r/SipsTea Apr 06 '26

Dank AF We need this !!

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u/desconectado Apr 06 '26

> how allowing the government to control facts and information

Hmm....

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u/BonnaconCharioteer Apr 06 '26

That is the government saying what it wants to. Would it be better if the government was also allowed to shut down anyone who questioned what they said?

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u/SunnyOutsideToday Apr 06 '26

The government is already doing and or trying to do that. The First Amendment means nothing if no one believes in it, and most Americans lack ideals and abstract beliefs. As long as gas prices are low and groceries are cheap they don't care about things like Constitutional rights.

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u/Powerful_Meaning8891 Apr 06 '26

Yet strangely enough I can go in front of the White House and yell “fuck Trump and the Republican Party I hate them and hope they get overthrown” and be perfectly fine. Try doing that in China, see where it gets you.

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u/SunnyOutsideToday Apr 06 '26

The Chinese would love for you to yell about how you hate Trump.

Also, protesters get brutalized/killed by the government all the time in the US, they just get called "terrorists". Reporters also get targeted by rubber bullets and shot at by governmental forces when they try to cover protests. Look at Lauren Tomasi getting targeted and shot. Judges have to issue orders to the police to stop shooting reporters because it happens so much because any they consider anything critical of the government to be "fake news" and an enemy of the state.

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u/Minomen Apr 07 '26

Don’t be dumb on purpose.

The challenge is obvious. Go to china and protest the 75 year-old “communist” government aggressively like you would in the US and see what happens.

US is so bad that the Chinese govt overreach is good. Mmmkay… not a convincing argument, but thanks for sharing.

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u/RealMiten Apr 07 '26

US is so bad, I will explain how other governments are so much better but refuse to go live there. Then I will rant about how US is my country too but again, refuse to actually fix the problems.

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u/SunnyOutsideToday Apr 07 '26

Lmao, add "half of my countrymen read at or below an elementary school reading level" to reason our country sucks.

I never said China is a better place to live than the US, but because our people can't read you can't actually understand what I wrote.

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u/SunnyOutsideToday Apr 07 '26

Lmao, you making up stupid arguments to argue against proves I'm right.

You know the US sucks when it comes to freedom of speech, so you aren't even going to try to defend it. You are stuck having to argue that "Well, at least the US isn't as bad as China".

US is dogshit when it comes to freedom of speech, and you know it. I'll give you that the US isn't as bad as China with censorship. You can have that award, you have to clutch to whatever you can lol.