[nozzlegear]

An American and a Chinese citizen are having a discussion on Rednote about freedom in their respective countries. The American proudly says:

"In America, we have true freedom! I can stand in front of the White House and shout, 'I don’t like the President!' and nothing will happen to me."

The Chinese citizen thoughtfully replies:

"We have the same freedom in China. I can stand in front of Tiananmen Square and shout, 'I don’t like the American President!' and nothing will happen to me either."

[spencerflem]

shouting is allowed because the powers that be know it is ineffective

if its looking like it wont be they gun you down. see: occupy wall st., unionization efforts

[nozzlegear]

That's an interesting theory, some would call it conspiratorial, but regardless it's not quite the point.

[keybored]

A Russian and an American get on a plane in Moscow and get to talking. The Russian says he works for the Kremlin and he's on his way to go learn American propaganda techniques.

"American propaganda techniques? Sounds conspiratorial" says the American.

"Exactly," the Russian replies.

[nozzlegear]

Great anecdote, I really like it and I'll definitely be using it myself with the parties reversed or changed in the future. But I can't help but feel like we're veering even further off topic here, since nobody was talking about the Russians or propaganda. If you had maybe changed the Russians to Chinese it could've been a real zinger, but I can only assume you just wanted to get what you thought would be a quick dunk in on me with your off topic anecdote.

[bdangubic]

if you think you have “freedom” as an American citizen I have some Enron stock to sell to you … sooooo funny, geeeez

[nozzlegear]

Great comment, hard to argue with that.