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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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Freedom of speech.

Freedom of information.

The hoax that we have the best anything.

I could go on. Americans are massively deluded into thinking they're special and our country is amazing because they've never set foot outside of it. Even our internet feed is radically tuned towards isolationism. We are slightly above the "communist" countries that so many people in the US decry for building great firewalls or cutting their people off from the outside world.

Anyone who's ever traveled and opened up their youtube account in another country's airport even would know just how limited our vision of the world really is, and how much our news and speech is controlled.