dead comedy forums posted:

actually I don't think they are going to arrest him, they just want to appease the ones who want it by leaving the possibility of prison open

Lula is ridiculously popular particularly in northern Brazil and I think a lot of people there are terrified that might be what it takes to get to spark one gigantic revolt

and imo Lula is aware of it, and he is playing along: if he really wanted to push things around he could just go to Garanhuns, his hometown in the Pernambuco hinterlands and ask "ok if you want to arrest me you come here"

and lol the military, most of their recruits in the southeastern major cities come from favelas with prominent criminal factions (there is a famous pic of a platoon in Rio de Janeiro battalion doing the CV handsign, which is for the red command faction), "Copacabana officers" (which Bolsonaro is one) are all about looking quite the paper tiger but when push comes to shove the stores on the street of the army headquarters in Rio got sacked and there was not a single action to help stop that