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He’s right, Europe is languishing and has committed energy suicide.

I'd rather be neither ... but ...

I'd MUCH rather be a pessimist in Europe, languishing with an energy 9mm pointed at my head ... than an optimist under the Trump/Elon cabal ...

RIP DHH.

Well, have fun with all that (in the cold). Energy is everything.

You really think we're burning wood in metal dustbins in Europe? Get a fucking grip.

Compare current Western European energy prices with the rest of the world (even adjusted for income parity) and get back to me. While you’re at it, take a look at the recent lists of shuttered industrial manufacturing and petroleum based agriculture. Then run the numbers on which industries support the generous EU welfare state. Plus the increased security demands (and lack of industry to support it). It’s just not mathing out, the future of Europe (other than as a Disneyland museum for rich Chinese, Russians and Americans) is looking bleak. And I hate it as a lover of Europe.

I made a moral point, so I'm not sure where you're going with this. I couldn't really care less about the energy and industrial disparity between nations and continents. But please continue to knock yourself out with it if it pleases. Thanks.

Moral point? “Democratic” European countries lock up more people for “mean” tweets and silent protests than autocratic Russia (who doesn’t claim to be democratic btw).

And if you’re gonna downvote, by all means - prove me that I’m wrong with stats. I sincerely hope that I am, because that last 60mins with the Germans churned my stomach hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-war_protests_in_Russia_(2...

Here there are 10k people from a half-a-year period.

Now run those numbers per-capita (UK has been arresting around 3k a year for mean tweets). Democratic Germany has been rounding people up as well but I can't find their specific stats.

Source?

So I've found the claim on a fact-check website [0]. It claims that these numbers are not "mean tweets" but a wide range of criminal activity, including e.g. harassing in e-mail or "terrorism offences" and "threats of violence". Now some can argue that it shouldn't be a crime, nevertheless, I do not think that this proves your claim about

> Moral point? “Democratic” European countries lock up more people for “mean” tweets and silent protests than autocratic Russia (who doesn’t claim to be democratic btw).

(Which, I don't think is true. I believe it is very-very false.)

[0] : https://pa.media/blogs/fact-check/russia-has-far-more-restri...

Can you link said post?

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