A court in Tunisia sentenced a man to death for Facebook posts seen as insulting to the president

https://apnews.com/article/tunisia-death-sentence-facebook-posts-president-b75f9ca0d2629fda054031f5792d502e

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Severus_Snape@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 333d (2 replies)

Step 1. People are angry

Step 2. Some weirdo gets elected President

Step 3. He starts threatening judges who rule against him, urging his supporters to harass them

Step 4. He starts suing newspapers and journalists, calling them fake news

Step 5 Tells his supporters that black people eat pets and are part of a global plot to replace Tunisians

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/23/tunisia-kais-saied-racism-migrants-black-tunisians/

Step 6. Calls the opposition is the enemy from within. Says the opposition supports terrorists and must be stopped/jailed

Step 7 . One night, he sends thugs to surround parliament and arrest the opposition

Step 8. His supporters are happy and defend him

Step 9. Dictatorship

Welcome to Tunisia.

Americans are at step 6. They just don't know it. They are deers in the headlights.

Let's hope Trump is too dumb to successfully pull that off.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 333d

Oh, we know.

chosensilence@pawb.social · 2 pts · 333d

some of us know it. we are paralyzed and pacified. i don’t see how this ends with victory.

MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 333d

Coming soon to a state near you!

Naich@lemmings.world · 30 pts · 333d (4 replies)

Do you hear that sound? That's Donald Trump getting an erection.

biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 333d (1 reply)

does it sound like a slide whistle?

Naich@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 333d

The smallest slide whistle in the world.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 333d

His dick is so small that the sound comes out blue.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 332d

does his chronic use of adderall and cocaine made him a permanent limp?

s@piefed.world · 29 pts · 333d (3 replies)

My brain read that as Tennessee at first and I was completely unfazed

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 333d (2 replies)

You can be put to death for insulting the president of Tennessee?

s@piefed.world · 1 pts · 328d (1 reply)

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 328d

I was joking but wow.

PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 333d (1 reply)

WTF. Serious people in suits decided this. How fcked are we?

whereyaaat@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 333d

It's why vigilante justice is the only kind of justice the people in power will ever receive.

recentSlinky@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 333d

When insecure and weak little boys are in positions of power...

Triumph@fedia.io · 8 pts · 333d

Foreshadowing.

Bullerfar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 333d

Would like to hear a response from a Tunisian user in here, of how the tunisian People are seeing this?

Lembot_0004@discuss.online · 5 pts · 333d
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Quexotic@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 333d

I had to read this twice. Thought it was about the US.

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 333d

This is what happens if you relinquish the moral high ground.

You signal that doing this kind of perverted corrupted shit is ok.