The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now
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I'm waiting for the haters to give negative comments about the title and article.
Look back at my posting history. There's no shortage of bad or dumb comments. But also a lot of good ones. I tend to focus on those.
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I take your point. The economist is anti union and pro free trade, but the last 3 sentences of this particular columnist are anti Trump and spoken truthfully.
The Economist are about as pure Neoliberal as it gets, whilst Trump and his minions are Fascists which is an ideology were the State sits above Money in the hierarchy of power (though, unlike in Democracy, the State under Fascism is not controlled by citizens), which is exactly the opposite order of what Neoliberals defend, so they're enemies.
What they both agree, however, is that the common people with their vote should not control the highest power in the land.
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"hidden" racism in german is so awful. They be talking about some minority and how chill everything is and then comes a but,... and you just already know the discussions has gone to the dogs.
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It's a different idea of freedom. In the US it's about freedom to X, in the EU it's freedom from X.
For example, in the US you have the freedom to say just about anything you want. In the EU you're free from people making you unsafe by misinformation, lies, etc. In the US you're free to take pictures of anything you want that can be seen from the street. In Germany you're free from having pictures of your property posted online without your consent. The result is that Google's Street View covers everything in the US and almost nothing in Germany. In the US people or companies are free to take public information and hold onto it or publish it as they see fit without interference. In the EU, you're free from having that information out there forever beyond your control. You're free to demand that it be deleted under certain circumstances.
In the end, the European way is more about regulating things. It asks what kinds of things prevent people from living their lives freely and without worries, and tries to regulate those things. The American way is more about removing every regulation and rule possible and saying the end result is freedom so it must be good.
I think it's more that in Europe there's freedom for citizens, in the US there's freedom for corporations.
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the bar for what is considered free now is just lower
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People with a loving and supportive family are wealthier than Elon Musk
And they'll never have to wonder if they're truly loved for themselves or because they're rich. At a certain level of wealth, you'll never know for sure if someone likes you for who you are vs. your wealth. At Elon's level of wealth, he can't even trust that his family is being honest with him.
At Elon’s level of wealth, he can’t even trust that his family is being honest with him.
Well… his trans daughter probably is.
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It’s now a monument to how things used to be
Like in a retirement home in Greece.
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So much land of the free that you go to jail for smoking weed in most EU countries.
"There are thus no European Rasputins pumping untold millions into political campaigns"
There's plenty of them, that's how most elections are won here too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi
Europe is as "free" as russia or usa or china: as long as you conform and do as authorities say you are free. Try to cross that line (like protesting against the genocide in palestine) and the government will beat and arrest you.
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Anglo leftists will be like: "No." Because hatespeech and racism is only good when they do it. And many EU countries ban hatespeech.
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So much land of the free that you go to jail for smoking weed in most EU countries.
"There are thus no European Rasputins pumping untold millions into political campaigns"
There's plenty of them, that's how most elections are won here too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi
Europe is as "free" as russia or usa or china: as long as you conform and do as authorities say you are free. Try to cross that line (like protesting against the genocide in palestine) and the government will beat and arrest you.
Imagine going to jail for breaking the law! How dare Europe call themselves free when they uphold societal rules like that?!
Are you intentionally trying to mislead by intentionally not understanding laws?
America isn’t free because you can’t kill a healthcare exec without being imprisoned!
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Anglo leftists will be like: "No." Because hatespeech and racism is only good when they do it. And many EU countries ban hatespeech.
wat? nobody on the left supports hate speech.
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It's not that they're free. It's that they're exceedingly privileged from exploiting the global south. And then racist against their victims.
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France should take the statue of liberty away from us tbh
what a waste of resources. it'd be cheaper for the rest of the world to just call it something else.
"Statue of Hubris" has a nice ring to it.
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Imagine going to jail for breaking the law! How dare Europe call themselves free when they uphold societal rules like that?!
Are you intentionally trying to mislead by intentionally not understanding laws?
America isn’t free because you can’t kill a healthcare exec without being imprisoned!
Imagine going to jail for breaking the law!
A country where smoking weed "breaks the law" doesn't sound free at all
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Imagine going to jail for breaking the law!
A country where smoking weed "breaks the law" doesn't sound free at all
So just intentional stupidity.
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Yeah... For now. It's a fatal mistake to think what's going on here in the US hasn't already been spreading.
Nah.. Europe's countries still have their own laws so you can't just "take control of europe" like Trump took control of the US. You can't just appoint a European leader that just destroys everything the predecessor has done.
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I think it's more that in Europe there's freedom for citizens, in the US there's freedom for corporations.
No, there aren't special rules that give corporations more freedom. Citizens have the same freedoms. The difference is that they're freedoms that may intrude on other people's privacy, or on their mental well-being, etc.
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wat? nobody on the left supports hate speech.
Except when it is against Jews.
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So just intentional stupidity.
That's Index's modus operandi.
