But whaddabout defunding police and letting social workers handle it?

Which side are you on? Rule of law or?

a reminder that many elites favored the election of Lula and it was the vote of elites that helped put him over the top; here's my election thread:

http://dagblog.com/link/brazils-lula-and-bolsonaro-statistically-tied-presidential-race-poll-35614

you can call Bolsanaro a fascist and it isn't going to affect the reality that, in this democracy, the majority of the lower classes prefer him to Lula socialism or your elite variety of socialism

Article only mentions  2 people, Steve Bannon and Ali Alexander:

I don't buy their framing! Of course they copied Jan. 6, that's a no brainer. But it's amazingly arrogant and imperialistic to boot to say Trumpies caused this!!! (Again, which is it? Is Trump a brilliant genius conspirator or a miserable stupid narcissist?) Did Bannon plot like the Yellow Jacket movement in France, too, with Putin's help? It's a chicken-or-egg thing. Bannon nor Trump nor Bolsanaro aren't causing it, they are taking advantage of what is really there. Wake up, stop conspiracizing and confront reality. Or you can keep doing the same thing that Qanon wingers are - hunting for bogeymen who control what happens.

I'm with him:

Again, to think of Brazilians as childish tools of American instigators is insulting, truly racist and imperialist, the real thing.

O.I.C, Bree's been an advocate for abolishing police and prisons, but only because those in the U.S go too slow fooling around with things like civil rights?

they're handling it

they're not children, they're just like us; let's try to remember not to get all imperialistic about it, as if Bannon and Trump are great puppet masters instead of grifters off of movements in the wind