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Objectively my country is the most free, you can whip out a swastika or one of those stupid Russian Z symbols here and nobody's going to put you in jail. You mi
by greesil 2y ago
Objectively my country is the most free, you can whip out a swastika or one of those stupid Russian Z symbols here and nobody's going to put you in jail. You might deservedly suffer reputational harm, but that's it.
The system is far from perfect, and it has suffered horribly in the part 20 years from loss of ad revenue, but my local Mercury News is going to give me better local reporting than Pravda would for Muscovites, or Xinhua for anyone.
- coliveira 2y agoNot true, over the years many people have been put in jail for political reasons, they just don't receive media time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoners_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoners_in_the_Uni...
- TeaBrain 2y agoMost of the latter ones did receive media time. None of those in the article were arrested for simply holding up political symbols like a swastika or Z symbol. In the entire article, there were only a few controversial ones, from the WW1, immediately post-WW1 era and the Vietnam era, and they have all been featured in media.
- coliveira 2y agoSo now is it ok to have political prisoners if they put a note on the newspaper?...
- greesil 2y agoIt's not what's okay, it's comparing existing or previously existing nations or systems with each other, and not an ideal. Yes everyone can and should do better.
- coliveira 2y agoExcept that the comparison is not done in a fair way. To be specific, Americans believe their country is exponentially better than other nations like France or UK. It's not.