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:
Westerners are proud of this because it allows them to clean their hands of guilt and responsibility, sure the government they so proudly voted in with the best democratic system in the world killed hundreds of thousands of people in the pursuit of global dominance, but they got to all get together and BE MAD about it.
Then they elected a president that calmly told them its not the time to be mad right now, everyone who was mad needs to be friends with the people who happily killed hundreds of thousands, and so now they are, and you are cringe if you get mad about it outside of the scheduled BE MAD dates. There is a personal benefit to the propaganda, you get to be clean, and you get to be not mad about it, and you get to be proud and feel superior to all those countries where people dont get to BE MAD(according to what you read at least), and so you can feast on the slop of imperialism with peace of mind.