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What does the president's motorcycle rider represent?
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In Brazil, political demonstrations are allowed, it has always happened, however, people usually go out on foot in the streets and Bolsonaro did something different, he organized events that brought together people only with motorcycles and this shows the face of the government, the one that doesn't care at all. none with the environment.
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That's because each motorcycle pollutes 17X more than a car and this can greatly harm the health of the surrounding residents, who may be supporters of the president or even against. I'm helping with the campaign of a federal candidate, Max Rodrigues, I'm not here to campaign politically, but he is known in the city where I live, for organizing solidarity pedals, in these events, he always walks kilometers with several people, so I don't pollute the environment environment and still helps in the health of those who are participating, the president of Brazil should do the same, help the population, ask for help from his supporters without harming anyone's health.
Another interesting fact is that this attitude of going out
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on a motorcycle is not something original from the president, Mussolini, an Italian fascist dictator, also paraded on a motorcycle to demonstrate power, and it is not surprising since the president has always been accused of being a fascist , even before winning the elections.
But an American expert has said something far more bizarre about it in the past: “The motorcycle is clearly a sex symbol.
It's a phallic symbol. It's an extension of the penis, a bulge that demonstrates power between your legs," Bernard Diamond, a University of California criminologist and psychiatrist, told Hunter S. Thompson in 'Hell's Angels,' a journalistic study by the master of new journalism on biker gangs. in the USA of the 60s.
According to the article on the website “Hypeness”, this practice was also common in Nazism, another coincidence of the Bolsonaro government with that of Hitler, but in the following chapters I will talk more about it.
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But it is clear to those who are for or against the president, the intention of these motorcycle riders is to show that the president has the majority of the population on his side, some even increasing the number of motorcycles that actually participated in the event, and on top of that some supporters even raffle prizes (as I said before) for those who participate in the events, even raffling off motorcycles to attract more people.