• SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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      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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    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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    Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

    Italy?