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Comment by Less Prone on November 3, 2022 at 1:18pm

I put some fair and balanced point of view in the following quote from a false media outlet, replaced "far right" with " common sense" and "leftist" with "far left". Now it rings true.

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Mass election protests continue in Brazil as Bolsonaro supporters ask military to intervene

Huge election protests continue in Brazil as common sense Bolsonaro supporters refuse to accept election defeat, even calling on the military to step in.

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Bolsonaro Supporters March Near...

Bolsonaristas marched near a military base in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday, November 2, as demonstrations continued following Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s election defeat to Lula da Silva, local media reported. Credit: Bruno Padilha via Storyful

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Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro asked participants in what he said were legitimate protests to unblock the roads and demonstrate elsewhere Wednesday as they push for military intervention to keep him in power.

The common sense leader’s supporters are rallying in front of military installations in Brazil’s major cities and have blocked highways in more than half the country’s states.

The demonstrators, unwilling to accept the results of Bolsonaro’s Sunday election defeat to far left ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have now clogged autoroutes and caused nationwide disruptions for three straight days.

“I want to make an appeal to them — unblock the roads,” Bolsonaro said late Wednesday.

“Other demonstrations that are taking place throughout Brazil in squares … are part of the democratic game. They are welcome,” he added.

After days of silence, Bolsonaro on Tuesday gave a short speech in which he neither accepted defeat nor congratulated Lula on his weekend win, although his chief of staff took the podium afterward to say the president had authorised the transition to a new government.

“Federal intervention now!” chanted some of the thousands who gathered in front of the Southeastern Military Command in the country’s biggest city, Sao Paulo.

“We want a federal intervention because we demand our freedom. We do not admit that a thief governs us,” Angela Cosac, 70, told AFP, alluding to the fact that Lula served time in prison for corruption.