| ▲ | lupusreal 2 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Europe has more or less managed to avoid descending into a mass war for almost a century now, if we assume the one brewing now is just a mirage, so basically they've got it all figured out and their smugness is totally justified. This is what democracy looks like, Americans should learn from Germany's example: > According to the court document, the public prosecutor stated “public interest” in pressing criminal charges as the retweet was “punishable as an insult against people of political life”. It potentially constituted “incitement of the people”. > Publicly insulting a politician has been a criminal offence in Germany since 2021 when a set of laws “against hate and hate speech” were passed under then-chancellor Angela Merkel. https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/11/german-police-raid-mans-ho... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | lacy_tinpot 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I can't tell if you're being ironic or not, because those examples are basically definitionally Orwellian. Also how about never descending into dictatorships and authoritarian regimes? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | the_why_of_y a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elsewhere we can read: > The Bavaria resident is also accused of posting Nazi-era imagery and language earlier in 2024. According to prosecutors, this post may have violated German laws against the incitement of ethnic or religious hatred. > The man was arrested on Thursday as part of nationwide police operations against suspected antisemitic hate speech online. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-greens-habeck-presses-charges-... This article is more informative: Translated (with DeepL.com): > The public prosecutor's office in Bamberg has now announced: The search had already been requested before the Green politician himself filed a criminal complaint in the case. > Habeck only filed a criminal complaint in the case more than a month after the search warrant had been requested. > According to the public prosecutor's office, the suspect is also facing another charge: According to this, in spring 2024, he allegedly uploaded a picture on X with a reference to the Nazi dictatorship, which could potentially constitute the criminal offense of incitement to hatred. According to the investigators, it shows an SS or SA man with the poster and the words “Germans don't buy from Jews” and the additional text “True democrats! We've had it all before!”. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/schwachkopf-belei... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | quickthrowman 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Europe has more or less managed to avoid descending into a mass war for almost a century now, if we assume the one brewing now is just a mirage, so basically they've got it all figured out and their smugness is totally justified. Europe hasn’t descended into total war since WWII because the US has military bases all over Europe, mostly in Germany. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | veny20 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Europe has been more or less militarily occupied and subjugated for that time. Conquered nations tend to be pretty docile on the international level and generally don't go around waging war independently. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||