A court in Tunisia has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to the president and a threat to state security.
  • Severus_Snape@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    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.