In these 'democracies' you can be jailed for online comments lol.

DrNosferatu · 2025-03-01T16:15:23 1740845723

Exactly - in Hungary and Russia!

anon291 · 2025-03-01T17:38:19 1740850699

In the same league as the UK and Germany. This is why I don't support unfettered American alignment with these countries. There is no major country as liberal as the United States.

DrNosferatu · 2025-03-01T18:01:24 1740852084

…Russia is in the same democratic league as Germany and the UK? :D

I mean, how bad faith can you be?

UK and Germany prosecute hate speech with due process. Russia and Hungary jail critics of the government.

If you can't tell the difference, you're not actually interested in freedom.

Strange how your concern for free speech only applies to democracies, never to the dictatorships silencing journalists permanently.

Did YOU say something you shouldn’t have to get the weekend shift at the troll farm?

dang · 2025-03-01T19:05:41 1740855941

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DrNosferatu · 2025-03-01T19:59:22 1740859162

Will do.