@p Most of Europe is far less free than states branded "undemocratic" or "authoritarian", like the PRC. I don't know why "freedom loving" countries like the US are aligned with Europeans considering this fact, outside of realpolitik (kinda like how the US is also aligned with Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc.). @kaia@moth_ball
> I don't know why "freedom loving" countries like the US are aligned with Europeans considering this fact, outside of realpolitik
Because the government decides who the state is "aligned with", and the countries that we're aligned with get whitewashed in the press. Stalin was some kind of fancy hero from 1941 to 1945, and immediately after V-J Day, there was an immediate about-face.
I will leave to your imagination why the press always goes along with the official party line. (*Ahem* I don't know why "freedom loving" countries like the US are aligned with Europeans considering this fact, outside of realpolitik *cough*)
> I will leave to your imagination why the press always goes along with the official party line. (*Ahem* I don't know why "freedom loving" countries like the US are aligned with Europeans considering this fact, outside of realpolitik *cough*)
GODDAMMIT I AM HAVING SOME HELL OF A TIME WITH COPY AND PASTE TODAY
@moth_ball The gutter oil thing is kinda a myth. Maybe it happened ages ago in smaller towns or villages? But, my theory is that foreigners see people scooping out/clearing out sewage lines (this isn't a rare sight, necessarily, e.g., some guy with a few buckets pulling/scooping slurry out of a manhole cover) and the narrative or story got appended to this that these people are "collecting gutter oil for cooking" or whatever. @kaia@p
@kaia I was in Hamburg recently and it was quite something to see an incredible stereotypical German man on a poster with a slogan that was something along the lines of "we will put an end to war, this is the solution". That along with posts like this make me want to side-eye a little
Nominally, they apply globally, but Germany can't enforce things outside their own borders.
> a german will be arrested for writing a mean comment on nice Oma's recipe blog, but not on instagram?
If they can find you.
Facebook/Twitter/Google/etc. are happy to hand this information over. A lot of these tech companies have offices in Ireland, which is EU turf, which gives the EU jurisdiction.
@pernia@kaia@p@moth_ball They apply everywhere. You write a mean comment about a politician on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/whatever and you have some chance of getting fined/arrested for that. Basically the only way you can be sure you won't get arrested, is if you don't post spicy memes and opinions that don't align with the political party in power.
@p@kaia@pernia@moth_ball I for one have never forfeited any of my users (just me and some guy who used my instance for a few days like a year ago) to the German government nor would I if demanded to.
@p Bitchute are blocking UK visitors as they aren't compliant, KF are doing the same. There are smaller forums that shut down because of the OSA too. https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks
@pernia@kaia@p@moth_ball They want them to apply that shit to American websites, so Germans don't learn about any wrongthink and they can finally bring back the GDR. Too bad that depends on the US letting itself getting gutted like a retarded Thanksgiving Turkey.
@pernia@kaia@p@moth_ball Like the central council of Jews who can't do shit, because Hitschler turned all the Jews in Germany either into ash or into spoopy skelletons? That kind of organization?