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Is the political safety of the United States on the same level as that of Russia?

No, even if this were murder.

If the people investigating Hunter Biden suddenly turned up dead, or the people investigating Trump, and if that happened over and over across several years, then I'd say yes. Oh, and if you could be arrested for a protest.

You can be arrested for a protest. You can also be shot and killed without consequences for protesting in some scenarios. Whether either of these survive a SCOTUS challenge, not sure, but in the meantime it sure fucking happens. We’re less free in 2024 than we were in 2001.

But at least you’re still right about the political assassinations, which is not yet a thing that happens here on an organized basis.

You could be shot for protesting in the US well before 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings .

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