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The normalization of a mafia state led by an authoritarian continues (Original Post)
dajoki
Feb 2020
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ProfessorPlum
(11,461 posts)1. "Mafia State" is the talking point we all need to use more
it completely captures what is happening and how this country is being run. (with the media apparently not seeing anything wrong with that).
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. The Mar-a-lago MOB must be put in check.
dalton99a
(92,821 posts)3. Most journalists prefer to stay alive

Front page of Italian newspaper L'Ora from 1972, announcing the murder of investigative journalist Giovanni Spampinato. The title reads: "Our correspondent from Ragusa / Killed only because he was searching for the truth."
(The assassin was sentenced to 24 years but served only eight years)
