Bolsonaro: Brazil to implement a new "Vanishing Indian" strategy

[Basilissa]

As of today, Brazil (one of the small landlocked countries in ungodly South America) has a new president. His name (Jair Bolsonaro) is too long to remember, so I'll just refer to him as "Brazilian Trump" - simple, easy to remember, and surprisingly accurate. Brazilian Trump is one of the Truest True Christians™ who try to put in ungodly South America. He's deeply religious, loves guns (especially the kind that is pointed at Indians and other political opponents), hates homosexuals, wants to put women in their place, and will defend the country from communist influence even if he has to establish a dictatorship to prevent commies from winning future elections.

The one thing that prevents Brazil from moving from shithole country status to first world country status, are the Indians living in the Amazon rain forest. The same way as became a world power after we took care of the Indians via genocide, starvation, and decades of forced assimilation, Brazil will move up by getting rid of its Indians. They are a vanishing race, anyway, and modern world has no use for them - neither for the Amazon rain forest they inhabit.

Hence, Brazilian Trump has a brilliant idea which make the vanishing race, well, vanish even sooner:

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is considering placing indigenous affairs under the ministry of agriculture, his future chief of staff said on Monday, a move that could give ranchers an upper hand in land conflicts.
Bolsonaro’s top aide Onyx Lorenzoni told reporters the move has not been decided yet, but said Bolsonaro believes that native tribes should be able to integrate to improve their living standards.
The plan reflects Bolsonaro’s view that Brazil’s indigenous people should not be kept apart from society on reservations and their lands should be opened to commercial activities that are currently banned.
In Brazil, killings over land are common and seldom punished, as powerful landowners, who often wield influence over local police and government officials, clash with farmers and others for control of lucrative agricultural and logging land.

Yes indeed! Move the Indians to cities where they can be used as cheap labor, and cut the whole rain forest to profit the 1%, that is a recipe for a True Success™!

[Dennis Lukes]

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I don't know how I feel about this.

In America, we sent diseases to decimate the red Injuns infesting our lands before finishing them off with cavalry raids. It seems a little presumptuous of this jungle beaner to claim he can do better than the US.


But, hey, if it works, it works. If Senior Balustrade is successful in solving his Injun problem, perhaps Trump should hire him for subcontracting work. All our remaining redskins are concentrated in a number of alcohol-saturated reservations and casinos. They'd be fairly easy to finish off.

[Johny Joe Hold]

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The one thing that prevents Brazil from moving from shithole country status to first world country status, are the Indians living Amazon rain forest they inhabit.Hence, Brazilian Trump has a brilliant idea which make the vanishing race, well, vanish even sooner:

Yes indeed! Move the Indians to cities where they can be used as cheap labor, and cut the whole rain forest to profit the 1%, that is a recipe for a True Success™!

Great information, Sister Basilissa. Wow, they are living in the rain forest. My rule is if the don't know enough to come in out of the rain, white people need to move them to someplace better. That would be cities where they can contribute to their country.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

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My rule is if they don't know enough to come in out of the rain, white people need to move them to someplace better. That would be cities where they can contribute to their country.

Plus, in the cities they can be housed in tents to keep them dry.

[Dennis Lukes]

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Plus, in the cities they can be housed in tents to keep them dry.

These savages live in the trees, so a tent would be a comparative luxury to them. I don't support giving luxuries away to poor people who can't afford them. Isn't a concrete ground fenced off with chain link and barbed wire good enough for these people? The Brazilians want to take them in out of the jungle, away from all the vipers and jaguars and other horrors. Their situation will improve considerably (though Brazilians are Catholics, not Baptists, so they can only improve their temporal situation, not their spiritual one). Predictably, the liberals will complain that these savages are not being given five-star hotel rooms and mansions free of charge, and that productive and useful members of the upper class are not being stripped of all their assets to pay for it.

The rich do all the work and the poor reap all the benefits.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

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This might deserve it's own thread: Brazil even has it's own "Proud Boys":

As evangelicalism reconfigures the spiritual map in Latin America's largest country, attracting tens of millions of adherents, winning political power and threatening Catholicism's long-held dominance, its most extreme adherents - often affiliated with gangs - are increasingly targeting Brazil's non-Christian religious minorities.

