Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a “brat” after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon. Bolsonaro questioned the coverage news media have given Thunberg, 16, who on Sunday tweeted a link to a story about the murder of two indigenous people in…
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Calling her a brat is comparatively harmless I would say. I heard him say a lot worse things today in the News …
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To which statements do you refer (we have an extremely right wing press here in Britain)?
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e.g. the one where he said that he made a mistake when he said that we would not give a centimeter of land to the indigenous people, no, what he meant was that he would not give them a millimeter.
And then something that he wants a gun in every household, which I don’t really understand, because that would cause a civil war and people would fight back when the police is killing them. He does not seem to think much before speaking. I understand that they call him Brazil’s Trump.
Then there is this guy in the Philippines, another nutcase. And people vote them into power!
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Truly shocking, but I think he does know the effect of his words. He doesn’t believe in democracy…
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