In scenes reminiscent of the January 6 Capitol attack in the US, supporters of the defeated President #Bolsonaro, have marched on #Brazil’s Presidential Palace & Congress building, invading the floor of the Federal Senate & the Supreme Court👇#BREAKING
Two words…
Steve Bannon
#Brazil #Bolsonaro #Brasil #Bannon #Miller #ThisIsNotADrill
President Lula on “the anti-democratic acts” #brazil #brasilia #brasi #Lula #Bolsonaro
In 2015, Bannon tasked #CambridgeAnalytica’s @chrisinsilico to build a psychological warfare tool to hollow out democracy & rive open divisions in societies
It worked
And #Palantir, who rptdly taught Cambridge Analytica how to scrape data, are everywhere
A favourite quote of Steve Bannon's is from Milton’s Paradise Lost:
"It is better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven”
This video is from his War Room podcast after #Brazil's elections. (via @RonFilipkowski)
#Brasil #brazil #Lula #Bolsonaro
How Fascism works
1. Establish mythic past (“Return to greatness”)
2. Sow division (fear/hatred of minorities)
3. Attack the Truth (lie, distort, deny, & create “alt” reality)
4. Use democracy to destroy democracy
This is playing out - to various extents - in many countries
“The best way to understand #Bannon is to picture him as a travelling salesman peddling ideas that he hopes might take root…He needs vessels, he needs incendiaries. He’ll only be satisfied when the flames are blazing around him” @scheuermannc @derspiegel spiegel.de/international/…
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