Last Wednesday, Lux Claridge planned to speak out against a proposed 1,000 acre data center in their town of Emporia, Kansas. They left in handcuffs after a city commissioner ordered them arrested for clapping.

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[–] 29 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Americans are fucking weird man, not normal at all.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Pretty normal in a lot of places for a government to crack down on speech and protests.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I really am tired of people pretending like this kind of thing is purely an American problem and that Europe has no issues with authoritarianism. coughHungarycough (might be coming to an end, (maybe not, we'll see) but living in 16 years of it.... some stuff here would make Republicans blush). Incidents in the UK with pro Palestinian movements are similarly discouraging...

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I’ll go one step further, I’m tired of pretending like the people causing problems in America didn’t come from Europe. As a Native American I firmly believe that Europe needs to clean up its colonial mess.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Europe exported most of its problematic behavior and now likes to pretend it's the model of civilization

    The only continent they didn't directly fuck up is Antarctica, and that's just because it wasn't profitable to colonise

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Those places don't call themselves shit like "land of the free" tho

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