Notable quotes from OP:

Sure the FBI sent information to Twitter, but Twitter and Facebook etc. had the freedom to decide how to act on it.

They asked social media agencies to try to limit vaccine disinformation and far right extremism. It's a far cry from Chinese state media where any criticism of the state is punishable by arrest.

Go on about Assange all you like but he's a tool and Chelsea Manning proves we let people off easy for leaking state secrets

I support your free speech to go on with your Russian propaganda false equivalence nonsense, a freedom that would not be afforded to me if I tried arguing the evils of Putin in Russia.

yes invading Iraq was wrong, but a) we had and made use of the freedom to protest it and b) the plan wasn't to annex Iraq the way Putin is trying to do with Ukraine, for those people (not me) who supported it, it was to give them democracy and then let them vote on their own leaders in the aftermath of 9/11.

Afghanistan came first but both were GW Bush mistakes and I very much doubt our governments/NATO would make the same type of interventions now.

(About Iraq War) At least we had the freedom to protest and even the people who supported it had democratic ideals

Some notable takes from other :LIB: in the thread too, actually the whole thread is a gold mine. Have a look if you can tolerate being on :reddit-logo:

  • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]B
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    2 years ago

    If the plan was to annex iraq, would it not have been better for the iraqis, since the US would not had wrecked the place as much? The argument presented by the :reddit-logo: falls flat. Like russia plans to turn half of Ukraine into new citizens and acts accordingly.

    • ElmLion [any]
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      2 years ago

      If anything, the US does all it can to avoid territory being regarded 'US soil', as that would mean they're legally bound by their constitution to give people on that soil a couple human rights. See: Guantanamo.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      2 years ago

      Annexation inferrs that there will be a modicum of assumed responsibility over the territory you're marching your troops through. What the US did was destroy Iraq, loot Iraq's wealth for the bourgeoisie, pass the cost of the imperial warmachine onto the American people, and pass the cost of rebuilding a destroyed country onto the Iraqi peoples.

      Literally nobody other than the capitalist ghouls were better off after the dust settled on the illegal and evil invasion of Iraq