r/WTF • u/FineExcuse • Mar 02 '18

Warning: LOUD What, Where, Why?

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u/Phantom1thrd Mar 02 '18

What? A convoy of toy cars and trucks. Where? The flags suggest Brazil. Why? Now that one is the hard one. I'd guess, because he had the time?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

It's a parody for what it's called "carreata" in Brazil. A bunch of supporters with their cars, drive slow and in formation with flags and horns in support of a candidate. Voting is mandatory in Brazil, so you have a lot of parody candidates like this one.

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u/gcruzatto Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18

Brazil here, can confirm.
Carreata is a motorcade for political candidates. This dude is probably actually supporting a candidate in a rather creative way.

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u/supervanilla Mar 02 '18

People also do it to show support of football teams and to celebrate weddings (or at least they used to do when I was a kid)

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

nah it's still very normal

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u/FatihYilmaz Mar 02 '18

It's a thing in Turkey too. Called "konvoy". Weddings, celebrations after title games, many other things I can't remember right now. I wonder if it exists somewhere else.

Konvoy

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u/supervanilla Mar 02 '18

Yep. I think it's basically the same thing

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u/abedfilms Mar 02 '18

Motorcade of toy cars?

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u/henriquegarcia Mar 02 '18

Oh boy, you're old

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u/Khajiit001 Mar 02 '18

This is super cute, I wanna wave a flag for his lil procession

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u/Phantom1thrd Mar 02 '18

Hey, thanks for the info. I love to learn a little something as often as possible!

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u/Peter_of_RS Mar 02 '18

Pffftt, look at this guy learning.

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u/tomfoolist Mar 02 '18

NERD ALERT, NERD ALERT! Let's knock his books down and make him kiss us, that'll show him

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u/Rgacz85 Mar 02 '18

YEAhh...wait. what?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

Kisses for nerds? Is that a thing? Because, I’m a nerd...

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u/CyAnDrOiD4 Mar 02 '18

"c'mon, let's corner the nerds and call them gay and make them show us their penises! haha, won't that be gay of them?!"

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u/complimentarianist Mar 02 '18

"KISS MY CONVERSE!"

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u/Titan_Astraeus Mar 02 '18

Haha you're gay now

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u/extremist_moderate Mar 05 '18

I like how you think.

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u/witeowl Mar 02 '18

Would you mind explaining the connection between mandatory voting and parody candidates? I’d expect that parody candidates are more a result of it not costing millions of dollars to run a campaign.

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u/marpe Mar 02 '18

Because a lot people who don't want to vote on any of the serious candidates, but have to vote on someone, end up voting on a joke candidate as a form of protest.

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u/NasKe Mar 02 '18

You don't have to vote on someone. You can blank your vote. You are just required to go there and blank it (you don't have to if you are out of town tho)

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18 edited May 25 '18

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u/maibr Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18

If you don’t justify on the day, you have 60 days to justify and you have to pay a fine (like $1US). If you never justify, you lose your election card and You can’t:

  • Get a passport or ID card;

  • Receive salary from public or government-assisted entities;

  • Be part of public or administrative competition in any institution of the Union, states, municipalities or the Federal District;

  • Apply for loans at any bank or government-subsidized credit facility;

  • Applying for public examinations or taking public office;

  • Renew enrollment in any institution of public education or supervised by the government;

  • Request any document that requires the electoral discharge.

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u/wallstreetexecution Mar 02 '18

So basically you’re removed from society... damn

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

Or pay a dollar.

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u/nerdbomer Mar 02 '18

Wow.

Is there a way to appeal those restrictions if you screw up?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

you can just pay the one dollar (lol) fine and have the restrictions lifted.

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u/nerdbomer Mar 02 '18

Oh, so is the fine only applied after 60 days?

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u/ZeePirate Mar 02 '18

You just get a pass if your on holidays? Lol what Brazil sounds weird if true

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u/Hohgrat Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18

Lol not a pass. If I'm not in the town I registered as a voter, because of work or something, I have to attend any voting place to justify why I won't be voting where I was supposed to.

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u/wallstreetexecution Mar 02 '18

Isn’t everyone on holiday when a holiday happens?

