Diary of a Brazilian Patriot - #1

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NOTES FOR WHO IS READING:

1. Although of the political bias contained in some parts of these blogs, the stories retract mostly an illusory and uncertain narrative of the future of the country.

2. That’s just my opinion. Don’t take it too seriously because it’s literally a 13-year old kid writing random biased crap on a quiz site. I previously asked for Stewart’s authorization before having a pandemonium on RUB

3. No matter if you support a side or the other, respect everyone and feel free to debate in a controlled space.

Hope you enjoyed my return to blog, because I didn’t.

October 31st, 2022

“Dos idiotas, quero só vaias; e das pessoas que me apoiam, aplausos”

— FERREIRA, Nikolas.

“From the idiots, I only want booing, and from the people who support me, applauses”. This sentence was spoken literally yesterday, on the day of the Second Round of the Presidential Elections in Brazil, by the recent-elected most voted federal deputy of the history of Beloved Homeland Brazil: Nikolas Ferreira, one of my greatest inspirations. What a pompous sound to speak, yet a genial mind...

“Eu acredito piamente que no meu país vai se levantar uma legião de jovens, guerreiros, dispostos a recuperar aquela soberania que nos foi retirada, e fazer com que os nossos filhos e netos tenhamos orgulho de termos nascido nessa pátria tão abençoada.”

— CARNEIRO, Enéas.

“I firmly believe that in my country a legion of young warriors will arise, willing to recover that sovereignty that was taken away from us, and make our children and grandchildren proud to have been born in this blessed homeland”. Giant man that was Enéas Carneiro! The only “president” that wasn’t elected! When everyone didn’t give a bit to what he was saying, calling him of “dumb” or “stupid”, he just claimed his well-deserved appreciation after he rests eternally. I was born two years after he passed away. What a pleasure it would be to know well who he was...

“Os mortos recebem mais flores do que os vivos porque o remorso é mais forte que a gratidão.”

— FRANK, Anne.

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude”. I can relate myself with Anne Frank. Two adolescents unknown by the society that became famous by their spontaneous opinions in moments they were under pressure. Sweet and ingenuous girl she was...

“Aquele que não conhece a verdade é simplesmente um ignorante, mas aquele que a conhece e diz que é mentira, este é um criminoso.”

— BRECHT, Bertolt.

“He who does not know the truth is Ignorant, he who knows and not speaks up is Criminal.” Bertolt Brecht... Didn't knew a lot about this guy. I searched about him and discovered that he had a marxist ideology, which goes against almost all my political views. But I discovered this quote, and I fell in love with it. Reminds me of what we are passing through right now...

“Deve-se aprender sempre, até mesmo com um inimigo.”

— NEWTON, Sir Isaac.

“We shall always learn, even from an enemy”. And we close the quotes up with Sir Isaac Newton. He was an interesting mind on the physics, and apparently, on the way of seeing the world...

The interesting about each of these quotes is how they looked to be stuck in my subconscious through all of the thirteen years I’m just existing. It’s like they were needed to me some time, although I didn’t notice before. Five different minds (although Nikolas and Enéas are on the same side of the coin) that are interconnected by minimal things. That is what fascinates me in the world of the quotes. You know, considering the actual moment, it would be better I never had the unhappy opportunity to read them, because the feeling was of “I don’t need to expose it if I’m feeling good and victorious by myself”. Yet, the life is full of opportunities for everyone. We only curse our own lives because the sad moments are the ones that really moves us. The happy moments just passes really quickly because we don’t, the most of the times, have the opportunity to thank God that they exist to ease the usual tension on these dirty and confusing streets and avenues.

I think it’s impossible to understand some peoples’ happinesses and felicitations, because this is a subjective concept, where each one has the own viewpoint of the world. It was impossible to understand the day of yesterday. Fireworks, honks, shoutouts, that were entering in a ear, and for some reason, weren’t leaving to the other one. Stuck in my head as a stupid idea, or a sad moment that life had to propitiate. I wanted to cry because of the nightmare I felt I was living, but I simply couldn’t tear a single drop. I also think it’s normal to the human doesn’t be able to cry while being sad. The tears are only ways to try to expulse desperately our hurts and wounds we wouldn’t like to have. If you can’t cry, I guess you get yourself on a dead end because there is not a way to expulse any hurt or wound you feel. That’s why we feel sad. Listening to the words “The former president and candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is re-elected with 50.9% of the votes” was like listening to the words “You don’t have where to get out. You must die for your own preservation”. I finally teared up incessantly, scared of what my future would be. I was just trying to expulse this idea I had of like “everything got screwed now, and you’re now the doomed one to suffer with your own personal disgrace by 4 consecutive years with chance of up to 8”. The red color taking the streets in São Paulo, in Brasília, in Rio, in BH, Salvador, Recife, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Manaus, wherever I would shoot a dart in the Brazil map, there was the “red of communism” propagated by “brainwashing” electoral campaign. Good ol’ days of the green and yellow, the patriotism, and the sensation of belonging to a great and beautiful country of the beaches, the forests, the mountains, and the hospitable people.

