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[–] 173 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 97 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The U.S. is always on TV and it's depressing af. I have a co-worker here in Australia parroting American neonazi talking points.

    You need to be quarantined.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Can I get out first? I don’t care to see if they decide to imprison me for being trans or put me on a work farm for taking psychiatric medication.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago* (4 children)
  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm imagining they don't do a full audit too often

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    [–] 57 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Gotta take the power back.Make the billionaires scared to show their faces

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago

    Yep, fascists taking over will do that to a country 😬

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    “Land of the free”, they said. Freedom of speech, and all that.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Land of the free, whoever told you that is your enemy

    The use never was free, other countries consistently had actual freedoms that the US never had

    The one major freedom that the US just only had the freedom to have guns, no matter how stupid it was. You're a 5 year old? Here, shoot a gun!

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ... alongside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia.

    Historically, Tiwana said, the US has been “considered the beacon of democracy and defense of fundamental freedoms”

    What a fall from grace. Il Duce would've been glad.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fall from grace my ass. People are just now noticing that everything America has ever been is a cardboard set piece used to hide the piles of garbage in the background. This country has never been anything more than a lie.

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

    Italy?

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Uhhhhhhh Meloni is also a medium-far right semi-crazy. She's not sig heiling but she's in the same league as AfD.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Melōni and Her crew attended the same far right neo fascist meetings as Polish neo fascists so I was afraid about her but since she took office even Donald Tusk said that she is a reliable partner so I get the impression that at least in Brussels couloirs she baheves reasonably. How does she look from within Italy? Did she take a turn to reason or is it just a theatre for outsiders?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    Rapid decline in civic freedoms? More like a freefall into dystopia with no parachute in sight.

    🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Just watched a part of Clinton's speech in post-war Slovenia (after separated from Yugoslavia) where he says that democracy and freedom must prevail around the world. Oh Billy...

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He passed NAFTA which was the stake in the heart of the US union movement guaranteeing corporate fascism would ascend unchallenged. Citizens United only a few years later and it was over.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Reagan signed the original NAFTA agreement in 1988 (between Canada and America), then Bush worked on it a bit, then Clinton ratified the final agreement between America, Mexico and Canada 1994.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Why did it take so long

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Well, that's concerning. Wonder what made them take notice?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So, what paths are still available for us to preserve and restore those civic freedoms?

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    What's funny is, they keep calling themselves the 'leader of the free world', but in 2024, according to the Cato Human Freedom Index, which measures personal, civil, and economic freedoms, the US ranked 17th. Canada? 11th. And this was not taking into account Trump's second term. Most of the countries in the top 10 were all European, the countries that the US likes to call 'socialist welfare states'.

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