Europe now the real land of the free

[Aristides]

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/04/10/the-thing-about-europe-its-the-actual-land-of-the-free-now?utm_campaign=a.io_fy2526_q1_conversion-geopoliticsasc-cbdr-sub_prospecting_global-global_auction_btl&utm_medium=social-media.content.pd&utm_source=facebook-instagram&utm_content=conversion.content.non-subscriber.content_staticlinkad_np-landfree-n-apr_na-na_article_na_na_na_na&utm_term=sa.int-all&utm_id=faq120676&fbclid=IwY2xjawJrSsxleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqx6evdV6NQEeZ7gTwEkdN-9iGW4l5NSCK0at3EGMDGx7ck9R4ICisOgXH7WSHUON3o9D7vk_aem_hjQjNrWgwQ5W5TH3Z1shtg

 

Lot of truth to this. While it has its faults, it doesn't have the things that are destroying US democracy.

[Legato]

5 hours ago, Aristides said:

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/04/10/the-thing-about-europe-its-the-actual-land-of-the-free-now?utm_campaign=a.io_fy2526_q1_conversion-geopoliticsasc-cbdr-sub_prospecting_global-global_auction_btl&utm_medium=social-media.content.pd&utm_source=facebook-instagram&utm_content=conversion.content.non-subscriber.content_staticlinkad_np-landfree-n-apr_na-na_article_na_na_na_na&utm_term=sa.int-all&utm_id=faq120676&fbclid=IwY2xjawJrSsxleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqx6evdV6NQEeZ7gTwEkdN-9iGW4l5NSCK0at3EGMDGx7ck9R4ICisOgXH7WSHUON3o9D7vk_aem_hjQjNrWgwQ5W5TH3Z1shtg

 

Lot of truth to this. While it has its faults, it doesn't have the things that are destroying US democracy.

You leave England out.

 

[Nationalist]

Europe...the land of the free...pfft.

Unless, of course, you're a white young girl. Then you're a TARGET for those pleasant fellows from the Muslim countries.

Or a farmer just trying to make a living.

Or an opposition party leader being shuffled off to jail so you can't be heard anymore.

Europe...the land of the free...pfft.

[August1991]

On 4/15/2025 at 10:28 AM, Aristides said:

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Lot of truth to this. While it has its faults, it doesn't have the things that are destroying US democracy.

Disagree.

The Economist once argued free trade.

[User]

LOL, land of the free... as Germany and England are arresting people for posting on social media... and folks for standing silently and praying too closely to an abortion clinic. 

Your ideas of freedom ring more like, as long as you are doing exactly what we tell you that you can do... you are free!

 

[herbie]

Freedumb consists solely of calling a spade a spade out loud and shooting anyone who disagrees in the face with your concealed .44 Magnum.

- Yeeee Hawww

Edited May 18, 2025 by herbie

[August1991]

The Economist now favours control.

Once upon a time, it favoured free trade.