• DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    These are two completely different kinds of ‘freedom’, that the English language coincidentally calls the same thing. All the other languages that I know of clearly distinguish the two. Interesting, isn’t it?

    • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 days ago

      So does English. The word everyone is confusing is liberty. We do not have freedom in America as is sold. We have liberty. Someone convinced too many they were the same thing.

      • rumba@lemmy.zip
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        liberty: The state of being free from oppressive restrictions or control imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views

        That’s the one they’re trying to dismantle right now…

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      As the song goes “freedom is just another word for ‘nothing left to lose’”