• Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I remember when he was elected, I was still a liberal and was like geordi-no “dang they elected a bus driver”

    Now I’m like geordi-yes “dang they elected a bus driver”

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Only high quality people (entrepreneurs and lawyers) are intelligent enough and capable to lead, low-skilled labor peasants cannot be trusted to handle advanced decisionmaking so-true

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Probably not as bad as the US’s sanctions, of which the UN says:

        Recognizing unilateral coercive measures in the form of economic sanctions have far-reaching implications for the human rights of the general population of targeted States, disproportionately affecting the poor and the most vulnerable classes, Alarmed by the fact that most current unilateral coercive measures have been imposed, at great cost in terms of the human rights of the poorest and of persons in vulnerable situations, on developing countries by developed countries,