Another poster linked to your previous comment regarding the rainforest.

What's your thought process behind your comment:

"If I had a button that would burn that entire jungle down and replace it with a top tier national semiconductor industry, I'd press it twice."

Given the following facts:

- Climate change is real

- The Amazon stores around 15–20 years of global CO2 emissions. Burning it down would release all that.

- It maintains the rainfall system needed by farms and general Brazilian economy

- There is so much biodiversity in the Amazon and so much unexplored. By protecting it, it preserves biological resources and research relevant to food and medicine.

- Many indigenous people live there (2 million?). So it's OK to just destroy their home?

Any why do you need to burn down the Amazon to build a Brazilian semi-conductor industry?

I think it's clear, if Bolsonaro Jr would have won, he'd continue his father's approach to it, i.e. continue with deforestation and loosen environmental rules.

> I'm not "amplifying" anything.

Says the guy whose comments are magically upvoted 6 times, every single comment. I don't know who you have to pay to get that unfair advantage, but I've seen several prominent users have this privilege (like @pjmlp x9). Also the opposite, users who are instantly downvoted on every comment. I'm guessing there are rings of puppet users who automatically upvote users such as yourself to amplify their opinion.

> however, is reply to me with these subtle implications of mental illness, as though my brain was not working correctly

Really? Here is a comment you made very recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228883

> If I had a button that would burn that entire jungle down and replace it with a top tier national semiconductor industry, I'd press it twice.

If you did a poll based on statements like these, 100% of people will tell you that you need serious help.

Brazil isn't alone in neither option being good. The US has their own (pro-bolsonaro, as fate would have it) supreme court enabled god-king at the moment.

Lula may well be guilty of corruption, but Bolsonaro (senior) isn't in it for wider Brazil either. I'm not trying to preach disillusionment, but in 2026 in most of the heavily polarised countries, if we start from a position that they are both acting in pure unadulterated self-interest we'll at least not have blinkers on with respect to the saviour fascist "says what everyone is thinking" strongman, or the current polished establishment status quo spokesman, etc.