Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado

Yep, but why do we care what the socialist dictator Maduro thinks?

I don't think they are talking about Maduro, but a big blond haired baby who likes burger and fascism.

This is a tangent, but this type of You-Know-Who speech is so irritating. If you want to say Trump just say it, don't dance around it like he's some kind of god who'll punish you if you say his name in vain.

people are getting in very real world trouble for saying negative things about certain people or their friends.

i’m not sure if you’ve seen how many people have lost their jobs for saying truths about kurk or how many people are losing jobs, scholarships, visas, education etc for saying things about a certain regime, but it’s happening, for real. they’re actively pushing to force people to turn over their social media accounts for review.

we can’t blame this poster for vagueposting here. i often pushback against vagueposting but in today’s climate we cant blame people for taking their personal safety seriously when it comes to vocalizing their criticisms.

Sadly, everyone knows what you mean and vagueposting is no protection.

I'm reminded of the (apocryphal?) Russian protestor arrested for holding a blank piece of paper.

I don't know about Russia but there seem to be loads of cases of people being arrested (or detained or harrassed by police) for holding up a blank piece of paper, including one case in Cornwall: https://netpol.org/2023/02/10/cornish-protester-assaulted-an...

In Singapore someone was charged for holding up a piece of cardboard with a smiley face drawn on it: https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/11/26/public-order-in-si...

That was a Soviet-era joke, then it actually happened several times under Putin.

Because "just say it" doesn't work on many sites. I don't know about this site but anecdotally, I've seen that when I use certain words / phrases / names on YouTube or Reddit subreddits, those comments are either not shown at all (not shown even to me) or shadow-banned (not shown to others).

Another reason I don't just say it sometimes is to avoid trolling by fans of whatever or whoever I criticized.

I seriously doubt saying "big blond haired baby who likes burger and fascism" instead of "Trump" would have made a difference for these people.

I guess we can test the theory now.

Fuck Donald J. Trump, worst President of the Untied States in history.