Priests have been killed. Children have been stoned. An elderly woman was seriously injured. Death threats and taunts are common. Gangs are unfurling the flag of Israel [Murder, child abuse, liking Israel - if these don't seem to belong in the same list, you're not from San Francisco, like the author of this article.]

...The global ascent of evangelicalism and particularly Pentecostalism, its fastest-growing movement, has led to violence against indigenous and African religions from countries such as Haiti, Nigeria and Australia... [Once again, if those countries don't seem to belong in the same list...]

Rio de Janeiro...[one of the most populous cities in the world]...the center of Brazilian neo-Pentecostalism, a zealous strain of evangelicalism more frequently linked to intolerance.

The mayor is a bishop in a Pentecostal church. The city is home to President Jair Bolsonaro, baptized in the River Jordan and carried to office by the Pentecostal vote. And it's the birthplace of the powerful Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, founded by Edir Macedo, a close Bolsonaro ally who wrote a book that condemns Afro-Brazilian religions as "diabolical" and "philosophies used by demons."

...More than 200 temples have shut down in the face of threats this year...

What can we learn to emulate their success?

...Television is overrun by televangelism. The evangelical music industry is worth an estimated $1 billion. Evangelical politicians have pulled the country rightward on social issues. And the prison system, long the gangs' most potent recruiting venue, has become the field for an entirely different [citation needed] kind of conversion.

Research shows that 81 of the 100 faith organizations working on social issues inside prisons are evangelical. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God says it has dispatched a volunteer army of 14,000 church members to proselytize the imprisoned....

"Some pastors and denominations strategically bet on converting traffickers in privileged places in the hierarchy of crime,"

...An 11-year-old girl was told she was going to burn in hell, then was hit in the head with a rock. A 65-year-old woman was stoned. Images of her badly bruised face flashed across TV screens throughout the city.

A Candomblé priestess was forced, at gunpoint, to destroy all of the artifacts inside her temple, while gang members taunted her.

"All evil has to be undone in the name of Jesus!" one man said in a video of the assault. "I am all for the honor and glory of Jesus!" another added.

[MitzaLizalor]

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Brazil’s right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is considering placing indigenous affairs under the ministry of agriculture

Is the idea to reclassify savages as vermin? I've heard they can be quite destructive.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Armed-neo-Pentecostals-torment-Brazil-s-religious-14891440.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)

I read the piece you linked and noticed this statement from a missionary:

"When I see these [temples], I pray against it because there's a demonic influence there,"
-said David Bledsoe, an American missionary who has spent two decades here.

These are the last days and of course we need to pray without ceasing. When the mechanisms commanded by God for informing the world of His power and majesty are relegated to the scrapheap, the certainty of His consistent modus operandi denied, the Love of Jesus rejected and orgiastic cults given equal credence what hope for humanity remains? Depraved fads continue and I wonder how a modernist would describe God's methods (or even identify them) if they were handed down in response to prayer.

My question is whether God's standard is claimed to have changed.

Is it a different standard or is it a different God?

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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When Jesus and God spoke of helping the poor, he did not mean helping the wilfully poor.

If these characters want to squat on good land in hunter-gatherer mode and reject the work-ethic of the capitalist Christian West and, as a consequence, they deny others valuable resources, then they are hindering those who wish to sell things to their fellow man and thus bring "trickle-down wealth" to the masses.

Indeed such peoples are unworthy of any help or consideration.They revel in their poverty and, in the manner of all communists, they want to bring everyone down to their level, rather than boosting them up to mine or yours.

The American "Red-Indian Problem" was never really solved - it was postponed and we are dealing with drunken injuns supported by casinos.

These Brazilian savages are the same as Red indians - they worship idols and will end up teaching decent men and women to do the same:
Deu 20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
Deu 20:17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
Deu 20:18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.


I think it was God who said "Peace is proportional to the number of enemy dead. And naturally God wants total peace.



I'm sure I will be proven right when I say that Bolsonaro will go down in Brazilian, if not World, History