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2026-09-25 18:05:35 UTC

Personalescrito on Nostr: "During this extremely important Brazilian election, The Economist's coverage has ...

"During this extremely important Brazilian election, The Economist's coverage has been, to be polite, quite off the mark. And it's relevant b/c Brazilian neolib media makes headlines out of it, trying to bestow foreign credibility on their own right-wing biases.

Economist bad takes include false equivalencies btwn Flávio/Lula, downplaying serious threat of foreign intervention by US & Israel, and endorsement of a right-wing provocateur partially responsible for institutional crisis caused by Dilma's impeachment in 2016, who loves Milei, wants to Make Brazil Bukele Again, and invest in a nuclear weapons program while cutting social spending." - Andrew Fishman, president & co-founder, Intercept Brasil

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