Elon Musk decided to attack the minister of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court, judge Alexandre de Moraes.
In recent days, the owner of the platform X (formerly Twitter) has approached itself the Brazilian extreme right, which on January 8 attempted to carry out a coup d'état.
Paradoxically, Musk says that there is no freedom of expression in Brazil and that the orders to take down the accounts of those extremists who defended the end of the Democratic Rule of Law and the return of the military dictatorship in X would be a type of "censorship" and not defense of a democracy against agents who were openly attacking it.
The funny thing about this story is that Musk, who has factories in China and does business with Saudi Arabia, has never criticized these two countries for their lack of freedom of expression.
Elon Musk's messages on the platform actually served to regroup the far-right in Brazil and to give life to the theses contrary to democracy defended by this political sector.
The billionaire, therefore, is working to help mobilize this far-right political forces in Brazil, which, after this clash, is already mobilizing a new act, called for by Bolsonaro, and which should bring together his supporters on the 21st in Rio de Janeiro.
Musk arrived on the scene at a time when Bolsonaro and the Brazilian extreme right were weakened, mainly due to the numerous accusations of corruption involving the former president, among them, the case of the jewelry that Bolsonaro allegedly received in Saudi Arabia (it is good to remember that the Saudis gave jewelry to Bolsonaro amid lobbying for Brazil in OPEC) — Bolsonaro could be indicted in the jewelry case, the penalty for the crime of embezzlement is 2 to 12 years in prison and a fine.
Musk's attacks on judge Alexandre de Moraes gave new strength to an right-wing extremist agenda that had been demobilized. It served to regroup certain bases of Brazilian far-right propaganda and gives voice to extremist and violent theories that mistakenly defend the that in Brazil we live in a dictatorship of the Judiciary. That is not true.
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