I don’t know who they are supposedly quoting, but it sure sounds anti-Tolkien to me. Have they read the source material at all?!
[NEWS] “Marnûkh is a character meant to challenge long-held perceptions of Orcs. He’s such a departure from past depictions that within the production, Marnûkh has picked up the catchy nickname, “the Orc with an arc.”
#TheRingsOfPower
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🇫🇷 The French Senate has passed the “Rioters Pay” bill, making rioters financially liable for damages during public demonstrations.
They can be ordered to pay up to €10,000 ($11,000) for property damage, even if they did not personally commit the vandalism.
Liability covers anyone who “knowingly participated” in a group formed to vandalize, or who stayed after two police dispersal warnings.
Social media platforms must remove content inciting violence, vandalism, or insurrection within 24 hours of an authority request, or face blocking and delisting.
To recover unpaid damages, the state can seize parts of social benefits, including family allowances, housing assistance, supplements, and France’s minimum-income benefit.
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I see a lot of people, including the left-wing media and Democrats, running their mouths about Bolsonaro, calling him corrupt and accusing him of money laundering. LOL. Yet none of them want to talk about the actual truth about Lula and the corruption charges he was convicted of.
So let’s talk about that.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was convicted of corruption and money laundering in Operation Car Wash, Brazil’s biggest graft scandal.
In the Guarujá triplex case, OAS handed him a renovated beachfront apartment as a hidden bribe worth roughly R$2.2 million, tied to Petrobras contracts. In 2017, Judge Sergio Moro convicted him of passive corruption and money laundering and sentenced him to 9 years and 6 months. The appeals court unanimously upheld the conviction and increased his sentence to over 12 years.
He spent 580 days in prison.
In the Atibaia ranch case, he was convicted again for renovations worth about R$1 million, paid for by OAS and Odebrecht, at a property he and his family used. His sentence? 12 years and 11 months.
Then, in 2021, while he was out of office, the Supreme Court overturned the convictions on procedural grounds. The court ruled that the Curitiba court lacked jurisdiction and that Moro was biased. The cases never went to a new trial on the facts, and the prosecutions ultimately ended because of statute-of-limitations issues.
After slithering back into the presidency in 2023, Lula appointed his own personal defense lawyer from those same Car Wash cases, Cristiano Zanin, to the Supreme Court.
His own defense lawyer. On the Supreme Court. Ironic, isn’t it?
And that same lawyer is the one who granted the 2-hour extension for voting in the 2026 runoff, where Lula magically gained enough votes to win.
So the next time you see the media and the left gushing about how wonderful this man is and portraying him as a martyr, LOL, remember the truth.
Lula is the actual dictator thug who was convicted on corruption charges.
Not Flávio Bolsonaro.
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ELEIÇÃO ROUBADA NO BRASIL? 🇧🇷
BRAZIL ELECTION STEAL? 🇺🇸
🇧🇷Este professor de matemática aponta que os dados divulgados pelo TSE na noite da eleição, no Brasil, revelam padrões de alterações algorítmicas que prejudicaram @FlavioBolsonaro à medida que a apuração avançava. Ele estima que Flavio deveria ter vencido com cerca de 65% dos votos.
🇺🇸This mathematics professor shows the data that came out of the TSE on election night in Brazil shows patterns of algorithmic shifts that penalized @FlavioBolsonaro as the counts came in. He projects that Flavio should have won by about 65% of the vote.
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Profesor ekonomii na uniwersytecie stwierdził, że kiedyś oblał całą klasę. Ta klasa upierała się, że socjalizm działa i że nikt nie powinien być biedny, a nikt bogaty, że wszyscy są równi...
Nauczyciel powiedział im: „OK, przeprowadzimy eksperyment z socjalizmem w tej grupie.
Wszystkie oceny będą uśrednione, a każdy dostanie tę samą ocenę, więc nikt nie oblany i nikt nie dostanie 10”.
Po pierwszym teście oceny zostały zsumowane i podzielone przez liczbę studentów, i każdy dostał 8.
Studenci, którzy uczyli się intensywnie, byli zdenerwowani, ale ci, którzy uczyli się mniej, byli zachwyceni.
Gdy zbliżał się drugi test, studenci, którzy wcześniej uczyli się trochę, uczyli się jeszcze mniej, a ci, którzy uczyli się intensywniej, powiedzieli sobie, że oni też chcą „darmowego prezentu”, więc też uczyli się mniej.
Średnia z drugiego testu wyniosła 6.
Gdy przeprowadzono trzeci test, średnia ocena wyniosła 4. Ku wielkiemu zaskoczeniu wszystkich studentów, wszyscy oblali.
Nauczyciel powiedział im, że socjalizm w końcu zawiedzie, ponieważ gdy połowa populacji widzi, że nie musi pracować, bo druga połowa się nimi zajmie, a gdy ta połowa, która pracowała, zdaje sobie sprawę, że nie ma sensu już pracować, bo inni korzystają z ich pracy, to jest koniec każdego narodu.
Ta historia może być bajką, a nie faktem, ale morał jest prawdziwy.
Za @nettermike
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ULTIMO MINUTO!
