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Replying To yew_tree: "Last Wednesday: A Fox News host says homeless people should be executed. Monday: Jimmy Kimmel makes a joke. Guess which one lost their job? Americans are losing their free speech rights under this administration. If you speech out against them your done….becoming more and more like North Korea." Unfortunately, free speech in the US now seems to mean speech that is friendly towards the incumbent in the Ehite House. Media outlets who don't kow tow to this MAGA movement or "Project 25" are being threatened with massive lawsuits. North Korean, Russia and China already have eliminated any critical forums. It's sad really to see that once great bastion of freedom and democracy being battered into submission - from within. When all these freedoms are silenced, it will take years to unwind the damage done, if that can ever happen. Freethinker (Wicklow) - Posts: 1863 - 18/09/2025 12:09:05 2636644 Link
USA becoming more like Russia, China and North Korea these days, than they seem to realise. Even the Pope weighed in with a Trumpish sounding smear about Ireland last week. He's probably a closet MAGA fan too. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4411 - 18/09/2025 12:16:39 2636646 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "Last Wednesday: A Fox News host says homeless people should be executed. Monday: Jimmy Kimmel makes a joke. Guess which one lost their job? Americans are losing their free speech rights under this administration. If you speech out against them your done….becoming more and more like North Korea." The strange thing is the Americans that talk about unfettered 'liberty' are the one's who restrict these rights the most. Bush administration basically put the whoe country under government surveilance after 9/11. A lot of the MAGA movement and even their mannerisms come across like the mentality of secondary school age, angry teenage boys. Even their debates, they always start shouting down the opponent and always go into personel insults or just shout abuse. Or if they don't descend into shouting they use a lot of passive agggressive insults. Insult seem to be their aim. It's like they've modelled debate and interaction with opponents on MMA trash talk. FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 358 - 18/09/2025 12:51:15 2636654 Link
Replying To FullOfPorter: "The strange thing is the Americans that talk about unfettered 'liberty' are the one's who restrict these rights the most. Bush administration basically put the whoe country under government surveilance after 9/11. A lot of the MAGA movement and even their mannerisms come across like the mentality of secondary school age, angry teenage boys. Even their debates, they always start shouting down the opponent and always go into personel insults or just shout abuse. Or if they don't descend into shouting they use a lot of passive agggressive insults. Insult seem to be their aim. It's like they've modelled debate and interaction with opponents on MMA trash talk." I seen a few of them spouting that tourists should be denied holiday visas if they criticise the American government on social media….its bonkers stuff. It's actually sad and worrying how far America is falling down in the gutter. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11771 - 18/09/2025 14:14:12 2636671 Link
And yet the Trump excusers on here will deny the reality of what was predicted. TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8515 - 18/09/2025 14:27:16 2636675 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "I seen a few of them spouting that tourists should be denied holiday visas if they criticise the American government on social media….its bonkers stuff. It's actually sad and worrying how far America is falling down in the gutter." If you were to read any study on the lifecycle of an empire this is all quite predictable. The American empire is just past the age of decadence. They don't know right from wrong any more and will collapse in our lifetime. What's really scary is how the world might look afterwards. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 18/09/2025 14:31:56 2636677 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "I seen a few of them spouting that tourists should be denied holiday visas if they criticise the American government on social media….its bonkers stuff. It's actually sad and worrying how far America is falling down in the gutter." There are already people having to delete their social media or even whatss app messages before entering the states which is bonkers. That is what you'd do going to China. FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 358 - 18/09/2025 15:40:55 2636692 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "USA becoming more like Russia, China and North Korea these days, than they seem to realise. Even the Pope weighed in with a Trumpish sounding smear about Ireland last week. He's probably a closet MAGA fan too." It would be more in the Popes line to think about all the abuse suffered in Ireland at the hands of the catholic church and clergy and apologise for that rather than smearing Ireland over some alleged verbal assault he encountered while wearing the collar here years ago, whenever it was he never gave the date. The catholic church has lost all credibility to speak on such matters imo. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3454 - 18/09/2025 15:45:23 2636693 Link