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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms

www.theguardian.com US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms

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

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Gotta take the power back.Make the billionaires scared to show their faces
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.
“Land of the free”, they said. Freedom of speech, and all that.
- Free to pay.
  
  Money is speech, after all.
just now?
- Right? Remember Habeas corpus? Nobody does because Dubya signed it away to do some shit.
- 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?
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.
Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

Italy?
- little something called Belusconi also ring a bell?
- 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
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
Well, that's concerning. Wonder what made them take notice?
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.
- 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.
- Perhaps it's more about the rollback of rights for anyone who isn't a straight white man.

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