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Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study (www.theguardian.com)
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Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal democracy?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's not just democracies ramping up policing efforts and handing out unnecessarily punishing sentences to protesters. The world seems to have become more hostile since the pandemic took our economies for a tumble. On a societal level it makes sense that government institutions are clamping down on civil disobedience at the same time that disobedience is ramping up because of economic/social/climate/everything else problems

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds logical in theory, but in practice one blocking a road gets the same jailtime as a minor abuser.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It just goes to show how car-supremacist the court system is.

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