• meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz
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    Rapid decline in civic freedoms? More like a freefall into dystopia with no parachute in sight.

    🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

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

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

        They tell themselves that lie every morning.

        I blame Francis Scott Key.

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    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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      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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        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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          Cheaper Mexican labor was the end of the US middle class for most and broader social stability. As Canada is more expensive than Mexico, the impact of the original was nothing compared to the latter.

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

    Italy?

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      There isnt a path. We have been checkmated by the neolibs and fascists. Even as they wage class war on us we support them and pat ourselves on the back for being “pragmatic”. Its over. Time to leave, if any place will allow us in.

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        Countries can and have come back from this. Chile, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Brazil. I hope you guys can pull back from the precipice before you end up like any of those though, because we are all at least somewhat familiar with the hell each of them went through before they came out the other side. Not to mention that some of those descents sparked global conflict.

        Only recently, South Korea had a bit of a scare. Luckily, their institutions were solid and able to mount a robust defence. I don’t know if I am as confident with regard to US institutions.

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      It’s always funny to hear stuff about “leftists” ruining things when “rightists” 100% tried to overthrow our government - like physically broke in to the Capitol and tried to kill our leaders (while injuring dozens of police officers. “Back the blue” right? “Thin blue line!” Right?).

      If the RIGHT can’t have it their way, they’ll literally try to overthrow a fair election. A bunch of spoiled brats trying to kill people because their (now felon - 34 counts!) president wasn’t re-elected. (EDIT: the original post was removed, and this paragraph was using their words. They called left leaning people spoiled brats, so I was just reframing that here.)

      Oh no, am I mentioning January 6? You bet I am. The right has lost all credibility after that event. No amount of people throwing dog turds on teslas will be worse than that. (Also, why would anyone be defending the Nazi car guy?)

      What’s really going to be funny is seeing the right blame the democrats in a few months (maybe a year) for how shitty everything is after this idiotic trump admin has gutted all public services. Somehow that’ll be the democrats’ fault to them.

      Additionally, the guy who blew up the Tesla at the trump hotel was a trump supporter, via Wikipedia:

      He [the guy who did it] additionally criticized Kamala Harris as a “DEI candidate”, expressing pleasure that the United States elected “a real president instead of Weekend at Bernie’s.” He argued that people should unite around Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to promote national hegemony.

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      Trump has failed so many times I can’t count them all. I have yet to see America succeed at anything under his “leadership”

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      You make the extremely faulty assumption that Trump both wants to and is able to help America succeed when he’s incapable and couldn’t care less.

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      Name one thing that travesty of administration is doing right, I’m genuinely curious!

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      This says “Removed by mod” but that’s exactly along the lines of what I was going to say. Censorship has been going on for a long time. Lefties don’t like civic freedoms anymore than the nazi right psycho’s do. We just have multiple echo chambers where you either fit in or get silenced.

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    So do country that don’t have programs like US aid for other countries or who have tariffs on imports all have a low freedom ranking?

    It seems rather absurd.

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        See that makes a lot of sense on something like abortion, it really muddys the water and makes it seem more like a fake hit piece when you include things like US aid.

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      No no, it’s all countries that have a capital that starts with ‘W’, that’s why the US made it on the list.

      It just took them long to notice, it’s all.