• toastmeister@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Europe doesnt want federated services, they want censorship.

    Saying that oil production lowers emissions by displacing coal will be called climate misinformation, saying immigration needs to be lower due to a housing crisis will be called hate speech, using Bitcoin instead of the digital euro will be called terrorist financing. They’re already arresting people who do something as benign as retweet things, its a slippery slope.

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      3 days ago

      Have you been to Europe? They have “walking” cities. You really don’t need a car to get around. My kids backpacked through Europe. The furthest they had to travel from a hostel was outside Amsterdam. 8 km on bicycles! My son just came back from Japan (I know, not Europe). He talked a lot about the “Shinkansen”. A high speed train that travels 280 km/h. They were able to travel all over Japan “without” a car.

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        3 days ago

        Try to go to an anti-genocide protest in EU and see how fast you get violently beat up, arrested or get cops at your door to have “a chat”. All tose things in Amsterdam you mentioned too.

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          Spain is part of the EU and nobody is “violently beat up”, arrested or having a visit from the cops for going to an anti-genocide protest.

        • DimlyLitFlutteringMoth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 days ago

          Still not happened to me yet, and that is in the UK which has the far more authoritarian Policing Bill looming over us. That doesn’t make as interesting a soundbite though.

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            3 days ago

            Your individual experiences don’t negate all the things I mentioned, they are on video.
            And whatever bill you’re under doesn’t matter to other countries, they always find a reason or ‘special circumstances’ to break their own laws and act like hired goons for the zionist apartheid state.

            • DimlyLitFlutteringMoth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              3 days ago

              Yeah, Israel is shit, but unless you have a video for each of these protests being shut down in this way, that just isn’t the norm. Plenty of pro-Palestine protests and meetings here; outside Barclays, protesting specific businesses, sharing information in our most popular streets for tourism and shopping, musical protests at art galleries. Plenty going on, never even seen a police presence at these.

              Not to say it isn’t happening, but trying to paint Europe as some pro-Zionist totality is weird.

                • DimlyLitFlutteringMoth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  2 days ago

                  Not sure how talking about local and country-wide support for Palestine, and against the zionist genocide enacted by Israel, makes me supportive of Israel but everyone is entitled to their opinion.

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                    You are whitewashing the EU and UK complicit regimes that do everything to stifle protest.
                    Nothing is more obvious and blatant.
                    There is no conceivable reason to do that unless you have an agenda.
                    You can play dumb, that’s another typical hasbara tactic.