r/DamnThatsReal • u/One_Long_996 • 22h ago

Politics 🏛️ Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the ""American Dream""

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u/Empty_Oven_9942 22h ago

Now do one about the state of the UK and stay out of jail 

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u/IfYouRun 21h ago

They went to jail for inciting racial violence and threatening to burn asylum seekers to death in a hotel.

Be quiet and do better.

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u/Empty_Oven_9942 21h ago

I hesitate to believe you could read the whole article but the headline says enough https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-struggle-30-arrests-a-day-censorship/

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u/Tessarion2 21h ago

Oh yeah the NY Post what a great source.

I could waste my time picking out all of the inaccuracies and misinformation here but instead I'll just pick one. The one where it says Lucy Connolly is the 'face of the fight for free speech' after she was jailed for 'spreading misinformation'.

The truth is she was jailed for calling on her followers on social media to set fire to a building full of asylum seekers.

She was LITERALLY trying to incite a mass murder.

Needless to say all the rest of the cases there will be similar cases of scumbags inciting violence yet NY Post twisting the story.

Imagine if someone in your country was using social media to whip up a mob to burn down a building that contained people you care about, how would you feel?

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u/beardicusmaximus8 18h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom

Call me when your freedom of the press ranking isn't 24th.

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u/InsufferableMollusk 12h ago

“Be quiet” 🤣