I don’t even know why am I entering on the politics so early. I mean, I’m just 13 years old, which ironically is the electoral number of Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party), where Lula is affiliated to. There has to be a concrete reason of why I feel frightened by what shall happens next. Is it listening to maybe parents’ private conversations while I was sat in my bedroom, watching TV or surfing the net? Is it the own internet, that, whatever I would search, anything political related would estimule the way my brain would think? Is it, who knows, the coexistence with my classmates at school? Some of them making the “L” or the “13”, some of them making the “gun” or the “22”. Or it also could be my own existentialist characteristics of being a Christian, a Bolsonarista, a Brazilian interested but dummy in geopolitics and what is happening to my neighbor’s grass. The gamma of factors and variables that made my existing and stupid-thinking brain was full of possibilities or probabilities, and I, supporting Bolsonaro, Lula, or even none of them at these two opposite political blocks had to learn that we have to pass through all the moments we have, sometimes happy, sometimes sad.

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Level 43
Oct 31, 2022
"Oh yay MG is out of procrastination how happy I am now"

MG: Well yes, but actually no.

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Level 50
Oct 31, 2022
I agree, it can be very hard to understand other people's perspectives but if you can understand them, it is very helpful. Great blog and good luck to Brazil.
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Level 43
Oct 31, 2022
Thank you, I know it won’t be easy for me, but life exists because of the challenges they give to us.
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Level 73
Nov 1, 2022
MG's finally back!

I didn't quite like the first quote: "From the idiots, I only want booing, and from the people who support me, applauses." Who are the idiots? The people who don't support him? Why call them idiots? Everyone has their preferences and they might think of him as the idiot. I don't really expect such words to be delivered by a politician.

Anyway, what's the situation like in Brazil now that Lula's the president?

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Level 43
Nov 1, 2022
yea... im... back...

From what I understand it, the idiots are the ignorant people who always wanted that you’d fell down. This is also subjective, and, like I said about happiness, it changes of concept from person to person. But anyways, he spoke that in the heat of the moment (after voting and being asked about the different reactions about him on the electoral college), so it can have a tad of ambiguity. Also, the “idiots” are, at most, people who say bad things about Nikolas on the internet, annoys or get annoyed by him, always wanting him to get screwed, which is an idiotic atitude, no matter the political view. We just don’t like to admit by ourselves.

And it is excellent! We are now having some focuses of a truckers’ strike, drug dealers and prisoners celebrating because Lula will disarm the citizens, Ortega and Maduro congratulating... and the actions of Brazil in the foreign relations fell down and dollar raised! I was expecting way worst things! ❤️⭐️ irony

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Level 70
Nov 1, 2022
VIAV BRASIL!! !! !!!!!!! !!! 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
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Level 43
Nov 1, 2022
W

*commits suicide*

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Level 66
Nov 2, 2022
Oook
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Level 67
Nov 2, 2022
I'm going to visit Brazil in january of next year and my goal is to see every single state of Brazil so yeah.

And very good blog :)

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Level 43
Nov 2, 2022
If people offer dogs to you in there, don’t worry, these will be the first effects of LULINHA’s government :3

And that’s amazing! I just wouldn’t recommend you January because it’s really expensive, and rainy in the most of the country. But you can talk about these details with me :)

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Level 67
Nov 2, 2022
I already have everything prepared so it's basically locked in as January 5th.

I'm gonna spend about 5 days in each state

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Level 43
Nov 2, 2022
Oh, but, maybe I could help on something, mainly on the security point.
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Level 43
Nov 2, 2022
*dogs to eat
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Level 43
Nov 3, 2022
there were 13 comments, not anymore, thank God
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Level 67
Nov 3, 2022
I'll be fine in the security department mostly because I'm 6,4 and about 270 pounds and I tend to work out.
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Level 43
Nov 3, 2022
Wdym lol
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Level 67
Nov 3, 2022
I can protect myself plus I'm not going there alone.
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Level 43
Nov 3, 2022
Anyways, please avoid favelas lol
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Level 53
Nov 3, 2022
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Level 43
Nov 3, 2022
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