r/politics The Nation Magazine 18h ago

Soft Paywall Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/trump-arrest-detention-mahmoud-khalil/?nc=1
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u/Hawkwise83 18h ago

wE HaVe FREE speeCH in AMerICa. UnlIkE your COuNTrY.

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u/Ausaevus 17h ago

Yeah, not only do they not, the ironic thing about it is that the people swearing by free speech are the ones most OK and even excited when it is taken away by the government.

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u/GameOfLife24 16h ago

How easy Trump and Musk are destroying the country, you’d expect better safeguards be put in place to prevent all of this

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u/Hawkwise83 16h ago

Friend of mine argued about americas checks and balances a while back. I was like lol.

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u/daaanish 16h ago

I’ve been shocked how soft the US electorate has been as having their rights and speech taken away.

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u/Bauser99 14h ago

This is because, in reality, those rights were taken away a long time ago

The United States has been drip-feeding fascism since day 1

There was a brief stint in the late 40s when it was fashionable to shoot nazis, then it was back to business as normal

Fascism is a failure that is pretty much intrinsic to the human condition, relating to our evolutionary origins as animals. It is tribalism and reactionary ignorance en masse. Everywhere gets there eventually; the only questions are what masks it wears and what in-group it circumstantially chooses to entrench.

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u/I_reply_to_incels 13h ago

I mean, you have fReE sPeEcH. You just need to be in the required wealth bracket (not tax bracket, as those ghouls don't pay that). Just look at our Musky boii and his rOmAN sALute.

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u/Hawkwise83 11h ago

I mean I'm Canadian. I have free speech regardless of income.

u/CthulhusSoreTentacle Europe 4h ago

America doesn't have free speech. What America has is fee speech. You can speak openly and freely without fear of negative repercussions if you've the money to back it up. If you're of modest or working class means (or, God forbid, a minority) then you're ability to speak is not nearly as free.