Thread by @mariliacout

1 / BRAZIL ELECTS THE FAR-RIGHT CANDIDATE - the atmosphere is of terror and threats, democratic activists murdered and promises, from #Bolsonaro, to RETURN TO THE DAYS OF THE DICTATORSHIP. Below: results with 92% of the votes.

2 / Yesterday I read the public letter from a man my age whose father was tortured and murdered in the "dungeons of the dictatorship", as we called the DOI-CODI.
wakelet.com/wake/f4de18af-…

3 / He described the expression on the family dentist's face as they were called to collect the bones. I kept thinking about him the whole day. I wrote to him and offered help, any help. I can't imagine what he is going through now.
bbc.com/news/world-lat…

4 / I think of this boy (grown now) and his pain, his fathers bones, the crushed skull, the shattered teeth and all the signs of tortured the boy had to see. The dentist crying - the old family friend.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_…

5 / The question everybody is asking now is whether all this will returned. The "love it or leave it", that I remember so well from the Civics classes growing up under the shadows, now repeated and not remembered. But all I can think about is the boy,
bit.ly/2P9fQ9Z

6 / There is a reasonable number of scholarly publications about the dictatorship. Context, determinants and, more recently, oral history documents from survivors. I know all that. Still, I think about the boy.
jstor.org/stable/2068467…

7 / I think about the boy and I don't know how he's going to make sense of this, since even for me, this is still borderline surreal. Will there be other boys like him in 50 years? Will they have to pick up their fathers' bones?
washingtonpost.com/news/worldview…

8 / Then I think about who voted this thing, this demon, this unhinged fascist #Bolsonaro. I read some things - not as many as my friends there. Today, one of these idiots digitally laughed at this picture. This is Vladimir Herzog as he was found dead in his cell.

9 / The torturers were so arrogant that they didn't even try hard to actually make it look like a suicide. They just hung the beaten up body of the journalist like a piece of beef in a butcher shop.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_…

10 / How can anyone laugh at this? Did you know that many of the young people tortured and killed were Catholic kids, doing Jesus' work among the poor? Today, Jesus would be just a peace-loving, compassionate, benign hippie - the dictators didn't like hippies.

11 / Will the idiots spread their digital laughter over the boy's pain? How is he? What can I do? Nothing. There is nothing I can do. Part of me feels guilty for leaving. Part of me argues with that other part. They don't agree and here I stand, paralyzed, exhausted.

12 / Sorry about the typos. I saw the election results numbers and wrote this thread - no editing. I'll just leave it. You can probably guess where words are missing, have extra or missing letters.

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