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.
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:
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.
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.
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
I think it's moved on to "Fuck the U.S.A." by The Exploited by now.
I’d recommend Anti-Flag if Justin Sane wasn't such a douchebag.
just now?
I'm imagining they don't do a full audit too often
Is there an EarthNoodle and a FireNoodle? Do they combine to form PastaTron?
No, I am not an elemental noodle.
There might be a TerrestrialNoodle if we give it enough time.
Right? Remember Habeas corpus? Nobody does because Dubya signed it away to do some shit.
Gotta take the power back.Make the billionaires scared to show their faces
Yep, fascists taking over will do that to a country 😬
“Land of the free”, they said. Freedom of speech, and all that.
Free to pay.
Money is speech, after all.
... 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.
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.
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.
Rapid decline in civic freedoms? More like a freefall into dystopia with no parachute in sight.
🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱
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?
Ever heard of the Mafia? Ever looked into the Meloni family?
The only Meloni family I know
Don't forget about Chris
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.
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.
Your jerbs!
Two decades of mostly uninterrupted neoliberal rule.
Why did it take so long
So, what paths are still available for us to preserve and restore those civic freedoms?
Not much that won't land us in prison or dead
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.
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.
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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