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machado34 t1_j6axpjo wrote
Reply to comment by Narpity in Brazil police raid Bolsonaro nephew's home in uprising probe by loggiews
Not married, secret lover. Him and Carlos Bolsonaro have a long standing affair that's an open secret, but since homophobia is a big part of the Bolsonaro Family Brand, they've put a lot of effort concealing this in the past few year
machado34 t1_ixkqwn0 wrote
Reply to comment by chenjia1965 in Brazil's electoral court rejects Bolsonaro election challenge by vitorgrs
Brazil's presidential election is based on majority voting, so having over 50% of valid votes is necessary to win (even if by a single vote). If no single candidate accomplishes this, there's a second round of elections, where only the two most voted in the first round compete, so whichever of them has the most votes will have the majority.
Legislative elections are held by state, but there is no district system like the U.S. Senators are decided by who has the most votes, no majority required (for example, a senator could be elected with just 15% of the votes if everyone else has fewer votes (like a bunch of canditates getting 10%). The House election is awarded to parties by state, and the most voted candidates for each party get their spots. So let's say there is one million votes and 10 spots on the House for a certain state. You divide the total votes (in this case, one million) by the number of spots (in this case 10), getting the electoral quocient (which would be 100k in this example). So if Party X has 420 thousand votes in this state among their candidates, they've reached enough to have 4 chairs for their congressman, and the 4 most voted candidates of that party will be elected, with the rest being their substitutes (in case they need to vacate the chair for any reason).
Apart the election, the actual government system is VERY similar to the US
machado34 t1_ix6trjq wrote
Reply to comment by Chagrinnish in [OC] Sex Ratio Imbalances in Persian Gulf Countries by kgunnar
Ripe for a revolution if you ask me
machado34 t1_jcvzrpn wrote
Reply to comment by Lemesplain in The photo that was the inspiration for Jamie Lee Curtis' character in EEAAO by woutomatic
>Compare Steve Jobs and his turtlenecks. If someone used that outfit for a character, there might be some money involved.
Nah, Glass Onion did it and it's at least covered by parody laws