In Reply to: Sounds like a third world country* posted by DSCBruin on March 23, 2026 at 11:21:48
… the board's resident MAGA whisperer (not that anyone asked or needed it). We're talking about my formative years in the wilderness. :)
I lived through a decade + martial law, at least one full scale military coup, a few years of military junta followed by a severely sub-democratic regime (and that's excluding the soft-coup that happened during my elementary school years, though its stories of torture and oppression definitely trickled down to me in real time). So everything that's happening in this country right now have that sense of familiarity about it. It's like an old pair of shoes that fits right in with the contours of my damaged psyche.