Passion.
Brazilians are heading to the polls, this morning, in one of the hottest election in years. On one hand, the right one, countrymen and women have incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. The firebrand has made much news, over the course of his reign, with provocative statements, eyebrow-raising stories, a great and important friendship with professional surfer Gabriel Medina. “I’m expecting our victory, for the good of Brazil,” he told reporters as he cast a vote for himself. “God willing, Brazil will be victorious today.”
On the hand, this one left, sits Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, a former union leader, who was once much-loved and president for seven years but then got tossed in jail but then released.
The race is impossibly tight.
“Politically, Bolsonaro is stronger than had been imagined,” said Rodrigo Prando, a professor at Mackenzie Presbyterian University in Sao Paulo. “Mathematically, Lula is in front.”
No matter who wins, one thing is certain. The World Surf League has signaled its intent to come south and mine a precious resource from the developing nation and ship it directly north, to the United States of America, and its vast eyeball and click vaults.
In naked provocation, WSL CEO Erik Logan told Brazilian news outlet Exame, “Currently, there is no other market like the Brazilian one for professional surfing. Just see what happens with our events held in the country. When you arrive at the Saquarema stage and see 50,000 people on the sand, the passion of Brazilian…”
The thought remained unfinished, though was clearly taking a left turn.
Or maybe right turn.
In either case, talk of a United States-based company referring to the Brazilian “market” for “our” events smacks of such colonization-era behaviors that it is, frankly, shocking.
Do you think either Bolsonaro or Lula will be able to stand up to the Yanqui menace?
Trouble.
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I went back and bought the latest TSJ mag to puruse the JP article after dropping it several years earlier and here’s why:
Also in the mag is an interesting read and interview with Wayne Lynch. No other surfer influenced me more in the early days than he and Riddler…Lynch has always interested me but he succombs to the paradox of trying to be both ying & yang with regards to the ‘progression of surfing.’ That said he boldly claims that: The industry (surf), its like a bag of chips to a pack of seagulls. They get in there and get what they want. They don’t give a shit.
I get it. What I don’t get is his insistance that colonialism has overrun indiginous peoples. We know that! He and all of us have dealt with that as we’re travelled the world and mixed and mingled with cultures other than are own. But we don’t preach…we teach and learn, and bring the experience back and take to heart in our individual lives and share.
WSL is tageting the market of emerging Brazil? Give me a fuck off! Wave after wave of migration and resettlement is the history of the world, both modern & ancient…but we remain. Lynch is an Ambassador for a enviro-friendly clothing outfit…
TSJ purports the same tactics; as does Stab & Inertia. Here, most of us understand the irony and blow it off. With respect to all. WSL and their ilk are a ripple in the wind.
We all just wanna watch good surfers surfing good waves. No complaints? My Mick fanning sandals finally gave out…if I follow marketing, I guess I should get a pair of Crocs, or Rainbows, Uggs, and/or Birks. Or just go back to the basics and go shoeless…
interesting to see Wayne now develops property , had a big inheritance and well he was and still is sponsored by the Industry ………colonialism hasn’t over run indigenous culture . it has affected it negatively , but we are now able to revisit history and right the wrongs , which is now in all parts of Australian society……teach/education being an active part of reconciliation …don’t just whine about it do something, be an active part of change!
Tchau, motherfucker.
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vai pro caralho kkk
Most people can’t vote after a prison stint, this cunt gets votes, lefty criminal
Cry is free
Desfrutar!!
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So Lula wins by fraction of a % , and now the games begin……
was it a fake election result ?
will Bolly accept the result ?
will his supporters accept the result?
Will Trump decide it was rigged against ol mate Boly?
Will Gabby win the saquerma event and proclaim he is president?
Will surf fans turn on the WSL’s colonialization plans and put a hit out on Elo?
Currently more questions than answers….
So many trees for the WSL to plant down there, especially if Bolsonaro wins the comp.
in the Amazon….I can see the headlines now …..WSL save amazon , planted 50 trees!!
Ordem e Progreso e a great marketing opportunity for Corona and Jeep and acai bowl confrontations. Also, so much forest land to chop down, mine out, exploit, etc. A future market for WSL’s green washing & shrub planting
The correspondent buried the lead. Medina is a Bolsonaro proxy? Promoting the economic benefits of razing the Amazon on Tucker Carlson? Clearly in breach of WSL values. Stakeholders must departner Medina immediately.
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Portuguese is spanish being spoken by a drunk Frenchman.
drunk posting…
Oi Chas
How come you didn’t manage to squeeze anything about Gisele (Brazil’s most famous female surfer) into this story of political intrigue ?
By the looks of this intense shot of her setting up a well overhead barrel she’s the type of woman who could handle a man ‘in office’, a man with power and sway (neither Tom nor Kelly).
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And she definitely seems to possess the required backdoor credentials…
theme song for an imaginary lover…aka Gisele…tonight I will stare & listen…
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ELo is a small albeit annoying zit on the ass cheek of surfing.
He’s trying to colonize The Doctor Pimple Popper crowd…and here the Good Doctor Oz is running for office…let’s not discuss sex, religion, and/or politics…all of which is out of our hands…well, 2 out of three ain’t bad_
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