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"The fact that you can criticize the government proves that we live in a democracy!" (especially funny when it happens on self-hosted fedi platforms deliberately operated in third-party jurisdictions due to censorship on Silicon Valley platforms).
I like pointing out that calling Mitch McConnell a turtle ten billion times hasn't removed him from power.
It's especially funny because they can turn around and make the "CIA excellence in journalism award" joke to refer to journalists said government killed, all without a trace of awareness
If it were a democracy wouldn't those criticisms be able to amount to more than nothing in terms of policy?
Reminds me of that joke where the CIA agent says to the KGB agent "Here in America we're free to criticize our leaders. I can call Ronald Reagan a bastard and face no state persecution." And the KGB agent says "In the USSR we can also call Ronald Reagan a bastard without state persecution."
It was worded a lot better when I saw it, but I forget the exact joke.