• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Americans have jesters privilege. We can say anything we want as long as it doesn’t matter. As soon as the government thinks it might matter, they have a million tools to silence you.

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      1 month ago

      As soon as the government oligarchs who own the media thinks it might matter, they have a million tools to silence you.

      But it’s also worth noting that the Chinese don’t even have that. At least in America, you can get your message out by getting a billionaire to agree with you.