What I’m illustrating is that America, despite being “the land of the free,” is very much not free.
It isn't and never was.
So it doesn’t help that you’re assuming I don’t pay attention outside my borders.
No, I didn't say that. I felt as if you were saying the problems of bribery, corruption, unfair elections, systemic violence by government on its citizens are unique problems of the US government. It isn't, we have also seen them, and I do sympathise with American people facing these things.
we are all just as helpless as each other.
People have power. Even the most oppressed people have fought for themselves, and in many cases, have won.
Even if its one person, you would have to start somewhere. Maybe they have your data from the last 24 years, as per your example. If you cut off now, five years later, they still have only 24 years of your data. They won't have the last five year's data, which would be crucial for them.
That'll be difficult, because a number of lemmy users have been redditors before. On the other hand, number of lemmy users that could have migrated to reddit is nil, which is probably why redditors are not talking about lemmy or the fediverse as much.
But then it would have argued against using a car altogether.