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Look at Europe, they have better voting systems than the USA, but they fail at respecting people basic human rights to own property, own weapons, and speak freely. Europe is by an authoritarian and hostile place to live in comparison.
That's just hilarious.Look at Europe, they have better voting systems than the USA, but they fail at respecting people basic human rights to own property, own weapons, and speak freely. Europe is by an authoritarian and hostile place to live in comparison.
Property:
In EU we own property, i am not sure if i even want to know where you heard otherwise.
But let's consider land/housing as a property for a moment. Major problem in the world with housing is wealth inequality, meaning that wealth accumulates to few. Rest of the people who aren't rich will have trouble to buy anything, (no matter how hard they work), as rich famiies have pretty much already have acquired the best areas and control the pricing. They have no incentive to lower the prices, and prices go up faster then people can grow their wealth, so rest of the people rather rent.
Btw: Current administration is US is removing safeguards to prevent next housing crisis in there.
Weapons:
In Finland for example, roughly over 1/3th of the citizens owns a firearm. They say it's for self defence / hunting, but only small fraction of the people actually hunt anything.
But as they are country of rule and law, so they don't like to carry them. They pretty much trust on police, which basically never shoots anyone.
Freedom of speech:
What part of the world are we comparing EU citizens to exactly?
https://rsf.org/en/map-2024-world-press-freedom-index
That report is from 2024, and considering what trump has said that he is planning to do with freedom of speech in USA, i might rank them heavily down. Hell, he tries to ban words used in UN official reports.
If it's platforms you speak about, then we get censored by saying cis-gender in twitter. And (non-violent) posts about removing trump from the office gets removed now. Meanwhile it's non-issue to wish that Ukrainians would die.
And i haven't even started about the usa becoming total authoritarian state, starting by trump sending people to El Salvador without due process, refusing to return one send in mistake & planning to send "home grown" US "criminals and terrorists" to El Salvador as well (Not his fans though, those he will pardon or hire).
We are under an immense cognitive load over here ;-) and some others are just embodying-----Hypernormalization: "the acceptance and embrace of distorted or simplified versions of reality, often with a sense of complacency or even contentment".
Americas founding principles are worthy ideals to strive for, even with the failures along the way. It is only in recent decades that we've began to broaden our own understanding of the suffering and exploitation, that some of the world still suffers for our consumption and comfort.
AND that is how we (humanity) learn how to progress without allowing a 1% to extract everything including our compassion for other living beings being able to exist with dignity.
I read The Diary of Anne Frank in school and wondered (with harsh judgement) how the German people could have allowed that to happen? If we had been taught the Native Protests, Fredrick Douglas's Narrative of the American Slave or A Peoples History of the United States; we would not be here in this moment.
It isn't just about protesting the direction our government is heading, it is letting our world allies know that we are still allies in liberty, aside from economic blackouts industry has got to know it has to change direction toward our mutual progress because it currently has more influence over our governments than we do....and I mean WE humans everywhere.
Liberty takes diligence. Will the protest make a difference? Maybe not: I hope so.
I hope they can remain peaceful and not over policed: we have seen how that has turned out in the past.
Bella Ciao