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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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          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.

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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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        See that makes a lot of sense, it really muddys the water and makes it seem more like a fake hit piece when you include things like US aid.

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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.