Hacker News Reader

they're kinda right, in europe we really don't give a shit about politics and if we do you're doing something wrong.

Going by that reasoning someone must be clearly doing something wrong considering they seem to voice their political will at about the same rate as the politically active Americans.

Turnout in the latest presidential/general elections:

2025 German federal election 82.5%

2024 United Kingdom general election 59.7%

2022 French presidential election 73.69%(I)/71.99%(II)

2022 Italian general election 63.85%

2023 Spanish general election 66.6%

2024 United States presidential election 64.1%

Yah, exactly, we do care about politics right this moment because the goverment did fuck up badly.

You should give a shit because Europe is on its way to implementing its own horrible legislation [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Comb...

https://legiscan.com/MS/text/HB1126/id/2988284

America ! America! God Shine Her Light On Theeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

In what way is this supposed to be a response to the statement that Europeans should give a shit a bout chat control?

Do you think this is a contest where as long as you can find other countries with similar shit you don't score last?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com