At least there’s free speech and people are not arrested for mean memes (as is the case in UK and Germany).
Burning bridges with “allies” which were taking advantage of you?
replyDidn't we just have a round of people being fired and arrested in the US for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk?
replyThis gets brought up a lot, and I’m not sure how to explain it. But inconsequential complete free speech is not the top issue for some people. People have different priorities.
replyas long as your mean memes aren't against the POTUS ;)
replyAnd at least people are not shot in the streets by the police for protesting...
replyWell no.. just handcuffed and left to die after being stabbed (while the perpetrators face no consequences).
reply> (while the perpetrators face no consequences).
replyBullshit!
Vickrum Digwa, the perpetrator of that crime, was jailed for life with a minimum sentence review time of 21 years.
What's more it's thought that sentence is unduly lenient so it's being reviewed to make is stronger.
Europe is over all far more democratic and safer then USA. Including people actually being safer when they speak.
reply> free speech
replyDemocracy only works well when the populace is properly informed and it's much easier for someone to tell a lie than for someone else to disprove that lie. Think of the Alex Jones Sandy Hook hoax conspiracy hypothesis.
Right now people in the US are being designated as terrorist for being against the government.
replyAnd people are literally arrested for touching a pool
replyA group of protesters got 50 years in jail for daring to exercise their constitutional duty against ICE illegally detaining citizens. Meanwhile the J6 thugs all got pardonned by the literal pedophile in office, and not a single Epstein victim got any justice.
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