and butterflies and colorful birds and of my childhood went... they’re all poisoned! The whole food chain was affected!

I’m so angry that people here don’t give a fuck about nature and when I bring this up people make jokes about “wtf its better with less gross insects flying around”... or they just think nature is able to regenerate rapidly so there’s no need to worry or even worse, that ‘god wouldn't make a world for us we could so easily destroy’.

I want to smash someone’s head every time..

allthebrazilianpolitics

So our president Jair Bolsonaro has said Brazil is now voting things in the UN based on the Bible and that we are not as advanced as Israel because we “lack [religious] faith”, and an ambassador was sacked from an agency in our Ministry of Foreign Affairs because he clashed with its minister, who believes climate change is a globalist Marxist plot (they fought over contracts and changes in power structure but still), and everything’s absolutely fine in Brazilian foreign policy

beautyofendlessforms

Man this is killing me..