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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on September 18, 2026, 09:20:43 AM

Title: Euros can't seem to shake their love of authoritarianism
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on September 18, 2026, 09:20:43 AM

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The chancellor of Germany says free speech is just a kooky American idea that he doesn't share:

“Please don’t come to me with free speech... That is at most a libertarian political understanding from parts of the USA that I personally do not share. A liberal society must still be able to protect its citizens from false information, from personal degradations, from discrimination.”

https://x.com/ezralevant/status/2099885424751636723


Whenever anyone snivels about free speech being a gateway to bad things happening, I ask them, "Who told you that you were allowed to say that?"

Title: Re: Euros can't seem to shake their love of authoritarianism
Post by: SVPete on September 18, 2026, 09:23:57 AM

Authoritarian German governance contributed a lot of immigrants who fled it to the US in the 1800s, especially central US states.