El Presidente del Tribunal Superior Electoral de Brasil, Kassio Nunes, acaba de hacer una advertencia demoledora contra Lula..."No existe ninguna regla que permitiera extender las votaciones dos horas", como lo hizo a juro y en forma personal el exabogado de Lula y ahora miembro del Tribunal Supremo, puesto por Lula, Cristiano Zanin...Esa extensión, solo en áreas donde dominaba el partido de Lula, revertió la tendencia que era a favor de Bolsonaro...Da a entender Nunes que la elección presidencial del domingo en Brasil puede ser anulada, toda, o los votos emitidos después de la hora oficial de cierre...En este último caso, Bolsonaro sería el vencedor y nuevo Presidente de Brasil.
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Former Venezuelan presidential candidate Alejandro Peña Esclusa is right. It is impossible for the right to have won the parliamentary elections 20 days ago so convingly and for Lula to have won yesterday with four million votes. As my friend Alejandro says, this was a coup.
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>be Lula
>get convicted of corruption
>get sentenced to 12 years
>get released by the STF on procedural errors
>never actually acquitted lmao
>beat Jair Bolsonaro in 2022
>Jair gets thrown into jail over an alleged coup attempt
>Congress votes to cut his sentence
>Lula vetoes it
>four years later, face his son
>during a debate, threaten to also lock him up if he loses the election
>election day
>former private lawyer, now STF judge, extends voting by 2 hours nationwide
>request came from Lula's own coalition
>win by 4 million votes in a runoff with no paper trail
>next day, Moraes orders the losing candidate to surrender his passports
>victory speech: "we're going to regulate social media"
>"democracy" lmao
>RIP Brazil
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If, by the way, the same situation that just happened in Brazil had happened but with the parties switched -- if Bolsonaro had won last night's election and then a pro-Bolsonaro judge sent the Federal Police to seize Lula's passport and bar him from leaving the country -- every major western media outlet and liberal NGOs would be screaming about the authoritarian attack on Brazil's elections and the destruction of basic freedoms.
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Brazilian journalist Malu Gaspar says all Superior Electoral Court ministers were against the idea of extending the voting in Brazil by 2 hours.
Zanin, Lula’s former personal lawyer, appointed by Lula to Supreme Court Justice made that decision anyway
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JUST IN: 🇧🇷 Over $200,000,000,000 wiped out from the Brazil stock market at open after Lula da Silva wins Brazil's presidential election, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro.
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Aqui ainda debruçada sobre papéis, contas, estatísticas, números, fatos. Nada faz o menor sentido.
𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐨 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐨:
- Maior bancada de direita da história na Câmara e no Senado.
- Maior número de governadores de direita.
- Flávio na frente. Lula o único candidato de esquerda.
(Votos da direita divididos entre 3 candidatos).
𝐒𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐨:
- Quase todos os votos dos outros candidatos de direita vão para Lula.
- Milhões saíram da abstenção em número histórico.
- Virada histórica de Lula 𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐬 𝐨𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐬. Em apenas três semanas, quem elegeu o Congresso mais conservador/liberal da história resolveru votar no Lula.
- Lula cresceu em 5.838 municípios e Flávio apenas em 184.
𝐁𝐎̂𝐍𝐔𝐒 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐋 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔:
- Pesquisas que sempre erraram para a esquerda davam vitória ao Flávio. Mapa do primeiro turno majoritariamente azul.
- 4º mandato de um presidente nada popular.
- Virada inédita do 1º para o 2º turno.
- Queda histórica de nulos e brancos.
- Ex-advogado do candidato (indicado por ele ao STF) atendendo pedido para interromper a possível vitória do oponente.
- Fiscais expulsos da sala-cofre.
- Usurpação de competência do TSE pelo STF.
- Suspensão da apuração após o início.
- Datafolha e mais 18 pesquisas e trackings errando o vencedor.
🤯Em poucas horas, Lula sai da maior rejeição em 30 anos como político para o maior fenômeno eleitoral da história do Brasil. Fenômeno absoluto em estados profundamente conservadores como GO, MT, SC, PR e RS.
🤡Mas tudo dentro da normalidade democrática, claro. A da Venezuela.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! A defiant Flavio Bolsonaro just walked out and declared THE RESULTS ARE INVALID after Lula STOLE it from him — BOLSONARO IS MOVING TO ANUL THE RESULTS.
"It is impossible—it is IMPOSSIBLE—to recognize the election results in the context of how these things happened. We are going to use our legal team; we are going to ask for the annulment of these elections!"
"I will never know, in a state where the polling stations were not reopened, how many votes I could have received."
"A Supreme Court justice, for the first time in history—Lula's former lawyer—issued a unilateral decree at the request of a former law partner of his, and changed the rules of the game in the middle of the game!"
"At 5:01 PM, Justice Zanin—who is not part of the Superior Electoral Court—trampling over the specialized electoral court, made a decision extending voting by two hours. This had never happened in the history of Brazil!"
Good.
This needs to happen.
America is with you, FLAVIO! We all saw the last-minute cheat.
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Few poems describe a gentleman's character better than Kipling's "If—," and few men read it better than Sir Michael Caine.
Have a great Friday.
