If the Brazilian judicial system had any integrity the proper thing would be to disbar those lawyers and their law firms permanently, not fine them, unless said judicial system is more interested in earning money from fines rather justice.
If the Brazilian justice system had any integrity, it would not be illegal to attempt to catch the court shirking its duties. A note would be made of whether the court was or was not shirking its duties, and if it was, the court would be punished.
> If the Brazilian justice system had any integrity [...] the court would be punished.
Where to begin...
The Brazilian supreme court essentially runs the country monocratically alongside the executive, bypassing the senate and congress.
We had to elect enough opposition senators to form an absolute majority in the senate with the explicit goal of impeaching the supreme court judges for infinitely worse violations than this.
Even after this herculean effort, nothing is guaranteed. The judges are nearly omnipotent and might just find a crime to hang our senators with before 2027. The crime of the day is foreign influence: they accuse our senators of having been financed by Americans.
Nothing new under the sun. Their side was financed by USAID too. If they're going to hang people for that, they need to do it to both parties and themselves.
> So you first argued that the courts were using false charges of foreign influence
Nowhere did I say the charges were false.
> as a political weapon
It is a political weapon.
Seven minutes after losing the presidential election, an order to seize Flávio Bolsonaro's passports was signed by supreme court judge Alexandre de Moraes. He's being investigated for several things, including illegally receiving money from banker Daniel Vorcaro as funding for a film about his father, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. The order caused him to flee the country and seek political asylum in the USA.
The judge himself has dealings with Daniel Vorcaro: he messaged the judge on WhatsApp and asked whether he should leave the country in order to escape arrest. The judge's wife received millions of dollars from the banker as well.
It's all so brazen and transparent that I come off as unhinged when I try to explain it. Reality is unrealistic.
Even PCO, the most extreme left wing party in Brazil, calls it political persecution. Literal trotskyist communists call what they're doing political persecution.
> Moraes's actions have nothing to do with defense of democracy and everything to do with the fact the PL candidate had almost 60 million votes and assembled expressive numbers in congress and in the senate.
> With this, he could impeach certain members of the supreme court.
> So the persecution is because of this, it's a power play.
Only a fool would stick around and accept judgement from some stalinistic kangaroo court that's guilty of the same crimes they accuse him of and worse.
Talk about yourself, buddy. I do not vote for a bunch of fascists just because some judges are being overreaching and hypocritical in their persecution of people who are as bad or worse than themselves. Specially when these same senators just want to flip which side of this terrible equation gets screwed, instead of going after both. You're just choosing between 2 corrupt sides anyway, and worse, you're choosing the most anti-democratic one.
No. We, the Brazilian people, elected these senators.
> I do not vote for a bunch of fascists just because some judges are being overreaching and hypocritical
"Just" because?
These judges were not elected. Not a single Brazilian voted for these judges. Yet they legislate and execute. They have been "overreaching" since 2019, seven years now.
If you're going to accuse people of "fascism", then you should start with these judges and work your way down.
> Specially when these same senators just want to flip which side of this terrible equation gets screwed, instead of going after both.
There is no way for the senators to do that. Senators don't appoint supreme court judges, presidents do.
I do understand your concern, though. Many of my friends cited this as their reason for voting against Bolsonaro. They didn't want him to appoint four judges to the court. I had the exact same concerns about Lula.
It's quite telling though that we're even evaluating candidates based on how many totalitarian judges they will have in their pockets. Can we at least agree on how utterly backwards and wrong this is?
The plan was to impeach the judges and then limit their power by converting the supreme court into a purely constitutional court, just like the US supreme court. That would permanently fix the problem, no matter who wins the elections. People told me that Lula promised to do this and it's technically true, but I seriously doubt he's going to do it. He plans to rule through the court.
In America, the court systems are overwhelmed. The majority of cases are plea-bargained because the court doesn't have the capacity to hear them all. "Shirking duties?" Having an AI help (and I mean 'help', not 'be solely responsible') to identify the cases that deserve attention is stepping up to it's duties, IMHO.
And ... I didn't read this as an attempt to catch the court shirking it's duties. They weren't going to report the court, they were just going to take advantage of having achieved a low profile for the case.
I didn't publish the server because it's a vibe coded mess, but if you point your Opus 5.5 at the zip and ask for YouTube-like site it will be basically instant. This part was like 3 min.
EDIT: one caveat is that i couldn't distribute the YouTube data so you'd have to create a (free) API key for that part. Luckily it's only ~1 min of hassle.
Cloudflare has put up a notice saying that the site is suspected of phishing, but doesn't block access to it. The site has been reported as some kind of phishing site, someone clearly doesn't it.
The issue of sites like this is their one-sided nature. If they are going to be fair then they should dump the archives of all the other parties, then AfD supporters will not be able to claim that they are being set upon.
Acts like these have the ability to create sympathy and dislike in equal measure for their targets.
I don't suppose you are aware that Trump won the Presidential election despite his open racism, the ongoing criminal prosecutions against him, and his sympathy for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, soft touch on Israel's genocide and his harsh ICE-led anti-immgration policies.
This is a man who openly stated that you could grab women by the crotch yet won the votes of a significant amount of women, twice.
If you have any intelligence you will never underestimate right-wingers sense of victimhood, grievance and feeling that they are the poor, oppressed, ignored downtrodden people who need to rise and fight against "The Powers That Be" and the sympathy that engenders in others.
If these "hexane.cc" guys have any sense they should do the same for the other parties, who I'm sure have documents and communications that will be as equally embarrassing and let the voters judge.
Don't be scared of these guys. I think calling out fascism/racism is always good. Why? For one it sets a counter-example to the "racism is ok" narrative. It must be opposed publicly.
> never underestimate right-wingers sense of victimhood
Exactly, the right will play victim anyway. Not calling them out or even saying "well, other people are racist too" is arguing on their terms. Looking for racism among other parties to capitulate to the right is not an effective use of our time.
The one that pulls the trigger is often not the one doing any targeting, especially on a strategic strike weapon like a tomahawk. They are receiving a target data package with preprogrammed instructions. Their role is far more... mechanical. They're not seeing the targets at all.
I would argue `s/pulls the trigger/gives the go ahead/` is intuitively more appropriate. The sailor on the boat that fired off the tomahawk (iirc) was likely not in a position to make an in-the-moment determination
Completely disagree. When we’re talking about something like air, missile, or artillery strikes, the operator of the weapon system may literally never even see the target, on a screen or otherwise. They may simply be entering targeting information provided to them by an operations center. These decisions are social and group decisions, with distributed responsibility, which is why it’s so important to have institutions like the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence which historically has identified and helped implement the policies which prevent these kinds of disasters, but which unfortunately the current administration decided to shut down without a replacement.
Sometimes, the difference between a successful strike on a lawful combatant and disaster is one analyst pointing out that the building the enemy is hiding in is next to a square that’s used for a market on Tuesdays and wouldn’t you know it, it’s Tuesday. That’s not something the person “pulling the trigger,” can always be expected to know, which is why every ops center needs to be designed to elevate those voices, when the time comes
Which part of the widely held and propagated opinions that such big corporations are owned and run by sociopaths/psychopaths do these NGOs not understand?
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