What are two big lessons we can learn from Brazil's shock election? First, Lula is one of the 21st century's few, true political giants.
"There are few people who have more significantly changed their country and the world than Lula."
Second, this was not a "shock" election:
📸❗️ Flock supporters often say that "if you're doing nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about." But this argument is absurd—and it's not new.
Here's journalist Glenn Greenwald in 2014 eviscerating this pro-surveillance propaganda: