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    8 hours ago

    As much as I hate to link it, there’s more info on the old Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/comments/1jl5j2i/preelection_for_mayor_in_são_paulo_brazil/

    Lots more pictures, but specifically:

    This is from 2016, during the primary elections for mayor of São Paulo, the supporters of 2 candidates raided a polling place and harassed a woman working there, because they believed electoral fraud was being committed by hired supporters of the third candidate billionaire João Doria, who would proceed to win the primaries, the mayoral race, and then give up the job half way through his term to run for governor, which he also won, also supposedly through monetary means. Eventually he gave up his political career, after managing to essentially destroy what was the countries second or third largest political party. He was the governor that best dealt with the pandemic in the country, but he was still such a colossal Elon that his party essentially dissolved from sheer cringe.