Internationally, the US is sanctioning individuals they disagree with. This includes judges in The Hague, and here the UN special rapporteur to Gaza, who can no longer access her own bank account, because the Trump regime is abusing their power ower international monetary systems to keep her in The Dark Ages.
No indictments. No trials. All these people are just shut out, because Trump feels like it.
It is terrible.
And the result is a world in which we move farther away from one another, each with our own systems because we don't trust or can rely on one another. It is constant fear.
A few months ago I was talking about it with someone, and it's like a fear that creeps in, a fear that the world we live in and like will be changed by people who feel we have no right to live the way we like, and who can put our life in a straitjacket.
@randahl @pascaline yes - this is our modern angst: we know that major decisions about how we live, the opinions we are allowed to hold, where can travel and how our jobs will be organised are being made by some of the worst people on the planet, who have bought our politicians.
It is entirely reasonable that we feel traumatised by it
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Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥
Per Jakobsen (no anonymity)
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