[badtakemaybe]

The US is not going to lift these restrictions. Why would they? If you live in these terrible places, I’m sorry, but you need to start fighting at home. I don’t know enough about your specific situations or what level of action you should take, but everything from peaceful protest to armed rebellion are options. Yes, you might have to die. You might be killed just for peaceful protest or if you’re government suspects you might be “trouble.” This is your burden, but liberty is worth it.

[danogentili]

And by what logic exactly does the US have the right to "push for freedom" in foreign countries?

Why do people from such countries have to doubly suffer, because not one but two governments are fucking them up?

[badtakemaybe]

Yes, it sucks, but they do have to doubly suffer. Do you think that giving them access to GitHub is going to make them suffer less?

BTW you're literally advocating against freedom.

[snthd]

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

> The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد‎), was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project or "Operation Ajax") and the United Kingdom (under the name "Operation Boot"). It was the first covert action of the United States to overthrow a foreign government during peacetime.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

> The Iranian Revolution (Persian: انقلاب ایران‎, romanized: Enqelābe Irān;), also known as the Islamic Revolution or the 1979 Revolution, was a series of events that involved the overthrow of the last monarch of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and the replacement of his government with an Islamic republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a leader of one of the factions in the revolt. The movement against the United States-backed monarchy was supported by various leftist and Islamist organizations and student movements.

[badtakemaybe]

I'm not sure what your point is? Irrespective of the past (whatever wrongdoing the US may or may not have engaged in), it matters not to the current situation for the people of Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria.

[LfLxfxxLxfxx]

> The US is not going to lift these restrictions. Why would they? If you live in these terrible places

"these terrible places" == "The US"?

> armed rebellion

Armed. Definitely, the US was meant.

[badtakemaybe]

Don't be tedious. You know what I meant.

[LfLxfxxLxfxx]

Just a joke.

[bijant]

So you are following your own advice, fighting in the streets against the Trump Regime ?

[badtakemaybe]

Obviously I think the Trump Administration is terrible, but do you really think it is at the level of Iran or North Korea? Please. If it was, I would be willing to die for liberty, absolutely.