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Bolsonaro and the Bandits: A Minion Adventure feat. Ryan Broderick

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It’s election season in America, which means terrible racist memes shared by people you hate. In that spirit, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) spoke with Ryan Broderick (@broderick), Buzzfeed’s Deputy Editor of Global News, about his recent article on how American tech companies radicalised the world. We talk about his experience reporting on the Brazilian elections, why Jair Bolsonaro wants to kill bandits, and how the future looks an awful lot like rich people reading the Economist and everyone else listening to Joe Rogan. You can read Ryan’s article here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-facebook-elections During the episode, Ryan referenced a David Wong article for Cracked, which you can read here: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/ Also, remember that your favourite moron lads have a Patreon now. You too can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/overview Don’t forget that you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/. Get whichever slogan you want, but get the damn shirts!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Right, so I just got back from Brazil.

0:02.9

Boy, my, I was tired.

0:04.8

I was there for a month covering the election.

0:08.1

J.R. Bolsonaro, just won.

0:10.5

He is not like Trump.

0:12.2

He's probably closer to Duterte or some crazier thing.

0:16.0

And from what I can tell, the big difference between him and the other candidates to really put him ahead in the polls is that he's just very vocally wanting to kill all the bandits, which in Brazil is a very realistic political strategy.

0:28.8

You can be like, I really don't have any other political insights other than I want to kill bandits.

0:34.4

And everyone's like, yeah, all right, it's kill bandits.

0:36.8

So, like, I have a couple of friends who said that, like, every uncle they have in their

0:40.3

WhatsApp was just like, I don't know much about this Bolsonaro guy.

0:43.6

Well, like, he's going to make guns legal so that me and him can get in a car together and

0:47.2

kill bandits.

0:48.4

He's going to paint fake tunnels on all the cliff faces in Brazil. Yeah. He's just got like a big box and then it's held up with a stick and they can just go in and kill bandits.

0:58.3

So for me, it's like the dream sequence in a Christmas story when he thinks about getting the rifle and then the men with the masks and the striped shirts come over the fence.

1:06.6

It's a very American reference.

1:08.3

But you got this guy got it. No, like, I think, as I could kind of understand,

1:12.7

Bandit is sort of a general term in Brazil for, like, lawbreaker.

1:16.9

But, like, particularly ones, like, in, like, favelas and low-income areas that, like,

1:21.0

kind of take over a bit.

1:23.3

And, like, they're just, like, you know, bandits.

1:25.3

I don't know.

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