• RedditIsALostCause@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    No First Amendment rights over there. What a shame. I’m grateful for the ever-so-increasingly-restricted freedom of speech and protest we have here in the States.

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      19 days ago

      France burns the country to the ground when the government tries to raise the retirement age or take away from the 2 months of vacation they have, you all rolled over like dogs and let an incontinent, senile old rapist turn your country out.

      Maybe shut the fuck up

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        19 days ago

        And I commend them for it. They can do that because their country hasn’t undergone decades of police militarization like in the U.S.

        France seems to be going out by death by a thousands cuts while retaining their right to burn down the city; in contrast, the U.S. retains the right to small oppositions and protest while large-scale ones tend to get the full force of the militarized police state. Pick your poison I guess.

        I’d hardly say we rolled over like dogs considering there are regular protests with significant turn-out here — they’re just not covered by the media because it would hurt the oligarchs/corporate overlords in their quest for domination.

        Further, there’s more than a little bit of evidence that strongly suggests our election was tampered with and that Russia has been in the mix for a while now.

        America is in a bad way yes, but until quite literally this year we were doing decent.

        Maybe consider the position of the average good-natured American rather than assume they’re all fat and stupid people who want the leader we currently have?

        Maybe you should shut up and think for a second before being so aggressive?

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          19 days ago

          I don’t feel terribly inclined to consider the opinions of someone who says “France doesn’t have the first amendment”

          This has been visible for years and building over decades, America in general chose for this to happen.

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            19 days ago

            Okay buddy 👍 if you’re incapable of thinking just say so.

            There’s plenty wrong with America, but as someone who doesn’t take part in any religion, I appreciate and demand the right to be able to protest or otherwise denounce religions that are morally reprehensible. Islam is one of those, some sects of Christianity as well - namely Mormonism which is functionally the Islam of Christianity lol.

            Part of why America has become the way it is, is due to the rampant hesitancy at opposing the fascist/authoritarian nature of religions such as Christianity. Seems America will become a Christian hellscape, France appears to be going down the Islamic hellscape.

            Doesn’t change my point that freedom of speech/protest is important to resist the controlling nature of the religious disease.