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BMeowDawg's avatar

My next door neighbors here in CA are brilliant Chinese immigrants. Per their repeated stories, there truly is no freedom in China, none; even here the long authoritarian arm of the Chinese regime claws at them. That doesn’t unsettle the thesis here that we are far from free ourselves. If we want to spread freedom to the world, the best way to do that is to fix our own myriad shortcomings and set a blinding example.

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Feral Finster's avatar

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum...."

N. Chomsky

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