You want to know what actual free speech looks like in the American context?
Edward Snowden told the truth about what the government was doing to its own citizens.
He is in exile.
Chelsea Manning told the truth about what the military was doing in Iraq, including footage of a helicopter crew killing journalists and laughing.
She was imprisoned.
Julian Assange published documents showing the gap between what Western governments said and what they did.
He spent years in an embassy and then a prison, and the country that lectures the world about press freedom led the effort to destroy him.
Meanwhile the people who lied about weapons of mass destruction and launched a war that killed hundreds of thousands:
They are on the speaking circuit.
They are on television as analysts.
They have libraries named after them.
This is not a paradox. This is the system working correctly.
Free speech, in the empire's operating definition, means you can say anything that doesn't threaten the machine.
The moment the speech has real consequences for real power:
You discover exactly how free it is.
Had the USSR won the U.S. would have been welcomed with open arms and its vast productive capacity would be used to enrich the U.S. and the world.
The U.S. won however, and it stripped the USSR for all it was worth and sold its children to Epstein.
Perhaps the biggest achievement of Iran is thoroughly defeating the US on the moral front. Not a single civilian, not a single hospital, not a single child Iran killed.
Iran closed the gates of US morality lecturing to the world for good.
every single one of those cars, and every person who was in those cars, was killed by Israeli Apache helicopters. Hamas literally could not carry the kind of heavy weapons required for this damage.
Israel is accustomed to lying their way through life, but the world is waking up and are not so easily fooled anymore.
Not to be that person, but sometimes violence is the answer. Especially when you are being oppressed by violent systems. That’s why the powers at be brainwash us into bs about “peace”, and how the “right way” is to not do anything. Despite literally doing everything-
One of the most compelling pieces of propaganda produced by the US state was the “totalitarian” and “authoritarian” discourse that conflated communism and fascism, starting in the late 1930s. Its purpose was to construe anything other than Western “democracy” as dangerous and in need of eradication.
Before 1917, Trotsky spent years opposing Lenin and attempting to reconcile Bolsheviks with Mensheviks. Stalin spent those years defending and building the Bolshevik line. Remember the difference.
Did you guys hear about the woman in Iran who was sentenced to 12 years in prison because authorities believed her stillbirth was an abortion?
Nevermind y'all, my mistake, that happened in Oklahoma
China has had Dibao since 1993 (the world’s largest social welfare program) and China eliminated extreme poverty altogether. You have to behave in an extreme manner to be poor in China, actively resisting aid. This story exploits westerners ignorance to push a political agenda.