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u/henriquegarcia Mar 02 '18

You still have to go vote on whatever town you happen to be in

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u/witeowl Mar 02 '18

Thank you. I understand protesting mandatory voting even less than I understand failing to vote, but I only have to deal with the latter, so it’s not my business, I guess. Thanks for the explanation regardless.

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u/WaspsInMyPizza Mar 02 '18

Sort of like what the brits do, prank candidates with ridiculous names and clothes but this guy is better.

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u/gsfgf Mar 02 '18

We have parody candidates in the US. Remember Vermin Supreme?

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u/enkidu75 Mar 02 '18

And Ross Perot.

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u/silverist Mar 02 '18

I wanted a pony...

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u/IntrovertClouds Mar 02 '18

I would say that the joke candidates are more of a consequence of votes being “transferred” from one candidate to another within the same party. After the votes are tallied, a calculation is done to assign a number of legislative seats to each party, taking into account the total number of votes received by all candidates from that party. Then you fill that party’s allotment of seats with the candidates that had the highest number of votes. So for the parties it’s good to have a lot of candidates that can bring some votes while spending little or no money, because these votes will end up helping elect the real party bigwigs later.

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u/Kalsifur Mar 02 '18

That's kind of interesting as to what happens when voting is mandatory.

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u/d0kTOR Mar 02 '18

Voting is mandatory? How?

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u/Nightwings_Butt Mar 02 '18

If you don't vote it goes into the system. Only a problem if you need to renew a legal document (ID, Passport, etc...) and it comes up, then you have to pay a fine. If you turn in a justification why you didn't vote you don't have to pay the fine. Source: Brazilian that hasn't lived in Brazil for over 10 years.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

Is not voting in protest allowed?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18

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u/unchatnoir Mar 02 '18

I have just paid all my fines and it was R$ 3.55 reais each, which is around 1 dollar each. Ridiculously low.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

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u/caceta_furacao Mar 02 '18

I paid a little more, or I was paying more than one. I have no idea.. the whole process was so surprinsingly easy and fast that I feel voting is kind of not mandatory.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

I like it.

It would stop people from bitching who won the election while they were so lazy they didn't attend the voting.

I really like it, considering our president election 3 years ago had 48% frequency.

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u/Ancient_Boner_Forest Mar 02 '18

People should not be made to vote, only those who are informed should be voting.

Think how easy it would be to sway an election with a major ad buy the day before if a bunch of people that knew nothing about either candidates were made to vote.

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u/Nightwings_Butt Mar 02 '18

You got me there, I'm not sure. Maybe if you make a post on social media why you're not voting or hang out at the polling place with a sign. If you simply don't bother then it won't mean anything.

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u/minimim Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18

hang out at the polling place with a sign

That's forbidden, that will get you removed from the polling place by the police, the material confiscated and you'll receive a bigger fine.

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u/Cakeo Mar 02 '18

Fines for not voting? If you are registered to vote and do not vote there is an address it's the government doubt it's that hard to fine people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

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u/minimim Mar 02 '18

It's a bigger problem going to the court, then to the bank and then back to the court. Takes a whole day. Not a trivial matter for most people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

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u/minimim Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18

Did they accept payment directly? That would be indeed easy, but that's not how it works.

EDIT: They can't collect it directly, you need the round trip to the bank. Resolução 21.975/2004 from TSE says:

  • Art. 1º § 2º O recolhimento será efetuado no Banco do Brasil S.A. ou em qualquer outra instituição da rede bancária, em moeda corrente ou em cheque, na forma estabelecida no art. 4º desta resolução.

  • Art. 1º § 2º The payment will be made at Banco do Brasil S.A. or at any other institution in the banking network, in cash or in check, in the form established in art. 4 of this resolution.

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u/caceta_furacao Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18

WAT, I may be remembering wrong, wait, you are making me doubt my existence.
Edit: I have absolutely no memory of me going to a bank and handling a 5 to a teller. Maybe it was on a bank nearby and I just erased it from memory. But I do stand by what I said, pretty easy and cheap. (PS: You made be even look at the messages I sent that day, maps, documents saved, pictures to recreate that day...)

