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We don't have the kinds of protections other folks have with regard to free speech. It's not about balls. Our first amendment gives you the right to carry a sign down the sidewalk. If you stop walking you can be arrested. The arrest can affect your employment / you can be fired for being arrested. There's no unemployment if you get fired. There's no social safety net. People miss two paychecks and they can't eat.
Exercising free speech in America is super high stakes. Once again, it's not about balls.
You've just described why it is about balls though. Willingness to do something with risk.
If you literally don't see the difference, I don't know what to say.
Ok maybe one thing: I've been in demonstrations all over the world, major protests like Arab Spring and the second penguin revolution in Chile. Actions that changed governments. I've met so, so, so many people who do what's in the OP. And you will never convince me that not wanting to potentially lose everything their family's ever worked for their whole lives to protest against billionaires doing routine billionaire shit makes someone a pussy.
What IS it that you need to face such risks, then?
You think Serbia is cool about free speech?