jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoAn Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at the supreme leaderwww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1174arrow-down13
arrow-up1171arrow-down1external-linkAn Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at the supreme leaderwww.npr.orgjeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·17 days agothe russians also arrested some just holding up a blank white sheet of cardboard. i think it was in an area where protests are forbidden in general though. however, how does the absence of a message qualify as a protest.
minus-squareOwlPaste@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·17 days agoIn the same way and any dicktators need to keep stroking their dicks to feel good. No reason needed
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 days agoI mean, if you don’t suppress political opposition and people aren’t happy with you, that’s a real threat to you continuing to have political power. They don’t just do this on a whim.
the russians also arrested some just holding up a blank white sheet of cardboard. i think it was in an area where protests are forbidden in general though. however, how does the absence of a message qualify as a protest.
In the same way and any dicktators need to keep stroking their dicks to feel good. No reason needed
I mean, if you don’t suppress political opposition and people aren’t happy with you, that’s a real threat to you continuing to have political power.
They don’t just do this on a whim.