https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/19/jair-bolsonaro-under-investigation-humpback-whale
Man resembling Brazilian ex-president seemingly spotted on a jetski about 15 metres from distressed mammal
Presidents like Bolsonaro and Trump are horrible for the citizens that actually have to live under them, but amazing for newspaper headlines lmao
Unfortunately they notoriously hate each other... Bolsonaro may well be an orca in disguise...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Federal police are investigating Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for yet another suspected misdeed: “harassing” a humpback whale while taking a public holiday spin on his jetski.
But the far-right ex-president’s latest suspected environmental offence reportedly occurred in the waters off Brazil’s south-eastern coastline near the town of São Sebastião.
“The man, thought to be Bolsonaro, was shooting a video with a mobile phone as the whale performed aerial behaviours suggesting distress or discomfort,” the news website iG reported.
Brazilian legislation outlaws “the deliberate harassment of any species of cetacean” such as dolphins or humpback whales, which are called baleias jubarte in the South American country.
Seafarers are also forbidden from chasing or invading the space of pods of dolphins or whales, or making “excessive noise – such as music, any kind of percussion or other [sounds] … within 300 metres of any cetacean”.
One year after losing power, Bolsonaro is facing a multitude of investigations into suspected crimes, including plotting a coup against his leftwing successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, misappropriating expensive jewels and faking Covid vaccination records.
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Might be a hot take, but prosecuting the leader you elected just one election cycle ago might not be a sign of a healthy democracy?
You're right. I wonder if the downvoters vote that way because they don't want to admit the US democracy is far from healthy right now.
Or maybe they think you were saying the prosecution side of it was the bad sign. Maybe you were, but I think the bad sign is that they were elected in the first place. And in Trump's case, no one can really say at this point that he won't be elected again.
They're suggesting that criminals should get a pass because of their political position. That's why they're getting downvoted. The "both sides are the same" shit isn't helping.
I mean, it's a bit of both. At the end of the day, the idea of democracy isn't to flip flop between fascist regimes that imprison each other, right?
It could be a sign of a healing democracy. If there was a regime that ruled against the interests of the people it was supposed to represent, how should it be dealt with if the people managed to get power back from them?