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including the person you replied to
Dunno, maybe Brits or Germans want less economic growth, less freedom, more migrants and for Russia to invade them? Kind of tracks with their current trajectories I guess.
This isn't a majority position in Germany and probably not in many other European countries either: https://world.hey.com/dhh/leave-it-to-the-germans-94dd4bbe
In fact DHH admits as much in that very post.
Many Europeans I know (if we're trading anecdotes) find it deeply infuriating that an American vice president would meddle in German interior politics in such a way.
> Kind of tracks with their current trajectories I guess.
This is flamebait and against the spirit of the site.
Also, if anyone that wasn't JD Vance said the same thing about free speech in Europe, I'm sure the reaction would be much different. Germany's anti "insult" laws are ridiculous. Try that in Czech Republic or France, the whole country would insult everyone on social media just for the sake of it...
Just in December eight people were convicted in France for the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty. The lie of a schoolgirl skipping class led to a social media campaign against Paty, an imprisoned imam issued a Fatwa and then the murder of Paty by an 18-yr-old Chechen muslim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty
So far those eight adults and six teens got sentenced but there are idiots who think it's cool to praise the murderer (who was shot by the police) as martyr and get themselves into prison/deported for that. I don't care what anyone's reasoning was, but no one's feeling can be hurt that much that it justifies the killing of another human being.
I guess in the US, where nothing can be done about almost daily school shootings, there's nothing they could do about this sort of Freedom of Speech, even worse: Not accepting election results and inciting an attack on Congress still gets you re-elected. It's sad DHH doesn't see that a few years in Malibu have turned him into a Free Speech Absolutist.
Freedom of Speech must end where it hurts others or even touches the limits of their freedom.