McSweeney’s contributor Carlos Greaves presents a handy checklist, decision-tree answering the question does your country need a regime change with a list of binary quizzes, such as:
Is your country a notoriously bad actor in the Middle East?Has your leader deployed the country’s military domestically against civilians protesting peacefully?
Is your nation’s frail, kleptocractic economy being propped up, thanks in part to being a major oil exporter?
Do your leader’s supporters claim that he was ordained by God to rule?
It reads sort of like a Jeff Foxworthy routine—you might be living under a totalitarian regime, and whilst the redneck punchline was kind of unfunny itself to begin with except as a snowclone, it’s now turned tragic and all enveloping. More at the link above.
