just ain’t the case, this is a thing that happens sometimes at monied levels of capitalist event planning in Imperial Anglophone countries, not in day-to-day life for all the Volk
don’t pretend like western governments have this kind of reach and power, it will cause people trapped in their borders to kill themselves
counterpoint: Bob Vylan
Let’s be honest, that’s true in every country where the government has real power. The moment you’re an actual threat to those in power, you’ll get shut down.
Right, and that’s why talk of authoritarianism is infantile. The question that’s actually important is whose interest the government represents.
Of course. The moment a government feels threatened, it will show you ‘the violence inherent in the system’.
Which is the desirable outcome if the government represents the working class and exercises violence against attempts at a capitalist counterrevolution.
That’s … Just not true? Ragebait?
welcome to the real world https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/uk/bob-vylan-uk-band-glastonbury-us-visa-intl-latam
The uk and Australia doing something hardly makes it true of “the western countries.” Rewording to “some western countries” could make the statement true though.
That’s unfair to lump all of the western world in with Australia. We ban a wide variety of things because they make us feel bad and not because it actually hurts anyone.
Johnny depps dogs, right wing authors, sports stars that won’t vaccinate, musicians that remind us were racist too, meat, German porn, Chinese fireworks. I think we have put a ban on Russian caviar too. Point is Australia likes to ban.
