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   Andrew Stroehlein (andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 17:01:42 JST Andrew Stroehlein

   We’re not in the last days of democracy, but we are perhaps in the last years of it - if those remaining leaders who care about democracy and human rights fail to work together to defend it at every turn.
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     Andrew Stroehlein (andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 17:01:42 JST Andrew Stroehlein

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     In the EU, which is founded on these principles, most leaders have been undermining these foundations for years: helping Orbán and other authoritarians inside, empowering other authoritarians outside, denying the fundamental rights of asylum seekers, sending arms to a government committing atrocities (ie, Israel), etc.

     Glyn Moody repeated this.
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     Andrew Stroehlein (andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 17:01:42 JST Andrew Stroehlein

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     They’ve weakened the very concepts of democracy and human rights so much, that now, even if they want to preserve what’s left - a big “if” - they’ve made that job so much harder.

     How can you now defend the concept of universal human rights, when, for example, you’ve been sending people to places where you know they’ll be tortured and sending arms to a government you know may use them to commit more atrocities against civilians?