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> falling behind the US economically and technologically Are you even human? Do you really believe what you say? Doesn't it come across as absurd, from everyth
by ezst 4mo ago
> falling behind the US economically and technologically
Are you even human? Do you really believe what you say? Doesn't it come across as absurd, from everything that happened to the US since the Snowden revelations, the Patriot Act, spiraling into fascism, a first time attacking science and democracy, a second time to install oligarchs, traitors, corrupt and incompetents to run the state, with the result of tanking your real economy (on every metric that's not related to AI), burning down your soft power, burning bridges with every ally, losing the war against Iran, and causing a generational talent exodus out of the US?
Oh yeah, by no means am I blindly defending "the EU leadership", but some reality check is much needed.
- nxm 4mo ago[flagged]
- tokioyoyo 4mo agoThis 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.
- tokai 4mo agoRight now people in the US are being designated as terrorist for being against the government.
- dgellow 4mo agoAnd people are literally arrested for touching a pool
- pbkompasz 4mo agoAnd at least people are not shot in the streets by the police for protesting...
- vjjsejj 4mo agoWell no.. just handcuffed and left to die after being stabbed (while the perpetrators face no consequences).
- Lio 4mo ago> (while the perpetrators face no consequences). Bullshit! 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. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d2w411rgro https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d2w411rgro
- vjjsejj 4mo agoI meant the policemen of course. They were never tried for manslaughter or even fired(?). So at least in this case the lack of accountability is similar what is regularly happening in the US.
- Lio 4mo agoThe IOPC is still investigating the police officers involved. They won't release their findings until September, so it's too early to say that there's no accountability.
- retired 4mo agoDutch police shot at a child during protests. With video: https://nos.nl/artikel/2435671-beschoten-boerenzoon-ik-wil-van-politie-weten-waarom-ze-dit-gedaan-hebben https://nos.nl/artikel/2435671-beschoten-boerenzoon-ik-wil-v... Shots during COVID protests: https://nos.nl/video/2406436-terugkijken-zo-werden-rotterdamse-agenten-belaagd-door-relschoppers https://nos.nl/video/2406436-terugkijken-zo-werden-rotterdam...
- thrance 4mo agoA 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.
- watwut 4mo agoEurope is over all far more democratic and safer then USA. Including people actually being safer when they speak.
- tough 4mo agoas long as your mean memes aren't against the POTUS ;)
- drawfloat 4mo agoDidn't we just have a round of people being fired and arrested in the US for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk?
- tmtvl 4mo ago> free speech Democracy 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.