That was with a fake leader without legitimacy. The truckers themselves are still striking and the military can't stop them.
Brazil crisis 2018
Ayden Cook
Owen Moore
popular disillusionment with the PT and their incompetency, and biased right wing media spewing out reactionary drivel.
Sebastian Allen
Literally the Brazilian government rn. Favorite prez candidate is right wing as fuck, said he will move the embassy to Jerusalem and give unconditional support to Israel
Cooper James
I hate the right wing so much.
Just came back from Zaffari, they were full.
Literal shills and reactionary kids. Fuck them.
Luis Lopez
No. That's Lula and he isn't and never was right wing nor does he support israel.
Noah Adams
Lula is in jail dummy, I meant Bolsonaro.
Joseph Gomez
So?
Brody Moore
Lula was based AF.
Of course, the subhuman right wingers would prefer 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧Jair Bolsonaro🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧's zionist cock up their ass.
Ayden Miller
Because Dilma is no longer in power and the immensely corrupt, centrist neoliberal president is very friendly to foreign interests so it's not in the media's interests to decontextualize a bunch of isolated failures (like empty supermarkets) and pretend they're outwards symptoms of deep structural flaws. Same reason you don't hear about the crisis in Argentina.
lol of course. Blaming a very capital-friendly, center-left party that hasn't been in power for years, and even before that had all sorts of political limitations imposed on them, for everything. The anti-socialist logic.
Funny thing is that before that, every time the successes of the Brazilian economy were brought up these same people would credit FHC's reform and say Lula didn't really change anything so the successes were not really his credit. You're listening to zealots, their interpretation of reality bends according to their religion.
The union leaders behind the strikes are not labour union leaders, mostly they belong to unions for managers and owners. We call them sindicatos patronais (sorry but I don't really know how to translate that) and truckers for the most part are not wage-earning people, they own their means of transportations and make deals with companies. It's mostly a strike of owners and small owners against new taxes, something every american here must be familiar with. Most right-leaning political mass movements like MBL have even declared their support to the truckers, but left-wing people are declaring support as well because they think it can lead to a nationwide strike against Temer's government (which imo is not going to happen)
In general, the situation is not that bad and you shouldn't really listen to what brazilians on /int/ and Zig Forums because you're talking to a segment of the population that isn't very smart. Despite what people there might tell you, no, the supermarkets are not empty, we're not starving and the atmosphere is not a violent one.
Cooper Morales
Pic related always comes to mind.