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Eh, it depends. The USA does have some of the most stringent protections for speech in the world.

• FooBarWidget 4y ago
  And yet it also has Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Furthermore, people have the freedom to talk about a great many things, but apparently not the freedom to enjoy actual beneficial policy changes. What use is freedom of speech then other than as an excuse to show off moral superiority? Many in the US also do not enjoy freedom of movement, as many places are dangerous, especially during certain times and for certain population groups. I'd say that the oversimplified understanding of what freedom means, and the insistance that that one definition of freedom is the only valid form of freedom, also does a lot of damage.
  • krapp 4y ago
    I mean sure, we live under an all-seeing panopticon, our police kill us with impunity, our media is a propaganda engine that manufactures popular consent through false narratives and drives addiction to consumerism, our social media is basically MKULTRA, our healthcare and educational systems are grifts whose primary purpose is to bleed the poor over a lifetime of crushing debt, our lives are owned and controlled by billionaires and corporations while we ourselves own nothing (not even our own identities), and our government is wholly corrupt, bloodthirsty, incapable of governance and utterly insulated from the will of the public, to the point that the only political revolutions allowed to gain any traction are those which support the status quo of capitalism, white supremacy and imperialism. But we have guns! So many guns!
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