points by lenkite 4 days ago | 0 comments
It was extremely amusing. Brazilian election law generally sets 5 p.m. Brasília time as the deadline for closing polls. The judge who made the emergency ruling to pause counting and extend voting hours by 2 hours was Cristiano Zanin Martins - Lula's former personal attorney. The same guy who Lula nominated to the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil in June 2023.
[–] canadiantim 4 days ago
Yeah it’s alarming how much HN users are willing to support corruption so long as it’s their preferred candidate doing it. Really is all just tribalism to most posters in this thread so far
[–] cowlevel 4 days ago
How is letting more people vote corruption? I'd say it's corruption whenever anyone can't vote.
[–] matheusmoreira 4 days ago
Everyone had more than enough time to vote. The courts said that verbatim back in 2022. Why change opinion now?
[–] cowlevel 4 days ago
Last week my mom said we didn't have any orange juice. This week she said we have orange juice. Why the change?
[–] Rapzid 4 days ago
She must corrupt. Is the door dash driver her ex personal attorney?
[–] matheusmoreira 4 days ago
You think a supreme court judge, who was once the candidate's lawyer, ignoring his own court's precedents, to try and help said candidate, is in the same conceptual space as your mom being confused?
[–] CRConrad 3 days ago
His mom isn't confused. They didn't have juice last week, they do now. Somebody went and got some in the mean time: i.e, circumstances changed.
Not to understand this obvious intent, or not to see how the same could apply to the Brazilian election is a sign of either being confused yourself, or... Something worse.
Really, honestly: That post of yours from a couple of years ago that someone linked to in this thread — you should take that advice.
[–] matheusmoreira 3 days ago
I think I was confused by this mom analogy. From my perspective, it came out of nowhere. Made the wrong inference. I apologize if I offended. I was focused on possible conflicts of interest, there were none in the analogy.
Can we simply disagree without these nasty insinuations of mental illness and bad faith?
[–] cowlevel 4 days ago
Is my mom confused?
[–] anderber 4 days ago