Yes!

As stupid as it sounds people trust them more than the experts. We live in the post truth times anyway.

Quite a lot. In no particular order and not a complete list:

Climate change, pollution, late stage capitalism, resource depletion, overpopulation, obesity, post truth, propaganda, susceptibility to propaganda, education, lack thereof, lack of critical thinking, short-sightedness, lack of beneficial public discourse, taking action on problems, vested interests funding our demise, lack of hope, no continuity, lack of trust, crab mentality, etc.

If only more people understood this. But alas decades of Israeli propaganda has convinced people otherwise.

When I read stories like this, I think about another story about a bear whose bile was extracted for industrial use. The extraction is extremely painful for the animal. They're kept harnessed to the extraction machinery. This particular bear managed to escape its harness. And the first thing it did was to kill its own cub. So that it wouldn't have to suffer anymore. This happened in China by the way.

Second that was shot down.

Third if you count the one that was bombed by drones in Belarus on an airfield.

Yeah, look at the curves on that guy.

The Finnish group that supports democracy in Russia is planning such a protest. Which is good. But too little too late.

Although the fact that in this protest they used flags of the Russian president tells you who is actually behind it.

If you are referring to Trump, it's far from a done deal.

Though some would say that the US has been a fascist state for a while.

US does shit like this all the time. Guantanamo bay ring a bell? There are still people there who haven't been convicted of a crime.

More like a stumbling block.

Most other countries do not have HOAs. In Finland where I live, municipalities can enact ordinances to limit what you can do on your property, but they are often very limited if they exist at all. The most restrictive ones that I know limit the type of house that can be built (eg. no flat roofs, although this can be a zoning issue as well), the color of the houses and other similar limitations.

I'll take my socialdemocrat "hell hole" of a country over the "free" USA with HOAs any time.

If justice prevails he will serve time in prison. But this has never happened before so anything can happen.

Including him winning the upcoming elections, pardoning himself and everyone else.