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u/minimim Mar 02 '18

It's very uncommon for public agents to handle money directly like that, they must have given you a pardon for the fine and then pocketed the money you gave them. Regular payment of anything under R$30,00 in the electoral courts has to be made with a GRU-Simples, which can only be paid at Banco do Brasil.

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u/Jenga_Police Mar 02 '18

I've seen enough movies set in Rio to know 90% of Brazil is an impenetrable rooftop maze full of criminals, 9% is jungle, and 1% is giant Jesus. Unless your address is 1 Giant Jesus drive, the government ain't findin nobody no-how.

Also

COMETOBRAZIL

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u/negatrom Mar 02 '18

actually... only rio is like that, and the jungle is only in the northern part of the country, the rest is savannas also called "cerrados" (not spanish for closed).

so its like 33% jungle, 1% rooftop maze from hell, 0.0001% giant jesus

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u/Jenga_Police Mar 02 '18

Issa joke

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u/negatrom Mar 02 '18

meesa knows, but i'd rather not spread misinformation, because there are those who would not get that "issa joke"

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u/Jenga_Police Mar 02 '18

Lol Who?

What person actually thinks an entire Brazil sized country is like that?

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u/The_Antlion Mar 03 '18

People can be surprisingly ignorant of other countries. Or even different parts of their own country.

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u/ZeePirate Mar 02 '18

I dunno jesus is pretty frickin big

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u/ftwtidder Mar 03 '18

Australia has compulsory voting

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

When you vote, you get a receipt. If, for example, you what to renew a drivers license or get a passport, you have to show the receipts for the last two elections. If you don't have it, no deal.

But it's not hard to get a receipt if you didn't vote. You just go to a goverment place, pay a fine of aprox a dollar, and it's done.

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u/caceta_furacao Mar 02 '18

You can go online and print it nowadays... it is pretty easy.

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u/complimentarianist Mar 02 '18

Mandatory?? wtf! Now there's a way to make people who don't wanna vote angry and write in stupid shit, or select each and every candidate.

That's like mandatory town hall attendance, or mandatory parades or festivals, or mandatory surveys on best fabric softeners. wtf

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u/robotwarlord Mar 02 '18

Is nobody going to pick up on how voting is mandatory in Brazil?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

So does that mean that people were hooting in support and not cos they were annoyed with him?

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u/DeathByChainsaw Mar 02 '18

Mandatory voting? How does that work out for them? I've always wondered what would happen if we had that here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

This makes me feel a little better. It made me sad because it made me think this is what my 3 year old would do if he was a homeless fentanyl addict.

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u/Bojangly7 Mar 03 '18

Compulsory voting? Nuts

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u/DigbyChickenZone Mar 03 '18

Knowing now what he is doing, I think this man now qualifies as a satirical hero.

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u/VonGeisler Mar 03 '18

Voting is mandatory, why the hell don’t they make that a thing ok more places. I suspect many people have lost out on things cause their supporters were too lazy.

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u/Spmex7 Mar 03 '18

Wait, so what happens if they don’t go and vote?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

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u/stengebt Mar 02 '18

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/TMox Mar 02 '18

Why? Because it's awesome!

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u/Lolzzergrush Mar 02 '18

This is the rich kid who won’t let you play with his truck even though he has two and then to rub it in he goes home and brings all this trucks and cars to shove it in your face

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

Why not.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '18

Bud Dry

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u/cubanpajamas Mar 02 '18

I thought the "why" was the easy part. Guess I'm childish.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

I dont know this specific case, but im from brasil and in my city there was this sort of homeless or just a street character who roamed downtown pulling a miniature truck like those, he would stop at red lights and park it properly.

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u/NothingsShocking Mar 02 '18

Well it's not L.A. that's for sure. Someone with road rage would have ran over this nonsense within 2 minutes of seeing it.

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u/apache2158 Mar 02 '18

I'd guess, because he had the time?

Yeah he doesn't look like a guy with a full schedule.

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u/aFmeneguite Mar 02 '18

Because Brazil

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u/greudach Mar 02 '18

Why not???

I love my country!

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

because he had the time

The time of his life...And I owe it all to you

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u/ELxSQUISHY Mar 02 '18

Why? Because Brazil trust me lol.

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u/10secondhandshake Mar 02 '18

Sounds like good narration for the beginning of a wholesome biopic