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>So should the US cut ties with its allies because they don't agree with every single point that defines free speech?

The American vice president recently gave a speech in Europe where he basically said "if you're going to be locking people up for posting memes online, there's no common values and we're not going to keep providing you military protection".

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I feel that the US is going very protectionist atm (at least its leaders are), so I'm not very surprised by such statements. though imo even if Europe was completely aligned with the US on free speech, something else would be the reason to threaten military support.

(just a side note: personally I wish Europe as a whole would shift its stance on freedom of speech to be closer to the US's stance on it then it currently is over here, so I'm not going to complain if the VPs statements do actually help kick our leaders up the arse.)

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