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Alarm Grows over 'Clearly Illegal' US Election Meddling in Brazil

71 points · 30 comments · robtherobber

matheusmoreira · 1790945162 · focus · HN ↗
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1. piva00 · 1790949007 · focus · HN ↗
  > This is not "interference", it's just normal speech.
  It's not normal speech for a 3rd party country to openly meddle in another sovereign country's democratic process. This isn't and shouldn't be accepted anywhere.
  Hence why whenever it's been done it's through covert operations.
  1. matheusmoreira · 1790950700 · focus · HN ↗
    > openly meddle
    What is this "meddling" ? TFA is pretty vague about it.
    piva00 · 1790954625 · focus · HN ↗
    Meddling is involving officials from a government into the process, providing support (through financial or state powers) to a specific candidate. Anything related to a 3rd country's political body participating directly (or indirectly) in the electoral process is meddling.
    > "Election meddling (or foreign electoral intervention/interference) by a foreign country is any action by a foreign government, or its agents, aimed at influencing, undermining, or disrupting the electoral process of another sovereign nation."
    matheusmoreira · 1790959438 · focus · HN ↗
    So you mean things like USAID funneling money into leftist brazilian NGOs? Yeah.
    <a href="https://www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/materias/2025/05/20/csp-quer-que-barroso-explique-fala-sobre-apoio-dos-eua" rel="nofollow">https://www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/materias/2025/05/20/csp...
    "We defeated Bolsonarism."
    Post your logic and/or evidence if you think this sort of thing is happening right now. Not even doubting you, I want to know too.

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