Shortly after he was first elected, fascist shitstain and Donald Trump cosplayer Jair Bolsonaro started releasing video after video boasting about the infrastructure projects he was helping fund throughout Brazil. One of them, bizarrely, featured music from Sonic the Hedgehog, and now itâs happened again.
https://kotaku.com/brazils-president-uses-sonic-the-hedgehog-music-in-vide-1832886520
While last time it was a relatively deep cutâthe theme for the second phase of the battle against Solaris, the final boss from the 2006 version of Sonic The Hedgehogâthis time itâs pretty much the most recognisable Sonic tune there is, the theme to Green Hill Zone. (If you see two tweets embedded below, itâs in the second one with a bunch of dudes standing around some concrete.)
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1298256840518561792
Bolsonaro obviously doesnât make these videos himself, but heâs the driving force behind what theyâre standing for: the wilful destruction of Brazilâs environment and a reprehensible disregard for his peopleâs lives (over 100,000 Brazilians have died of Covid-19, which Bolsonaro has ridiculed and refused to take seriously, despite catching it himself), all in the name of attempting to bolster… the economy.
Having all that as the context for the fucking Green Hill Zone theme is a very large slice of 2020.
