tues., 31 may, 2022, brazilian social justice, i. [memorial day bonus]: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & total & entire 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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