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If by "everywhere" you mean "major megapolises with crime problems", then yes, everywhere. Otherwise, no, not everywhere, and yes, in a suburban location a chan
by smsm42 2y ago
If by "everywhere" you mean "major megapolises with crime problems", then yes, everywhere. Otherwise, no, not everywhere, and yes, in a suburban location a chance of a shooting happening under your very office window is extremely low. Living/working in a megapolis has its advantages, but let's not paint over its downsides also. Criminals want the same advantages too.
- aqme28 2y agoYou're right of course, but it's sort of meaningless. I live in Germany where there isn't nearly as much gun crime, but Musk isn't about to move Twitter to Germany.
- willmadden 2y agoDon't your police regularly jail people for non-violent speech? I don't see Musk moving to Germany.
- TurboTveit 2y agoIf by non-violent speech you mean roman salutes or nazi quotes, yes.
- rightbyte 2y agoIt is more or less enough to in public say why you don't support Likud nowadays to be arrested in Germany.
- jeromegv 2y agoThey jail people for antisemitic and nazi speech, if for you this is "non-violent", I have a history lesson on 1939-1945 to show you.
- willmadden 2y agoI saw a video of a German activist being hauled off by the police for giving a seminar about censorship the other day. Your country controls speech through force. Like I said, it's highly unlikely Musk would move anything to your country.
- warkdarrior 2y ago> it's highly unlikely Musk would move anything to your country And yet Musk proves you wrong: https://www.tesla.com/giga-berlin https://www.tesla.com/giga-berlin
- willmadden 2y agoTesla does not operate a social media platform.
- thomasz 2y agoYou certainly did not see an activist hauled off by the police for giving a seminar about censorship the other day.
- lukan 2y agoSo ... can you link that outrageous video, that we can judge whether it really was the way you said it was?
- peterfirefly 2y agoMarie-Thérèse Kaiser. Apparently it is illegal to state that more Afghan refugees in Germany lead to more rapes in Germany. https://freespeechunion.org/young-afd-politician-convicted-for-publishing-gang-rape-statistics-in-connection-with-afghan-migration/ https://freespeechunion.org/young-afd-politician-convicted-f... Björn Höcke. Apparently the slogan "Alles für Deutschland" (Everything for Germany) is strictly verboten because a Nazi organization used it. I didn't know that before the Höcke verdict and I doubt most Germans did. I also very much doubt that it was in any way used as a Nazi reference. Germany's penal code does ban certain non-specified symbols -- which makes a lot sense based on Germany's recent history. Unfortunately, the law is applied extremely selectively and in quite creative ways for opinions that some people just don't like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a Why does Germany pretend Die Linke (The Left -- the renamed East German Communist Party) is a perfectly normal and legal party and at the same time that the perfectly normal and legal (and not very much on the right) party AfD is quasi-Nazi?
- MSFT_Edging 2y agoCities tend to have a lower per-capita crime rate, it's just dense and visible. This is just suburban paranoia. Crime happens.
- smsm42 2y ago[flagged]
- willmadden 2y agoNo, it's not just suburban paranoia. Travel to Tokyo or Singapore and then to S.F.
- FredPret 2y agoWe recently spent a month in Tokyo. It is ridiculously safe and law-abiding. I'm surprised they have any crime at all. In our entire time there, I saw one (1) individual piece of small rubbish on the street.
- sneak 2y agoTokyo is not safe. People who are arrested for suspicion of crimes are held for weeks by the police and threatened and beaten and tortured until they confess, even if they are innocent. The police then release them for 24 hours and rearrest them on a different charge so the two month holding timer resets. People there have been held for months in solitary confinement (torture past a few days, per the UN) awaiting trial only to be found innocent and released. As a foreigner, good luck if a Japanese person calls the police on you and accuses you of something. You’re looking at 40+ days of beatings and torture as the police will of course believe natives over tourists.
- rangestransform 2y agowell that just shows that to japanese people, even kangaroo courts are better than crime
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