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It was hanging by its neck in a thin wire thirty centimetres above my head. About fifteen metres away was another.

It must be the UK edition - it's so nice to see metres and centimetres!

In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies. District 12 was in a region known as Appalachia.

We are fighting for democracy everywhere, even in the West." All of them wanted to make an impact not only in their own countries but in the democratic world as well. Already, they understood that one nation's freedom can often depend on the strength of freedom in others.

If he ever succeeds in directing federal courts and law enforcement at his enemies, in combination with a mass trolling campaign, then the blending of the autocratic and democratic worlds will be complete.
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He - Trump. And it is complete.

An illiberal Georgian government tried to pass a very similar law in 2023, dropped the proposal following widespread street demonstrations, and then defied mass opposition to take it up again in 2024.
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Georgia also gets a whole sentence.

Modern dictators have learned that the mass violence of the twentieth century is no longer necessary: targeted violence is often enough to keep ordinary people away from politics altogether, convincing them that it's a contest they can never win.

But, you know, the struggle for freedom and democracy is not like that. It draws you in. And then it just ... it just... it remakes you; it reshapes your whole world."

"The same social media that built us up," Mawarire told me, "they took us down."

"Today in Syria, the abnormal is now normal. The unacceptable is accepted."