• CentauriBeau@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    What happened to us (Americans)? We used to look down on Soviet propaganda and book burning; congratulating ourselves on our free speech. Now we’re burning books and outlawing news sources that don’t abide by the official propaganda. It’s sickening.

    • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      I’m British, we recently had Brexit. It will be “we have book burning but it’s different to that book burning”, or something like that anyway.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      The US has always had propaganda and book burning, it’s just really good at projection. Hell, even D&D was attacked for being “satanic.”

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Lol, classic American. Sees Americans doing bad things in America in a way that America has always done: “what are we, a bunch of Russians!”