I’m not skeptical per se. I’ve just been propagandized so fucking much—I grew up watching those propagandocumentaries on the National Geographic Channel about the DPRK, etc., fr that was what I watched instead of cartoons lol.
Pretend I’m a lib who you’re trying to convince, or something. In addition to calming this feeling in my gut like something isn’t making sense, I want to be able to make this argument, myself.
a recent example, U.S. Government forcing the sale of TikTok because they are not happy about the content being posted there.
U.S. is ‘free’ so long as there are no threats (see Red Scare, McCarthyism). You can speak all you want, even ‘subversive’ shit but as long as its not significant to cause a revolution or something, they’ll let it slide.