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But this is none of your business. I live in Germany, where everything is regulated by well meaning people. Going so far to regulate what you ought to say or to
by chopin 2mo ago
But this is none of your business. I live in Germany, where everything is regulated by well meaning people. Going so far to regulate what you ought to say or to watch.
It is hellish. I don't recognize the country any more in which I was born and raised.
- LadyCailin 2mo agoIf you are in the same insurance pool as me (state funded or otherwise) it is at least some of my business, yes?
- nearlyepic 2mo ago> But this is none of your business. The culture described extends far into things that are my business, like being able to walk around without being shot.
- chopin 2mo agoI was referring to"hey you probably shouldn’t blow your hand off”. I am not against regulations per se, I am German after all. But a sane discussion should be had how far this should go. Regulating things which are dangerous to the person taking a risk knowingly is over the top in my book.
- sdoering 2mo ago> Going so far to regulate what you ought to say or to watch. Native born German. Calling BS on that crap. I recommend reading up on "freedom from" vs. "freedom to". Explains quite a lot of differences between the European tradition of ensuring people are "free from" an potentially oppressive state vs. the US tradition of "freedom to". In each "freedom of speech" index I know, Germany fares better than the US, or Britain, or Australia. Or quite a lot of different countries tbh. RSF World Press (lower is better): - Germany 14/180 - Britain 18/180 - Australia 33/180 - USA 64/180 Freedom House (higher is better): - Germany 95/100 - Britain 92/100 - Australia 95/100 - USA 84/100 Edit: Typo
- tick_tock_tick 2mo agoNo one actually believes their BS and I doubt you actually do either. They use so many bullshit and mental gymnastics to "score" Germany well despite their appalling "free speech" laws. I think it's very fair to say anyone appealing to either of these index's isn't even attempting to argue in good faith.
- Obscurity4340 2mo agoHow did that work out for Alex Pretti, the protesting nurse that was murdered by the Feds recently?
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- Obscurity4340 2mo agoGot a source or just adding to the daily ragebait? Seems like Trump always has an explanation, and is always the aggrieved party, and only seems to lose unfair/hoax elections vs his integrous ones
- throw2927364 2mo agoIsn't carrying a gun another right?
- sensanaty 2mo agoDon't you guys foam at the mouth about the 2nd Amendment? Which one is it, does he have a right to bear arms or does he not?
- inigyou 2mo agoIn Germany you will get arrested if you publicly talk about Gaza and Israel
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- tpm 2mo agoI don't know when you were born but I'm pretty sure Germany was regulation capital of the world already back then and this is just your nostalgia bias speaking (also I agree with you Germany is currently way way overregulated but also outsiders have no way to really understand the degree of overregulation). But also the US pretty much care too much when you for example try to blow your head off with drugs instead of a gun or explosives so the grass is not that green on the other side either.
- warumdarum 2mo agoThe regulation from Europe is worse. They literally use satellite pictures to check and fine farmers..
- tpm 2mo agoNo the regulation "from Europe" whatever that means is not worse, that's just the usual dumb anti-EU propaganda. If by that you perhaps mean checking EU agro subsidies against the actual size and use of declared fields, then that is not regulation, it's just checking the subsidies are not defrauded, which is a huge issue. Every farmer is free not to ask for the subsidies. But for most of the EU regs, the member country can choose how to implement them. Usually countries manage to not overburden their people with that. The German problem is homegrown.
- StefanBatory 2mo agoHN is flooded with anti-Europe sentiment recently. I don't know how much of it is Americans genuinely believing or, or if it's astroturfing.
- hylaride 2mo agoIt's truly amazing how far the propaganda against the EU (for all its legitimate faults) has gone.
- warumdarum 2mo agoI wish you would have to life one with that bureaucratic nightmare / crony employment program that you put on your fellow human. I have no stronger curse.. The eu had one job - to protect europe, from war, from statesized companies like china and get it competitive again before the innovators take itall. It has failed in all fields.
- cryo32 2mo agoDepends which side of the wall you were born on…
- chopin 2mo agoApparently, West... Edit: before 1989.
- hvb2 2mo ago> But this is none of your business. I live in Germany, where everything is regulated by well meaning people. Assuming you haven't lived in the US I think you're severely underestimating some of the stupidity going on. So let's say your house has a thatched roof in California where it's bone dry and hot. At that point, the person lighting the fireworks will still say it's none of your business. Even if it's illegal and every year houses burn down as a result. I don't think you get how much of an 'I don't care about anyone else, because FREEDOM... Murica' mindset exists unless you've lived there
- moron4hire 2mo agoLet's say you don't live in a California. Say you live near the East coast somewhere, as 2/3rds of the country does.
- alsetmusic 2mo agoSure, but our economy stomps most East Coast states (hello, New York!) and we aren't neighbors of the confederacy.
- cucumber3732842 2mo agoYou wouldn't be allowed to have a thatched roof house in California specifically because of the fire risk. And if someone wanted to and had a bunch of reasons why it was a good thing you would turn around and be all "but the law" and point to the fire risk.
- hvb2 2mo agoFine, bad example. The point being, people light fireworks in places with extreme fire risk. And don't you dare tell them they cannot. None of your business is the kind response
- tartuffe78 2mo agoA thatched roof?
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- throwaway91827 2mo agoHave you experienced Silvesterabend (New Year's Eve) in a major German city? It feels like a warzone. In the context of fireworks specifically, this image of Germany as an over-regulated nanny state feels particularly at odds with my experience of Germany.
- rbanffy 2mo agoI am sure they had all their permits and contingencies required perfectly done and everything was executed in perfect compliance.
- MomsAVoxell 2mo agoBest fireworks show I’ve ever seen in my life was in the middle of the German ruhrgebiet, on a small hill overlooking a shallow valley full of villages, each one setting off a seemingly-infinite round of colour and sound for the hour or so, New Year’s Eve, early 2000’s… It was a panoramic display of unregulation.