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perihelions ◴[] No.45167153[source]
Hard-earned freedoms are wasted on societies who don't have memories of what it took to earn them. Freedom is a ratchet: slides easily and frictionlessly one way, and offers immense resistance in the other.

This is all so disheartening.

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cedws ◴[] No.45167299[source]
I’m not aware of a single nation where the ratchet is loosening. It appears freedom is being eroded everywhere. The most disheartening thing is that nothing works to stop it. There are countries where millions of people have protested, but in time the protests always fizzle or are stamped out, and things continue on the same trajectory.
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canadiantim[dead post] ◴[] No.45167525[source]
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1. x187463 ◴[] No.45167631[source]
Not even close. Sure, the cancel-culture of the left twitter-verse has weakened, but that was not a government enforced restriction. Meanwhile, the current administration is literally removing signage and museum exhibits which offend their sensibilities. They are removing funding from institutions, kicking people out of the country, and manufacturing 'investigations' into anybody who opposes them. They took over the damn Kennedy Center for honoring people they don't like. You've lost all manner of sense thinking this is improving free-speech. Listen to the tech bros and any other official sitting at the white house glazing the president to his face and tell me that's due to increased free-speech.