Quote from: paxmao on August 07, 2025, 08:49:50 AM

Quote from: caroasi on April 16, 2025, 11:34:33 AM

No amount of hatred for Trump or improvement in voting systems will ever be sufficient to get people to personally participate in government. Voting once a year is isn't even a start for people to participate in government if they have not properly researched the candidates and researched what the previous candidate has done in office which wasn't appropriate.

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.

Please provide sources on how people in Europe are prevented from private property. Weapons in Europe are controlled - you can have a weapon but you need to pass a very basic mental health test in most places and have a reason to use it. The main reason is that we do not want people shooting their school mates nor our presidents from a barn roof.

Freedom of speech is in good health through Europe. You can say pretty much anything other than calling to crime, hate or promoting the 4th Reich. I think that is quite reasonable.

What you may find trouble with in Europe is if you intend to spread fake news, promoting pure propaganda, Kremlin narratives or the like. But even doing so, you mostly can, but you will be challenged. Again, reasonable in these days and age.

If you do I can provide you with some links to inheritance taxes across most of Europe. As you probably know that requires private property.

Online when people were posting anonymously it felt like trolling or their own insecurity until it started going "mainstream".

Free speech in America includes Neo-Nazi's (Unite the Right is a good example) this has certainly tested my belief in those protections over the last 10 years.

To live in a hierarchical society means that plenty of people will struggle with "where they fit into the scheme of things" and many people will go through it at one point in their existence: this struggle with their own identities but too many lack the introspection and instead allow the lessoning or vilification of 'the others'.

It is costing us our humanity and while it isn't a new thing I really wish we were past it already.