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[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 hours ago

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

🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

[–] MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca 32 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 10 hours ago (1 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.

[–] the_q@lemm.ee 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Are you denying that it's getting exponentially worse by the day?

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 1 points 27 minutes ago

insert SpongeBob meme.jpg

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 156 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

You ever heard The Clash's "I'm so Bored with the U.S.A."?

That's how most of us even here in the US feel

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[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 91 points 19 hours ago (2 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.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The U.S. is always on TV and it's depressing af.

Its even worse living next door to them.

You need to be quarantined.

They really do. For the good of the world.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 19 hours 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.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

first you gotta find a country that will let you in and stay in.

and then, you gotta pay the US government to rescind your citizenship.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 12 hours ago

LPTs for anyone considering:

[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So fucked up, hey? Move now. I can recommend Australia if Canada doesn't work.

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

Also from Australia and I concour as long as idiots don't elect dutton in our coming federal election

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 49 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 56 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (5 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

Right? Remember Habeas corpus? Nobody does because Dubya signed it away to do some shit.

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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 38 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

They tell themselves that lie every morning.

I blame Francis Scott Key.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 35 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

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

Italy?

[–] assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works 78 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] MordercaSkurwysyn@lemm.ee 27 points 20 hours 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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