[AlecSchueler]

> One thing you need to keep in mind is that in the US things are stacked against people who would want to protest or engage in any kind of activism.

This is the kind of exceptionalism that got you into this mess. You don't think things are stacked against the populations in countries like Turkey and Serbia?

Yes of course France is very different in terms of the freedom of the population, but why is that? Because they demanded it!

[cshimmin]

You don’t have to convince me that this is a bad thing for America. Yes it’s exactly how turkey and russia and other failed/failing democracies got to where they are.