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Yes, I agree their coverage is in many cases quite bad. My point is that I do not agree they are particularly partisan. In the US one party has drifted so far to the right that they are flirting with right wing extremism and they have absolutely no shame about using every dirty trick, both in and outside the book, to push their absurdly conservative agenda. "Objectivism" should not be adjustet to the right accordingly.
They should, obviously, as long as it's not infringing anybody else's freedom, and that's why libel and slander are illegal. The thing with the USA is though you never see any cases made. All those serious accusations of pedophelia i.e. go unpunished. No proof is asked. With the end result hundreds of thousands of people think it's actually true and start to act that way. What Donny jr. did above would never come through in any other Western country. For a reason.
So when you say the USA is "supposed to be free" you actually mean it's too free?
Also:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/giuliani-sued-election-fraud-trump-b1792216.html
I'm not sure there's something like 'too free'. As said, as soon as you cross a line and limit someone else's freedom, you're making the country less free. The same goes for gun laws by the way. As soon as I pull a loaded gun to someone's head, that person's freedom is severely limited. Again, the rest of the Western world seems to understand this except for the USA. So no, it's not beeing 'too' free. It's beeing limitless.
I'm glad Giuliani is beeing sued. It's about time, they should've done that as soon as his first tweet/public statement came out. But better late than never.
Little did this professor know how far his advice would be taken. Today spoken English consists of the F-word, the S-word, and some weak connective tissue.
lol, maybe we should bring back Zounds.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. Are you only seeing it from the point of view of the person being slandered? That their 'freedom' is being impacted? Because when you limit what the person who is committing the slander says, then you're taking their freedom away. You can't really have both.
A reminder of your original question: "How can it be in a country that's supposed to be free, you can claim anything without reporcussions?" And the answer is: freedom to speak lets you claim (more or less) anything, so you're answering your own question. But there are no restrictions on the existence of repercussions either, as shown by the Giuliani example.
That's bullsh**
;)
Yep. It's largely the same here in Canada; freedom to do what you please as long as you're more like the colonial Europeans than the indigenous Canadians.
Yes indeed to both of those. The bonkers types who feel that wearing masks impacts on their personal 'freedom' to get their hair done just beggar belief really. And are obviously not unique to the US, but hearing that word trumpeted to protest anything they don't like is galling, frankly. Such as they should be free to shoot black people etc.
Other crazy arguments are used too.
"It's un-American." (Whatever that means.)
"Jesus doesn't wear masks!" (Yeah, okay, ... and?)
Let's just say it how it is. People have become wimps. If they can't have their holidays abroad, get their hair done, go to a restaurant, ... everything turns into a mess.
Exactly. Wearing a mask is an inconvenience to be sure. But it's for the better of the community. People don't want to wear a mask, and so they'll do whatever conclusion shopping they need to do online to come up with a million BS reasons to not wear one.
"Jesus doesn't wear masks"... as if the man hasn't been dead for thousands of years? :P Do they mean "didn't wear masks"? :))
Yikes! lol
Isn't one of their complaints about Biden that he's too old? ;)
Well he wouldn't need to..... he was a fictional character.
I hate all the Deus Ex Maskina in the MI franchise. :( They get out of every situation by having a high tech mask that makes you look 100% like someone else. What a lazy way to write a character out of a situation.
Good one, mate. 😄
I highlighted the most crucial word there. A country is only a free country when all living there have the same freedom. So if you allow one to impair the freedom of the other, the whole country is less free for it. If that wasn't the case, i.e. North Korea would be the most free country in the world, as its leader can do anything to anyone without repercussions.
That's mad. It doesn't make any sense, and is not what people are talking about when they say 'free country'. Freedom is the right to act, think or speak without being held back from doing that, it's not about whether you affect or upset someone else. In fact being able to upset someone else is entirely part of being 'free' (although it's not the objective of course).
You're not talking about freedom, you're just talking about impact upon others. Your 'freedom' is in no way decreased if someone accuses you of doing something you haven't or calls you a name.
And I have no idea why you've highlighted the word 'country'. We've been talking about the US, we know we're talking about a country.
Its leader is only one man, you can't define a whole country by what one single person in it can do.
"Free is when you don't have to pay for nothing or do nothing, we want to be free. Free as the wind." -- Frank Zappa, "Teen Age Wind"
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I don't know about France, but I'm sure the police would have been interested over here (in Germany). Not in normal times, but doubtless during "lockdown". Still happy I don't live in a location where I might have to report anyone.
If it's a community building that should be taken care of no? I thought you guys in France were pretty good at teaming up together to get that sort of thing sorted.
On the plus side my contract with my current job has been extended for six months.