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A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
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Re: A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Guinea is the only recent coup I know of https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58461436
Note that different people have different criteria for a coup. For example, in the US in Jan 2021, there was a riot that some call a coup, and some do not. Brazil might also count. I am not aware of the details.
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Re: A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Which country do you have the best chance of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in? Judging by immigration numbers, the US.
Germany has a higher proportion of immigrants than the US, so how do you figure that?
Proportions don't matter in this case. Individuals immigrating each year and the waitlist to do so does. Otherwise you're comparing admission policies instead of the will to live in that place.
Re: A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Germany has a higher proportion of immigrants than the US, so how do you figure that?
Proportions don't matter in this case. Individuals immigrating each year and the waitlist to do so does. Otherwise you're comparing admission policies instead of the will to live in that place.
Comparing absolute numbers is surely meaningless - if the US was arbitrarily split in half, there would be half as many immigrants to each half, but that wouldn't mean the US was suddenly half as attractive to immigrate to.
Re: A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be hard to argue that a country where it's illegal to call someone a dick is particularly free, if that indeed is the case.
Then most of the world isn't free I fear. Why should it be legal to publicly insult someone? You can't punch people in the USA. Does that make the country not particularly free?
Because any criticism can be construed as an insult, which is plainly obvious.
Honestly how did you become so naive? Are you American? What's wrong with you?
Re: A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
#56Reading things like these in other (even developed, Western) nations: - UK surveillance state powers, anti-porn laws - Australian laws to detain you, break encryption - This German incident I sure am glad to live in a country where freedoms are explicitly guaranteed by a constitutional decree.
Ironically, said country with freedoms explicitly guaranteed by a constitutional decree rubber-stamped the German constitution that allowed for this.
Re: A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Which is more likely to affect any given individual? That metric is hilariously wrong. Consider a country with universal healthcare, but where only a single political party is allowed. You're much more likely to face medical issues in your life, than wanting to start your own party and being prevented. Does that make the one-party-state more free than every country without universal healthcare? In other words, by p…
If the one-party-ness doesn't actually affect anyone living there, then yes. Most of us would say that the problems with one-party states are not limited to the tiny minority of people who would want to start a new political party, but also has a large effect on people who disagree with government policies but have no representation.
Right. People presumably don’t start political movements because they’re happy.
They typically do so to affect change.
Change that may well be required, for example, to address problems in said one-party healthcare system.
Re: A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
#58Reading things like these in other (even developed, Western) nations: - UK surveillance state powers, anti-porn laws - Australian laws to detain you, break encryption - This German incident I sure am glad to live in a country where freedoms are explicitly guaranteed by a constitutional decree.
Ironically, said country with freedoms explicitly guaranteed by a constitutional decree rubber-stamped the German constitution that allowed for this.
Blaming America for Germany’s draconian speech laws isn’t right at all. It’s been almost 80 years.
Re: A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
#59And as an American, Germans/Australians/etc. will still insist they're more free than me because of something arbitrary like free healthcare. I don't think there's anywhere I'd feel particularly more "free" all things considered aside from maybe Mars.
I suppose it depends how you look at it. There are different kinds of freedom. My main concern in the US is the absurd levels of incarceration over there, often for relatively trivial nonviolent offences that aren’t even crimes in many countries, and the politicisation of the judicial system. I’m a lot more confident I’d get fair treatment from the justice system in most European countries than I would in the US. The…
> offences that aren’t even crimes in many countries
Like what? Drugs are becoming decriminalized the world over, but this is an extremely recent phenomenon.
Re: A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
#60And as an American, Germans/Australians/etc. will still insist they're more free than me because of something arbitrary like free healthcare. I don't think there's anywhere I'd feel particularly more "free" all things considered aside from maybe Mars.
I suppose it depends how you look at it. There are different kinds of freedom. My main concern in the US is the absurd levels of incarceration over there, often for relatively trivial nonviolent offences that aren’t even crimes in many countries, and the politicisation of the judicial system. I’m a lot more confident I’d get fair treatment from the justice system in most European countries than I would in the US. The…
> The relationship between the police and the public in the states also seems dangerously adversarial and does not inspire me with confidence.
This is greatly exaggerated. Not that the bad things you see in the news don’t happen. Just that most interactions with the police aren’t in fact any more adversarial than in other countries.
I am not white, and I have been stopped by police multiple times in the US, Europe, and Asia, as well as selected for additional screening in airports in the US, London, and the Netherlands.
Whether the police were adversarial or not was not a function of whether they were in the US. Indeed the one time the police actually behaved in a threatening way was in the UK.