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@dev can u get it to recite bee movie script

@dan i would die for pixel

@johnzajac @skinnylatte @kixes i live here. with objectively less rights and privileges than you do. i don't know why you feel the need to mansplain the US to me.

@johnzajac @skinnylatte @kixes where did i seem to think that the US system is fair or just?

well, ultimately i intend to educate on what it is like outside the US, and on having a non-US-centric perspective. i don't intend to argue or get mansplained.

@johnzajac @skinnylatte @kixes first amendment rights is rapidly degrading in the US and it is scary for all of us, and we must fight back as hard as we can. but it is unproductive to present it as worse than it is in a global context.

i have always thought of this tendency as another form of american exceptionalism. america is best at being the best, but america is always best at being the worst too (e.g., people's tendency to say "we're now basically a third world country" in response to worsening conditions in the US. no we're not)

@johnzajac @skinnylatte @kixes i am not a US citizen. even with the threat of illegal deportations i *still* have more freedom of speech and due process than my home country indonesia, which *still* have more freedom of speech and due process than singapore

@johnzajac @skinnylatte @kixes i say this with the intent to educate but i think you may have massive tunnel vision, or otherwise massively missed the point some other way, if you think this sounds like US.

soft authoritarianism is everywhere but even after the current administration have taken over there is still loads more freedom of speech and dissent than what is described in the article

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@ricci i'm a kat does that count