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Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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with your characters’ unpopular and/or controversial opinion. Or share few of them at once. In person or via text. Prepare for disagreement.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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It matters if you're sitting in prison for saying it. Does that not happen where you come from, or do they just make up good enough excuses for it that nobody realises?

Though, actually, the things I said that got me put in prison in my youth turned out to be extremely popular. They just weren't popular with the people who were benefitting from the widespread injustice I called other people's attention to.

[A dangerous question to ask, because Madison's worldliness amounts exactly to anything that would end up in an article on TMZ.

Which is, you know, nothing.]

Sure, if you're living in some backwater shithole somewhere. Which it sounds like you are, if you got busted just for saying something that pissed a few people off.

In the US of A you can say anything you want as long as you aren't calling Oprah fat. That'll get the shit cancelled out of you.

The United States of America? Seriously?

Golden Age Cybertron was not a 'backwater shithole'; it was a highly technologically advanced and extremely cultured theocratic, plutocratic police state, and jailing me wasn't the worst thing they did to me...before the revolution.

I spent a few years in the USA. It was very much a 'backwater shithole' at the time, but frankly, that's always been an apt description of Earth, in general. But the USA?

I can remember when saying "Transformers" were real would get you an investigation there, and potentially a nice long sit in a quiet cell if you wouldn't shut up. Now they have the Internet and everyone knows that Cybertronians have been involved in their planet's affairs for a while now, but...why don't you ask Chelsea Manning about freedom of speech?

And while it's hardly technologically advanced, the USA is putting forth its best effort to become a plutocratic police state. Whenever and wherever money is allowed to vote, it will always win. There was a time I'd have been willing to bet they'd become a theocracy, too, but they seem to be stepping back from that particular ledge.

Of course all bets are off if their Jesus produces his own gaudy mind control jewellery collection and gets some soft-hearted activist who secretly believes in 'change from within' to let them shove it into his or her chest.

[Any country but the USA or Japan, and he probably would've just shrugged. But he's lived in those places, albeit not the same ones Madison knows, and he has Opinions.]

[Megatron's saying a lot of words and making what probably adds up to a good point if she were the kind of person to respect that. But for Madison this is a lot of talking that's coming from him and not her. Worse, he's namedropping people and incidents that she has zero awareness of. Politics is a game not unlike celebrity, in her opinion, but it's not the kind of influence she cares about.]

Wow, you and brevity aren't exactly friends, are you? [She's not trying to be meanspirited (for once), she just truly doesn't care.] I don't know if Cybertronia or whatever has its own twitter, but take my advice and avoid getting an account.

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[Careful, Megatron. You don't want your optics to roll so hard they roll out of your fraggin' head.]

Let's try this again.

As far as I'm concerned, Earth is the platonic ideal of a 'backwater shithole'.

And when I was actually in the United States, you could absolutely get locked up for saying the wrong thing.

Much better, [she says approvingly.]

And those are all a bunch of political dissidents or whatever. [Who cares????] I was talking about, like, Armie Hammer and people like that.

Yes.

[How vacuous exactly is this particular human?]

I have no idea who Armie Hammer is or was, but usually when people are imprisoned for saying something unpopular, it has to do with religion or politics. Especially in places where they're practically the same thing.

Exactly. So it's not like anyone's going to imprison me or Lady Gaga for talking shit, is it?

That depends.

The other category of people who end up in prison for something they've said is ordinary people who happen to find out about something the government really doesn't want people to know.

Usually, they don't even know that what they've found out is all that secret, or they'd have had the sense to keep their mouths shut.

Lady Gaga...

[Megatron will actually google that one, because he's not sure if this is a noblewoman or an entertainer, and getting it wrong would be Embarrassing.]

Lady Gaga could probably get away with saying almost anything, because she wouldn't be that difficult to discredit, which might actually be useful to the powers that be if she learned something she shouldn't have learned.

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