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A close friend (bless his heart) asked me if I "really think China is more free than, say, France?" when talking about things like freedom of the press and journalistic integrity. I've seen a lot of that recently, that because we live in a country which had been once considered to be "socialistic" that the stories we are told and things we have been taught wouldn't align as much with what global and local capitalists want us to believe is true. At one point I remember him critizising me for using the term "wage slave" (which I used jokingly but w/e) because "none of us here are actual wage slaves". Because you apparently have to be an Asian child in a Nike sweatshop to actually be opressed by capitalism. My brother, no-one is free until all are free.
"freedom" is such a vague concept though, mostly used for bullshit rhetoric
Yeah that's true