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mesk ◴[] No.43514243[source]
USA, the land of unlimited possibilities...of how to get detained without a process...for expressing opinions...by the government repating that we have finally free speach and the dark ages are gone...while revisiting history to avoid dangerous words such as a 'women'...

And I've thought our wana-be-authorian politicians are greates idiots of all, but there seems to be running some kind of global world competion to find them and let them ruin their countries.

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johnisgood ◴[] No.43514614[source]
Most of what you said applies to the UK as well, for what it's worth.
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marcuschong ◴[] No.43515878[source]
While there is legitimate debate over how authoritarian some policies in Australia or the UK might be in the past few years, these measures operate within established legal frameworks, with judicial oversight and public scrutiny. Even if you view them as overly restrictive, they don't stem from a single "contrarian" movement with a coordinated political agenda. Moreover, neither government is rewriting history to erase specific groups. The fact that hate-speech or migration laws exist doesn’t equate to people being arrested or deported without due process, nor does it imply some monolithic campaign to censor or remove entire populations from the record.
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johnisgood ◴[] No.43516181[source]
You are right, the UK adores mass migration, look around larger cities, such as London or Birmingham. :)
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labster ◴[] No.43518861[source]
If the UK didn’t want immigrants, they shouldn’t have colonized half the world and took their stuff
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johnisgood[dead post] ◴[] No.43518868[source]
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lizmat ◴[] No.43519645[source]
Everybody is entitled to their opinion, whether they'd be Raku developers or not.
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johnisgood ◴[] No.43521925[source]
They are, and I am entitled to not associate with them in any way, and tell others to do the same, for this specific comment alone. It says a lot about his views. Like seriously, because the UK a long time tried to conquer parts of the world, mass migration to the UK today is somehow OK? Slavery should be OK, too, according to him, then, since all races have been enslaved at some point in time of history. It is extremely poor reasoning, in poor taste. You should know better.
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1. labster ◴[] No.43522565[source]
My comment made zero moral judgements. History has consequences. Spreading the English language to over a billion people while enriching Britain means a lot of people will want to live in a rich place where they can speak the language, for generations to come. Whether immigration is good or bad is kind of irrelevant to the argument.
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2. johnisgood ◴[] No.43545469[source]
You appealed to what "UK" did in the past, though.

Same thing applies to slavery, then, since every race has been enslaved before. Would you say slavery is OK, too, considering it has been common practice by then by race or nationality X?