They're only allowed to be voted out after they establish the rules of the game lmao. Military dictators are just puppets of capital used to organize society with force and when capital is happy with it they just move on from them. It's absurd to think they were voted out lmao. Every single liberal democracy that evolved from a military dictatorship still uses the constitution written by the dictators, i.e. Spain.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 days ago

then what happened

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Same as most Eastern Block countries. Except Romania, they chose other ways.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So did Brazil, and they actually threw theirs in prison.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, Bolsonaro was not a dictator; if he had been, we wouldn't have been able to remove him. He had far less power than he thought; that's why voting worked.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago

I would argue the same is true of Trump. It certainly was in his first term. This term has all the aesthetics of authoritarianism, but he is failing to consolidate power, which is kind of pathetic considering how much power in the US was ready to surrender on day one.