Basically all US news summarised
@GossiTheDog The lese-majeste stuff is certainly an interesting policy for the free speech, land of the free types
@tryst @GossiTheDog The only good news is, I'm sure that Americans will take to it immediately and definitely stop speaking our minds about politics, the Presidency, and exactly where the current President can stuff his ideas, we're very rule-following about that stuff around here /s
@kevinriggle @GossiTheDog Something, something, tyranical governments
@tryst @GossiTheDog "The history of the present would-be King is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."
@GossiTheDog the biggest self-own since Brexit

@kevinriggle @GossiTheDog
Not to get all competitive about it, but....

Brexit pales to near insignificance when compared to the current "self-own" being shoved down the throats of American people.

We may never recover from the destruction. I wish the best of luck to the younger members of our society, they are going to need it.

We did our best but the oligarchs have been playing the long game since 1971.

@GossiTheDog This is too funny, Pertinent! But Funny!
@GossiTheDog this works on so many levels, given that movie's plot and themes.
@GossiTheDog we're all stuck in fuckin' Bruges for all eternity
@GossiTheDog I just hope it ends better than in the movie...

@GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes

(Just out of frame, America shooting both Americas in the foot.)

@GossiTheDog resistance! Do not fall into apathy. ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ™

@GossiTheDog ah shit, I had a joke where the US congress is basically every Republican bringing an aerial photo of all their constituents, and then voting while holding a gun to the photos.

This is way more elegant.

@GossiTheDog Sowas vielleicht mit cn und/oder mutebarem Alt-text versehen oder so ๐Ÿ˜
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This what we call an American stand off

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A good illustration of what happens when your government has been taken over by your publicly avowed enemy.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-will-put-its-enemies-such-united-states-their-place-medvedev-says-2022-03-17/

A short while later:

https://thehill.com/homenews/5161380-ukraine-un-resolution/

Russia warns United States: we have the might to put you in your place

Russia warned the United States on Thursday that Moscow had the might to put the world's pre-eminent superpower in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart.

Reuters
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