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Actually don't care if it's real or fake.
Brazillian courts are all fake.
@cjd at least it's not like Poland, where half of the courts are fake, but nobody can agree which half
The court system is really losing credibility. They've always kind of made stuff up as it suits them (Wickard v. Filburn) but now with the internet, everyone can second-guess them and have an opinion.
The big problem is that there's no realistic replacement. Possibly some kind of AI lawyers with massive-multiplayer-online-jury where jurors are given abstract philosophical questions which provide the glue that maps the facts of the case to an abstract model of law so that the actual judgement is something that can be checked with a proof verifier.
@cjd here it's more about the politicians intentionally subverting the process of appointing judges, effectively creating a hard fork in the legal state...
and because the polarization isn't limited only to the political class, but goes vertically throughout the society, there is little public pressure to bring the split chains back in sync, and politicians who propose to do that don't get many votes :/
@cjd what I'm worried might happen next is that election results will be validated in a way that is accepted in one chain but not in the other, and we'll end up with two parallel governments
And invariably the side that is pro-Russia (Caleb's Law of European Politics : One side is always pro-Russia) cries "we are being oppressed, Russia please help" or something to that effect, after which the problem resolves itself once again, also, by way of pure unadulterated power.
@cjd wait...
but of the 5 major parties, the only one which has voiced pro-Russia claims is the same one that proposes to merge the split chains 
From only those 2 pieces of information, it kind of sounds like they're more the pro-reconciliation party than really pro-Russia. Some of these "pro-Russia parties" are better described as not rabidly anti-Russia.
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