"Freedom of speech rights" or really any kind of political rights are only ever given in ANY country after the opposition has been striped of power and neutered through suppression until it is not an active threat to the order of things.
I just can't with these people. I'm sure I was just as fucking dense and ignorant at one point, but like...I just can't comprehend how people are entertained by these shadows on the wall anymore.
Remember how in 1984 the proles were basically left alone because without class consciousness they were no threat to the Party?
Holy shit he unironically said "tell that to the slaves in Libya" like he was making a case for America, fucking liberals man
"In America you can say all you want without repressive consequences."
Julian Assange: :agony:
What I am allowed to speak out against is more important than my ability to say it. Sure I can speak out against the government-to a point until they jail me for sedition or whatever. I have no rights to speak out against my boss or employer or else I’ll be fired. If I speak for my beliefs I am yelled at, ridiculed, or blown off for being a communist.
Funny thing is that he doesn't refute that those things might be true. And all of that is actually ok because we still have freeze peach.
Reality of an "issue" tends to get complicated right where the establishmentarian of whatever tendency decides to stop looking.
