joostjakob

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[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I do understand where the policy is coming from. And it's one thing doing it as an emergency measure. It's another to just accept it as "the way we do things now" and let the president keep this much power. This will obviously all end in tears, unless the country works towards an exit strategy yesterday. It would help if a non-fascist US government would assist them with that without threatening to coup them.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Totally agree, I just wonder if they consider being illegally imprisoned by their own government as an element of personal safety

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember reading that they get extra suspicious of you don't have social media profiles active on your phone...

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

It looks like they're just going to lobby trading partners to please direct (actual) retaliatory sanctions towards products from red states, not their state. In general, I like that idea. But maybe now any excemptions for blue state products should come with a promise to actually fight the incipient fascist government...

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

NDA, not BJP, got 293 seats