@realcaseyrollins What?
You're referring to a governmental institution, an organization that constrains freedom, and projecting this freedom constraining organization as the free world... That doesn't make sense.
@realcaseyrollins Well that's not particularly true either.
By some measures the US doesn't even crack the top 10.
No, domestic policy in the US is definitely not focused on freedom, everything from tax policy through drug restrictions through monitoring of communications in the US point the other direction.
@volkris #Australia? #Canada?? 🤣
This list is garbage if they're putting authoritarian semi-fascist countries like those at the top of their list...good grief man...
@realcaseyrollins sure, the US is the most free, as long as you ignore all of the analysis saying it's not the most free, then it absolutely is!
You're begging the question to try to support your predetermined conclusions.
Or, on the other hand, specifically what in their calculation did they get wrong? Show me the math where they went astray?
Don't just reject their conclusion because it doesn't match your opinions.
I can't see their calculations, at least not in that page. But a clear example of both #Canada and #Australia restricting freedom is their hate speech laws:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Australia
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-319.html
Maybe this is the type of freedom #Cato doesn't care about, but I do. When it comes to the combination of freedom of speech, right to arm oneself and property rights, I have seen no equal to the #USA.
You're living in a de facto fascistic state now where people get arrested and deported for having expressed an opinion or defended people in court, and have the freedom to get shot by any lunatic.
Enjoy your fucked up fake "freedom", Orwell.
@proscience No those stories have been debunked.
Yes they were widely circulated on social media, but no they weren't true.
@realcaseyrollins is wrong that the US is some bastion of freedom, but that doesn't mean we should promote those nutty stories about arresting and deporting people for having expressed opinions.
Both are false.
@light @volkris @interfluidity @proscience
> people get arrested and deported for having expressed an opinion or defended people in court
I do know that one of these is false, no judge has been arrested or deported for defending someone in court, at least not at #Trump's behest. I do know non citizens have been arrested and deported for supporting terrorist organizations and their activities, although I don't know if they also participated in pro Palestinian violence on campuses or not.
@volkris
How/where were they debunked?
Cc: @interfluidity
@proscience @realcaseyrollins