Jair Bolsonaro: Far-right candidate wins Brazil poll

Honestly just being silent would do. As would being ignored. The press in Brazil tried to do to this guy what they tried to do to UKIP here, repeatedly bring them onto high profile shows to dunk on them, aren't their views outlandish and all that. As with UKIP it backfired and just gave them a route to prominence.

Well I think in Brazil the "centrists" largely backed him for power.

Typical indigestion by the Left in the face of another electoral defeat, he may be all that the BBC and the Guardian frighten us with but... he defeated their preferred leftist candidate by a mile. It's that pesky thing of having to deal with the people, that irritating bunch that keeps getting in the way of world domination, isn't it?

Because given the choice between a centrist or a fascist, the left will gladly take the centrist, while given the choice between a moderate socialist or a fascist, the centrists will take the fascist. Fishhook theory in action. But it doesn't change that but for the press highlighting him, he'd have remained an irrelevance

You quite nicely sum up the right today. You take you're views solely based on what will 'piss off the left'. Here you are defending and supporting a man who has advocated torture and is quite openly homophobic because it annoys the left.

If you replace socialist with defunct post 2008 crash unreconstructed third war blairism then yes -___-

Nah, if they're slightly left of full fash they're a socialist. Get with the enlightened centrism program. Like the BBCs very fair reporting, asking if the guy who *checks notes* thinks the problem with the dictatorship was it only tortured rather than killed with too many people is actually just a refreshing break from political correctness:

I'd be open to attack if you could find anything on record where I 'support' (rather than endorsing) or criticise any electoral choice of any persuasion in any other country, that might validate your assumption of 'special treatment' about this one only because he annoys you. However, there is no evidence of it at all. Nothing on Maduro or any other democratically elected leftie, simply not moved to pass judgement on what people in other countries do with their votes. I'm not supporting him, the Brazilian electorate did.

It's that 'democracy' thing completely evading you the way it does with so many lefties, it is beyond your understanding and for good reasons. Brazilians are the only people qualified to judge him, why does he bother you so much? They must know of all we know.

He said whatever he said in the past and people in Brazil have voted him President nevertheless. It doesn't bother them as much as it does at the BBC or the Guardian and they couldn't care less about it, it is only for you guys to play with at home. But do go on...

You seem to have gone from a respectable poster into an angry 4chan tribute act. Heck you couldn't even bring yourself to condemn the Trump fanatic who sent pipe bombs to a Obama and Clinton.

Oh, I'm angry? There is you and the rest moaning about another electoral choice in another country, frustrated as f**k because a 'horrible' and 'disgusting' man on a BBC monitoring list has been elected President, the amount of time and space dedicated to it ticking on a daily basis, the vitriol well up there with anything he's ever said.... and I'm the one who's angry. Yeah, it's driving me up the wall seeing you so laid-back about it all. I'm angry like Emily Maitlis going over to Hungary to confront them on their 'human rights' record, she looked well put off by it. People like her have no time for democracy either.

Regimes like Hungary absolutely should be held to account for their human rights records. You seem to think that just because someone has been elected that they should not be questioned or criticised and that any criticism is an affront or disregard for democracy. Which is a pretty bizarre position to take if you claim to love democracy. You seem to think any criticism at all of Trump is unacceptable.

Yep. let's send the tanks rolling into Budapest like your Soviet brothers did. It's not about having a problem with criticism of Trump or any other democratically elected world leader, the problem is the demented nature of it at times and how it comes from the most dictatorial and anti-democratic quarters of the political spectrum. Nah, you and the BBC truly and utterly don't understand it and that is what makes you dangerous.

I do think lefties become too unhappy when elections don't go their way, it is obvious at every step that they don't spare a thought for the mere fact that... their opponents were democratically elected.

Because given the choice between a centrist or a fascist, the left will gladly take the centrist, while given the choice between a moderate socialist or a fascist, the centrists will take the fascist. Fishhook theory in action.

Big lesson to take from this for the left is don't bother trying to appease these people. Lula and Dilma bent over backwards trying to bring the Brazilian elites along with them so they could enact fairly moderate social democracy, and the latter still jumped at the first opportunity they got to force them out, even if it meant a fascist in office instead.

Socialism or barbarism innit

On the contrary, it was Bolsonaro who suggested he might not accept the results if he lost - Haddad has been fully respectful of the process (despite the obscene attempts to kneecap the PT at every point possible in the last few years). A la Trump and Clinton respectively in 2016.

Looks like you typed Barbarism twice there, might want to fix that