[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to
give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective,
obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]
BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: Tapar o
sol com a peneira... ‡‡
‡) Lit., “Cover the sun with a
sieve...” =
a Brazilian aphorism
used by graffiti muralist Paulo Ito to refer to the billions & billions of
dollars that had been spent by the Brazilian govt. on the World Cup, &
after that, the Olympics, while making deep cuts in programs to fight poverty, & dislocating
thousands of residents from the stadium sites, all of this galvanizing the Brazilian
public, resulting in protests &
riots, & esp. to the very weak
gestures the govt. had made in response to the protests; Paulo Ito tapped into the zeitgeist with a
mural that had adorned the front doors of a São Paulo schoolhouse, a mural
depicting a starving Brazilian child of the favela w/ nothing but a soccer ball
on his plate, & virally-replicated
on social & a-social media all over the world, web media & television — whether left- or right-wing... & after
everything they still wound up with a fascist lawn troll as president, that
fascist lawn troll being Jair Bonsinaro, who’s now trying to beat the
#PutinSponsoredUrineSoakedOvalOffice for the worst leadership during a pandemic,
after doing his damnedest to let the Amazon forest burn down.
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from curse + berate in 69+ languages, from Soft Skull Press
http://www.topix.com/br/sao-paulo/2014/05/mural-of-starving-brazilian-child-eating-a-soccer-ball-goes-viral
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