I posted that more as a knee jerk reaction to a general hopeless feeling. A sense of concern and uncertainty seems to be growing here.

Discussions around censorship have emerged, discussions about controlling the internet, the president's party appears to be aligning with authoritarian interests, and our political system is becoming more and more oligarchical. This has led to a resurgence of corruption, frequent tax increases without improvements in public services, a rapidly devaluing currency, and rising inflation. Violence is completely out of control, more people got killed here last year than most of northern hemisphere summed.

The judiciary, with members appointed by our current president, is overstepping the Legislative authority. The government is undermining statistical credibility as if lying about it would make people feel better about inflation and purchasing power eroding, and civil society is becoming increasingly apathetic and hopeless instead to protest.

Did you saw Putin's New Year Eve message to his friends? Our president is among them, and this isn't just a coincidence. Our president's political party is openly in favor of the electoral fraud that happened in Venezuela. The peace plan that our president is lobbying internationally for Ukraine is basically "give all that Russia wants". There's this quiet but steady realignment of Brazil to be "anti-western" and a not insignificant chunk of my kin looks to be in favor of that.

International media may not pay much attention to these issues, they hardly cover Brazilian internal affairs, but things here isn't looking good at all. Maybe some reaction emerge in 2025, but I'm not optimistic about that.