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I don't wanna sound like one of those "you said we should improve society, yet you live in it". That said, you can say what you can say about the US (since you got the First Amendment), but how can say that yet you live in the US? Are you aware of the irony of living in the US in order to decry the country?
If you ever conflate a people with a country, you've made a big, dangerous logical fallacy.
I live here because I was born here. That says nothing about my moral character.
I've done what I can as a citizen. It has not been enough. I'm not going to stop.
I'm gonna be real with you: if I actually went out and said this shit in public, I would be arrested, First Amendment be damned. People are currently being arrested for saying way tamer stuff. I am relying on the simple fact that Lemmy is a tiny anti-capitalist platform that the government doesn't know or care about. Law in
binds the poor and protects the rich. It's always been this way, e.g. gun control got implemented after the Black Panthers armed themselves after generations of being terrorized by white gun owners. It's just that Trump and company are too cheap to even lie to you about it anymore.
Don't take this personally, but I truly find appeals to the Constitution as "oh look at the freedoms you're using but decrying" meme to be particularly infuriating. Like I don't oppose freedom of speech, I just want it to actually apply to everyone, and I want there to be negative consequences for fascists who use their freedom of speech to take freedom of speech and literally everything else away from everyone else.
Yeah I was born here and I can't get out and stay out. If I could magically get out and stay out, I would leave immediately, never return, and not even say goodbye to anyone in the States until I'm halfway around the world. I wouldn't even sell or throw out my shit, I'd just go and never return. There's zero fucking irony about being born in a shit hole I can't escape.
Whenever
appeals to human rights... it's a pretext for whatever awful bullshit they want to do. 
is less interested, than literally any other group in all of history so far, in preserving your human rights. They only ever care about human rights when they can be invoked to justify violating someone else's rights.
That doesn't mean I reject freedom or the rights that
pays lip service to. From a principled anarcho-communist position, i.e. a position where freedom of speech, freedom of thought, autonomy, consent, and equality are core values, I reject 
and its bullshit promises because it fails to even attempt these values, only ever using them as a cudgel to destroy people and movements who actually do want to live by these values. And no, there's not a Platonic ideal version of 
that does implement these promises but is just a handful of bad apples from perfection. 
has always been a colonizing mission from minute one. You can't fix that. 
needs to be 100% rejected. No exceptions. No subtlety. Clean break.
Do you think the US should've become a socialist country during the Great Depression?
Short answer: yes, basically.
Long answer: Well I'm an anarcho-communist so the US should have never become a country ever. Countries are bad, full stop.
But I would definitely have preferred it become a socialist country over a capitalist one. The Great Depression would have made for sensible timing since labor was more powerful back then. However, my view is that the best time for socialism (anarcho-communism) is all the time, i.e. there would be no point waiting for a "Great Depression", because capitalism is a system of death and destruction, so intentionally allowing it to continue is a form of human sacrifice.
Have you heard of "Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline"? It's an alternate history story (in which the PoD (point of divergence) is 1901 when William McKinley didn't get assassinated) about the US becoming a socialist country during the Great Depression. It's a good alternate history story if you're into this kind of thing, and it's on SufficientVelocity.
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/reds-a-revolutionary-timeline.48563
Thank you for the recommendation. I've never heard of it. I'm not an alternate history guy but I do need to beef up my fiction consumption.
No, you wouldn't.
Source: I spout this kinda shit constantly and am currently not arrested
Good, hope you stay out of jail, and thank you for speaking out. But at the same time ... people are being arrested for protesting Delaney Hall, and pro-Palestinian groups have been getting arrested since the Biden administration.
Either you've not really said anything too politically incorrect (w.r.t. the Trump administration's political dogma), you have been maintaining excellent security culture, you have the social skills required to deescalate monsters, you're lucky, or some combination thereof.
People in this article were arrested for trying to break a barrier and throwing projectiles. It's really hard to get arrested in the US for speech alone. As a person from an actual authoritarian county, sorry, you don't really get to play the victim here.