Canada

conservatives will immediately try to gaslight, or try to sealion the issue.

Can't call conservatives retards for their regressive actions that they regret. censorship sucks

I'm not afraid of voicing my opinion, but what's the point? Everyone is firmly in their trenches, so at best you get approving nods, at worst you get an argument which is equal parts futile and frustrating.

The only times I mention it is when my opinion is across the grain. For example, whether to require voter ID is a hot topic, and in my opinion it's being discussed all wrong. Why is no one pointing out that everyone should be able to get a proper ID? That's the real problem we should solve. So much stuff other than voting requires ID, so life must suck if you don't have one. Let's fix that!

Which party will push the larger deficit, the answer may surprise you. They will do nearly the same, and neither party supports things like universal healthcare.

Yeah I don't tell people in my life I am a communist because that could get me sent to a camp in a few years. I am not getting reported to the fucking gestapo by someone I play DND with

In the McCarthy era, whatever the average person said usually didn't make it past the actual people they said it to (and those people's gossip buddies, possibly) unless someone had an axe to grind and wanted to get them in trouble. Today, anything you say has circled the globe ten times, been indexed in multiple systems, and fed to someone's AI assistant before the hour is out. Yet another way in which technological change is a mixed bag.

I expressed myself, and my 14 year old account was banned almost instantly...

America, land of the free.

Look in the mirror, it's a lie.