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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Facism: Not even once baby.
Rapid decline in civic freedoms? More like a freefall into dystopia with no parachute in sight.
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Yep, fascists taking over will do that to a country 😬
... 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.
America is becoming one of those Third World shit holes Trump talked about way back when.
I'm so glad I'm Canadian. I'll just watch the flames from across the border.
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.
Are you denying that it's getting exponentially worse by the day?
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Look, ma! We’re on TV!
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.
One word: Murdoch
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.
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.
LPTs for anyone considering:
- https://visasponsor.jobs/api/jobs
- look for immigration short lists per country, e.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list - note there's also unskilled work included in these, notably carers on the seperate (see link) healthcare list
- https://www.workaway.info/
- https://wwoof.net/
- https://europa.eu/eures/portal/jv-se/home?lang=en
So fucked up, hey? Move now. I can recommend Australia if Canada doesn't work.
Also from Australia and I concour as long as idiots don't elect dutton in our coming federal election
Fuck that guy.
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.
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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Gotta take the power back.Make the billionaires scared to show their faces
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just now?
It's only been what, 6 weeks? Feels like an eternity.
More like 24 years... or longer. I was initially thinking of Bush II in addition to the influences of The Capital G, but We didn't start the fire was the anthem of the younger baby-boomers and older Gen-xers so...
Tangentially, I'm confident that The Patriot Act was only aloud to expire because the mechanisms it used were replaced by new technological, and societal developments that were equally harmful to civil rights.
Right? Remember Habeas corpus? Nobody does because Dubya signed it away to do some shit.
“Land of the free”, they said. Freedom of speech, and all that.
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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Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia
Italy?
Uhhhhhhh Meloni is also a medium-far right semi-crazy. She's not sig heiling but she's in the same league as AfD.
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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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...
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.
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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