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      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.

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        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.

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

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

    Italy?

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        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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    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.

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      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.