Brazil election: many scientists relieved as Lula wins surprise victory

889 points by burtzev 13 hours ago on reddit | 11 comments

Tamination | 9 hours ago

I live in Canada, not a scientist, and I'm relieved.

rajanjedi | 6 hours ago

Wondering if this is because of missing bot farms that Ukraine took out.

SovieticBacon | 5 hours ago

Not really.

The left organized and mobilized. We took to the streets to protest and show support to Lula in what are now the biggest political rallies of Brazils history,

Students traveled to meet with the working class to try to convince people who hasn't voted in the first round to vote and to convince Bolsonaro's supporters that his policies were harmful to everyone, them included

We neutralized the spam and bots and even got around Meta's attempt at reducing our posts engagement by making a mega whatsapp group/channel with 10 million people to do coordinated actions, posts and social media manifestations, making the algorithm work in our favor

And even the moderate right wing showed support as they saw the thread Flávio posed to democracy

We fought literally everyone and everything you can think of - Meta, X, Trump, Brazilian militia, our own big media, corrupt bankers, we even fougjt against traveling agencies and bus companies that tried to keep people from voting.

saichampa | 3 hours ago

True grass roots vs the astroturfing we often see these days

PianistPitiful5714 | 5 hours ago

And I hope that this continues. Showing the world the formula means that we have no excuse to not do the same in our own countries.

mascachopo | 8 hours ago

Anyone without a flat EEG should be.

first_lvr | 10 hours ago

world is fuck if we cheer political stuff

no wonder china is decades ahead of us, they bypass this stuff and go straight to development, research and tech advance

ThatGuyRedditing | 9 hours ago

“scientists shouldn’t care about politics. we should have a political system like china where it allows them to focus on their work”

🤦 you are literally celebrating a political system right now

AdminClown | 8 hours ago

The air you breath is political

Goldfishyyy | 7 hours ago

China is removing one of the best players on earth, Kylian Mbappe, from their edition of FIFA 27 for criticizing their government. Dont act like theyre not on their own political bullshit too