• x4740N@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m fucking thankful everyday that I wasn’t born in the dystopian countries

    I feel bad for the people who live in them (excluding the ones who knowingly & willingly make those countries a dystopia)

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      7 months ago

      Our countries are also dystopian. It’s just not in the “I’m deprived of legal rights” sense, yet

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        7 months ago

        Where do you live? I live in the US where people are deprived of rights to bodily autonomy, gender affirming health care, and regularly brutalized or murdered by the state. In most western states, not deprived of legal rights might say more about you than the state

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    7 months ago

    Also couple of months ago: “UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum despite ‘abysmal’ record”

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          7 months ago

          You mean literally or metaphorically? Because ofcourse they can control who they themselves pick but the people doing the picking are probably corrupt.

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              7 months ago

              Democratically among their member states. So im wondering how much crack the representatives of the member states had smoked before making that decision at their gathering place.

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      That’s what the sentencing court called it I guess. She was arrested on terrorism charges for her clothing and for promoting women’s rights on her social media, along with two female relatives, so the quotes are to show that it was not material or militant support, but expression of her views.

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    7 months ago

    was arrested under anti-terror laws

    Lol. This is why we shouldn’t use general words like “terrorism.” Let’s always talk about specifics.